{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Further to the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Webster), does the Minister realise that most of us would not want to accuse the right hon. Gentleman of dragging his feet in this matter but suspect that the delay in ordering the Hinkley B is entirely the responsibility of the Treasury? Will he make urgent representations to that Department to get on with the job?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.8.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "The latest pronouncements by Lord Robens last week show that about 330,000 men would be employed in coal mining in 1970. This would imply a reduction of only about 84,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.18.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go to Trafalgar Square.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that we shall have to negotiate a settlement of the Rhodesian problem sooner or later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "MONETARY AND CREDIT POLICIES (INTERNATIONAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It would be entirely against the interests price of gold to be circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ROOTES MOTORS LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "tively the decision that conditioned what action could be taken by us now. The position was that the Chrysler penetration was even fuller than became evident in the exchanges in July, 1964, in that 62 per cent. of the ordinary equity was owned by Chrysler when the crisis arose, and 45 per cent. of the voting shares. Therefore, this does not reflect any change of view by us on the general question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ROOTES MOTORS LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ting shares. Therefore, this does not reflect any change of view by us on the general question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Not at all. The position is that two and a half years after the right hon. Gentleman described his earlier acceptance as a very good thing for the motor industry, the firm to which he was referring became insolvent; and this has some bearing on the position which confronted us now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "ROOTES MOTORS LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend misses the point of the alternative which we sought. The problem here was that if we had nationalised Rootes we should have been left, even then, with a company which, in technological terms, was not of a scale which could survive at a critical moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "ROOTES MOTORS LTD.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "onsiderations which led us to impose some very stiff conditions which the hon. Member will see when he reads the exchange of letters. It is true that where there is a transfer of control one is bound to get a majority influence exercised by the majority shareholder. But the hon. Member might mention that even before this crisis developed, 62 per cent. of the equity of Rootes was owned by Chrysler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "NORTH VIETNAM (UNITED STATES BOMBING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": " taking place and that civilians in Hanoi are definitely among the casualties. No longer is there any denial that these attacks are causing great civilian casualties in Hanoi and other cities and towns in Vietnam. I am raising this matter, and I make no apology for doing so, out of a sense of frustration, because I simply do not understand how I can get the matter raised on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "tal saving in Corporation Tax to the company on the tractor was £320. Under the new system, at the revised rate of 15 per cent. which the Minister has just announced, the Corporation Tax saved on that tractor would be £140, and the company would get £150 grant. It means that in the case of a tractor, the new system is better than the old for a company, resulting in a tax saving of £290 as against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.55.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "od, I have brought in a Clause, in view of what I said in a previous statement, because I wished to increase the rate of the grant. I am glad that the right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) welcomed the Clause. I would say to the hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior), that although it is not for me to comment on whether an hon. Member is in order or not, I believe that it would be very wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Mackie)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Mackie)", "preceding_text": "ermission to stay on or have the houses let to them. I think that we may be inclined to overestimate the extent of the problem. The hon. Member for Norfolk, South (Mr. J. E. B. Hill) suggested that, if the farmer really wanted to get out of the difficulty, he only had to let the house to a farmworker and it would then be covered.—(HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The hon. Gentleman said that it could be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.79.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Really.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to hear the right hon. Gentleman's reply when the time comes. All the evidence points to the agreement having been signed in a hurry to placate the large number of people who have come here from Southern Ireland and who are now resident and qualified to vote in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "preceding_text": "g the Ministry of Agriculture for their troubles. The hon. Gentleman has widened the scope of the debate. If he wishes to pursue the matter, I could take it further, Mr. Speaker, with your leave, and argue truthfully about the situation of Southern Irish farmers vis-àvis the farmers of Northern Ireland. The issue is one of efficiency in Southern Ireland and inefficiency in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.153.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Joyce Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Joyce Butler", "preceding_text": "m on which he would enter the number of calves to be grazed and describe them in the manner indicated on the appropriate form. He could show on a map the field they would occupy and the date of intended occupation and submit this form to the division executive officer. He would follow this with a regular report showing for each day the number of calves grazed and the hours they spent in the field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": " I would wish to avoid that particular difficulty. This question of the intensive rearing of stock is one which the Minister should certainly look at again. We have today a great spread of the system of beef production that is known as the production of barley beef. So far as I can understand it, beef reared under this system consume nearly as much drugs and chemicals as they consume natural food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "eeding has never been disputed. The figures were quoted here when the Conservative Party was in power, and its Ministers did not dispute the statistics because they are beyond dispute. An animal fed on grass flourishes infinitely better as a beef-producing source than an animal fed largely with the aid of drugs. That is beyond argument, and I am sure that it is accepted on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ulsion because these conditions are being violated and these animals do not, as has been said, produce food of the best quality needed in order to rear a growing and expanding population. Thus, the Amendment becomes important because what we are proposing is a calf grazing subsidy. There is nothing funny in that, is there? Is there an objection to a calf grazing subsidy from the farming community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no subsidy for that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "dy. There is nothing funny in that, is there? Is there an objection to a calf grazing subsidy from the farming community? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Why? I hope that those who object will in due course tell us why they object to subsidies. The farmers have lived with subsidies most of the years I have been in this House. Farming life has been revolutionised by subsidies, especially in milk production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ing subsidy from the farming community? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Why? I hope that those who object will in due course tell us why they object to subsidies. The farmers have lived with subsidies most of the years I have been in this House. Farming life has been revolutionised by subsidies, especially in milk production. [HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no subsidy for that.\"] No subsidies for milk production?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "preceding_text": " the Bill we make provision for the calf subsidy to be paid on animals up to three years of age. When would the subsidy which the hon. Lady suggests cease to be payable? The hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rankin) and my hon. Friend the Member for Clitheroe (Sir Frank Pearson) rightly dealt with the problem of the lightweight beast which is, as the hon. Member for Govan put it, built on drugs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " farmer, being an intelligent man who must look to his bawbees, makes certain that his calves are well housed and that the incidence of scour is kept down. That is an absolute necessity; it is an economic necessity. The hon. Member for Govan said that farmers live on subsidy. He stated that one had only to consider the question of milk. There has been no subsidy on milk for a good number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.170.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Eric Fletcher)2581", "preceding_text": "Is it the wish of the House that the Amendment be withdrawn?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "tting at the moment. The hon. Member for Wood Green went into some very interesting details, and I agree with the Parliamentary Secretary when he says that some of the things for which she asked would be very difficult for his Department to implement. All I want to do is to support the hon. Lady in principle; but surely any difficulty can be overcome by a man of the dynamic nature of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "his own particular use. Farmers vary enormously in their capacity. What is the right size for one farmer in one part of the country with one type of land may be completely wrong for another type of farmer in another part of the British Isles. It is wrong of the Government to introduce this business of prudency into the Bill. I think this matter of the prudent landlord is a lot of nonsense, anyhow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": " we have taken in hand. I am sorry that I have not looked up the papers to find examples of this—I did not expect the right hon. Gentleman to be so unreasonable—but I could easily do so. The Wise Report is important and covers a great number of people. To treat it, as the right hon. Gentleman suggests, by putting forward an Amendment to override it completely, which is what the Amendment would do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister replies to my right hon. Friend, I should like to comment on another part of the platform on which he based his argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.263.5", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "ubsection. The Government Front Bench have been very stubborn, testy and unhelpful throughout the long sitting, and I hope that the Scottish Ministers will now have a chance to show that they are enlightened and sympathetic to agriculture. This is a simple Amendment that will cost very little indeed and will be of great financial importance to the smallholder. The Amendments concerns march fences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I was doing nothing of the kind. I was pointing out the position. Hon. Members opposite sought to convey that this was something which had been taken from the farming community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may speak again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six weeks\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "ity to support the Motion. I feel somewhat aggrieved when, time after time, we hear the Minister say that he has got to get the Bill through because the farming industry wants its grants. I have listened to the Minister say that for the past six months. He was very quiet on this point when, at the beginning of the Session, there was a delay of about three weeks before the Bill went into Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "ntervened, and the right hon. Gentleman's business was pushed to one side. The agricultural industry is beginning to appreciate that it has in the Minister a man who is incapable of standing up to the Government, on this occasion to the Chief Whip. That being so, the right hon. Gentleman cannot now steamroller the Measure through, particularly since many of the Amendments are Government proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "te following this to deal with the Third Reading, provided that we finish this stage. We will aim to get the remainder of the Report stage before we rise this morning. If we can go ahead on that basis I think that that should give us time to complete the Report stage and then take Third Reading another day. In the light of that assurance from the Minister, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "een squeezed out and upset. Some of those areas have difficulty enough without what the present administration has imposed. Instead of setting up these development boards, the Government should look to themselves and start being a help and creating a climate before creating fresh boards. The Minister has not proved the need for development boards, particularly in the South-West where I have shown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.308.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": " However, like most hon. Members, I was carried away by the shocking facts revealed by my hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Viscount Lambton). They were not the sort of things one likes to hear at any time, least of all after having been awake all night. He revealed a disgraceful state of affairs and I trust that ultimately a full and complete inquiry will be conducted into that case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-17", "file": "debates1967-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "dd8feb5525a856e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 3.—(CONDITIONS APPLYING TO AMALGAMATED AGRICULTURAL UNITS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Clark", "preceding_text": "mall piece of land. As far as I can see, every time a wayleaf is signed for a telegraph pole, one would have to send to the Ministry. We should make sure that these small changes do not involve much red tape, not only for the Minister, who does not have to spend his own money, but for the farmer, who may sometimes spend a whole evening composing a letter to the Minister of Agriculture asking him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-17a.370.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.396.3", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "That remark is characteristic of the right hon. Gentleman in its extravagance and irrelevance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.436.6", "colnum": "436", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the House for the length of this question, but I have listened to many questions from both sides of the House and I want to put my point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to widen the definition of insanity in relation to the criminal law and thereby replace the M'Naghten Rules; and for connected purposes. May I make it clear at the outset that it is not my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ficiency. The steel industry has repeatedly urged upon the Government that it should be allowed to adopt a pricing system not identical with, but comparable to the system used in the European Coal and Steel Community. The Iron and Steel Board, a Government agency, agreed entirely with the industry and with the case which is put to the Government. But the Minister who is now the Colonial Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "d confine an essential feature of the competitive ele- ment which should be enshrined in the future structure of the industry. If the right hon. Gentleman has a clear idea of what the industry will be like, what is the purpose of the organising committee? What will it be engaged in? Why will we have to wait a year after vesting day before we get any concept of the future structure of the industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "preceding_text": "tant to know that. There are certain advantages both of the maximum and the minimum laid down by the Coal and Steel Community. Above all, it is the most flexible system. It gives a definite basic price, and the customer is able to work out his own optimum method of freight rates. If the Government mean what they are professing, it appears that we are trying to get nearer to the European Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.477.5", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "is not the Minister's function to shake his head and say that the question is not in order. If he does not try to give the House a little courtesy, he will find that difficulties are put in his path. We have been reasonable so far. We have attempted to cut short the debate. However, if that is his attitude, we know where we stand, and we shall have plenty more complicated points to raise with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.477.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "If it is being suggested that, having nationalised the industry, we should have a number of groups with complete freedom to fix whatever prices they wish, without reference to the Corporation, there would appear to be no point in having the Corporation. There is nothing to prevent the Corporation and the Minister deciding upon a competitive price system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I do not want the right hon. Gentleman to feel that I have been mealy-mouthed in my welcome for the new Clause. I welcome the penitent way in which he has come to the House and brought the new Clause with him. It is a good augury. I do not want any words of mine to cause the right hon. Gentleman not to do this on other occasions. However, the reasons for this are Parliamentary ones overwhelmingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.535.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will no doubt bear in mind, in the context he has just mentioned, that the Coventry project—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "onalisation Statutes, and I wish to be generous enough in what I say to attribute to the Minister that he has learned a good deal in the 20 years since the first nationalisation Statute appeared in 1946, whose author, the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shin-well), is now seated below the Gangway opposite. It was a very imperfect Statute, as we would expect from an imperfect Privy Councillor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e for it is, of course, a nationalisation enabling Bill. Under the powers of this Bill the Ministry may nationalise at its will anything from pins and needles to jumbo jets, so wide are its powers. That is why I want better information. I am not alone in this thought, or in this allegation. I cannot do better than to quote the most respectable of our daily national newspapers—the Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-18", "file": "debates1967-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "509be7e314815f39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.576.0", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall-Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Big business.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall-Davis", "preceding_text": "e affairs of the industry were fully and frankly exposed if the basis of the Clause were adopted. This would be to the benefit of the industry in its export efforts. I am sorry if I apear to have been following my brief somewhat carefully—it is my own—but I can assure hon. Members opposite that this subject is one in which every word should be carefully weighed, and I make no apology for doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-18a.576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ve sent to the heads of schools urging them and their staffs to draw the attention of boy pupils in sixth forms to the value of the higher education which colleges of education can provide and also the preparation which they give for a valuable career in teaching. It is perhaps too soon to evaluate the results of this special appeal, but it is encouraging to note that the number of men applicants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " can provide and also the preparation which they give for a valuable career in teaching. It is perhaps too soon to evaluate the results of this special appeal, but it is encouraging to note that the number of men applicants—[ Interruption. ] May I join the general welcome given by the House to the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). It is encouraging to note that the number of new entrants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " valuable career in teaching. It is perhaps too soon to evaluate the results of this special appeal, but it is encouraging to note that the number of men applicants—[ Interruption. ] May I join the general welcome given by the House to the hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). It is encouraging to note that the number of new entrants—[ Laughter. ]—currently registered with the clearing house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not quite understand my hon. Friend's reference to 70 years. The agreement on H.M.S. \"Tiger\" would have meant, on the best calculations, majority rule probably after a second General Election there, or possibly after a third; and no opposition whatever was at any time raised by Mr. Smith to that proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister has twice referred to the fact that Rhodesia constitutes a threat to international peace, would he explain how and in what way Rhodesia constitutes such a threat? Does he not know perfectly well that Rhodesia threatens nobody?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is, of course, an answer which could be given more easily in debate than at Question Time. If I were to give it in debate and if I had long enough to do so, I could not improve on some words used by the right hon. Gentleman in a stiff warning letter he sent to the then Rhodesia Government when he had responsibility, when he acted as though he had responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.655.2", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "There is one other point I should like to put to the right hon. Gentleman. I understand that when the morning sittings begin the public will be admitted only to the Special Gallery and not to the Strangers' Gallery, which will be closed for morning sittings. Surely this is undesirable?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "estions to answer about it on Monday, and I should like then to deal with this in detail. Perhaps I can anticipate by saying that we are going to arrange accommodation which is normally provided for such non-contentious business later in the evening, and that will be available in the mornings. This temporary expedient is entirely due to the problem of staff here and the number of hours they work.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should realise that this is a very serious matter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman say why he is not taking the Third Reading of the Agriculture Bill next week? It is most discouraging to hon. Members on both sides of the House who have expedited the progress of that Measure.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I never want to be discourteous to any hon. Member. What I wanted to suggest was that as agriculture had been under discussion for many hours on Tuesday night and again late last night, it was just possible that the issue could have been raised then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " 12·7 in 1956, 12·5 in 1960 and 12·2 in 1964—the last published figure. The European Coal and Steel Community, excluding inter-trading, shows figures for 1956 of 53·1 per cent; 1960, 54·7 per cent.; 1964, 42·8 per cent. So Britain and the European Coal and Steel Community between them had in 1964 55 per cent. of world export markets for steel and the only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.693.2", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "t to competitive prices. These points do not seem to have been taken yet on the benches opposite. In addition, there is the whole question of the commencing capital debt of the Corporation, which was mentioned earlier. There is a strong probability that the High Authority will regard the substantial discount on asset value at which the Government are buying the steel companies as a hidden subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.693.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "e High Authority. In that discussion not one member of the High Authority raised any suggestion that the nationalisation of the British iron and steel industry was a factor which would prevent Britain joining the European Economic Community, and no one made any speech at any time which had anywhere near the degree of difficulty and virulence to be found in the speeches from the Opposition benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "If negotiations take place all these issues will have to be negotiated. There is no difference between this Measure and the Measure which nationalised the coal industry in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Let me finish. I should be grateful if the right hon. Gentleman will intervene in a moment on this point. I should like, first, to complete my argument. As I said the other day, the Parliamentary Secretary—presumably his views have not changed: if they have he can say so—said to his electors in his election address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I must be allowed to say what I wish to say in my own way. The right hon. Gentleman has had a great deal of fun on this issue. One or two other Members have referred to the subject. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will have the graciousness to allow me to refer to it as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ish shipyards, directly related to Scottish steel, got one half of the naval work going. Last year only £6 million out of £48 million came to the Scottish shipyards. In 20 years we are down from one half to one eighth. Since then we have had S.E.T., which clearly discriminates against Scotland and the Highlands. We have seen the housing figures, issued yesterday, which are disastrous for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I have two further examples, the abolition of free depreciation, which was something which this Government did, and our unemployment figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. On the last Amendment we discussed, I suggested that during Committee stage the hon. Gentleman the Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) referred to the submission of a name by himself to the Minister. He denied that he had ever made such a submission and told me that I was misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-19", "file": "debates1967-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "3308dd566fe9edd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman told me that what I was saying was untrue. In col. 183 of Standing Committee D, on 1st November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-19a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.950.2", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "It was not necessary to make any special and detailed inquiries for the rally in question. The purposes were well known and had been publicised. I share the views of all hon. Members on this side that this was a nasty and squalid affair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.950.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.950.6", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "The meeting was not illegal in terms of British law. It was a meeting for a deplorable purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.950.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.964.8", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Since smoking cigarettes is now regarded as a direct consequence of cancer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.964.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "DAVIES INVESTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "That aspect, concerning insurance companies and so on, is another question, but it seems to show that in many cases there is need for Government control over private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.976.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "BIRMINGHAM ALUMINIUM CASTINGS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the right hon. Gentleman means when he uses the phrase \"build-up\". I hope the right hon. Gentleman is not inferring that I or my Ministry should have interfered in any way before 5th January, when this really arose, and when the York meeting stated that there was a failure to agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.982.3", "colnum": "982", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Dr. Jeremy Bray)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Dr. Jeremy Bray)", "preceding_text": "e Bill. Under Section 1(4) of the 1949 Act, which is being revived, members of the Corporation hold their posts under terms of appointment which the Minister lays down. The same sort of terms will apply as apply to the other nationalised industries. These, for example, require that no members of the boards shall, without the Minister's consent, engage in any trade or activity or become a director—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.982.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "With the permission of the House, the right hon. Gentleman has made an astonishing disclosure. As Financial Secretary to the Treasury he was apparently in the practice of accepting fees for broadcasting and for writing Press articles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£32,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I read somewhere that the average remuneration of directors of I.C.I. is £26,000.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) will elaborate his view of the brain drain on some future occasion, and not base it on any arguments about the top levels of industry. Clearing out some of the people who are at present holding £20,000 a year jobs in the private sector would probably be one of the most effective ways of stopping the brain drain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1048.0", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "sort of range, it does not make a great deal of difference to his take-home pay. But there is a big enough difference between £8,000 and £24,000 to deter a person receiving the latter from going to the N.S.C. and receiving the former. The case of Dr. Beeching has been quoted several times. It was necessary to pay him the same remuneration he was receiving from I.C.I. to get him to take on the job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "s rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1082.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "e debate today. If hon. Members opposite are so enthusiastic when I rise, I assure them that this will not be the last time, and I thank them very much for their encouragement. I rise to speak on this Amendment because, although the Minister has gone some little way, but not nearly enough, to satisfy the Opposition, I want to try to bring him back to the straight and narrow path of pure Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " Socialism wants? 8.45 p.m. It is legitimate for a free enterprise industry to go in for diversification, but it is contrary to the basic thinking on nationalisation of the party opposite. Hon. and right hon. Members are now saying that they want the Corporation to have the right to diversify. This is an admission that they do not think that the Corporation will do awfully well just running steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1082.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "n the export market. I will be brief and will try to keep in order, but perhaps you will tell me, Mr. Speaker, if I go out of order. It seems to me that perhaps the best way in which the Government can assist Colvilles, and Scotland generally, is a way which would also assist the rest of the steel industry throughout the country. I do not want to see American coking coal brought into this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It is nice to hear a Sassenach Member from the benches opposite supporting a Tory Amendment designed to bring increased prosperity to Scotland, for we sat through nearly 3,000 columns of HANSARD in Committee upstairs without hearing a Scottish voice from the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1117.0", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ry Scottish Member opposite should be rising with warmth and enthusiasm to support the policies that I have put to the House this evening. They should not emulate the example of their one Scottish colleague in Committee who was quiescent and sedentary from beginning to end, throughout the 3,000 weary columns of HANSARD. I hope that we shall have lots of speeches from Scottish Members this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1117.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1120.2", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "d by myself, and I am deeply grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. I was merely acting as a trailer for the Pollok by-election, by trying to encourage Scottish Members to support me. As for the one English Member who supported me, the hon. Gentleman the Member for Rotherham (Mr. O'Malley) I hope that we shall find him in our Lobby this evening. I hope that he is not the sawdust Caesar of the steel debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1122.2", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman's support for my theme. May I, therefore, expect him to walk through my Lobby, holding my hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1122.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am astonished at the behaviour of the hon. Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1138.0", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Perhaps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of the Front Benches seeks to intervene, unless there has been a considerable number of interventions. He will learn in time how to behave in this House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1138.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1147.0", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "Without units of this size, we could not rationalise the industry. Reference has been made, not surprisingly, to Round Oak, where there are special factors. As I mentioned in Standing Committee, I am examining the position of two companies, Round Oak and Brymbo, which is dealt with rather separately because it is not a scheduled company as are the others. I have no statement to make at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-23", "file": "debates1967-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "39368a113e4f8e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The managerial function.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "elieve in a system whereby we try to run industries by workers' councils. I believe that management has to take these decisions. I believe that we can produce a genuine partnership where the decisions about the efficiency of the industry and where decisions which are regarded in some cases as the managerial prerogative, to use a favouriate phrase frequently used to trade unions, can be challenged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-23a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "INTEREST RATES (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the hon. Gentleman was not informed that I was to answer this Question at the end of Question Time. But I must say that when I was a young Member of the House it was regarded as one's duty to be present at Question Time if one had put down a Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "atter and have arrived at one or two other possible suggestions. One of them I do not put forward very seriously. It is that there should be a winter palace and a summer palace. That sort of conception would be quite in harmony with the general tone of Socialist bureaucracy. But my real suggestion is that these offices should be located in the most uncomfortable, insalubrious place in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "answer. But this siting would really discourage a large swelling of the staff such as is only too apt to happen, despite the pious intentions of the Government whenever they introduce this kind of revolting Measure. One should try to avoid adding to the clutter of London, which has languished under Socialist government for many years and must be one of the world's worst-governed cities in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1341.2", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ords in the Amendment are necessary if this method of serving notices is to be applied. If the words of the Act are, as a matter of law, taken to have remained in force ever since 1949, the Recorded Delivery Service Act will automatically apply. This, therefore, is a peg on which one can hang the broad question: does the 1949 Act, these musty old bones, which my hon. Friend the Member for Peyton —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "f the nature of such a contest that it would be conducted in political terms. The impartiality and objectiveness of the Parliamentary Commissioner would obviously be called in question in such a debate, and, if there were finally disagreement between the two Houses, the continuance of his Department might depend on a constitutional conflict between the two Houses, which we would all wish to avoid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) was a Member of a Government which considered the proposals upon which the Bill is based. They were proposals made in the Whyatt Report published by Justice .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roots", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roots", "preceding_text": "iz. Our objective throughout has been that, if we are to have an ombudsman, it is wrong for the purposes of the public that they should be led to believe that they are going to get opportunities or rights through his powers which were not the case. I was somewhat amazed to find the Leader of the House suggesting that Schedule 3 was designed to assist the ombudsman in limiting the work he would do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1419.6", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 3.—(MATTERS NOT SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "erved in the country abroad through the consul, in accordance with the Civil Procedure Convention. There was no British consul in the city in question, so the Foreign Office forwarded the documents for service to the nearest post, which was the consulate-general in whose district the city lay. The documents arrived at the height of the tourist season, when the office was under very heavy pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1419.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-24", "file": "debates1967-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "82b799707ea611d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 3.—(MATTERS NOT SUBJECT TO INVESTIGATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Brothers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "tals which I have in mind to another hospital; someone who is still suffering from a sense of grievance? Who investigates such a case in a way which gives anybody any feeling of justice? I think that this is an even further argument why this aspect of the Health Service ought to be included. I would not mind if tonight the Lord President of the Council said, \"Look here, chums. This is a new field\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-24a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rt. That is why I ask him to give full particulars. The provisions of the Act under which this kind of case is treated were introduced by the hon. Gentleman's own Conservative Administration in 1962. The proviso that there must be three clear working days' notice in order for the examination to be taken up by someone else was laid down by his Government. May I ask him whether he does not now feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Had the right hon. Gentleman felt strongly about the matter, that is something which he could have raised at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1518.5", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": " We felt it right that during that early stage the Commission should indicate the grounds on which it was exercising its powers. Subsection (4) does not otherwise circumscribe the powers or purposes of the Commission. It defines priorities. As the hon. Member for Crosby will recollect, I said in Standing Committee that I could not think of any powers which would not be contained in subsection (4).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1518.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1536.0", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Sharpies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Sharpies", "preceding_text": " Mr. Baker, one of my constituents-—he did not send me a copy—and said: … the Commission's power to buy property does not extend to any house. Is that true or false, because it seems a part of the whole tactics of the Government in trying to conceal the truth from the people? I have asked the Minister now for a clear statement. Is the statement in the letter to my constituent true or false?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "bbish with which the Bill is littered, and I mean particularly the Schedules. No words could be too strong in protest against this policy. My right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) said it was unreasonable to chide members of the Labour Party for their absence from the Government Benches. I have seldom seen those benches looking more beautiful than they are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should say first that the procedure is not perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1616.4", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "acreage, just a few fields. He made something like £150,000 overnight because of the accidental appreciation in the value of his land, which was required for social purposes. He was a member of the Conservative Party. He knew that what had happened in his case was morally wrong and he condemned it. He had great courage to do so and I pay tribute to him for doing so. The Bill, with all its defects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1616.4", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "imism about the wretched builders and how they would be afflicted by what he described as \"this iniquitous Measure\", the wretched farmers who were going to lose wayleaves for putting stumps in fields, the wretched landowners and wretched this, that and the other. I began to wonder whether any happy men would be left in our community after a few more years of having the present Government in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1616.4", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "at needed to be aired and, to a certain extent, restrained the Administration of the day. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have got to get used to the idea of being in Opposition for a very long time to come. They must not be smug and shrug off the problem we are considering. This Government mean business and while, in their attempts to deal with this and other problems, they are making a lot of mistakes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1622.7", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I am still in doubt, Mr. Speaker, about whether I am in order in referring to the Schedules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1622.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1623.6", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "hall not make any detailed comment on the Schedules at this stage, but will content myself with expressing the hope that even at this late hour the Government will pause in their headlong stride to destruction and leave out this very damaging part of a very offensive and unpleasant Bill. None of the arguments which we have heard tonight from either the Minister or from the Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1623.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "He is not someone going into business with the intention of buying properties in the City of London, putting them together and seeking to make a vast profit. He may have the good fortune, but not through design or cupidity, to discover that the house he occupies suddenly has an enhanced value. Surely it is not the wish of the Government to rob someone of something that he has acquired in this way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-25", "file": "debates1967-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "bdbd7aee01d4ca11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1685.2", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be extended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "ths, the hon. Gentleman reaches a false conclusion, we must expect many other mistaken opinions to be formed in the months that the Land Commission will be in existence. I was going to say \"in the years that it will exist\" but I hope that it will not exist for years, because I hope that one of the first things that the next Government will do will be to repeal this pernicious piece of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-25a.1685.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1770.2", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is general agreement that his first two visits have made good progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1772.0", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exploratory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "While recognising that these talks were purely explanatory in nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1772.0", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "While recognising that these talks were purely explanatory in nature—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Exploratory.\"]—and exploratory, may I ask the Prime Minister what measures he proposes to take to consolidate any gains made in Rome and Paris? Would he, for example, consider the appointment of a roving ambassador in Europe charged specifically —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1773.2", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "ZAMBIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rs had in Zambia last summer and that agreement was reached in principle, which I hope is now being activated, to enable us to make arrangements for a sum of money of this order to help Zambia maintain her economy due to the extremely serious effect on her economy of the actions taken in Rhodesia, supported by the hon. Member. I believe that we in this House have a real obligation to Zambia while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1773.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER (QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "May I seek your further guidance, Mr. Speaker? It is perfectly obvious that on a matter of this importance, when Questions are grouped, no back-bencher other than those who have put down Questions can get the opportunity of asking supplementary questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1779.0", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER (QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " be treated as one. This is not in accordance with the custom of the House in relation to visits by Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries on matters of such importance. It is not compatible with the dignity of the House that members of the Press and television interviewers should have opportunities of putting questions to the Prime Minister which we ourselves do not have in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER (QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rts of the House and through the usual channels, but your statement this afternoon—and I do not think the right hon. Gentleman has hoisted this on board—suggested that you were following the views of the Select Committee on Procedure, 1965, and in so far as there has been a change it is because of that. Surely, if the House does not agree with the Report of the Select Committee on Procedure, 1965—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER (QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "about difficulties when a large number of Questions are taken together and whether Mr. Speaker selects them or not. This has been one of the main problems. I am trying to suggest that Mr. Speaker has followed the advice of the Select Committee on Procedure, 1965. If that is not convenient to the House, it is quite intolerable that you should be taking criticism for this fact. We are quite willing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "EARLY DAY MOTION (AMENDMENT CORRIGENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ery diff cult to decipher. It would help to avoid error if hon. Members would indicate clearly which Motion they wish to support when handing in their manuscript and if they would also, wherever possible, use the forms which are available for this purpose. I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the tribute which he so rightly paid to chose who provide the mass of documentation for the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1804.3", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "rds against the dangers which the C.B.I. fears. First, as I have made clear, the Government intend to apply to the National Steel Corporation the principles and procedures of the White Paper on Financial Objectives and in fixing those objectives we shall, of course, take into account the desirability of earning returns on the diversified activities comparable to those earned by the private sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1812.0", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "tem. The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood the point, however. It was not pricing that I was discussing, but world surplus capacity and ways to deal with it. But all these measures can be begun but will take time to be effective. The next year or so will be a difficult time for the industry and the Corporation's initial results may well be rather depressing. I had better get that on the record now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1812.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1894.3", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER\" Or build an airship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " Gentleman was at pains to point out that although the National Steel Corporation would have power to manufacture aircraft—it might be, he said, that one company would like to manufacture just one or two teensy weensy little aircraft—he asked why should they not. The Corporation has power to go into the contracting industry. How would it like to put up one or two little prefabricated steel houses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1907.4", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "May I help the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for what the hon. Gentleman said, but it does not affect the argument in the slightest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "an Organising Committee. The three leading members of the industry have joined it. Their action was welcomed by the British Iron and Steel Federation in these words: The Federation appreciates the contribution to the future wellbeing of the industry being made by those steel makers who have decided to assist the work of the Organising Committee. Another Chairman, Sir Julian Pode, also welcomed it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "irman, Sir Julian Pode, also welcomed it. [ Interruption .] This may not be welcome to some hon. Gentlemen opposite. We are trying to look on this as the people who are responsible to the country. This must be trying to some hon. Gentlemen opposite, particularly to some of those now seated below the Gangway opposite who have not listened to a word of the debate but have just come into the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1909.5", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " of the shareholders because a lot has been said about the way in which they have been treated, and one hon. Gentleman opposite referred to the way in which they were being \"robbed\". What is the true position? They are offered compensation which results in their being paid, on the basis of market figures, a figure of £45 million over and above the figure at which they could have sold their shares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1909.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-26", "file": "debates1967-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "d3de9f4db5971ef2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1912.8", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "no proposal to deny the privately-owned industry the winds of competition which the nationalised industry will provide. What we shall achieve by having a proper financial target—this answers the right hon. Gentleman's question about what has happened, to the alleged surplus, as he described it, it is all wrapped up in providing the appropriate target—what we shall achieve by providing that target—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-26a.1912.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Powell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "es of the Services. They number fewer than 1,000 doctors and fewer than 400 dentists. They have a special claim upon our time just because they are so few in number and can neither fight for themselves nor voice their complaint in public. With no trade union behind them, they look to the Secretary of State—I am sorry not to see him in his place—and the three Service Ministers to be their champions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "ors and dentists, contrary to the 1962 understanding with the British Medical Association? But I hope that when the Minister replies, that instead of answering these questions he will tell us he prefers to have second thoughts about this matter. Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and I am quite sure that the Minister and the Secretary of State are men with broad minds and brave spirits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "hat this was definite Government policy and, therefore, reluctantly accepted the operative date and the date on which the money would be paid to Service doctors. The hon. and gallant Member for Lewes in moving the Motion of censure, said that the B.M.A. is so dissatisfied with the matter that it is trying to see the Prime Minister to discuss the matter with him; and there is no dispute about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reginald Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reginald Bennett", "preceding_text": "It appears from what we have heard so far that the facts on which the Motion has been based are not in dispute, in spite of some very fast talking by the Minister of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "It is up to the Government, therefore, to make sure that justice is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.86.2", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": " about recruitment, not least because of the action of the Secretary of State for Defence himself. He is quick enough to act on cancellations of Service equipment—the TSR2, the HS681, the P1154—those decisions came tumbling out of the Ministry at a great rate, although they were matters which would control our defence posture for the next 15 or 20 years. They can be decided in a matter of moments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.86.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Lancaster (Mr. Henig).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "e speech might not be helpful to my own Front Bench, and therefore I still thought that I had better stay away. But on second thoughts I felt it best to give my Front Bench the opportunity of explaining certain things that are confusing the minds of a great many good friends of mine in the general medical practice in Scotland. I listened with great interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Oxford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.89.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.110.0", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (DOCTORS' AND DENTISTS' PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Motion of censure signed by the Leader of the Opposition on individual cases which arise from a policy which, on the whole, I understood him to accept. It may be that other hon. Members opposite accept it, it may be that some do not; but one is used to hearing the arguments of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West, because we know without any doubt whatsoever exactly where he stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRUGS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Kenneth Robinson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Health (Mr. Kenneth Robinson)", "preceding_text": "he new Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence. Lord Brain enjoyed an international reputation as one of the most distinguished neurologists this country has produced, and his death is a serious loss to medicine. It is appropriate in this debate that I should acknowledge the debt we owe to Lord Brain for his great interest and careful examination of the problem of drug addiction and for his guidance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DRUGS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Miss Alice Bacon)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Excessive use.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Miss Alice Bacon)", "preceding_text": "ggests that there are a large number of pedlars holding relatively small amounts and relying on well-established sources of stolen or diverted stock. We have to curb this traffic. It may take some time and a number of measures. We hope that the Advisory Committee will give guidance. The problem is enormously complicated by the very large use of amphetamine tablets for legitimate medical treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.166.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.176.0", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. Peter Bessell, Dr. John Dunwoody, Mr. Tony Gardner, Mr. Garrett, Mr. Bert Hazell, Mr. J. E. B. Hill, Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine, Mr. Michael Jopling, Mr. Clifford Kenyon, Mr. Peter Mills, Mr. Elystan Morgan, Mr. Derek Page, Mr. Patrick Wall, and Mr. Tudor Watkins be Members of the Committee.—[ Mr. Harper. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.175.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-30", "file": "debates1967-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "853f5bb0fb30c9a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When was counsel's advice given?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "No court order was made. This action was settled out of court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-30a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.230.6", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "One of the difficulties about the present situation is that it is rather hard to distinguish between those who may lose their jobs as a result of this and those who may lose their jobs as a result of the measures taken in July. We must be careful to distinguish between the two before condemning the Selective Employment Tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.230.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of this. I know that there are a lot of lobbies about the subject, but my information is, and my correspondence shows, that the general public on the whole prefer the pound and the penny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already explained to the right hon. Gentleman, since he is not yet accredited as the delegate on behalf of the Six to negotiate with us, that I would prefer to give these answers to those who are so accredited, and then to make, with rather less of a delay than the right hon. Gentleman did, a statement to the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "as amended now enables these incentives to be more flexible. The House will know from what I said on Report that if the Bill is passed the Government propose to make use of these powers to increase the value of these incentives for a two-year period from 1st January. We also intend to pay grant on leased tractors and harvesters subject to satisfactory safeguards to prevent any misuse of the grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ch better. If there be any doubt about the inadequacy of the present system one has only to look at the gloomy forebodings with which both sides, the Government and the N.F.U., approach the present Price Review at a time when both the national interest and the interests of agriculture require an expansion of home production, and yet the dead hand of the Treasury will deny the necessary incentives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ve to face the tact that what we have to do for the small farmer is to make his holding more viable, to help him to viability while changes are taking place in the farm structure. TO help him while these changes are taking place we have the miscellaneous part of the Bill at which the hon. Member for Windsor (Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe) and others sneered and talked about bookkeeping records, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "o help him to viability while changes are taking place in the farm structure. TO help him while these changes are taking place we have the miscellaneous part of the Bill at which the hon. Member for Windsor (Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe) and others sneered and talked about bookkeeping records, and so on. [ Interruption. ] I have full notes of what the hon. Gentleman said, and I suggest that these things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-01-31", "file": "debates1967-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a95b3c738ea99922", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.389.2", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "en and to the continuation of those powers. I have not the slightest doubt that both the Government and the Parliamentary Secretary hoped to goodness that they could get through without ever being asked the question, and without having to consider whether they would have to invoke it. It would have been better if they had considered it at the outset, as a number of hon. Members on both sides, did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-01-31a.389.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hoping to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wonder if you could help hon. Members on this subject. There are 11 of us intending to participate in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.433.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A good speech, too.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, could you appeal to the respective Front Benches, having regard to the fact that there are 11 Members on this side of the House seeking to catch your eye, to curtail their speeches to a reasonable length? My right hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr) has now been on his feet for 33 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.434.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is not entitled to accuse another hon. Member of abusing the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.457.0", "colnum": "457", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It would be more helpful if I answered one point of order at a time. The answer to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Rankin) is that this debate will continue until it is terminated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.457.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.457.8", "colnum": "457", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "As the Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party Technological Group, I would have liked to have made a contribution to the debate this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.457.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.459.5", "colnum": "459", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "ir G. Nabarro) for his usual courtesy. I wish to make it clear that if I had the opportunity to catch your eye again, and the leave of the House to speak again, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in view of the great interest in this debate and the large number of hon. Members who wish to contribute to it, I would recommend to my right hon. Friend that more time should be allowed for this debate to be continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.459.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.459.6", "colnum": "459", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I speak for all my hon. Friends in expressing our gratitude and appreciation to the right hon. Gentleman for his realistic assessment of the Parliamentary position this morning. I did not greet with unalloyed enthusiasm the prospect of morning sittings on topics which were supposed to be of non-controversial, mundane and minor matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.459.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": ". It will continue as it is. I think that I am pretty safe in saying that this establishment will pass, with the rest of responsibility for the electronics industry, to the Ministry of Technology.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th June, 1966; Vol. 729, c. 1664.] \"Pretty safe\"—it is for that reason that I ask the rather more penetrating questions this morning in my speech, which has lasted four minutes only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.460.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.498.7", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has already done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.498.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Ministry of Public Building and Works.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "The Ministry of Labour builds its own buildings, does it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Minister of Technology?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ying: Hon. Members opposite agree with the purposes set out in the Bill but object to our having a State merchant bank to assist in financing them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th October, 1966; Vol. 734, c. 290.] I was dealing then not with my argument, but with that of hon. Members opposite. I have never asserted, I hope, on Second Reading or at any other time, that this was to be a State merchant bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "nt bank. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Minister of Technology?\"] I must say in all candour that the expression \"merchant bank\" covers and dignifies a wide range of financial and commercial operations these days. Nobody is quite sure what a merchant bank is. I am bound to say, speaking, perhaps, with more technical experience of these matters than my right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ure what a merchant bank is. I am bound to say, speaking, perhaps, with more technical experience of these matters than my right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology—[ Laughter. ] I am not in the least criticising my right hon. Friend because it is difficult these days to pin down with any exactitude what is or is not a merchant bank. I would not myself have particularly chosen that description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "prehensive explanation tonight. There is also an increase in the grant in respect of National Insurance employers' contributions. Is there, in this part, provision being made for an anticipated increase in unemployment contributions in view of the growing condition of unemployment in Scotland? In other words, does the Minister anticipate that this is liable to affect employees in local government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Alibis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "That is true, but that is not my fault. These statistics were drawn up under rules laid down by hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-01", "file": "debates1967-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a231e04499cbafc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.715.4", "colnum": "715", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "preceding_text": "I wish to raise the matter of the Export Credits Guarantee Department which is dealt with in Class IV, Vote 5 of the Supplementary Estimates. Although Scottish Members will, no doubt, be leaving the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-01a.715.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.756.5", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "In view of the economic situation and the way in which it affects both Government aid and private investment overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.756.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman's task of finding 1 per cent. of the national income for this purpose being made progressively easier for him by the successful efforts of his right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce the national income?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.756.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.757.7", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I have said on several occasions; that both sides of the House are agreed that we should go on expanding our aid programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.757.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.761.5", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Further to the point made in the question by my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme), is my right hon. Friend aware that if the Government continue to pursue their policy as they have done, the trade union movement will withdraw their support and there will not be a Labour Government afterwards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.761.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.763.5", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister may go on trying to deceive the rest of the world about what—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.763.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not deceive myself about the right hon. Gentleman's vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ealth was at stake, we secured their reluctant agreement to three months more to try to get an agreement with Mr. Smith and his colleagues or anyone else in Rhodesia, because my right hon. Friend met sections of all opinion there. This was wantonly rejected by the Rhodesians after they had every chance, on the basis of proposals which many people would have felt went a very long way on our behalf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must have studied many times, because he has made important speeches on this, the statement of the Commonwealth Conference which on 20th December I said was in force. That statement said that we would not commend to the House proposals which would involve independence for Rhodesia ahead of majority rule. I said that on 20th December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman really must not work himself up into a rage on something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman really must not work himself up into a rage on something—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—which he has known to be the position since 20th December and which he has known would be the position from the Commonwealth communiqué. Indeed, he made an appeal to the Rhodesian people to reject the Commonwealth communiqué and he got his answer. He can now be landed with the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "While the right hon. Gentleman's definition of a moderate Government may be different from mine, he has correctly stated the position. We are operating the agreement made by the Commonwealth. If the right hon. Gentleman would now start to use his influence to get a moderate Government accepted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e operating the agreement made by the Commonwealth. If the right hon. Gentleman would now start to use his influence to get a moderate Government accepted —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have answered the question. If the right hon. Gentleman, for a change, would now encourage the forces of moderation, if a new situation were created, of course we would discuss it at the next Commonwealth Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ation were created, of course we would discuss it at the next Commonwealth Conference. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] Of course we would discuss the situation, as we always shall be discussing the Rhodesian situation, at the next Commonwealth Conference. But we are bound by the agreement with the Commonwealth, and I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should now help to get a moderate Government and stop", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The dead?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "ST. VINCENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "While congratulating the hon. Lady on reaching this settlement, may I ask her whether she is aware that the difficulties of St. Vincent stem largely from the fact that its electoral system is very nearly as undemocratic and unfair as ours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "MORNING SITTINGS and COUNT OF THE HOUSE (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is why the Chair is ruling on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (NOTICE OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "to bear in mind that the Sessional Order to which you have referred arose from a recommendation not of the Select Committee on Procedure but of the Services Committee, which in turn made the recommendation not in any sense of amending the procedure of the House but in response to representations concerning the difficulties faced by the Government printers in dealing with these matters after 10.30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (NOTICE OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Of course, I accept your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. The issue therefore narrows down to the very precise one of whether the precedent of the Conservative Iron and Steel Bill some years ago, which undoubtedly was contentious and controversial business, can be made equivalent to the Consolidated Fund Bill. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that although, of course, it is an extremely important Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (NOTICE OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "her the precedent of the Conservative Iron and Steel Bill some years ago, which undoubtedly was contentious and controversial business, can be made equivalent to the Consolidated Fund Bill. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that although, of course, it is an extremely important Measure—[ Interruption .] The word used here is not \"important\", but \"contentious\". The point which I am putting Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (NOTICE OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossmart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossmart", "preceding_text": "er. What we have to ask ourselves therefore is whether. in the circumstances which happened last night, or early this morning, we are bound by the Ruling of the Speaker on the Iron and Steel Bill in 1952? I would respectfully remind the House through you, Mr. Speaker, of how the circumstances differ between 1952 and now. This is the subject that we have to discuss, whether the 1952 Ruling applies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (NOTICE OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mr. Speaker has given his Ruling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am not going to be prevented from speaking by shouts of \"Resign\" because Mr. Speaker has given advice on the interpretation of a different Ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.804.4", "colnum": "804", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (NOTICE OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "fference of circumstance is quite simply this: we were discussing a non-contentious Measure, the Consolidated Fund Bill. Agreement had been reached through the usual channels that the Closure would not be moved. There were only two Tories left at the time. We had made it clear through the usual channels that we would not move the Closure. There were only two back benchers on the benches oppositc.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend went to Malta with proposals that represented very substantial changes from the original ones, and which represented the outcome of all the discussions that had taken place between August and January. He went out and discussed further the new proposals that he had brought with him with the Malta Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "preceding_text": "rnet (Mr. Maudling) give the assurance that, on this occasion at any rate, the Opposition does not intend to divide the House. Although I agreed with a good deal of what the right hon. Gentleman said, I regretted that he opened his speech on a militant note and with almost a personal attack on my hon. Friend the Minister of State by saying that her speech was \"totally and pathetically inadequate.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "preceding_text": "h I agreed with a good deal of what the right hon. Gentleman said, I regretted that he opened his speech on a militant note and with almost a personal attack on my hon. Friend the Minister of State by saying that her speech was \"totally and pathetically inadequate.\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"] I am expressing my personal opinion. My hon. Friend was, of course, limited by her Treasury-dictated brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the hon. Member is telling the House, but it is not unusual for a private Member to transmit to the House what the Minister responsible ought to know?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "in each year will be as follows: year 1967–68, £730,000; year 1968–69, £1,100,000; year 1969–70, £300,000; year 1970–71, £330,000. Those figures underline the point made by the hon. Member for Barking, that the greatest number of sackings in Malta comes in the first two years. Nearly 2 million are sacked in the first two years, starting in April, compared with 600,000 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "hich they are doing their best to do this week. In this respect, I think that they have acted a litte too hastily. I would have preferred the Maltese Government this week to have seen the result of this debate before starting to refuse supplies to our Forces. I wish briefly to refer to the Royal Malta Artillery, comprising 950 officers and men, and not the 720 as mentioned by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "I do not want to minimise the unemployment figures, but I want to see the record straight. Our estimate is not 18 per cent. At the moment, at the end, it would be 14 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.857.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " which we expect from this rundown. First, the budgetary saving to the British taxpayer and, secondly, the relief for our balance of payments, both of which are vitally important. The right hon. Member for Barnet, as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, will recognise this. The budgetary saving and the saving on foreign exchange, on balance of payments, are, by a coincidence, both about the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. There will be a small capital sum of something over £1 million redundancy payments to locally employed personnel, and then a capital sum to take account of incidental rehousing of forces in this country. I am not in a position to give this in detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "lta has to make a contribution. I do not think most hon. Members, although one or two did say this, would want us to keep soldiers, sailors and airmen in Malta if we did not need to keep them there and it was causing us to spend money on defence which we did not require to spend for defence reasons. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West spoke for most of the House when he said this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "o did say this, would want us to keep soldiers, sailors and airmen in Malta if we did not need to keep them there and it was causing us to spend money on defence which we did not require to spend for defence reasons. I think my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West spoke for most of the House when he said this. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I must say a word or two here about the British military need", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-02", "file": "debates1967-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b02f8a0a3be7b5f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST INDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "th it either by holding by-elections or by the Government resigning and calling a general election. This is a decision of the Government. It is an internal political decision. I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Northfield is a colonialist at heart in many ways and does not like to recognise situations in which we cannot challenge and influence the internal position because the Constitution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-02a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "k of action. It must be accepted that the 1965 Act represented the best they could do in the circumstances. Like the previous Acts, it went some way towards meeting the rise in the cost of living but it did not provide any guard against inflation in any real sense of the word, and it certainly did not do anything at all towards giving a rising share of rising national prosperity to the pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "preceding_text": "s have paid testimony, for its documentation and for the skill of its presentation. However, I have heard with interest many of the speeches which have been made subsequently on both sides of the House, including the speech made from neither side, I suppose, but from that strange political purgatory where 12 Liberal apostles dwell, and made by my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "tended consequences of previous legislation. These can be put right only by changing the law. But an independent Commission which was not associated with the administration of the law would not be able to take effective initiative in this field. It would largely be dependent upon the much-abused Treasury to bring these anomalies to its attention, together with the suggested means of amending them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"By the Treasury.\"·", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "perate in the sphere of public service pension is either necessary or appropriate. I know that this may come as a disappointment to many hon. Members who have come to argue the case today, but I take comfort from the fact that the same conclusion was reached by hon. Gentlemen opposite when they were in government—and, as I have said, they were supported in that conclusion by the then Opposition. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MarDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MarDermot", "preceding_text": "hing is to be done about pensions in the private sector, such as the question of the transferability of pension rights, or any provision for increases in pensions in the private sector, they would all be matters that it would be desirable to consider at the same time. As the House knows, and as has also been mentioned, a fundamental review of the whole system of social security is now in progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MarDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MarDermot", "preceding_text": " that it would be desirable to consider at the same time. As the House knows, and as has also been mentioned, a fundamental review of the whole system of social security is now in progress. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It would obviously be inappropriate, and probably a complete waste of time, to try to make any fundamental change in the structure of public service pensions until that review is complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": " my remarks. One cannot, however, represent a constituency like Folkestone, which has a great number of retired pensioners, without realising the importance of the problem. I therefore congratulate my right hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr) on introducing the Bill and on the way he has presented it. I pledge myself here and now to support the Bill, whichever Government introduce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.995.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-03", "file": "debates1967-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b966529a8f644add", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.1009.26", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS AND BROADCASTING FREEDOM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-03a.1009.25"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1021.8", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AVIATION (DISSOLUTION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "the Government. Another recommendation, No. (xvii), has been implemented—that the Government should decide on their future helicopter requirements. We have arrived at what I consider to be a valuable agreement with the French embracing not only helicopters but the Anglo-French variable geometry aircraft. I regretted the remarks made last Wednesday by the hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1021.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AVIATION (DISSOLUTION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "s reminded of a book which was very popular particularly in Socialist circles a number of years ago, called \"The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists\". Its author was Robert Tressall, who was a foreman painter, and the principal character in the book was the foreman of a painting shop. When the foreman found anything wrong he stormed in among the men, roaring out: \"There'll 'ave to be an halteration\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1033.3", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AVIATION (DISSOLUTION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Variable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "seen the excellent relations which exist between British and French workmen. We have seen how co-operation is proceeding smoothly, and we are firmly convinced that co-operation in Europe between equals can proceed even more happily in the future than it has in some cases done in the past, and that it will incorporate further progress, as instanced by the vertical geometry aircraft and the air bus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1033.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AVIATION (DISSOLUTION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will allow me to finish this. It is a pity that the hon. Member for Tottenham failed to take advantage, which no doubt he could have, of his good fortune in getting an opportunity to speak, because he failed to understand that there was no necessary Closure of the debate which opened on Wednesday morning. I do not wish to detain the House for long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AVIATION (DISSOLUTION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has changed from green to orange.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) who has had to leave the Chamber yet again—I do not know what is wrong with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "May I remind the right hon. Lady that we raised this matter in 1963. We put it in our election manifesto in 1964, and we have been pressing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I accept that the whole problem arises out of the complications due to the multiplicity of employers in given instances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I accept that the whole problem arises out of the complications due to the multiplicity of employers in given instances. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I wish you would not be so stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1107.6", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "May I inform my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1107.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1118.2", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "GUARDSMAN GABRIEL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There is no possibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that if morning sittings are to work it is essential to get the co-operation of the Opposition and that there should not be the misuse of them such as we have had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1124.4", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Since one of the purposes of the Consolidated Fund Bill is that back benchers shall sustain the debate, has my right hon. Friend any indication as to whether the Opposition propose to \"pot the white\" again by calling again for a Count, which caused all the trouble? Can my right hon. Friend also give an indication of when we may advise the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUGITIVE OFFENDERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And vice versa .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "ies are to inquire into those matters. For example, if the Bill be extended to the Republic of Ireland, as there is power to do under a later Clause, and an Ulsterman claimed that he would not have a fair trial in Dublin, then, however much they might disbelieve the Ulsterman, the courts would have to go, day after day, into all the evidence relating to the religious history of the Irish Republic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FUGITIVE OFFENDERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": " penalty is still operative whereas in this country we have, wisely or unwisely, done away with it. It may be a strong prima facie case of sexual murder, or it may involve all sorts of horrible crimes. Yet that person will not be extradited but will remain a free person in this country, perhaps able to carry out exactly the same crime or crimes that he is said to have committed in his own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mi. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Utter nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mi. Foot", "preceding_text": "ese are the facts, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it. The right hon. Gentleman's first argument about the loss of control by this country is completely false. Whatever differences of opinion we may have in this House about how this matter should be dealt with, all of us should acknowledge in candour that it was impossible for this country to have kept this matter solely within our own control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mi. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mi. Foot", "preceding_text": "how this matter should be dealt with, all of us should acknowledge in candour that it was impossible for this country to have kept this matter solely within our own control. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Utter nonsense.\"] Perhaps I should alter that sentence and say that we could have kept it in our own control at the price of a complete break-up of the Commonwealth and complete isolation at the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "There is the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1233.3", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of reducing the burden which this country has to bear in Germany—for other reasons which it would be improper to discuss now. But if that intervention is meant to indicate that it is difficult to put pressure on the Germans, it would be an added reason for doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1233.3", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of reducing the burden which this country has to bear in Germany—for other reasons which it would be improper to discuss now. But if that intervention is meant to indicate that it is difficult to put pressure on the Germans, it would be an added reason for doing it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] We could say we will withdraw our troops from Germany if Germany does not carry out the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1233.3", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From Lusaka.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ple to minimise the effect of the sanctions. Hon. Members may have read in the Sunday Telegraph the week before last an account of what happened to Smith's tobacco crop over the past year. It appears that 70 per cent. was unsold. I know that some hon. Members opposite do not believe this to be true, and I do not know whether it is true, but it was evidence given by a reputable reporter, reporting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "whole Commonwealth—not only the African territories, but Canada, Australia and New Zealand. All those countries have supported the policy; all of them agreed the same procedure at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite have not yet appreciated in what a state of miserable isolation they are. They have hardly any supporters in the world on their policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What does that prove?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "o me and said, \"Look round this table. I think there are nine here. The men sitting around this table represent companies whose sales are more than twice the gross national product of --Rhodesia—that is £232 million\". He said, \"The kind of sums that are needed here are those which we could lose in the 'sundry creditors' item in our balance sheets, and do you think that we are not going to do so?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "t some who will think it is the right thing to do. It is very difficult to put in criminal legislation something which is against the sympathies of the people who are required to operate and work it. All that we can do, all that we are doing, is to delay the industrial revolution which is taking place in Rhodesia. If that industrial revolution goes ahead, then African rule inevitably goes with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " have not thought out what they are seeking to do. What is this policy? The Lord Chancellor is reported as saying in another place, with a measure of pride, that the sugar crop in Rhodesia had been ploughed in. In a world in which millions are starving, if he be right, let us in this House realise that this is not a matter for pride. It is something about which we ought to hang our heads in shame.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Ebbw Vale made his impassioned speech, did he not realise or take into consideration that none of the African States bordering on Rhodesia shares his views? If they did, why did they not vote or do something? The hon. Members comes here and makes an impassioned speech which will upset very many settled principles in Africa to no purpose whatsoever, simply to satisfy his own ego.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ned speech, did he not realise or take into consideration that none of the African States bordering on Rhodesia shares his views? If they did, why did they not vote or do something? The hon. Members comes here and makes an impassioned speech which will upset very many settled principles in Africa to no purpose whatsoever, simply to satisfy his own ego. [ Interruption. ] Let us go a little further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1254.5", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir O. Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I have declared my interest before, and will declare it again. Most of my family live out there, but as an individual I have no financial interests there whatsoever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1254.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman was making a personal attack on my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot). I asked if the hon. and gallant Gentleman would declare his interest. He did so, and I am satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "A theme has been running through the speeches of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite which must not go unrebutted in this forum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "As we have no doubts about legality of this matter, clearly the onus is not upon this country. It has been suggested by hon. Members opposite that such an opinion may be sought. Until it is sought we have to abide by the decision of the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1258.2", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "My reading of Chapter VII—and I do not offer myself as the last legal authority, as some hon. Members opposite appear to claim for themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in Russian waters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "ess they were to include South Africa. We all know very well why South Africa was excluded. Were she to be included, her retaliation would be devastating. It would be two-way traffic plus. We therefore have the policy and doctrine of sanctions against the weaker brethren who cannot hit back. The incident of shadowing the tanker off the port of Beira would not have happened in South African waters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Malta.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "plus. We therefore have the policy and doctrine of sanctions against the weaker brethren who cannot hit back. The incident of shadowing the tanker off the port of Beira would not have happened in South African waters—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in Russian waters.\"]—and we all know it. There is not much morality, therefore, in this new doctrine of sanctions against the weaker brethren who cannot hit back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that the Secretary of State and his colleagues had said, \"No independence before majority rule\". If that is not the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowland", "preceding_text": "I accept that qualification. I am sure, however, that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that many of his colleagues suggested that this would be very serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; he said the reverse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowland", "preceding_text": "I accept that qualification. I am sure, however, that the right hon. Gentleman will agree that many of his colleagues suggested that this would be very serious. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"] The last speaker said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "makes it binding and, in my view, this is not such a resolution. I say that for three reasons. The first is that it was not supported by the concurring votes of the five permanent members. This has been referred to already, and Article 27 of the Charter says that it should be. What is worse, anticipating what the Attorney-General will try to say, this is not the first time that this has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "forward. I do not know whether we shall hear it from the Attorney-General tonight, but I hope that he will not lend his support to it, because if we start saying that this is the law of the prophets we justify every occasion when the United Nations is called in to crush a rebellion. One of my hon. Friends suggested that it might be used in the United Kingdom. That was, perhaps, a little fanciful.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1284.4", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "about the threat to peace, and I will not repeat what has been said by other hon. Gentlemen. But what is the threat to peace that the two Orders which we have before us for approval could exorcise or diminish? It would be a very odd threat to peace about which they could do anything. We all know on both sides of the House that this threat to peace is fraudulent. It is a threat to someone's vanity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I say that this country, the Government and at any rate those hon. Members on this side of the House are supporters of the United Nations, and we take seriously our membership of the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In wartime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "r's duty not to complete the transaction—that is, not deliver the goods to the order of the Rhodesian consignee. In this respect the position is no different from that of any other contract the completion of which is made illegal by supervening legislation. As to the stopping and searching of ships on the high seas, no country has done that more than this country in the long course of our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "No. As I was saying, there were some questions asked about South Africa. We shall see what South Africa decides to do, in her own long-term interests. All I venture to say at this stage is that it would be quite wrong to assume that any member State will not abide by the U.N. resolution, which is binding on all member States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1297.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1298.2", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1298.4", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I come now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1302.0", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "RHODESIA (PROHIBITED TRADE AND DEALINGS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "sanctions resolutions, which Her Majesty's Government, taking all aspects of the problem into consideration, decided to sponsor. On this issue, we on this side have no doubt whatever that the Security Council, representing in this matter the conscience of mankind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "—because in this regard we hear a lot of talk about figures which can be obtained of completions in Scotland: 40,000 is accepted as a realistic figure, or a not unreasonable figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-06", "file": "debates1967-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8f9e332439dd1465", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "SCOTLAND (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Dr. J. Dickson Mabon)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Dr. J. Dickson Mabon)", "preceding_text": "h have to be consulted if one is to proceed a step further. We have inaugurated a fifth new town. It is salutary to realise how long the process takes from the pronouncement about Irvine, getting the area designated, the procedure of public inquiry and the rest. I think that it was started when the party opposite were in office. I do not complain of that. It was announced just before the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-06a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1340.5", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that if the party opposite, when they were in power, had shown any signs of decency and understanding to local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1340.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman seriously trying.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1342.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1352.7", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC GROWTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stand up.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y other Conservative Prime Minister who was asked this, but the right hon. Gentleman who made so much party capital last July out of the measures that we had to take, will, I hope, now stand up and admit that they are having a very considerable success on exports, on the balance of payments, on sterling, and on all the other things in respect of which he has been trying to sell this country short.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will probably remember, from his own time at the Board of Trade, that the figures are not compiled in that way—in terms of a percentage drop from the previous year—in every case. Probably the increased investment last year was the reason for expecting something rather higher than we have had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "Bill had been brought forward. The Prime Minister then stated in August that it was all right for the Parliamentary Commissioner to be set up and that if any expenditure were incurred, that, too, would be all right, although that was during the midst of an economic crisis. Many of my hon. Friends and I thought at the time that it was a gimmick designed to take people's eyes off the crisis in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "he debates in Committee, I too felt that the creation of the office was something which was looked for by the mass of the British public. But I also had certain reservations in that I felt that the duties to be delegated to the Parliamentary Commissioner would not, to any great extent, place him in the position of looking into the many grievances which are sometimes borne by many British subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1394.2", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Blue Streak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "n of the function of the Parliamentary Commissioner and the action of the Government in putting into these Estimates a sum of £49,000. It was, no doubt, right and proper that the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West should call for proper control of expenditure, but this comes ill from the mouths of some right hon. and hon. Members opposite when one remembers some of their own previous extravagances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1394.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1418.8", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1418.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1418.13", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): Further to that point of order. I was on my feet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1418.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " today that this was a new Second Reading. The time was then 3.34 p.m. The debate was closured approximately three hours later. You yourself decided that 11 subjects should be set down. A simple mathematical calculation shows, therefore, that my hon. Friends and I have had 16 minutes per subject—if we caught your eye. I am now placed in the unhappy predicament of having clamour in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "peaker, namely, the deficit of British Railways. I wished to raise on the Consolidated Fund Bill Second Reading not only the financial position of British Railways but the inadequacies of the service provided in Worcestershire. Throughout the three hours I deferred to your suggestion—for it was not a Ruling—that Members should talk only about the first topic. I am now therefore permanently denied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ilways. I wished to raise on the Consolidated Fund Bill Second Reading not only the financial position of British Railways but the inadequacies of the service provided in Worcestershire. Throughout the three hours I deferred to your suggestion—for it was not a Ruling—that Members should talk only about the first topic. I am now therefore permanently denied—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—permanently denied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is he trying to do now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " of the service provided in Worcestershire. Throughout the three hours I deferred to your suggestion—for it was not a Ruling—that Members should talk only about the first topic. I am now therefore permanently denied—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—permanently denied—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—per- manently denied the opportunity to seek redress for my constituents. I bow at all times to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—per- manently denied the opportunity to seek redress for my constituents. I bow at all times to your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is he trying to do now?\"] You made the decision at the outset that there should be a new Second Reading; you made the decision of the eleven topics; you made the decision to accept the closure, and thus I am permanently incapacitated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "at the outset that there should be a new Second Reading; you made the decision of the eleven topics; you made the decision to accept the closure, and thus I am permanently incapacitated—[HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"]—by your triple decision. While I accept all your Rulings without reservation and am deeply grateful to you for the sympathy you have expressed, I suggest—and this is my point of order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "With the general observations of the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) I am in complete agreement. The rights —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1428.5", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mishandling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "s which it was intended Members could have an opportunity of raising, should they wish, in turn. The whole object of what you have done has been frustrated by the somewhat grubby manœuvre of the Treasury Bench, unattended by the Leader of the House, who shuffles in here with an untidy grin on his face, taking not the slightest notice of the results which have attended upon his own handling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1430.4", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "s wishing to raise subjects for debate today have been placed as a result of your acceptance of the Closure. The subject which I wished to raise happened to be the next on the list. It involves the summary dismissal by a certain company of more than 150 people in Leicestershire. There are representatives here today, not only from the County of Leicestershire, who have come to listen to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1430.6", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "at the subject would come up, as it was the second indicated thereon. I put it to you most sincerely and with the utmost confidence that you will appreciate the very difficult position in which I and other hon. Members have been placed. We have gone to a tremendous amount of trouble and constituents have gone to a tremendous amount of expense in a matter affecting their jobs and their livelihoods.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF AVIATION (DISSOLUTION) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to consider any worthwhile proposal, but I believe that the House has been fully informed about the Government's attitude to the Plowden Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTRY OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES (DISSOLUTION) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "I will answer the question. The right hon. and learned Gentleman must contain himself. He has been away from the House for a very long time. Had he been here attending to his duties he might know better what we have been discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1465.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1530.3", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "SALMON (DRIFT-NET FISHING)", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "We do.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will not misunderstand the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1530.5", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "SALMON (DRIFT-NET FISHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "I wish merely to establish the facts, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My impression was that you did call Mr. Secretary Ross, and neither he nor any other Scottish Minister was present on the Front Bench to move this Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1530.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1545.3", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "SALMON (DRIFT-NET FISHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "What the Government should do is to present an answer to the problem as quickly as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-07", "file": "debates1967-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ba2963092f8f8222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "SALMON (DRIFT-NET FISHING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "at which compensation should have been considered was when the scheme was introduced, but unfortunately it was introduced under the Tories and they ignored it. That was the point at which it was possible to see which gear was being used for fishing, but nowadays it would be extremely difficult. The hon. Member for South Angus might bring up the new net he bought yesterday and ask for compensation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-07a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"God help us all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman and his Ministerial colleagues are now engaged on the preparation of a second edition of the National Plan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1659.4", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "While I am glad that, in the face of universal condemnation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1672.2", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "de has declared his own previous interest. Perhaps I, too, ought to declare an interest, though over a much shorter period than the right hon. Gentleman's. I was a working journalist, a sub-editor and a news editor. That was not a case of rapid promotion. As it was a very small newspaper, I did all three jobs at the same time. There one was writing copy against time, \"subbing\" other people's copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1672.2", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " curiosity and of trying to interfere in other people's business? If I may say so, right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite have always expressed publicly their concern about the position of the Press, for a number of reasons, I think. First of all, I believe that they have always had, deep down, the feeling that, as the Press is a capitalist institution, it is bound to work against their interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1672.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "what we get from the Press in London sometimes. The provincial papers have a particularly important part to play. The same is true of local papers. It is not often realised, but it is shown by research done in by-elections, that the great majority of our citizens take their views from what they read in local newspapers even more than from what they read in the national Press or hear on television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "raphic process to Belfast. It, needs, therefore, no subsequent typesetting. The photographic print which is received is then put upon an aluminium plate which in turn is put upon the printing machine; it is this which goes through, and the finished product comes out at the other end. This process means that the Daily Mirror is able not only to produce an Ulster edition but an Eire edition as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1710.7", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": " have already said that in the past the national dailies allowed staff to build up and I am not now dealing with that. A newspaper has to be over-manned, especially if it is in competition. On a good many days in any year, and particularly on Saturdays, there have been occasions when I have had to work myself to a standstill to cope with the amount of work which had to be produced on edition time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1710.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "preceding_text": "pite that, not all of my hon. Friends would expect all of our subsidised orchestras to play the Red Flag at the end of every performance. We also subsidise sport. England recently won the World Cup and the present Government gave £500,000 in subsidy for that. But we do not expect to see five left wingers in the forward line. My hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) is subsidised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1751.1", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How awful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "I thought that he came to the right conclusion. I thought that for once his heart was in the right place. I am sure that he will be as successful in keeping his supporters in their places as is his right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary in keeping the Vietcong lobby in their places. I am quite sure that we shall not hear anything seriously advocated in favour of subsidies or grants for the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1755.1", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " with the best will in the world, the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne is drifting into by saying, \"Let us have an independent committee; of course, it will not influence editorial policy, but it ought to decide which paper should live and which die\". I would have absolutely nothing of it whatsoever. I am a Conservative and the inheritor of the great Liberal tradition of Western civilisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "he editors of journals, or contributors to them, are sympathetic to the Labour Party, contrary to the persuasion of most of their readers. Their readers do not read those bits. It is not unnatural that many journalists should be Left-wing. I have always felt that almost by definition highly articulate and literate people are neurotic. I think being articulate and literate is a symptom of neurosis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Conservative Weekly News-letter. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "l. Those are the terms on which I am prepared to accept freedom, which may often bring a bitter harvest in the short-run to those who depend on the Press and to the Press itself. But I am certain that, whatever the evils may be in a free Press in a competitive system, they are nothing as compared with the evils which flow from a society in which there is a Pravda or \"The Thoughts of Chairman Mao\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1766.1", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Yes, but those who spoke in the other House spoke from knowledge, experience and authority, including one person who used to be a member of a Labour Government. There is not the same authority in this House on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It would help.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker)", "preceding_text": "isturbing that little progress seems to have been made between the Shawcross Royal Commission of 1962 and the Report of the Economist Intelligence Unit. I must point out to the hon. Member for Louth because he exaggerated this factor, that it is clear from all the reports that even if the over-manning, restrictive practices and so on were all removed that would not solve the problems of the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I suppose that my hon. Friend would say that that was true of a staff of a half a million or something. We have to draw the line at some point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "I suppose that my hon. Friend would say that that was true of a staff of a half a million or something. We have to draw the line at some point.—[ Interruption. ] The E.I.U. Report may well be wrong in this respect but I was quoting what it said.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-08", "file": "debates1967-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "f24fdbdaf5aba241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1781.3", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "THE PRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" They used to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ndustry—it has not been mentioned in the debate—is the marked increase of printing imports because of the work done abroad for the British market. It seems to me a shameful thing that the colour supplements of the Sunday newspapers are mostly, if not all, printed abroad because we either cannot do it as cheaply or we have not the technical means. It may be the latter reason. If so, it is very bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-08a.1781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-09", "file": "debates1967-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2216c66e8266b81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1807.3", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I think that what I said earlier was that a prices and incomes policy must be sought which makes sustained growth possible. That is certainly true. The reason why there has been this down-turn is that which I gave in reply to the earlier Question. The hon. Gentleman's statement that the National Plan is a flop is not an opinion shared by people in industry generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-09", "file": "debates1967-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2216c66e8266b81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1823.0", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister, in his talks, make it clear that, as the public opinion polls show, he is speaking for the mass of the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-09", "file": "debates1967-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2216c66e8266b81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1823.1", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " which the right hon. Gentleman extended beyond the Common Market, it is certainly the case that even this morning's public opinion poll confirms what he said. But it would be rather more considerate of him if he did not keep rubbing in this point to the Front Bench opposite. With regard to public opinion on the Common Market, I think that the right hon. Gentleman correctly expressed the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-09", "file": "debates1967-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2216c66e8266b81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1824.2", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oes not care a fig for what the public opinion polls say. The answer to that is, \"Yes, I am aware that he does not care a fig about them.\" I have repeatedly explained in the House the position of the Government on the conditions of British entry and a decision has still to be taken by the Government. Nothing that was said by our Ambassador in Paris derogated from the duty falling on the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-09", "file": "debates1967-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2216c66e8266b81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1826.1", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mischievous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not think the question mysterious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-09", "file": "debates1967-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "2216c66e8266b81d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1859.3", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "These are the figures for \"premature wastage\" in the words of the working parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-09a.1859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-10", "file": "debates1967-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "fab80481127e51ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-10a.2023.1", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that. The hon. Gentleman overlooks the essence of establishing businesses. The problem facing all hopeful developers of new industries, whether in this country or in any of the developing countries, is the search for capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-10a.2023.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "BRAIN DRAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " sell British goods to foreigners in this country, sees the Government, prone to highly oratorical and emotional utterances, doing away with the ability to charge entertainment allowances against tax, he is likely to find his personal interest in his job that much diminished. There are large number of hon. Members opposite who regard that as splendid. They do not approve of expense account living.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.235.14", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "The effect of these Amendments is that the next London borough elections would take place in May of this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.235.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "of office. For the right hon. Lady merely to grumble at the length of time taken at earlier stages of this Measure and then, in only a few moments, to commend the rejection of the Amendments which were made after long and careful debate in another place is to show a complete failure to understand the importance of the issue. I must protest, too, at the extraordinary attitude of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.236.0", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ages of this Measure and then, in only a few moments, to commend the rejection of the Amendments which were made after long and careful debate in another place is to show a complete failure to understand the importance of the issue. I must protest, too, at the extraordinary attitude of the Home Secretary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] He knows perfectly well the constitutional issues which arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Certainly. To which London Government Act is the hon. Gentleman referring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I suggested nothing of the sort, nor did the right hon. Lady understand me to do so. I made it clear that the postponement of elections in so far as it was effected in the outer areas was not a disputed Measure in this House, and the right hon. Lady knows that perfectly well.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.240.5", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "itizens; they will know that they are there because they are the kept creatures of the Labour Home Secretary and the political manipulators of the London Labour Party. I beg hon. Members opposite to reflect for a moment: if these proposals go through in the shape which the Government wish will they not be setting a very dangerous precedent for the future? It is a classical technique of a dictator—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.240.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Since my right hon. Friend seems to be so well informed, who is the hon. Gentleman who just raised that point of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "If there was ever a demonstration of artificial thunder and fury signifying nothing, we have just had one in that display by the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "e only people with whom I have some sympathy are those who reside in Conservative-controlled boroughs and who will be denied the opportunity of creating Labour majorities in those boroughs for another 12 months. But we are patient people. We are willing to wait for another 12 months before capturing all the other Conservative-controlled boroughs in the Greater London area. Although we are patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Has the hon. Member?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I shall just say one or two words, if I am allowed to by the noisy hon. Members who have come into the Chamber from somewhere else and have not been paying attention throughout the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.245.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "lue was given by something which the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames said this evening, when he said that at elections this May the results will be very different indeed in comparison with 1964 when the first set of elections for the Greater London Council were held. The Conservatives are under the impression now that they would take control of the G.L.C. at the elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.248.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": " is sent by the overwhelming authority of this House up to the other place it should be returned mutilated in the form in which we receive it back from them today. It is obvious that when we have considered these Lords Amendment we shall reject them and have reasons stated, in the phraseology of the House for disagreeing with the Lords in the said Amendments. I should like to warn the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.248.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.248.4", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "his House up to the other place it should be returned mutilated in the form in which we receive it back from them today. It is obvious that when we have considered these Lords Amendment we shall reject them and have reasons stated, in the phraseology of the House for disagreeing with the Lords in the said Amendments. I should like to warn the other place—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—that if they persist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.248.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member who sits for a Northern Ireland constituency has the nerve to tell me to give way. He can spend more of his time trying to wipe out the religious discrimination and gerrymandering in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has the unique distinction of having been the only Labour councillor on the former Wanstead and Woodford Council who was elected mayor of that borough. He knows—my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-on-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) made the point earlier—that when there was a major reorganisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ion in boroughs where the elections are marginal, take the trouble to turn out and elect their councillors every three years. If this Measure is allowed to go through as the Government wish, they will be deprived of that right. This is a deplorable thing, and it is to the shame of the Government that they should have done it. When this debate has finished, the Government will wield their majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "councillors every three years. If this Measure is allowed to go through as the Government wish, they will be deprived of that right. This is a deplorable thing, and it is to the shame of the Government that they should have done it. When this debate has finished, the Government will wield their majority—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Will they not? Is it a free vote for right hon. and hon. Members opposite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.262.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before the hon. and learned Member for Antrim, South (Sir Knox Cunningham) intervenes, I must point out to the hon. Member for Croydon, South (Mr. Winnick) that that is very far off the Amendment. I hope that he will keep to the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.265.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.266.10", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I trust that I did not say anything controversial.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—It is no good hon. Gentlemen opposite braying at me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.266.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.269.4", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "If I could intervene in my own speech, the point made by the hon. Gentleman who just sat down—it seems a long time ago now—is a very important one. He suggested that if the House of Commons decided to reject these Lords Amendments, the Lords should repeat their impertinence by sending it back again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.269.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "It is remarkable that the hon. Gentleman, a non-Londoner—if I may so describe him without offence—should intervene in our debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.271.5", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "It is remarkable that he is a voter, and we are very pleased that he is, I am sure, but it does not alter the fact that, unwilling to concede—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.271.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "preceding_text": "There has been a certain amount of heat and give-and-take in the debate, and I hope the House will forgive me if I try to keep away from that type of argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "preceding_text": "of the electors of my constituency? If that method of education is to be introduced this year, and if it will be very difficult to alter it subsequently, surely in the interests of democracy it is right that such a burning question in the constituency should be decided at the polls? There can be no argument but that that is a fair approach to a normal problem. I speak on behalf of my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.277.4", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Within a fortnight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowder", "preceding_text": " but I have given way to practically everyone in the House, although I am only too glad to do so. The only real argument I have heard in the House for the postponement of the borough elections is that the G.L.C. elections would coincide and muddle the borough elections. But I remind the House of what happened in 1955. The General Election was held within three or four weeks of the local elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is stupid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I shall hear those views and so I will leave that thought with the House. The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) insists on returning to the issue of the letters. He has made the argument before and I have answered him before. I have quoted HANSARD at him, but he goes on repeating it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for that intervention. I could not have put his case better. This whole Measure concerning London started on an agreed basis. It was agreed among the London boroughs, Conservative and Labour, that it would be administratively desirable for the elections to be postponed. For a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " The other person who has defiled it worse still is the hon. and absent Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) whose interest in letters rarely exceeds his interest in democratic principles. He accuses people of imagining that they have received letters from his constituencies. He twitted me with not having sent him one such letter. True I did not retain the letter, but I remember well what was in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-13", "file": "debates1967-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "890a1b831332e9c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Clause 1.—(LONDON BOROUGH ELECTIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "Because I remember many Measures being introduced when the right hon. Gentleman was in power, and no mention of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-13a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What means?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that, among others, the Government of Portugal are conniving at the breach of sanctions through Portuguese East Africa? Would he agree that sanctions can be fully effective and productive only if they are fully enforced and backed up by other means?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.324.7", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's interest in theology is similar to my own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.324.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.324.7", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not wriggle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's interest in theology is similar to my own. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] It is a very general question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.324.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the B.B.C. has been grossly biased in its reporting of the dispute between the Prime Minister and the Rhodesian Government? Will he not get over all these problems of illegality which have been raised by according long overdue recognition to the de facto Government of Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "On a point of Order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for the hon. Lady to suggest that hon. Members like myself support Rhodesia censorship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.327.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Come on. Do not waste time. Get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LINER TRAINS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If the right hon. Gentleman puts down a Question on that, I shall answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LINER TRAINS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If the right hon. Gentleman puts down a Question on that, I shall answer it. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman obviously thinks that this is all very funny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LINER TRAINS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If the right hon. Gentleman puts down a Question on that, I shall answer it. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman obviously thinks that this is all very funny. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course, he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LINER TRAINS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ntleman puts down a Question on that, I shall answer it. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman obviously thinks that this is all very funny. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Of course, he does. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] The right hon. Gentleman is more concerned—and we know the kind of briefing that he gets from his hon. Friend on these matters—to attack the Government than to get results.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.347.0", "colnum": "347", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I certainly appreciate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.347.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend not agree that the spontaneous welcome accorded Mr. Kosygin in Great Britain last week wherever he went was a reflection of the widespread support of his policy in Vietnam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.348.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not usual, of course, to give the sources of this information, but I am not aware of anyone who is denying this——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "While sympathising with the Prime Minister in his struggle for peace against so many of his hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.353.0", "colnum": "353", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "While sympathising with the Prime Minister in his struggle for peace against so many of his hon. Friends—[ Interruption .]—is it hypercritical to suggest that Mr. Kosygin could have helped the end which we all have in view by taking time off from trying to detach us from our allies and publicly suggesting and exhorting his protegé Ho Chi Minh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Of course they are entitled to refuse to sell. But Tartan Arrow had no need to sell until pressure was brought upon it, and it had to sell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.380.1", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And abortive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ese specific recommendations have been thrown overboard. We stand by that recommendation and we shall do everything in our power in Committee to see that it is reflected in the Bill. There are two other matters of disclosure to which I want briefly to refer. The provision compelling companies to publish the value of goods exported by them will, I believe, prove to be both misleading and dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "limited to political contributions, was apparent from the extraordinary fact that the Minister of State, in opening the debate, spent almost half his speech in dealing with this particular Clause. I can dismiss it with a couple of sentences. The new provision for the disclosure of charitable contributions and the provision for the disclosure of political contributions are both mean and irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Lord Chancellor is a lawyer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "laces on the board of directors of the company by which they are employed than English law allows them now\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, House of Lords, 22nd November, 1966; Vol. 278, c. 136.] But, of course, there is nothing whatever in the law at present—and I am dealing with the law at the moment—to prevent an employee from being elected to the board of directors. I am now coming to the point of substance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rafton Pounder", "preceding_text": "ion forms. The growing practice to which I refer is that in an ever-increasing number of offers for sale to the public, a condition is being imposed which requires that the cheques in support of applications must be drawn on banks within Great Britain, as distinct from the United Kingdom. The result has been to debar those applicants, like myself, whose cheques are drawn on Northern Ireland banks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-14", "file": "debates1967-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "718fce8bc0de5b7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman did say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "But it is tantamount to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-14a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-15", "file": "debates1967-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "54f148164ec3ff81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "TELEVISION (LINE DEFINITION STANDARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": " to the question of the cost of a set, I am sure that this announcement will remove the uncertainty. It gives three services in colour. Many more people will be interested in getting the service. A much greater area of the country will be covered. The export market will be opened up a great deal. I am sure that, if the industry cannot get the price down, there is something wrong with the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-15", "file": "debates1967-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "54f148164ec3ff81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.539.8", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "ons asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, Central (Mr. Ian Gilmour), who wound up for the Opposition. The hon. Gentleman seemed to think that my hon. Friend was rather offensive in asking those questions. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will be able to read the speech which my hon. Friend made and answer the questions today. I should like to know about the progress of the McKinsey Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.539.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-15", "file": "debates1967-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "54f148164ec3ff81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " as part of Government policy. We cannot have it both ways. The Postmaster-General said, in his extremely interesting and very good speech on Second Reading, that the Post Office did not get all the capital it needed from the Government. He said that the other element was composed of its profits. If we know that we are making a profit, is it essential for us to have these increased rental charges?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-15", "file": "debates1967-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "54f148164ec3ff81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "icit of £8 million for 1966–67 related to the norm of an increase of 3½ per cent. in wage rates in the National Plan. What has been the norm in pay increases in the Post Office? What is the shortfall? What savings have been made through increased mechanisation? Has productivity increased? Has the estimated 2 per cent. average improvement in output per man been achieved? Has manpower—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-15", "file": "debates1967-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "54f148164ec3ff81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "We will leave that for the moment. I was talking about increasing productivity in the Post Office. When I was Under-Secretary of State for Air, we were able to save considerable sums of money in the Defence Ministries, in spite of what hon. Members opposite said, by making cost effectiveness studies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-15", "file": "debates1967-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "54f148164ec3ff81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "We are not engaged on negotiations now. The hon. Member should not be too hypothetical on this matter. We are conducting a probe. The horticultural industry could be seriously hit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-15a.588.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1146.2", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There was no statement made by the Minister of Health this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1146.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "BRITISH FORCES, GERMANY (SUPPORT COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "While I am glad to hear that no final decision has been reached on this matter, may I ask the Foreign Secretary whether he would agree that, in broader terms, if we are interested in getting into Europe politically, it is unwise to threaten unilateral withdrawal of troops from Europe militarily?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1149.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1149.4", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "BRITISH FORCES, GERMANY (SUPPORT COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I honestly urge the noble Lord to keep these two issues separate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1149.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "BRITISH FORCES, GERMANY (SUPPORT COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not agree, and I actively dislike the opening sentence of my hon. Friend's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will be drunk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "offence. The motoring organisations said to me and I shall be frank with the House— \"Look, we think that a section of motorists\"—and I think that it is probably 50–50 for and against the random test—\"will feel outraged if they are to be stopped when there is no association at all with them of any kind of misdemeanour or misbehaviour as a motorist\". But if a chap crosses a moving white line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "After all, a police constable can still stop a vehicle if he thinks that the driver's ability to drive is impaired.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1272.3", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "everity. Surely this is how we should view the matter when a man who earns his living by driving falls into this inexcusable offence? There is one other not unimportant point. The automatic disqualification for impairment is 12 months. If we give the courts discretion here to reduce the disqualification to six months in certain cases, we ought logically to give them same discretion for impairment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ster will not be negligence in his work, as the Minister seemed to suggest, but a chance encounter during his off time. It is impossible to imagine anything less fair. The Minister simply cannot have thought the matter out. I know very well that she has not been doing any thinking on this matter since 2nd January when she stated what her policy would be. She has re-enunciated the same thing today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " is impossible to imagine anything less fair. The Minister simply cannot have thought the matter out. I know very well that she has not been doing any thinking on this matter since 2nd January when she stated what her policy would be. She has re-enunciated the same thing today. [Laughter.] The right hon. Lady may laugh, but she is not a driver, nor a poor person. She does not know what it is like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He does not drink at all now.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Harrison", "preceding_text": "liffe (Mr. Gardner). We keep on talking about men drinking. The Bill will apply to both ladies and men and I am worried about those first offenders who are lady drivers. The right hon. Lady the Minister does not drive—I do not blame her—and she has made great publicity over the fact that she has got her husband to cut down the amount of gin he takes with tonic water at all the parties they attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1312.0", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD SAFETY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "to be renewed, to see that the state of the man's fleet is such that he has not shown himself, by the state of his fleet, to be incapable, but, by the state of his fleet, to be a proper person to have a carrier's licence. Have the licensing authorities the power which we propose the courts should have in the case, to remove an individual vehicle? Are they limited to suspending his licence as such?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1312.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1352.2", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I was coming to the Bill, and come to the Bill on a number of occasions, as did both the Parliamentary Secretaries. I would simply deplore the fact that the Leader of the House, having said that we would get through our business with greater expedition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that I explained the position at considerable length twice upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Webster), one gathered that nothing had been spent, that nothing had been done during that period and that the Bill was of no purpose and was not retrospective. What, then, is the purpose of bringing the Bill before the House at this time of night? We have had no justification for it. This is the first time that the Bill has been before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "se at this time of night? We have had no justification for it. This is the first time that the Bill has been before the House. [Interruption.] I have tried to read it. Does the hon. Member for Feltham (Mr. Russell Kerr) know what is in the Bill? Perhaps he will catch your eye, Mr. Speaker, and endeavour to tell the House about it. His hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary has not told the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1374.0", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Clause 3.—(AVOIDANCE OF CERTAIN PRO VISIONS EXCLUTIDING LIABILITY FOR MISREPRESENTATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "pe that those hon. Members who are still here, and still awake, will take a little interest in this Bill because it does make a complete change in our law. The Bill reverses something which has been well known to be the law of this country for a very long time. I venture to think that that is one point upon which the right hon. and learned Solicitor-General will not quarrel but will agree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-20", "file": "debates1967-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "12283091cfa0a6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Clause 3.—(AVOIDANCE OF CERTAIN PRO VISIONS EXCLUTIDING LIABILITY FOR MISREPRESENTATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "urchaser on the representations made prior to the date. Would Clause 3 apply to that provision? If it would not be a provision to which Clause 3 would apply, is it not possible to drive a coach and horses through it at once? If it does apply, then does it have a practical effect which is neither foreseen nor intended? I have probably said enough for the Solicitor-General to have the point in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-20a.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The answer to that question has been given previously. On the last occasion when the Department answered at Question Time it was pointed out that there are ways by which people can apply for special prepayment meter arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Is not Mr. Macdiarmid's speech an outrageous declaration of war On the industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Is not Mr. Macdiarmid's speech an outrageous declaration of war On the industry—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and will my right hon. Friend make it perfectly clear that he will not tolerate any kind of sabotage by those who allow political prejudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is not Mr. Macdiarmid one of the most experienced and capable executives in the steel industry, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of its affairs, and is it not better to appoint an executive of that kind rather than a broken-down trade union hack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "—broken-down trade union hack as a sinecure for the Socialist Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Whether he paraphrased or quoted, I recognise the quotation from the Press which the hon. Member has in mind. I said that my right hon. Friend's speech was Government policy but the passage which he has in mind arose in a noisy exchange afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1428.5", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I do not think the Prime Minister has answered either of the two questions on support costs. When he returned from Bonn he stated clearly that the German Government were in no doubt about our position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman chooses to adopt that tone he will get the reply that he deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman chooses to adopt that tone he will get the reply that he deserves. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am going to answer his question. I am well aware that the right hon. Gentleman was issuing to the Press references to a document which he has got hold of. I hope that he is going to tell the House how he got hold of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am going to answer his question. I am well aware that the right hon. Gentleman was issuing to the Press references to a document which he has got hold of. I hope that he is going to tell the House how he got hold of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I hope, in particular, that he will confirm that he did not get it from Rhodesia House, with whom we know he is in touch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's Question relates to sanctions against Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have to ask this in an interrogatory form. Is the Prime Minister aware that I have received no confidential information of any kind from Rhodesia House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was not responsible for the Conservative Government of 30 years ago with whom the right hon. Gentleman was then in conflict, as he is in conflict with his own Front Bench today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.4", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was not responsible for the Conservative Government of 30 years ago with whom the right hon. Gentleman was then in conflict, as he is in conflict with his own Front Bench today. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] So far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.5", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members should be sitting below the Gangway if they are cheering the right hon. Gentleman. So far as the Official Secrets Act is concerned, this is, if there were any breaches of it, not a matter for me, though my impression would be that the document the right hon. Gentleman has been hawking about, being issued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "not fall within the Official Secrets Act, anyway. I asked the right hon. Gentleman to tell the House from where he got this confidential document. I asked him. I expressed the hope that he would say that he did not get it from Rhodesia House. I would like him to tell the House where he got it from and to confirm that it has not been directly or indirectly in connection with Rhodesia House bribery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1435.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1436.2", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1436.5", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve given some of the details. For example, we underestimated the position regarding exports, of which I have now given the full figures to the House since the end of the year. But the figure of £100 million, the cost to Britain of the illegality, the illegal action, is very different from the cost either to the Exchequer or to our balance of payments of the sanctions policy approved by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1436.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1467.4", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS, &c.) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Briefly, I would point out to the Minister of State that in Glasgow Corporation we have a rather confused situation at present. It is almost certain that there will be a change in the controlling party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5.—(APPLICATION AND AMENDMENT OF ENACTMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I will take not the figures for 1964, but those for 1963, the year before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5.—(APPLICATION AND AMENDMENT OF ENACTMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I suggest that it was his Highland way of saying that while he hoped something would happen he was not certain that it would happen. I do not quarrel with the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor), who often stirs up a good deal of animosity on the benches opposite. The hon. Member for Midlothian (Mr. Eadie) described him as a prophet of doom and gloom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "iew of what the Leader of the House told us—and it was a clear indication of his interpretation of the situation—we are trying to raise the matter now. I appreciate that you must be guided by the normal rules of order and not by guidance which the Leader of the House chooses to give hon. Members in an attempt to choke off criticism of the Government. But the Leader of the House did not stop there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-21", "file": "debates1967-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "3d79f23c60a450c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1572.2", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "In many ways I am sorry that our hopes for the kind of debate which we could have had have been somewhat frustrated, because I am anxious to meet the wishes of the House on all matters, as you know, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-21a.1572.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1629.0", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE (NORTHUMBERLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "d concise, but I have prepared a very full document, and I hope that he will read it. The noble Lord asks whether I have been in touch with individuals who have been mentioned. I have asked my veterinary officers and staff; I have made inquiries, and I have looked at all the evidence the noble Lord has put to me. I believe that he has tried to make his case out of hearsay from certain individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1684.4", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "These figures speak for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1686.2", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman had better look at his figures again, to see that he is quite wrong here. Many of those who will become unemployed transitionally are moving into construction trades, but with the reflation which is inevitably coming into the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1701.5", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the replies and the insulting comment in one of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1701.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Yes. I think that the real purpose of the Question was revealed in the latter part of the supplementary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1722.2", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there can be no real independence for so small an island with so large a base on it and that, therefore, the majority on this side of the House fully accept the view that the base must be run down? Is he aware that most of us will accept that adding another year is something which we are, I think, prepared to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1722.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I think that that comes ill from an hon. Gentleman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "icly-owned monopolies in the great conurbation areas. They do not want to get on with a transport policy which would bring to transport more enterprise, more initiative, more freedom, and much more consumer choice. This is the division between the two parties. Because the White Paper contains none of the practical policies which are needed but is full of purely Left-wing doctrine which may please—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "more direct financing of the roads that the right hon. Lady was so keen on her black box. I wish that she had said a little about that, because what we gleaned from her transatlantic leaks was not very encouraging. She always seems to get into the posture of being anti-motorist. Perhaps she cannot help it. Perhaps it comes from the basic sense of envy which seems to inspire most Socialist thought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ch decided most strongly in favour of a free-for-all on the roads? In none of this does the right hon. Lady pay nearly enough attention to people's desires. She thinks that she knows the answer, and she is jolly well going to impose it, cost what it may in terms of personal convenience, or in terms of economic development. Naturally, to the right hon. Lady, as a Socialist, freedom is a dirty word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "ons for the motorist and for the user of public transport and not simply to create, on every possible occasion, a new authority. For every problem, there is to be a new authority— the conurbation authority, the National Freight Organisation, the port rationalisation scheme—and the road hauliers are to be gradually nationalised and eroded away. This is not planning transport but planning Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "peech I missed—spoke up for the motorist, asking tor work on the M4 to be accelerated. Apart from his speech—and I have sat through practically the whole debate—I do not remember much pressure from Government supporters for greater efforts to improve the roads either in the cities or between them. The country notes that the Labour Party is still opposed to the motorist and those who use the roads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "have great advantages in high speed, high density and high safety of their traffic, the roads have the advantage of flexibility, which is so useful in achieving the necessary manoeuvrability. One knows that the right hon. Lady has presided over reductions in the road programme. She frequently says that the road programme which she is operating is the biggest that it has ever been. Of course it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for contributing to this discussion. He will remember that the voting of the union last time was 13 to 11 in favour of closed terminals, and that is a very narrow margin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1832.1", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "scussion. He will remember that the voting of the union last time was 13 to 11 in favour of closed terminals, and that is a very narrow margin. [ Interruption. ] No doubt the Executive of the N.U.R. represents the feelings of its members. If it does not, its members ought to do something about it. It is for the National Union of Railwaymen to make sure that its Executive is elected democratically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1835.1", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheating.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "I am taking the record of the party opposite because the hon. Member for Worcester made various—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1835.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "), on 18th July last, we were told that the total amount of money spent on new construction and major improvements in 1959–60 was £72 million and in 1960–61. the year when, according to the hon. Gentleman, there was a cut, it was £75 million. Taking the figure for maintenance and minor improvements, the total in 1959–60 was £85 million and in 1960–61 it was £90 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1837.2", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "w quotes a figure of £90 million. All right. Let us take that figure. The fact is that the expenditure for 1965–66 is over £180 million. That demonstrates that, whatever aspersions the hon. Gentleman makes, my right hon. Friend is carrying out the biggest roads programme at the highest rate of national expenditure on roads the country has ever had, and I do not withdraw one word from that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1869.1", "colnum": "1869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "which I hope the right hon. Gentleman will get on to—and about which I will be writing to him—is the question of recorded deliveries. I know of a very disturbing case in my constituency. One of my constituents was fined by a court and sent off the fine the next day by recorded delivery. Two months later, a policeman came up his garden path with a warrant for his arrest for non-payment of the fine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1872.2", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "There will be two years' warning, and then they will have to conform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-22", "file": "debates1967-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "b38e2c150ac4eb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(EXTENSION OF BORROWING POWERS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman is saying is completely untrue. I have given the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-22a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "All our experience is that teachers marry teachers much more often than is desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1952.5", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that mine is a very different Question? Will he also recognise that the presence of Ministers gives, by virtue of their office, an undeserved prestige and prominence to what might otherwise be inconsequential gatherings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1954.5", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The timing of any decision, as I have told the House, is a matter that will have to be considered after the present series of visits is complete. I have nothing to add to that at present. With regard to the nonproliferation treaty, I know that there are difficulties for Germany and other non-nuclear countries in this matter, because of their fears, which I think are unfounded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1954.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1965.7", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I would add anything. I made a precise statement. I said that there were times when it was felt that action of this sort was necessary. What I would like to say is that this, after all, is permitting a Bill to become law sometimes virtually without any discussion on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1965.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1972.6", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am in some danger of tedious repetition, because I get asked the same question time and time again, and I have to make the same reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1972.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1973.5", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "On the first point, I will communicate to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister the anxieties of the right hon. Gentleman about the Question of the right hon. Member for Streatham. As for his second point, the issue is for me. We think that on the whole we have enough business for the next fort- night which we are determined to get through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1989.1", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS STUDENTS (INCREASED FEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "reduce the number of overseas students coming to Britain; and this would be bad for Britain and bad for the developing countries. Now part of this argument is pure self-interest. It is said, for example, that among the post-graduate students who may be excluded by the higher fees could be the next Lord Florey from Australia, or the next Lord Rutherford from New Zealand. This is an absurd argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.1989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.2037.1", "colnum": "2037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS STUDENTS (INCREASED FEES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mr. Goronwy Roberts)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mr. Goronwy Roberts)", "preceding_text": ", have not as yet—although great progress has been made—university, technical college or even higher school facilities; students who are dependent upon very small allowances based on the penurious but self-sacrificing efforts of poor countries. Those are precisely the students whom we were enxious to help through this fund. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Kelvingrove (Dr. Miller) indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.2037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-23", "file": "debates1967-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "ea83d5d4eb604215", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.2089.1", "colnum": "2089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) (No. 2) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunnett", "preceding_text": "aravan kept on the site is to be hired out. The layout is to be organised and not crowded. Toilets, ablutions and provision stores are to be provided. Weighing the benefits to the people of the conurbation at large and to visitors to this country, particularly to the London area, against the minor inconvenience to local residents, I should have thought that the matter was adequately taken care of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-23a.2089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-24", "file": "debates1967-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd84841b660fafcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-24a.2159.1", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "MOTORWAY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "preceding_text": "ut the projects which are announced as being in the preparation pool. We in the West Country do not expect miracles, but I hope that the Joint Parliamentary Secretary has been impressed by the unity of view on this matter that has come from both sides of the House. Incidentally I also regret that there is no representative on the Liberal benches when these West Country matters are being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-24a.2159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-24", "file": "debates1967-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd84841b660fafcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-24a.2180.1", "colnum": "2180", "heading": "MOTORWAY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "to ensure that there is a greater degree of continuity, a longer-term look at contracting, and no wastage in the use of expensive equipment, and that skilled labour teams are kept together. We shall judge the development of those roads, with the pushing southwards of M5 and so on, from the point of view of getting the maximum continuity of work. I am afraid that I have already spoken for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-24a.2180.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my right hon. Friend. Will he assure the House that Her Majesty's Government are satisfied that the imposition of sanctions so far taken will be sufficient to bring this rebel Government to their senses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.64.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — YEMEN (POISON GAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "While every body must regret the use of poison gas in Saudi Arabia, if it has happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.76.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.79.2", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have Questions later today on that subject, if they are reached. I shall not, therefore, answer it now since that would be to pre-empt those hon. Members who have put the Questions down. But I say straight to my hon. Friend, whether he is getting sick and tired or not, that it was the North Vietnamese who had it in their power to bring this war to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.79.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Criminal.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Why does my right hon. Friend keep on identifying the two sides as though they were exactly equal in what they are doing? Does he not regard the sort of bombing which North Vietnam is being subjected to as infinitely more harmful and anti-human and destructive than what is being done in the South?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.80.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.88.6", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall ask my right hon. Friend to consider the right hon. Gentleman's request. When he does so, or if he does so, the right hon. Gentleman will be disappointed because he will find that what my right hon. Friend said was not exactly what he thinks he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.88.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "f 5,000 in the number of Gurkhas in the British Army. As the House will recognise, the Gurkhas played an absolutely indispensable rôle in helping to bring confrontation to an end, and I think that hon. Members on both sides of the House would wish to express their gratitude for all that the Gurkhas have done not only in that campaign, but in many similar campaigns over the previous century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ill all be out of Aden by the end of July. The removal of heavy equipment and other stores has begun, and redundancy payments to the locally employed personnel are proceeding satisfactorily. I should say that our troops in Aden and in South Arabia generally are displaying exceptional courage and efficiency in the discharge of their duties and are showing great frobearance under extreme provocation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.108.0", "colnum": "108", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "sed every single decision which we have taken to cut expenditure, whether on commitments—Aden, for example—or on forces—for example, the Territorial Army—or on equipment—for example, the TSR2 and the carrier. If they claim that they would have held expenditure as we have held it, it is their duty to tell us, if they would not have cut the things which we have cut, what they would have cut instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "om that intervention is that there is great confusion and possibly a difference of opinion among those who signed the Motion to which I referred. The fact is that the problem of rehousing at home is an enormous one as well. We are to get 20,000 new married quarters over the next three years, but it cannot be done overnight. It will be accommodation of one sort and another, temporary and permanent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are trying to find out what the Opposition are driving at", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We are trying to find out what the Opposition are driving at [ Interruption. ] My point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that there have been any published cost calculations. There have been various rumours. Various figures have been leaked, but I am not aware there is any official figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They can be sunk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "ical period of the confrontation in 1964, which had a considerable effect, according to Admiralty intelligence services, on morale in Jakarta. Aircraft carriers do not have the same foreign exchange content which land bases attract and have the additional advantage of a much greater security of operation internally. It is very difficult for information to be got from them by any enemy on the land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-27", "file": "debates1967-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c1690fc4997f2297", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister, but I am a little surprised at his reluctance to follow Labour Party policies as laid down by the party conference, because I can remember an occasion when he actually stood for the leadership of the Labour Party on the ground that the then leader of the party ought to have taken notice of a resolution passed by the Labour Party conference concerning unilateral nuclear disarmament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-27a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister be perfectly frank, honest and reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.271.6", "colnum": "271", "heading": "CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ouse on 21st February that he \"has disclosed a confidential official document to the Press\". What I did say—and it is all in the OFFICIAL REPORT—Was: I am well aware that the right hon. Gentleman was issuing to the Press references to a document which he has got hold of. and I also said: …my impression would be that the document the right hon. Gentleman has been hawking about, being issued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.271.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT (DISCLOSURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am entitled to say, having read his Motion, that he slanted the information and gave wrong information to the House and that the information he was slanting came from an official document. His first duty to the House is to tell the House who supplied him with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "e had they in mind? Was it to have been an independence dominated by a British defence interest? Do they think that on this basis the United Nations and the Arab League, which the South Arabian Federation will wish to join, would ever have accepted that South Arabia was a truly independent State? May I repeat that our departure from Aden does not break a treaty commitment or involve any bad faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The House will make its own assumption of what happened", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nter the lists. Every one of the countries in the Six —someone will think that it is the whole of Europe but it is not; that is the way they talk, but never mind that—every one of the countries of the Six has conscription. The question I put is, if we are to enter the Common Market can we escape conscription? I put that to the Liberal Party who are against conscription. Can we escape conscription?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.309.3", "colnum": "309", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are worried about you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "eech some of my hon. Friends praised him. What occurred to me was that: It is all very well to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me downstairs? I am going to praise him. I think he has done a good job particularly in trying to integrate the forces. It is not complete and much has yet to be done, but he is doing a good job. I say this about the Government. I am worried about the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys (Streatham)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys (Streatham)", "preceding_text": " him from all quarters. The Governments of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Ethiopia, Israel and the United States are among those who have shown their concern about the consequences of the British Government's decision. We on these benches have over and over again pointed out the irresponsibility and perfidy of the Government's policy. I say \"perfidy\", because the Government are unashamedly breaking faith.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I did say that I would confine myself to little more than 10 minutes, but this argument has arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.347.2", "colnum": "347", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I follow my hon. Friend's argument and agree with a great deal of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.347.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "That is totally untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.383.0", "colnum": "383", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Childish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "–12.] Does the right hon. Gentleman really believe that? Does he really think that he can compare a prolonged conventional war with the effect of unleashing upon Europe thousands of nuclear weapons of kiloton and megaton size, which are now available to the nuclear powers? If he thinks that those two things are comparable I doubt whether he is qualified to be Secretary of State for Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "s right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) and his hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Sir Ian Orr-Ewing). I do not complain about that, but it is a pity that the right hon. Member for Barnet was not here for most of the evening, because, if he had been, he would have heard three excellent speeches in a row from hon. Members behind me supporting the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "As I made clear last year, the F111K will begin to come into service in two years, and we shall have 50 of them. We believe, and I am not allowed to refer to the advice of the Air Staff, but it is generally believed in my Department that the V-bombers will be perfectly adequate to cope with less well defended targets up till about 1975r—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "merit which was totally lacking in the criticism of the official Conservative Opposition, and that is that our critics said, not only what they thought was wrong, but what they would do instead. This was totally lacking from the Opposition Front Bench. The only complaint which I make about the unofficial critics is that they disagreed very widely with one another about what should be done instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "or complete withdrawal from the Persian Gulf, Malaysia and Singapore. I wish to say a few words about this side of the problem. I agree with a great deal of what my hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew) said, particularly about South Arabia. Incidentally, the date of our withdrawal—of independence there, from which our withdrawal date came—was fixed by the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I cannot do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.396.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is the issue—and I ask my right hon. and hon. Friends to recognise this—on which the Opposition propose to divide the House. On the one hand, we have a Government fighting to bring commitments, forces, and economic needs into line, moving faster and further in this task, and determined to continue on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is the issue—and I ask my right hon. and hon. Friends to recognise this—on which the Opposition propose to divide the House. On the one hand, we have a Government fighting to bring commitments, forces, and economic needs into line, moving faster and further in this task, and determined to continue on with it. [Interruption.] On the other hand, we have an Opposition deeply divided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.2", "colnum": "400", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the one hand, we have a Government fighting to bring commitments, forces, and economic needs into line, moving faster and further in this task, and determined to continue on with it. [Interruption.] On the other hand, we have an Opposition deeply divided— [Interruption.] —on what policy our forces should support, united only in their desire to bankrupt the economy by a runaway defence expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-02-28", "file": "debates1967-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c2293f6522d334a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I know that some of my hon. Friends are wondering what to do tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-02-28a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "SUGAR BEET (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I was not giving a balance-sheet; I was giving proposals for the future. I shall find out if the £41,000, which the hon. Gentleman says was a balance, was used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "SUGAR BEET (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": " I shall not pursue the point. I content myself with saying that, although in general I support a levy, I think it possible that in future years another way to achieve the same worthy end could be taken. I now come to a point on which I feel adamant. I want to lodge a most strong and vociferous objection to discussing agricultural, horticultural, forestry, or any other such Orders in the mornings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.435.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "SUGAR BEET (RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Hazell) is another Member who is on a Standing Committee dealing with an agricultural subject, and he is probably in the same difficulty about morning sittings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.492.4", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the statement which he has just made in referring to the Defence Estimates for 1967—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.492.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foley", "preceding_text": "I can certainly deny it. There were 12 midshipmen serving on board this ship. They were all put ashore because a classroom which they used was required as a temporary wardroom. It just so happened that two of them were Ghanaian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman cannot answer my hon. Friend's Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am pretty sure that it cannot be being used for that purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.508.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.510.4", "colnum": "510", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "ence at the funeral of these Arab victims which led to two further brutal deaths. I assure the House, in the most solemn terms, that the Government will take all necessary measures to discharge our obligations to maintain law and order in Aden. Meanwhile, the House will, I know wish to join me in deploring this pointless violence and send understanding and sympathy to the relations of the victims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "A long chain of blunders in this and other parts of the Arab world was made by our predecessors, for which we are now paying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "A long chain of blunders in this and other parts of the Arab world was made by our predecessors, for which we are now paying. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] When I said that it was cause and effect, the cause rests with right hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With law and order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues were responsible for announcing 1968 as the date for independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.515.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "What is the use of the right hon. Gentleman making speeches attacking us for spending more than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.516.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1967–68, VOTE A:", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Eight.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is not relevant to the Navy Estimates at all, I am afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1967–68, VOTE A:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"British wine I hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " the programme whereas hon. Members opposite had five in the programme. So we are to save a certain amount of money because we cut one submarine out, but the basic strategy and policy are obviously the same. Last Saturday the second Polaris submarine was launched at Birkenhead. In my mind I can still see the picture on television of the Minister's very charming wife allowing the bottle to go down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.577.5", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1967–68, VOTE A:", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ouncil for Civil Liberties. What is surely more important than the purely legal aspect is the human aspect. There is ample evidence to show that a certain number—by no means most or all—of these boys come to regret bitterly the decision which they made at an age when, as I say, no one can possibly foresee what his views will be and how he will like the career he has chosen in 10 or 12 years' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.628.6", "colnum": "628", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "We have listened very attentively to a most interesting speech by the hon. Member for Gosport and Fareham (Dr. Bennett). I will have the charity not to express my point of view about it, or I might be expelled from the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.628.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "ce which is being provided for those bombs? Is it America? I see no signs in these Estimates that America is making a contribution towards the cost. I demand an answer from my right hon. Friends. My hon. Friend and I refer to 1,000 men in our Amendment. Eighteen hundred building workers are employed at the Polaris base. Shame upon the House. Shame upon my party which permits such a thing to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "on towards the cost. I demand an answer from my right hon. Friends. My hon. Friend and I refer to 1,000 men in our Amendment. Eighteen hundred building workers are employed at the Polaris base. Shame upon the House. Shame upon my party which permits such a thing to go on. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am thankful for your support. I put it on record that you agree entirely with what I am saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-01", "file": "debates1967-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "e3c6a31fc4b0d53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "at Londonderry? I hope that the Minister will bear in mind what my hon. Friend the Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) said when he made not only a moving appeal but the very sensible suggestion that the school should be left where it is. There are in that area now 20 per cent. unemployed, and this is, therefore, a serious question. If, for one reason or another, the Minister decides to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-01a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the best\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not agree that the number of Ministers in the House of Commons has risen by 30 per cent. since he became Prime Minister? Has he consulted his famous league tables recently? Does he agree that we now have the largest and fastest-growing Government in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.693.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Could I ask the right hon. Gentleman please to resist proposals of this nature? Is he aware that we on these benches already find it difficult enough to understand the nonsensical speeches which come in a steady flow from the Government Front Bench?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " offered to provide half a day if the Government would do the same, I understood him to accept our offer, although he did not wish to commit himself to take the Whips off. The right hon. Gentleman said that he would discuss the timing through the usual channels. The Government have now published their Bill without having had that discussion through the usual channels about the holding of a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.704.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.712.6", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Of course, I appreciate the importance of the matter. Every debate is open. It is also a fact that the Government have declared their policy on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.712.6", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Of course, I appreciate the importance of the matter. Every debate is open. It is also a fact that the Government have declared their policy on this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: Why?\"] The Government have declared their policy on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.712.6", "colnum": "712", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Of course, I appreciate the importance of the matter. Every debate is open. It is also a fact that the Government have declared their policy on this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: Why?\"] The Government have declared their policy on the matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"]—and they propose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.712.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": "May I press the Leader of the House for a debate on the decimal currency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It seems that there is considerable misunderstanding, either genuine or synthetic. The Government are anxious to find the will of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.713.4", "colnum": "713", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "There is a simple reason, namely, that the Government have stated their policy already—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.713.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asks to have two days devoted to this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.714.4", "colnum": "714", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will apreciate that his point about giving two days would put an enormous burden on Government business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.714.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": "How can my right hon. Friend say that he wants to test the opinion of the House if there is not to be a free vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.715.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.5", "colnum": "716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "We will consider the point of view of constituents in this matter, but decimal currency has been discussed for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.7", "colnum": "716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "House, I have more than one obligation. I have the obligation to the House, which I seek to honour, to look after the rights of back benchers. I also have a responsibility to the House as a whole and to the Government with regard to business. There is a lot of business before Easter. The almost unprecedented suggestion made to me was that, on a Bill of this kind, we should have two days of debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.7", "colnum": "716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "House, which I seek to honour, to look after the rights of back benchers. I also have a responsibility to the House as a whole and to the Government with regard to business. There is a lot of business before Easter. The almost unprecedented suggestion made to me was that, on a Bill of this kind, we should have two days of debate—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—two whole days' debate; one on the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.716.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "To be fair to the right hon. Gentleman, I think that he had better look at the Bill before he decides that it is suitable for a Second Reading Committee. We have to consider the nature of the Bill. This is certainly a possibility. If it can be discussed through the usual channels we will do so, but we want to get on with the Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " to the right hon. Gentleman, I think that he had better look at the Bill before he decides that it is suitable for a Second Reading Committee. We have to consider the nature of the Bill. This is certainly a possibility. If it can be discussed through the usual channels we will do so, but we want to get on with the Measure—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] We want the Second Reading before the Easter Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I would not say that the allowing of a free vote on this, or that —which, by the way, is not for the Leader of the House, but for the Whips on both sides, to decide—is a matter which really tests the supremacy of Parliament. Parliament needs parties and Whips to keep going. It also needs to respect the rights of private Members. What we need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be a great mistake for my hon. Friend to have the impression that I have ever thought of him as only Lobby fodder. The question is whether on this particular Bill there should be no advice given by either side to its members. This is not a matter for the House, but something we should discuss among ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "SCOTLAND (LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": "e since I have been here, which is since 1959. The right hon. Gentleman said three times, I think, that my right hon. Friend had stated that he intended to protect Scotland from the effects of the freeze. In fact, my right hon. Friend never said any such thing. He said—and this is what he has done—that he would protect Scotland from the effects of the squeeze, which is an entirely different thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "SCOTLAND (LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "d a revised agreement providing for a new salary structure. There is no doubt that the present agreed claim was not reached before 20th July. It has been argued that this does not really matter, and that dates are only a technicality, because the Scottish local government workers are doing the same kind of job as their equivalents in England, and that they should be entitled to the same increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "SCOTLAND (LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "s. We have heard nothing about any of these workers. This is quite an historic occasion. This is the first occasion on which the Conservative Opposition have posed as defenders of workers in any sense at all. Why is this? Let me come to the Government's Amendment. Why are right hon. and hon. Members opposite getting so excited about N.A.L.G.O.? They do not give a damn about the N.A.L.G.O. workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "SCOTLAND (LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman admits that we must have a deadline, but he is saying that those who fall on the wrong side of it should be treated as exceptional cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "SCOTLAND (LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend could not have been listening. That is what I said—that the local authorities are the guilty men for refusing to grant N.A.L.G.O. the right to national negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "SCOTLAND (LOCAL GOVERNMENT PAY AWARD)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "to the Scottish N.J.I.C., which met and which made an agreement. This agreement was not satisfactory to the S.D.D. or to the Department of Economic Affairs. All this was completed by the middle of June. I am informed that, with the approval of the Department of Economic Affairs, the N.J.I.C. had come to an agreement which would, roughly speaking, give a 3½ per cent. increase over two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-02", "file": "debates1967-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "f234eaf477b9b4aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.841.5", "colnum": "841", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMIGRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who brought it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "way. The right hon. Gentleman was corrected on that misquotation by my hon. Friend in one debate. He repeated it today, and it is a waste of time trying to persuade him that he is ever wrong. During the past two years we have had the greatest expansion of industry into Scotland that we have known since the war. The year 1965 was even better than the year in which we brought the motor car industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-02a.841.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-06", "file": "debates1967-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "46565e10f56b36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-06a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "RAILWAYS (ACCIDENT, CONINGTON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "ive actions. The cause of the accident is not yet known, but it was of an entirely different type from the one at Stechford last week. An inspecting officer of railways visited the site in the early hours of this morning. An official inquiry will, of course, be held. The House will, I know, join with me in expressing deep sympathy with the relatives of the deceased and with those who were injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-06a.1054.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-06", "file": "debates1967-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "46565e10f56b36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-06a.1062.2", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1967–68, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget (Northampton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget (Northampton)", "preceding_text": "This is an important point. The only intervention in the civil field with which one has been familiar with the Army is strike-breaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-06a.1062.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-06", "file": "debates1967-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "46565e10f56b36c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-06a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1967–68, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kashmir.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Withdrawal as soon as possible, the sort of thing the Attlee Government did in India—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-06a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "On a number of occasions I have given the House the direct cost to the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1241.3", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "This is a matter in which it is the clear duty of the Government to give a lead to the House on the best system. I am looking forward to the debate on the issue. When it comes, it will then be for the House to make up its mind, but the Government must advise their supporters to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1241.4", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman accept from me that, in all parties and on both sides of the House, this is a matter of very great concern indeed, and that, as far as I at least am concerned, it has nothing whatever to do with party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1241.5", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, there is no means of dragooning anybody into a Lobby, but it is the Government's job —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1241.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1243.5", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of opinion and I should like to remind you, Mr. Speaker, that we are going to debate this issue. I would say to the hon. Gentleman that the decision is, in my view, the correct one. Administrative decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1243.5", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of opinion and I should like to remind you, Mr. Speaker, that we are going to debate this issue. I would say to the hon. Gentleman that the decision is, in my view, the correct one. Administrative decisions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—I am about to answer. Administrative decisions have, of course, been taken —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1243.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Since the Prime Minister has told us that the estimate of the cost of the Rhodesian crisis which he gave to the Commonwealth Prime Ministers has proved too high, why does he so doggedly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister show some courage and brave the yelps and sharp nips of his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1257.5", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister show some courage and brave the yelps and sharp nips of his—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—it should have been hyenas—the yelps and sharp nips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that the right hon. Gentleman appreciates the great importance of achieving a successful and effective policy in this field. I saw in the gossip columns of The Times yesterday that he has now made this plain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ntion, in passing, that it is not without significance that when it is necessary to publicise an election bribe the Government can afford one day's debate on the White Paper and one day on the Bill, but when the election is over and the whole House wants to do just that again on the issue of decimalisation, the Leader of the House condemns the proposal as a nonsense. To return to the White Paper.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1291.5", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " wants to do just that again on the issue of decimalisation, the Leader of the House condemns the proposal as a nonsense. To return to the White Paper.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—I was going to ask hon. Gentlemen opposite to stop yapping as I thought that that might be more appropriate. It is an interesting reflection on hon. Gentlemen opposite that when I quote their appalling housing figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1291.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1292.2", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "hardship\" ground. My hon. Friend intervened to ask if the right hon. Gentleman would give some figures. If he can give figures on one side of the balance sheet he can give them on the other. We are entitled to have more details. Whereas the leaseholder will be able to enfranchise for a few hundred pounds, if the landlord successfully resists enfranchisement he will have to pay thousands of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1297.5", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": " The right hon. Gentleman did not mention the prices for some of the older properties at the moment. I know of some vacant property which is not worth more than £1,500 to £2,000 outright, for which leaseholders have been asked anything up to £800 for a lease with five years to run. I know of one price of £1,000. Is this the price which the right hon. Gentleman wants the average householder to pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1308.5", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ty has been paid on that basis so as to repay to the heirs of that man the duty which has been paid on the basis of values which the Government have subsequently destroyed? This is another example of the difficulty in which the Government put themselves by a Measure of this kind. It would be bad enough to deprive great property companies and great landlords of their rights by this sort of action —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1308.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "President of the British Association of Leaseholders, and for 30 years I have felt that the leasehold system is a blot on the country. Men and women who have built houses, and established their homes in them, have subsequently lost them under the leasehold system. I could give illustrations from the Welsh valleys. What happened there? Often the land had no more value that that of agriculural land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "Act will come into force and have looked upon their houses as their homes? Do they not know that these people would regard it as robbery if these so-called market values are imposed? What is so wrong with a landlord being told: Look, you may have made a mistake and miscalculated; you did not think that leasehold reform would come in, but it has. What is your interest? Your interest is in the site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": " and improved, a market rent which often he could not afford to pay. He still remained liable for dilapidations. Even the Opposition now recognise that that is not good enough and they have moved from that position. My hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, North-West (Sir B. Janner) said something about the attitude of the Tories being the same as it always was. It is not. Even the Tories changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1366.0", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The reason why I was laughing was because at that very moment I was reading the headlines from The Times, This is bluntly confiscation\", and from the Financial Times, However much the Government dislikes private landlords, it cannot pretend that it is just to confiscate their property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1366.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has paid for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Indeed, perhaps disasters, as my hon. Friend says. The reason is that it is based on the monstrous immorality that five years' residence in a house results in a compulsory gift of that house to the resident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Indeed, the lessee would be entitled to the property at market value, subject, of course, to the length of the term which he still has in his lease. I cannot give figures unless I know the length of the term for the lease.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now we know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " will give round figures. On the basis of 20 years to run, the freehold reversion in a lease would be worth about one-third of the vacant possession value. Therefore, the market value of the leasehold interest would be two-thirds. So, for a £2,000 house with a 20-year lease to run, one would expect it to be somewhere around £700 or £800 and the remainder would be the market value of the reversion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Confiscation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "rs were obliged to build on leasehold land, and out of about 2,500 houses in Ffestiniog parish, the local quarrymen themselves built 1,500 on leasehold plots. The total ground rent for all the houses in the village during the 60 years of the average leases amounted to more than £175,000, which arose from about 77 acres of land which, before building took place, was worth less than 7s. 6d. an acre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "al quarrymen themselves built 1,500 on leasehold plots. The total ground rent for all the houses in the village during the 60 years of the average leases amounted to more than £175,000, which arose from about 77 acres of land which, before building took place, was worth less than 7s. 6d. an acre. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Confiscation.\"] This is the Welsh background: This is what makes this Bill historic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-07", "file": "debates1967-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4181ec33bcaddfd9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "LEASEHOLD REFORM (BETTERMENT LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls (Peterborough)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls (Peterborough)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman ought to try to answer my hon. Friend's question. If he does not understand the Resolution which he has put to the House, he ought to say SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-07a.1399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING VESSELS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes (Aberdeen, North)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes (Aberdeen, North)", "preceding_text": "(b), the handling, processing or storage of fish, and I want to ask the Minister what that phrase includes. Does it include the workers in the fish markets? It is not clear whether it does. The following part, sub-paragraph (c), refers to the working conditions of the officers or crew but there is no reference to the working conditions of the workers in the fish markets. I want to ask the Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1520.6", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I certainly will not confirm that. The hon. Gentleman seems to think that by mere repetition he will get somewhere. I ask him to read again my speech during the transport debate which gave the specific instance of 1956–57. The hon. Gentleman always wants to refer to a different year. This figure proves that this is the biggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1520.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1522.0", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. Friend for that splendid Answer.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "PORT DEVELOPMENT (CONTAINER FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pollok.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the statement she has just made about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1525.2", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "PORT DEVELOPMENT (CONTAINER FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady said that she was answering my Question, but, of course, she made a statement. The reason I put down my Question was nothing to do with the Pollok By-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1526.3", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PORT DEVELOPMENT (CONTAINER FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of this decision having been held up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1526.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is a means test.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": " a year would be granted to council tenants, but I do not think that he is going to vote against that, because it is a good thing. Is he aware that £125 million a year is paid in Income Tax relief to mortgage payers? He does not object to that. He does not say that there should be a means test to inquire whether they are on high or low incomes. Why should there be a means test for council tenants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1581.2", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bessell (Bodmin)", "preceding_text": "am by no means out of sympathy with what, I hope, is the objective of the new Clause. There may be a political objective—I do not know, but I will leave that aside. I understand the objective to be to ensure that the subsidy is used for the benefit of those who need it most, that there shall be no waste of the subsidy by putting it into the pockets of people who can well afford to pay a fair rent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1586.1", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "ot recommended that all authorities should be obliged to adopt the same type of scheme, it has produced detailed advice on methods and practice, at the same time stressing that there must be room for adjustment to local circumstances. I hope that in the very near future my right hon. Friend will be able to advise all local authorities on the prototype of the schemes the working party has produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-08", "file": "debates1967-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "e9d3896ce9da8f6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Widnes (Mr. MacColl) also writes his own scripts. He might have written the annual report. I am very sorry that the Government will not accede to our request for the publication of an annual report. Although this is a matter of regret, I do not think that we need divide the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-08a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1738.8", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "While I welcome my right hon. Friend's move from his previous negative position, may I ask him if he does not consider that this is an important indication of the swing which is taking place in public opinion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1738.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1743.9", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his firm and timely action. Would he confirm that some of those bans were on members of the Cosa Nostra, or the American section of the Mafia? Bearing in mind that we have some thugs of our own in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1743.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1747.2", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS (INTERCEPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is certainly an arguable proposition that the House should have been told. But if the right hon. Gentleman really wants to go into the whole issue of action taken before 1964 on telephone tapping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1748.4", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that many hon. Members on this side of the House who are far from dismissing the efforts of the Government towards a settlement in Vietnam are by no means persuaded that the Government are doing everything possible? Is he further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1748.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1748.4", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (DIPLOMATIC COMMUNICATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Is he aware that many hon. Members on this side of the House who are far from dismissing the efforts of the Government towards a settlement in Vietnam are by no means persuaded that the Government are doing everything possible? Is he further aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—that many of us hold the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1748.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1753.4", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He will recall that the Commonwealth as a whole, with only one dissentient, proposed in 1965 a Commonwealth peace mission to the capitals of the countries concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1753.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1755.2", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "LUXEMBOURG (VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that that was a very good speech", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "LUXEMBOURG (VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "During the Prime Minister's conversations, did he point out to the Heads of Government that, although the large majority of people in this country are anxious that we should join the Common Market on the right terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1757.2", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "LUXEMBOURG (VISIT OF PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN SECRETARY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "As one who hopes that the right hon. Gentleman will be successful in his application for Britain to join the Common Market, may I point out to him that, should he at any time feel inhibited by election speeches, will he fortify himself with the knowledge that the Conservative Party in 1959, violently opposed going into Europe, and then stood on its head, albeit too late, to try to get in in 1962?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1757.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-09", "file": "debates1967-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "9865b5af6ad4c781", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1772.0", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lance Percival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-09a.1772.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will greatly regret that these negotiations should have broken down. At the same time, the right hon. Gentleman must realise that the Government have, to a very large extent, themselves to blame—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "MALTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " very large extent, themselves to blame—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—for the way in which they have handled these negotiations in the past. In particular, the Commonwealth Secretary having said in Malta that there could be no bargaining, the right hon. Gentleman has now spent a considerable time endeavouring to reach a negotiated settlement, putting forward the proposals, for which I give him full credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Dunwoody (Falmouth and Camborne)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bankruptcy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Dunwoody (Falmouth and Camborne)", "preceding_text": "dence on horticulture, which has special problems. The problems of agriculture are most marked in the most difficult parts of the South-West. In other words, the farther south one goes the greater the problem in agriculture in regard to small farms and in regard to horticulture. There are doubts and anxieties and worries in agriculture in the South-West at the moment, and it is no use denying it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "er he would make capital funds available pro rata with the increase in population, so that the existing medical services would not deteriorate. His answer was, first, \"no\", and, second, that even if he did it would be available to the regional hospital board as a whole to spend where it wished. Translated into English, that means spent in Bristol and not in the areas to which overspill would come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1980.3", "colnum": "1980", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. Peter Mills), unemployment rose at one time to 30 per cent. Probably more was done to alleviate the situation by the individual activities of the hon. Gentleman's predecessor, Mr. Percy Browne, than by any Government Department. Some of us were hoping that opportunities which have recently presented themselves would have resulted in his being returned to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1993.1", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were not here when it started.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman allow me to add that up to now the debate has been, as I said in my speech, reason- ably non-partisan? The Under-Secretary has now brought an element of partisanship into it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1998.4", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "A little humility may be necessary here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1998.6", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT, SOUTH-WEST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "There are very many points to make on the S.E.T., and I do not necessarily accept the effect of the Tax to have been at all as described by different hon. Members. Whether it takes out money in that way, or whether or not in the tourist industry it has gone on increased prices, or has had the effect of laying off people, I do not know, and I am certain that hon. Members do not know either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.1998.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.2002.26", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PONIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [24th June].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.2002.25"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.2003.10", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.2003.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-10", "file": "debates1967-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "74ff1b15174ce42f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.2003.14", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRESS AND BROADCASTING FREEDOM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-10a.2003.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-13", "file": "debates1967-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "8380014b95964554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The average length of stay at St. Teresa's is 12 days, compared with nine days in the other hospitals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.26.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-13", "file": "debates1967-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "8380014b95964554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker)", "preceding_text": "hese bodies. I readily confirm that we would be ready to discuss such reports with the Government of Malta whenever they so wished. Like the Prime Minister of Malta, my right hon. Friend and I are glad that the danger of a tragic breach between Britain and Malta has been averted. I am sure that the whole House looks forward to the unbroken continuance of our longstanding and intimate relationship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.52.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-13", "file": "debates1967-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "8380014b95964554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "t for our whole coastline. This is a matter of national importance. Private exploiters, for private profit, must not be allowed by Statute to ruin Brighton in this way. They must not be allowed to endanger the lives of yachtsmen by enticing them to this rocky shore. Beaches should not be closed to the public, children and the girls from Roe-dean and other schools who go there to study marine life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-13", "file": "debates1967-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "8380014b95964554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hay", "preceding_text": "ay well be true. I am simply on the point that this is no novel proposition. It is said that it will be a dangerous precedent if we dare to allow the promoters to have their way, to have their Second Reading, and that we shall have done something which the House have never done before. This is the way in which it has been put in several speeches tonight. I pass quickly from that to another aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-13", "file": "debates1967-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "8380014b95964554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ents. The one thing that I deplore about this debate is the fact that the hon. and learned Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hector Hughes), the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Chapman), and various other hon. Members who have no personal constituency interests in this matter, have used their own private interests to try to stop this Bill receiving a Second Reading, purely for their own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-13", "file": "debates1967-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "8380014b95964554", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "ough themselves, and they try to bribe boys to go out of the Service, and, in certain circumstances, put up the money to enable them to purchase themselves out, in order that they may go to work for them. We must face the fact that there are cases like this as well. I would say also that in allowing these discharges one is often putting a large additional burden on those who remain in the Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-13a.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.226.6", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC GROWTH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware that, in common language, the correct translation of \"trichotomy\", in addition to the hon. Gentleman's interpretation, is also \"haircutting\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.226.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.227.3", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE AND OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Defence Estimates for 1967–68 and the recent White Paper on overseas development showed precious little evidence of there being co-ordination between these two Ministries? Will he consider the publication later this year of a comprehensive White Paper setting out a revised defence review and overseas development programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.227.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.233.6", "colnum": "233", "heading": "MEMBERS (CABLES AND RADIO TELEGRAMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Since this Question does affect hon. Members, Mr. Speaker, I have certainly no objection to asking for permission to reply. I assumed that it would be reached, but we spent quite a long time on Aden. If it is the will of the House, I will answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.233.8", "colnum": "233", "heading": "MEMBERS (CABLES AND RADIO TELEGRAMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the pellucid unclarity of his reply. Is he aware that if he consults the statement he made on 17th November he will find that there is no reference in it either to cable or wireless, but only to telephone tapping? He must realise that there are many Members in this House, as well as people outside it, who regard it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.233.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "MEMBERS (CABLES AND RADIO TELEGRAMS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for hon. Members to use words and expressions which the Oxford English Dictionary classifies as obsolete?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.236.6", "colnum": "236", "heading": "TEXTILE COUNCIL IMPORTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mapp", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mapp", "preceding_text": "While I welcome this somewhat belated statement, may I press my right hon. Friend further on the question of the Commission? Will it be of high standing? Will its recommendations be strengthened by having independent members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.236.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.237.6", "colnum": "237", "heading": "TEXTILE COUNCIL IMPORTS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "While Lancashire Members will, naturally, give a qualified welcome to the move my right hon. Friend has made in the direction which for a long time we have been asking him to take, to appoint a proper watchdog over imports, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether he will take it from me that most of us would prefer a watch-dog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.237.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68 (VOTE A)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seaborne?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has vast Army experience, but I was talking about the Navy. In its seaborne rôle, the flexibility of approach of the F111—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.247.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68 (VOTE A)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": " macabre topic of funeral arrangements for relatives. We were delighted to hear about the humanitarian work of the Royal Air Force helicopters, which we all admire, and I was also delighted to hear that Transport Command will shortly be taking over all trooping and that the civilian charter firms, which, in the past, have provided some disgraceful aircraft for this purpose, will shortly disappear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.292.3", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68 (VOTE A)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "om the Estimates we find, demonstrated by this one crop, that we do the service slightly less than justice. The paper went on to say that savings in respect of animal diseases could be £4 million a year, in dealing with potato blight £1 million and sugar beet virus £1 million, and that if the service contributed only 1 per cent. to the total yield of wheat and barley it would amount to £2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.292.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68 (VOTE A)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " expenditure. What are the arguments? The hon. Member for St. Albans (Mr. Goodhew) is all in favour of the TSR2. The Government are all in favour of the F111K, and the Liberal Party are all in favour of the French variable-geometry aircraft. Let us examine these one after the other. We can rule out the TSR2, because in five years' time it will be so obsolete that no one will want to go back to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68 (VOTE A)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "No, it does not—not after two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-14", "file": "debates1967-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "a0fb864b010c27e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68 (VOTE A)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": " Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) raised the matter of air-sea rescue. He will be pleased to know that I have had only the briefest notice of this, just as I had only the briefest notice of the Estimates Committee Report, which came out today. The fact that I do not say much about it does not mean that I am brushing it off. I am not very good at instant politics yet. Perhaps I shall improve in time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-14a.393.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "RAILWAY NETWORK MAP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " Accepting all she says about socially necessary things, is she aware that one socially necessary thing always competes against another socially necessary thing for the limited resources that are available? Will she, therefore, when making her judgments about what is necessary, at least bear in mind and examine carefully those instances where local authorities press for the preservation of a line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.408.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "NATIONAL STEEL CORPORATION (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I think that we are all getting rather bored with the last point. On the question of people having nowhere else to go, I was seeking to make the point that nationalising a manufacturing industry is a different exercise from nationalising a service industry. Of course one does not differentiate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reply. I have been told that there are grounds for believing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "In view of the difficulty of getting at the facts, will the right hon. Gentleman consider a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.541.8", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1967–68", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does the hon. Gentleman applaud that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "g to read previous debates on these matters. The right hon. Gentleman the Paymaster-General slammed us nearly a year ago. On 18th March he was asking how many Lightnings had been sold and saying that the answer was none. In fact, how many Lightnings have now been sold? This is the aircraft produced by a Tory Government, and many have now been sold to Saudi-Arabia and we are selling them to Kuwait.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.541.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES 1967–68", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am not a Member for any part of Scotland, and I have no particular interest in the Scottish aspect of this matter, but I gather that the Vote is intended to cover the building of a nuclear submarine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": ". Such a discretion is a political decision—though not necessarily in party terms—and the proper people to question about it and to question it are in the House. I want to be sure that the proper person will be questioned and that the Commissioner will not be prevented from doing what he exists to do, namely, removing some of the secrecy which shrouds Government and administration in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.638.3", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "e of the Opposition voted against the Amendment which the Committee made and which has been partly nullified by these Lords Amendments. Government back bench Members defeated both the Opposition and the Minister in Committee and deleted all reference to the House of Lords from the original Bill. I accept that this reference has not been replaced in other parts of the Bill, but it is replaced here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.638.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (JOSEPH BOURNE AND SON LTD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "t had been properly made. As my hon. Friend the Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen) pointed out, this being a close company the money saved as a result of non-payment of these increases will now go out in increased dividends. I remind the Joint Parliamentary Secretary that these are lower-paid workers. The minimum wage is £10 10s. 5½d. a week, rising, presumably with full overtime, to £18 15s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (JOSEPH BOURNE AND SON LTD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged, Mr. Speaker. I shall, if I may, leave that point and turn to the specific matter before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (JOSEPH BOURNE AND SON LTD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lowest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend, as a responsible Minister of the Crown, tell us what is a lower-paid worker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-15", "file": "debates1967-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "e1983cca5b092f61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (JOSEPH BOURNE AND SON LTD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "distributed. What an extraordinary philosophy of industry! Has he not heard of reduced prices? Hon. Gentlemen opposite ask about the export record of the firm. I am happy to say that it is a remarkable one; it is second to none in the industry. One of the reasons why the wage increases have been blocked by the Government is to keep the firm in that competitive position to enable it to sell abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-15a.666.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order. Mr. Lee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.703.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which union?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "As a fully paid-Up track unionist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON TEXTILES (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This was dealt with by the President of the Board of Trade on Tuesday. It will advise the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.706.5", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON TEXTILES (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This was dealt with by the President of the Board of Trade on Tuesday. It will advise the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I remember in the years of the deep textile depression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.706.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COTTON TEXTILES (IMPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the last part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question. On the first part, I answered a Question just now about Government regulation of imports by import restrictions. I sat through all the debates when we were on the benches opposite. After very many months of pressing by the then Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.713.5", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In answer to the shadow Leader of the Opposition, I have already said that I am not in a position to make a forecast of the rate of growth for this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.713.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.713.7", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) will see from the figures pub- lished yesterday that we are getting it all right, despite the way the hon. Gentleman and others left in 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.713.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.719.7", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not talk about repudiating assurances, because I have repudiated no assurance. I would suggest that, if we want to conduct our business reasonably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.719.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.720.8", "colnum": "720", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We cannot hold an inquest now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.720.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Representations were made and we consulted the Department. The Department's view was that these were not major statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.722.0", "colnum": "722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am always grateful to the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) when he raises a point of order. It would be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "There is really no question of business being controlled by civil servants in Government Departments. The question which we must decide is what time to make statement A or statement B, and this we are trying our best to do in practice—remembering, of course, that we are doing this for an experimental Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.722.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.722.4", "colnum": "722", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": ", that we are doing this for an experimental Session. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"] We are doing it because we want as much as we can to be done in the mornings to prevent a delay in the starting of the main business in the afternoon. This is my major preoccupation. It is true that I gave the House an assurance that important statements would be made in the afternoon. This is a matter of some difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.722.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.723.2", "colnum": "723", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Tories do not want to come here in the mornings.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "This illustrates the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "May I have an assurance from the Leader of the House that in future no fundamental change of policy will be announced in the mornings? Will the right hon. Gentleman give a straight answer to a simple question? I want a \"Yes\" or \"No\" from him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.724.4", "colnum": "724", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "ation. In the better-off areas we should encourage voluntary effort, guided by an adequate system of inspection. We think that the provision of nursery education—that is, education before the age of statutory schooling—ought to be a partnership between public and private bodies, on the lines that Mrs. Elspeth Howe suggested in her excellent pamphlet, published by the Conservative Political Centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "st observation is that the success of a school, particularly in a bad area as defined by the Plowden Report, will often depend to an overwhelming degree on the headmaster or headmistress or senior members of the staff. I should be prepared to see a fund at the rate of this sum available to the local authority for such an area. In other words, I should be prepared to see a Beeching-type headmaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-16", "file": "debates1967-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "92f1cde4ba925d55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIMARY EDUCATION (PLOWDEN REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Forrester", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Forrester", "preceding_text": "homes. I wonder whether this is \"on\". One can almost imagine little notes being sent by Mrs. Smith saying, \"Come up; I want to see you\". We must recognise that the qualities required for being an excellent teacher are not necessarily the qualities which someone needs when going into people's homes. There are many very good politicians who are absolutely useless at knocking on doors and canvassing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-16a.805.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-17", "file": "debates1967-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "159280a6c13606b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-17a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITLES (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Eyre) asked about the Prime Minister. The hon. Member has not been reading the recent speeches of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister made a speech in which he said that it was permissible to have one bite, but that if people had more than one bite, their licence would be abolished. He was not referring at all to the Members of the House of Commons, but was referring to the House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-17a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-17", "file": "debates1967-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "159280a6c13606b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-17a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITLES (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not give us any ideas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "hat I must declare an interest, although I do not think that the Bill would actually apply to me for my title dies with me. I do not think, therefore, that the hon. Gentleman is trying to deprive me of the small honour done to me. But he does want it to disappear and surely much more of a revolutionary attitude would have been to take me out to Tower Hill and get rid of me quickly and permanently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-17a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-17", "file": "debates1967-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "159280a6c13606b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-17a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TITLES (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "some action to limit the other place to amendment on one occasion and not to delay a Bill by as much as a year, which I understand is the case at present. Going to the other extreme, if there were nothing but life peers there would be the equal objection that a very powerful patronage was placed in the hands of the Government of the day. I do not think that any of us would wish to see that either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-17a.915.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-20", "file": "debates1967-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "278189eb77c12437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Scots?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "re of these details. I have just chosen examples to show the intense complexity of the matter. Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny, as Burke said, and these are dreadful. I do not intend to deal with the Regulations affecting Scotland. Others of my right hon. and hon. Friends will do that. The House will be encouraged to know that, in general, they are even more elaborate than the English ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.972.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-20", "file": "debates1967-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "278189eb77c12437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "\"TORREY CANYON\" (OIL POLLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "First of all, I would express the appreciation of the West Country of the efficient and prompt manner in which the Royal Navy took up this matter on Saturday morning, following requests from local authorities and others, and say that we welcome the fact that the Government are now treating the matter with the urgency that it deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-20", "file": "debates1967-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "278189eb77c12437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN AND SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Yes—and it was quite wrong. Many of us opposed it at the time. That is not a very telling attack on me. Eventually, in Palestine—and this probably preserved the world from an explosion there—we needed the good offices of the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1076.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-20", "file": "debates1967-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "278189eb77c12437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "ard of Trade, and I must tell him frankly that large sections of the industry are, at any rate as yet, not persuaded that that was anything more than a lot of hot air. However, the cause of our doubts goes much deeper than those two single instances. It springs from a comparison of the words and deeds of the Government over a period of years, and I want to take up a little time in looking at them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-20", "file": "debates1967-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "278189eb77c12437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "nds. The difference has been that hon. Gentlemen opposite were saying it in a different spirit. We are, naturally, grateful in Lancashire for all the support we can get and we are grateful to hon. Gentlemen opposite for taking part in this debate and for supporting Lancashire's case. However, naturally enough, they have done it—and I am not complaining about this—with a certain amount of pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-20", "file": "debates1967-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "278189eb77c12437", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If we get a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "at they are in the wrong. I make no apology for perhaps imparting passion into my speech, because I sat 13 years on the other side of the House and often had the similar duty of chastising Tory Ministers about their neglect of the industry. They have nothing to boast about in the industry's history. We have had a very good debate and I know that one or two of my hon. Friends want to say something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-20a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman uphold the charges which he made against the Rhodesia Residual Mission, the head of which belongs to the same order of chivalry as himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1444.6", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL DIVIDEND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "Is not the Prime Minister's definition the same as that normally given in standard economic textbooks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1444.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL DIVIDEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If the hon. Gentleman would, after he has finished being funny, just sit down with a piece of paper and work out the total cost of the Civil Service, all voted for by this House, including those who have replaced the National Assistance Board and improved social security, and if he will then calculate how many \"spivs\" would have been borne", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL DIVIDEND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If the hon. Gentleman would, after he has finished being funny, just sit down with a piece of paper and work out the total cost of the Civil Service, all voted for by this House, including those who have replaced the National Assistance Board and improved social security, and if he will then calculate how many \"spivs\" would have been borne [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] on the national account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1454.4", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "In point of fact, what I am trying to deal with, if I get a chance from the right hon. Member for Llanelly, is that, before we part with the Bill we should have some information on three important points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1454.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "oints, I consider that as a back bench Member I have every right to oppose the Motion. I realise that the rights of back benchers are in some jeopardy in modern times, but if I am unable to get up and challenge a very powerful Administration because they have failed throughout the passage of a Bill to give information of fundamental importance, I feel that one might as well not come to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1456.4", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a disgrace. Why go?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether I might intervene very briefly. I apologise to the House, because I shall very rapidly have to leave the Chamber for another meeting, but I intend no discourtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1456.4", "colnum": "1456", "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": "I wonder whether I might intervene very briefly. I apologise to the House, because I shall very rapidly have to leave the Chamber for another meeting, but I intend no discourtesy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a disgrace. Why go?\"] Because Government continues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1456.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1457.7", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I would be grateful to the hon. Gentleman if he would allow me to finish this observation. I should have thought that it was to the advantage of The House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1457.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1460.0", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": " the House, holding views quite sincerely, believe that the scale of compensation is not adequate and are allowed to debate this at this stage, may I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that so too are hon. Members on this side of the House, if they feel disposed, entitled to argue that the scales of compensation are too generous. We then get back to Committee stage. There need not be any Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1460.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1479.0", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "nce of the fact that there is a difference between an equity share and a mortgage. The right hon. Gentleman has repeatedly told us that he believes in full and fair compensation, and that this is what the Government are offering. If we could all have a reward for every time that we have heard him say that, we would all be rich, and, of course, we would all have to pay the Capital Gains Tax on it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "to the European Commission on Human Rights. I see the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Ledger) giggling and chewing the end of his finger at the same moment. The result is an extraordinary noise. He should not laugh at citizens of this country appealing to the European Commission on Human Rights, for his Government and his Party have already accepted the overriding jurisdiction of that body in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nd said that the subject of the application to the Commission was United Steel 4¾ per cent. debenture stock, 1968–78. Does the Chief Secretary mean, in the face of an action of this kind by individual stockholders, to steamroller through the House the sequestration of debenture investment by these old-age pensioners and others? They are not the only investors, but they are important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I am wiping away the tears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " 4¾ per cent. debenture stock, 1968–78. Does the Chief Secretary mean, in the face of an action of this kind by individual stockholders, to steamroller through the House the sequestration of debenture investment by these old-age pensioners and others? They are not the only investors, but they are important—[ Laughter. ] The hon. Member is amused by my reference to old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " stockholders, to steamroller through the House the sequestration of debenture investment by these old-age pensioners and others? They are not the only investors, but they are important—[ Laughter. ] The hon. Member is amused by my reference to old-age pensioners. [An HON. MEMBER: \"I am wiping away the tears.\"] So he should. He has only ever shed crocodile tears on behalf of retirement pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1493.0", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Creature.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "ed on 3rd May, 1957, we find that paragraph 4 says: The Iron and Steel Realisation Account was established under section 22 of the Act and is under the control and management of the Treasury. Thus, every indication, as we read through this and other documents, makes it clear that the Agency acted under the management and instructions of the Treasury. Here was this pupil, or subsidiary, or servant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "It was received by I.S.H.R.A. on behalf of the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1550.5", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "l way—this is the significant difference—an affirmative Order to change the name of the Corporation would be changing the law. In these circumstances this is quite right and proper. If an Order makes a change in the law, no matter how small, a Government cannot do so without coming to Parliament—although I sometimes think that it would be a good idea to change the law without coming to Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1550.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Builders and developers are of necessity having to start making arrangements to try to avoid the terms of the Bill. Mr. Deputy Mayor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1575.3", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " per cent. tax is a very curious way of going about it. We set out, as I understood, to curb the speculators. I forecast that the speculators will be the last people to suffer, because what will inevitably happen as a result of this Measure is that land prices will rise and that most of the 40 per cent. will be passed on. In other words, the spivs and speculators, friends of hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1578.3", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "owards the end of what I have to say, that hon. Gentlemen opposite have talked about the public outcry because these Statutory Instruments are very largely misunderstood. In my view, it is perhaps as well that they are misunderstood, or not understood at all, because if they were I do not think that we should be faced with a public outcry at all. I think that we should be on the verge of a revolt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1585.3", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "yd-Carpenter). One is never quite sure whether, when the right hon. Gentleman attacks something, he reflects the views of the Opposition Front Bench or his own, but he is a man to whom great respect should be paid in these matters and I want to deal with the point he raised about the 40 per cent. This has also been referred to by several other hon. Members and by hon. Members of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1613.0", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member need not wax quite so eloquent. As we have said on a number of occasions, this is not taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I have tried to answer as many of the questions as I can. I will conclude on this note: I understand from what the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Hexham said that, should the party opposite ever get a chance, it will repeal this Act and the Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-21", "file": "debates1967-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "ab129e49ab97d835", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1617.4", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "velopment is started before 6th April it will be subject to a 40 per cent. levy which in the case of small businesses, people with small means, small householders or owner-occupiers will be a very high rate of levy indeed. I have sent the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues several particular examples which must be answered. I have sent him details of the tragic case of the village postmaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-21a.1617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1689.8", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the hon. Member's wild statement. I have never said that there was stagnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1689.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1691.4", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "I cannot think that my right hon. Friend used the expression which the hon. Member used, that the output was declining because of the reduction in the labour force. We have only to go back over the past 15 years to see that a declining labour force has had almost the very opposite effect in agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1691.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1702.2", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is aware of the problems, unlike many of his right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1712.6", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, it is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I understand that the White Paper is not available in the Vote Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ect of powers. It is a statement—and it was necessary to make a statement—on the questions of norm and criteria because that is needed for the guidance of those who will be engaged in wage negotiations. The other statement will follow later. This is not a period, as the right hon. Gentleman described it, of nil growth. We certainly hope and expect to see a period of faster growth than we now have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, I am not going to give a figure at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to say any more than I have said so far. We could go on talking about this for hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d it is impure, as though there were such a thing as arithmetical immorality. However, when they want to stress the dangers of inflation, they say that the new halfpenny is so inconvenient that it will be ignored in practice, thus leading to excessive price increases. Even the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) cannot have it both ways to quite that extent in defending the system he proposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ". It devoted a whole chapter to what it called the smoothness of the changeover. In paragraph 179, which is entitled, \"Associability: a transitional problem\" the Committee says The transitional differences between systems … should probably be measured\"— in years? No. In months? No— in weeks rather than months. Let us look at the way the Committee examined this. That is exactly what it said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "I should like to go back to my right hon. Friend's reference to people travelling abroad, when he suggested that they easily became accustomed to the different money. I happened to be in France quite a lot when the new franc was introduced, and I remember that almost every time one made a purchase one received one's change in both old and new francs. It was simple to fool the majority of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1749.1", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "rnise our currency, we should modernise it within the main stream of opinion in the world rather than outside it, as the Government propose. Of course it would be nice if everybody would adopt the £. It would be nice if everybody would drive on the left-hand side of the road. It would be nice if everybody played cricket. It would be nice if Sassenachs and other heathens would eat haggis and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " from the Chancellor of the Exchequer to my right hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber): In Australia it was found that where staff were trained to help customers with their problems there was little or no difficulty; where they were not there was friction \". Here comes the jump in logic: Thus it is not the system in itself which makes for a smooth transition\". The answer is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1754.1", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "s friction \". Here comes the jump in logic: Thus it is not the system in itself which makes for a smooth transition\". The answer is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"] It seems that hon. Members would like the next piece read: I have every confidence\"— That must be a different letter. I also have the letter which the Financial Secretary wrote to my hon. Friend the Member for the City of Chester (Mr. Temple).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not loudly enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "spects of the decimal currency affair. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been extremely smart in exploiting the democratic machine and bringing this matter to a conclusion. He has caught everybody on one foot, inside Parliament and outside it. My only consolation, perhaps a sop to my self-respect, is that I was shouting about the importance of this matter way back last June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1761.1", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"A good argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "ent or the international case, because I appreciate that this has faded into the background. We have had private meetings with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other people, and this argument has never been mentioned. My right hon. Friend played it down today. I am, however, absolutely certain that this is the decisive argument and is what has persuaded my right hon. Friend to take this course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1824.1", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why the Whip?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": "that have been used in the Press and in a great deal of the propaganda put forward, no complaint can be made about the debate. Many views have been expressed. It is absolutely right to say that this is not a party issue, because we have had support for my right hon. Friend's proposal from both sides of the House. It has been opposed on both sides. We have had alternative proposals from both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1824.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1827.3", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "know how many Members turned up on a similar occasion when the Chairman addressed Conservative Members. The short point is that there is clear evidence that the time had arrived for the Chancellor to make up his mind. He announced his decision, a White Paper was published, and there has been every opportunity for pushing points of view. The Chancellor, as everyone knows, is anything but arbitrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DECIMAL CURRENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I gather that the hon. Gentleman has had a communication from my right hon. Friend and he therefore knows the answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NEWS AGENCIES' STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I am giving reasons why we should not agree to this Order. The first reason is that unless we have an explanation of the effect of the Order on the future of these men under their agreement, which they have entered into according to law, we cannot make up our minds except in one direction, and that is to refuse it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1856.4", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NEWS AGENCIES' STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "d an increase. We should like to know whether they are the lowest-paid workers or lower-paid workers. How do their present wages compare with the national average? I hope that the hon. Gentleman will be able to give me the answer tonight. I asked him a similar question when we debated the last Order, but, either because of pressure of time or because he did not know, he did not give me the answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-22", "file": "debates1967-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "a1101231bc03dbc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1859.1", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NEWS AGENCIES' STAFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "chedule to the Order. The answer is quite simple and straightforward, and in no way sinister. The Order is made against those establishments, and those parts of those establishments which propose to break the line of the prices and incomes policy. The Government did not make the Order apply to people who were not proposing to accept that offer of a wage increase that was outside Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-22a.1859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-23", "file": "debates1967-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "93503b3863826715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-23a.1910.0", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "How does the Prime Minister think that we can expect to rely on the help of our allies in the future, as the Defence Review suggests, if we withhold our help from them in Vietnam?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-23a.1910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-03-23", "file": "debates1967-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "93503b3863826715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-23a.1930.6", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": " these are the sort of cases which cause troubles of the kind which we have had? In spite of what the Secretary of State has said today, I feel that in the particular circumstances of the Invergordon chemical enterprise there is a great deal of information which the Secretary of State, I know, has and which, as he said, may have come from a leak sent to the Scottish Office as well as to the Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-03-23a.1930.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-04", "file": "debates1967-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6e9338c53a344ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.11.7", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that nuclear generating capacity is now more than 10 per cent. cheaper than coal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.11.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-04", "file": "debates1967-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6e9338c53a344ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree at any rate with one word used by the noble Lord and that is his reference to the word \"distorted\" about proceedings at these meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-04", "file": "debates1967-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6e9338c53a344ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Under the Bill they will be of the same status as any other courts and the answer to that question is, \"Yes, in such cases as solicitors care to appear\". It is expected that they will not do so in the vast majority of cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-04", "file": "debates1967-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "d6e9338c53a344ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheaper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "so in the vast majority of cases—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—for various reasons. Solicitors may prefer cases to be conducted for their clients by counsel, and, indeed, in courts where solicitors have jurisdiction already in a very large percentage of cases they elect, for reasons of pressure on their own time and perhaps the feeling that the work might be better conducted by counsel, to brief counsel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-04a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "POLYTECHNICS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "e hon. Lady were to plot the 30 centres on a map, I think that she would find that we have a very fair geographical coverage. There is no large conurbation which will not have a polytechnic. This is always naturally a matter of balance between the principle of concentration, on the one hand, and the need to avoid too much travelling, on the other. I believe that we have drawn a reasonable balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.155.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Technology (Mr. John Stonehouse)", "preceding_text": "the fact that the senior directors behaved with correctness in reporting the matter and throughout my dealings with them about the repayment. The long delay in negotiating this repayment, which I reported to the House, arose in part from the fact that it was not until February of this year that we were able to obtain from the firm the full information that we required on the actual costs incurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "As to the sorry events of Easter Saturday we welcome the Minister's apology as far as it goes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.259.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "matter? But will he answer two questions about that inquiry? First, will he assure the House that it will cover the whole history of this affair up to and including the extraordinary events of Easter Saturday? Secondly, will he give the House some idea of the sort of composition of the committee of inquiry into this matter? We are not asking for names, but it seems to us to be extremely important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "—that this inquiry should be seen to be independent in every sense of the word. We should like some indication of the sort of composition. My second main point is this: is the Minister aware that we welcome his categorical reaffirmation of the statement which he made to the House on 22nd March that the directors of the company have behaved correctly throughout.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Could the hon. Gentleman say what excess profits have been refunded to the firm, because, presumably it has paid rather more than 50 per cent. taxation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I can certainly give an assurance of that character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "ion and we were hopeful that we would get a refund of reasonable proportions. In fact, we achieved that, and I think that the House can be satisfied about the result achieved. If there had been a premature disclosure of some aspects of this case, the negotiations could have been prejudiced very seriously. The Government are now asking for equality of information and post-costing in order to avoid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.268.2", "colnum": "268", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Hundreds of contracts are placed by my Department. As far as possible we obtain details of costs, but in the absence of an agreement with the industry, which we intend to get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY INCREASES (CROWN BEDDING COMPANY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "k more. By that means, the law would have been made to look an ass, as it would have been and as it is an ass in this matter. Here is an Order brought before the House to apply to 20 out of 1·3 million men of the same type and employment engaged in hundreds of thousands of firms all over the country. I warn the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour that it is utterly impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.396.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-05", "file": "debates1967-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "d7490547f114885d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.397.5", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY INCREASES (CROWN BEDDING COMPANY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have been on my feet for two minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-05a.397.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-06", "file": "debates1967-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "1629d1ace7f3c24e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-06a.434.0", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "s in arrear in the payment of rent to the extent of £65 in respect of private furnished accommodation. It is the policy of the Greater London Council not to rehouse families which are in arrears in rent. As a consequence, furtive suggestions were put to the woman concerned that the B.B.C. would discharge her contract if she would take part in the programme, and in confidential interviews with the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-06a.434.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-06", "file": "debates1967-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "1629d1ace7f3c24e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-06a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Certainly not. I have been asked that question before and I have answered it. Although I know that the right hon. Gentleman is very allergic to the Land Commission proposals, which are now the law of the land, they have saved the taxpayer many millions of £s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-06a.446.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I will help myself in a moment. I could give the Answer off the cuff. It is \"Yes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.725.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that conflicting statements about the dispute have been issued by the rather loudmouthed but ineffective union, A.S.S.E.T. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.729.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": " shall be out of Aden by 1968, with no continuing defence commitment thereafter? Secondly, is he aware that many hon. Members on this side of the House—notwithstanding my right hon. Friend's white-washing exercise this afternoon—are very concerned about the anti-United Nations, anti-Labour Government attitude taken up by certain officials of the British High Commissioner's Office, and in the Army?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I say seriously to the House that I do not think that it would help if I made comments derogatory to the Mission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.750.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Now that the Government's policy has totally collapsed, will the Foreign Secretary now at last stop running after Nasser and his hired assassins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The brazenness of the right hon. Gentleman ceases to astonish me. He must have the skin of a rhinoceros to go on as he is going on, knowing full well that he is the architect of the mess we are in. If the right hon. Gentleman spent a little less time writing statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.752.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The brazenness of the right hon. Gentleman ceases to astonish me. He must have the skin of a rhinoceros to go on as he is going on, knowing full well that he is the architect of the mess we are in. If the right hon. Gentleman spent a little less time writing statements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] —and a little more time listening and reading, he would know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "\"TORREY CANYON\"", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ot ready to deal with it. We hope that they will tell us more about the equipment which they think should be standing by, whether there should be a decontamination fleet and whether there should be any changes in the equipment of the Navy for this purpose. Finally, I return to the point that matters most to us on this side, namely, now that the safety of the country has been assured by Providence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "\"TORREY CANYON\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "hip could have been fired, and that if the Government had taken all the expert advice into account that is what would have happened. On the question of salvaging the vessel, if one sets aside the Dutch salvage experts, who had a huge sum to gain in rewards for trying to salvage the vessel, and the report of the naval salvage expert, who was a Service person and could not be considered independent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ives for the future of South Arabia. Is he to co-operate fully with the Federal Ministers against the day when they take over political responsibility? Whenever he has been faced with this question, the Foreign Secretary has taken refuge in an attack on my right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys). But I cannot allow the right hon. Gentleman to get away with those tactics any longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "I interrupted the right hon. Gentleman when he said that the Conservatives had given this promise which he now says—and this is the first time that I have heard it said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "d, and I suggest an arrangement of this kind with the South Arabian Federation would also pay a high political reward. When at that time we were to negotiate a defence agreement, we did not have time to get down into details and conclude the agreement. Unfortunately, right hon. Gentlemen opposite took over. But if we had been able to complete the defence agreement, we should either have linked it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "Have we got it quite clear?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.828.1", "colnum": "828", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman proved conclusively, to me at least, that he was in favour of a policy of undermining the status of the United Nations Mission, which has been characteristic of the attitude of the Opposition ever since that Mission was first invited by the Government to take a hand in the situation. The Opposition bear a grave responsibility for some of the events which have since taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "e of these points, I repeat that it is also important to give instructions to our officers in the High Commission to be very careful in the way in which they deal with members of the Mission. I can see no reason why, when the television broadcast was recorded, there should have been officers of the High Commission present in the room. That introduced an element of political censorship immediately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "will not pursue that point. The right hon. Gentleman is always very well documented, especially in his speeches, as we all know. He always quotes one newspaper article after another. As to what I would do in this situation, I believe, first, that the Government should make it clear that they intend to restore law and order and that they are prepared to use whatever force is needed to achieve this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "gnising—as they did when they formed the Opposition—that the federal set-up is wrong for Aden, will be willing to adopt a completely different approach to the situation and will be willing to say, in certain circumstances, \"Yes. If that is the wish of the majority of the people in Aden the federal set-up shall be disbanded\". I hope that this will be the case. I must give this warning to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "In the 17 minutes which I have left, I will do the best I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should keep quiet. In fact, I opened the debate this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.867.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ouse that, of all occasions, this was the wrong one on which to hold a debate. We are not having a debate about the internal security or the problems of Aden and South Arabia. We are having a debate about the internal problems of the party opposite. The right hon. Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys) was going to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9. Because of their problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "He also knew, as was mentioned in my speech, that we had offered the Opposition a full day's debate at a time when we could discuss the real issues. But they could not take it because they dare not let the right hon. Member for Streatham get in today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.7", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.7", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am—[ Interruption. ] If the Leader of the Opposition, who is muttering something, has something to say, I will willingly give way to him. Does he want to interrupt me? I am very willing to listen to the right hon. Gentle man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.9", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am very willing to listen and courteously give way to the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.9", "colnum": "868", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " way to the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"] The Leader of the Opposition either keeps quiet or gets up and speaks. I told the House this afternoon that we were discussing with the Federal Government of South Arabia the constitutional proposals—the package deal, as it has been called—which I put to them. I told the House this afternoon, as I said in March, that they required—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.868.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will try to do that, if I am allowed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.869.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.869.3", "colnum": "869", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " have a debate timed in consultation with the Opposition—at a point when both would know what the situation was, so that an informed debate could take place. For reasons of their own—and I repeat this clearly—the Opposition would not take that line at all, and so we have had this debate today. I cannot tell, and I have not the slightest intention of telling, the House what the present position is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.869.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Your friend.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "f our troops; and, secondly, that we should arrange for or help to arrange for an independent South Arabia by the earliest possible date. Hon Members opposite—those who have come—have, unlike us, a guilt complex about Suez, and this more than anything else is at the heart of what they are saying today. There were the silly words that the right hon. Member for Streatham used about President Nasser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I should be very proud to call the President of any State my friend. Otherwise how do Governments do business? Perhaps I may quote some words of somebody before me, a great Foreign Secretary: one cannot make foreign policy on the basis of picking the Heads of State that one likes and the Heads of State that one does not like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ould be very proud to call the President of any State my friend. Otherwise how do Governments do business? Perhaps I may quote some words of somebody before me, a great Foreign Secretary: one cannot make foreign policy on the basis of picking the Heads of State that one likes and the Heads of State that one does not like. [ Interruption. ] Does the right hon. Member for Bexley want to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "But, Mr. Speaker, I was being interrupted, though not according to the due form of the House. The Leader of the House does this all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "Sir D. Glover rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "Sir D. Glover rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "\"TORREY CANYON\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "n Union. Indeed, he culminated his career by being a Minister at the Foreign Office. I believe that few people knew that he spoke seven languages. In his constituency, he was judged as being a most admirable and excellent M.P., looking after local affairs. I have a difficult task to follow in his footsteps. Might I also asked that the sympathy of this House should go to his widow and his children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-10", "file": "debates1967-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "73eb62a92f5f9526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "\"TORREY CANYON\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I have in my hand the piece of paper which we were given at that meeting. If this is an aide memoire on the clearance of oil from the beaches, obviously the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Bessell) does not understand the problem, because it was so minute and so lacking in detail. I do not make this as a party political point. I am not interested in the party political aspect of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-10a.886.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.949.5", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.949.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.959.4", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "As this matter is increasingly important and urgent and the Board of Trade must be particularly concerned with the commercial and administrative side of flying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.973.6", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "urther ahead at our medium-term prospects. Then, in the second part of my speech, I shall deal with the Budget accounts and their financial and monetary implications. Finally, I shall set out my proposals for this year. I fear that the speech will be rather a marathon and I express my apologies to the Committee in advance and assure hon. Members that I have done my best to keep it within tolerable", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.973.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ed by wage increases unrestrained; a slower rate of economic growth because of fear of the effect of rising incomes upon imports and upon export costs, which means more unemployment; using unemployment as an instrument of getting the stability you want; and less expenditure on public services like education, health, and so on. Those are the real alternatives. It is to stop this kind of development", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.987.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.1010.5", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUMMARY OF THE EFFECT OF PROPOSED TAX CHANGES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "at has just been handed round—except the last Motion, which, of course, provides the basis for the ensuing debate. I understand that I shall have the support of the Committee if, on this occasion, instead of reading out in full each of the Resolutions I put each of the Questions in a shortened form; that is to say, that the first Motion be agreed to, that the second Motion be agreed to, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.1010.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "That is a most interesting suggestion and were I Chancellor of the Exchequer I would give it serious consideration. One has to look at the whole field of Government expenditure and see where one can curb and prune.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-11", "file": "debates1967-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "79dff6dab8f9cf79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Farmers' subsidies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " Bristol, North-East (Mr. Dobson). It is not the job of the Opposition to prepare an alternative Budget, but I should be prepared on my own authority alone to put forward these items of public expenditure where economies might be made. Had I been Chancellor of the Exchequer I would have restored prescription charges and reduced subsidies for school meals, applying them only to those who need aid.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-11a.1070.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-12", "file": "debates1967-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ec8d86ac215cd8ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have noted what was said by my right hon. Friend and what I have said. I hope that he will wait to hear what I have yet to say. To recapitulate, this would appear to be a figure that we could achieve without making a special extra effort, the need for which I am urging on the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-12", "file": "debates1967-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ec8d86ac215cd8ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "her or from official forecasts. They are probably slightly more optimistic than the latter. I do not believe that official forecasts today can be so different from the careful forecasts of these bodies. What picture do they foresee? My right hon. Friend foresaw a rate of growth equal to the rate of growth of potential productive capacity of 3 per cent. I do not believe that he meant for this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-12", "file": "debates1967-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ec8d86ac215cd8ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Public ownership.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "lor will say that about 14s. 6d. is the average effective rate. I call that Civil Service hokus-pokus. It is not the average return that matters, it is the marginal bit that matters. A man asks himself, \"What am I going to get out of it? Why should I build an extra factory; why should I take the extra responsibility? What am I going to get out of it?\" There is nothing wrong with a man saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-12", "file": "debates1967-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ec8d86ac215cd8ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course he can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ing the hon. Gentleman. If we maintain sensible and effective control over the nature of public investment, we are told that that is driving back capital investment. If, on the other hand, we encourage it and promote it and finance it, we are told that we are squeezing out private investment and depriving the country of the prospects of a mixed economy. The hon. Gentleman cannot have it every way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-12a.1323.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-13", "file": "debates1967-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "0e3f5f1baa370803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-13a.1367.0", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are not content to see the present unhappy situation continue. The right hon. Gentleman himself—who, if I may say so, made a very statesmanlike contribution on this in the television debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-13a.1367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-13", "file": "debates1967-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "0e3f5f1baa370803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-13a.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about the figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I shall be glad to answer the right hon. Gentleman's question immediately. I have precisely repeated, for the sake of caution, the Chancellor's own words, and I shall repeat them again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-13a.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-13", "file": "debates1967-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "0e3f5f1baa370803", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-13a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ear. Had it not been for the actitivities of the Patronage Secretary, I should have liked to make a stirring speech on this topic in last year's Finance Bill to explain why I was abstaining. That martyrdom was foreclosed to me by the zealous activities of the Government Chief Whip. Yesterday the First Secretary of State was at great pains to tell us about a company called Richard Kershaw of Leeds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-13a.1451.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DIPLOMATIC SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "Why should it be considered necessary to adequate representation that the Diplomatic Service people should be recruited from universities? Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that many hon. Members have never been to university but would make a substantial contribution to the Diplomatic Service? Let us get rid of this nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH ARABIA AND ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "In view of the predictable and predicted failure of the United Nations Mission and its self-stated prejudice against Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.78.4", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH ARABIA AND ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Royle", "preceding_text": "In view of the extraordinary behaviour of this particular United Nations Mission when it was in Aden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.78.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.88.10", "colnum": "88", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "pportunity for questioning the Foreign Secretary personally on day-to-day issues of foreign affairs. The first possible occasion on which one could have put down Questions for today was Friday, 13th March. The publication of the Order Paper on Monday, 16th March, showed that 47 Questions had been put down—in fact, filling the Order Paper—and that 43 of them were put down by back benchers opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.88.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "ld have put down Questions for today was Friday, 13th March. The publication of the Order Paper on Monday, 16th March, showed that 47 Questions had been put down—in fact, filling the Order Paper—and that 43 of them were put down by back benchers opposite. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] The whole House will appreciate that although they were of some importance most of them were of secondary importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.88.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.89.7", "colnum": "89", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "—that over a month ago, at 8 o'clock in the morning, we could have put down a whole number of Questions, but it seems to me an absolutely idiotic performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.89.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The record does not bear out the contention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And unfair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ct to say that it is wholly inefficient. My hon. Friend will also notice that during the period of severe restraint increasingly previously deferred commitments about wages are coming into operation, and this will be increasingly so after the middle of this year. Nobody, I think, would dispute—I, certainly not—that the operation of policy since last July has been a difficult and unpopular process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "When will the Government understand that the continuance of this negative policy is just not acceptable to the working population—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "It makes little difference to the total figure, because employment in the Merseyside area is a small proportion of the total. I will give the hon. and learned Gentleman the figures and he will find that the unemployment percentage has moved favourably in the Merseyside development area in the last two years—almost more favourably than in any other part of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": "d. It was the reason why it was done. I supported it then and I support it now, even though the going may be rough. Nevertheless, as I say, it has happened, and ordinary working people are worse off. To tell them now that what we ought to do is to further remarkable people and that there ought to be a redistribution of income adverse to them is as socially unjust as it is economically nonsensical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "d like that decision to be reversed now. The tens of millions of pounds now being spent on providing free prescriptions for people who could afford to pay could be devoted either to reducing taxation or to providing a better hospital service. This is one of the foremost issues on which we fought the elections last week and the verdict of the people on this has been clear and definite and decisive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "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 of us thought that of our victories in the past. Although he said that he approached the House with temerity, I must say that I have rarely seen it better disguised with the very considerable artless grace and distinction with which he clothed what he had to say. The hon. Member for Rhondda, West, is an old friend of mine. We were delighted when he was nominated. We thought that he would get in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " and welfare, including children's services, have expanded by 9·7 per cent. per annum, and in Scotland by 9·8 per cent. That is an increase of nearly 10 per cent. a year, and I hope that some of my hon. Friends take credit for that when they are being attacked by hon. Members opposite. There is little doubt that in the current wave of feeling sweeping through the country people feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-17", "file": "debates1967-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "55a1c1bcda6901e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "as a rather ageing Young Conservative there who invented a terrible slogan—\"Stop dawdling, Maudling\". He is now the hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. Hunt). In my view, that slogan brought its retribution. It was one of the worst which could have been invented. What did the right hon. Gentleman do? Between that conference and the next Budget he pumped between £500 and £600 million net into the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-17a.212.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree, however, that it is time to speed up redistribution and that we should try to replace the crude and outdated instrument of Income Tax by a system of direct taxation, coupled with higher Surtax and higher death duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That is not related to the Question I am answering and should be addressed to the First Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. It was indeed a slip of the tongue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "Only in those cases where there is reason to think that such a list has been prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.299.5", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that the various Departments concerned are to be congratulated on the skill and alacrity with which they tackled this phenomenal problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.299.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to make any statement on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.302.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.370.4", "colnum": "370", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "dered. If I might crave your indulgence, Mr. Speaker, I should like to say how sad I am that our old friend, Tom Williams, the Minister of Agriculture who brought in the 1947 Act, did not live to see this day. He was enormously friendly and kind-hearted and I owe a lot to him. I was his Parliamentary Private Secretary for many years and I know that his work for agriculture will be long remembered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Clause 9.—(POWERS TO MEET FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " its powers, there might be a substantial effect on the interests of persons engaged in the production of livestock, the Commission has to consult the Production Committee. If the Commission's action is likely to have a substantial effect on the interests of persons engaged in the marketing or distribution of livestock, it has to consult the Distribution Committee. If it appears to the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Clause 9.—(POWERS TO MEET FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " powers under Clause 9 and any of these effects were likely to flow from its doing so, in certain cases it has to consult the Production Committee, in other cases it has to consult the Distribution Committee, and if the Commission does anything which is likely to have a substantial effect on the interests of consumers, it has to consult the Consumers Committee. If it is to fulfil this rôle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Clause 9.—(POWERS TO MEET FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Pearson", "preceding_text": "ys down the conditions under which a development scheme may be introduced for the reorganisation of the meat industry and the meat processing industry, but it does not confine itself to the meat industry and the meat processing industry. It also extends to the meat production industry. Any farmer producing beef on a livestock basis comes within the purview of this Clause. Under subsection (2, a )—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Clause 9.—(POWERS TO MEET FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jasper More", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jasper More", "preceding_text": "I appeal to the Minister at this late stage to try to take a more tolerant attitude to the representations eloquently made by so many of my hon. Friends. It is disappointing that we have had no contribution from the back benches opposite, because the question is not unimportant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.392.4", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Clause 9.—(POWERS TO MEET FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "e arguments, and I have tried to be reasonable. The right hon. Gentleman said that the powers were not necessary. We are not arguing about that. We have decided that these powers must be provided. It would be wrong to go into detail about them. I would love to go into detail about the powers which the Conservative Party once proposed for the reform of meat marketing. They were very drastic powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.392.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Clause 9.—(POWERS TO MEET FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ember who acted as a Whip in Committee. That is a rather strange suggestion. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite will have a free vote this evening on this issue. However, again it would be out of order to pursue that. The hon. Member for the Isle of Ely (Sir H. Legge-Bourke) repeated all the arguments about support. I remind hon. Members that the National Farmers' Union supports this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.394.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.408.3", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Clause 21.—(NQUIRIES BY COMMISSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "There is nothing written into this Clause to insist upon that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Clause 21.—(NQUIRIES BY COMMISSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "I was impressed by the seriousness with which the Parliamentary Secretary tackled this Lords Amendment, but I have not been impressed during the debate on it since by the seriousness with which the Minister or the Parliamentary Secretary have listened to the arguments from this side of the House. They have been reading books, laughing or smirking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": " régime from applying them towards the furtherance of the rebellion and to preserve them for the people of Rhodesia as a whole pending the restoration of constitutional government. The operation of locating and preserving the external assets of the bank having thus been completed, it was decided some time ago that it was no longer necessary to maintain a full board of directors of the bank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.442.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " service. When lawful government is restored and happier times return to Rhodesia, the funds of the Reserve Bank will be available for the purpose or rebuilding and restoring the prosperity and sound financial position which Rhodesia formerly enjoyed. I hope that the House will register its approval of this Order tonight in the knowledge that we are giving a message to the people of Rhodesia that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.443.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.448.4", "colnum": "448", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State is a compassionate man and he cannot have liked the message which his brief commanded him to deliver to the people of Rhodesia, white and black: that the screw would be tightened, that sanctions would be intensified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.448.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "ow, but it is full of people speaking French, German, Japanese, Italian, and so forth, and one assumes that they have something to do with Rhodesian trade. The second point which he made was answered effectively by his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget). The reason why we are not going to follow our consciences into the Lobby against this Order is that we do not really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "n thought fit to talk about tightening the screw because of the illegality of the régime. I put this question to the Minister of State: if this is a tightening of the screw because the régime is illegal, are we have a similar Order every time there is an illegal régime? Is one coming forward for the illegal régime in Sierra Leone, which is a rebellion against the Crown?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "We have heard a great number of points in the debate tonight, and I shall not repeat them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kaldor.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " the assets having been got in. Therefore, it was thought unnecessary that we should maintain a full board in existence. That is the reason why this change is being made. The right hon. Gentleman went on to ask me when we were likely to give an alternative to the governor and trustee. All that I can say is that various names are under consideration, and the actual name will be announced very soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-18", "file": "debates1967-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "2414d55a1f1f4be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is not one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "from the rebellion in Rhodesia, and although the regime tried to make our Reserve Bank Order the pretext for its default, there is no connection between the two events. I repeat that the responsibility for the payment of interest on Southern Rhodesian stocks is not that of the Reserve Bank, nor is it that of Her Majesty's Government. It is the responsibility of the Government of Southern Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-18a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.588.10", "colnum": "588", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I have been in the House for five years now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.588.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Some Members, particularly on this side of the House, were strongly in favour, some wished to revive the proposal for splitting the Bill, and some were reluctant to see any change at all. Now, the Select Committee has come forward with a most ingenious compromise which keeps the Committee stage on the Floor of the House and creates the conditions for a voluntary timetable backed by reserve powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "mbers on both sides of the House have come to the conclusion that the biggest single method of relieving the House from the boredom that afflicts it each summer, the one reform which would certainly revive our vitality and improve the standard of our debates, would be to lift the dead financial weight which cumbers the Floor of the House for so many weeks of the summer and move it bodily upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Thursdays?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " times at which the House has risen on Mondays and Wednesdays since 1st February. The times for Mondays are as follows: 1.43 a.m.; 1.26 a.m.; 3.55 a.m.; 10.7 p.m.; 11.56 p.m.; 10.45 p.m.; 10.2 a.m. The times for Wednesdays are as follows: 3.10 a.m.; 10.0 p.m.; 10.13 p.m.; 1.32 a.m.; 11.34 p.m.; 1.3 a.m.; 12.12 a.m.; 12.5 a.m. The House has not been getting up any earlier on Mondays and Wednesdays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the right hon. Gentleman means by \"fresh\". I should have thought that they would be even fresher at 9.30 p.m. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " I might say, on the right hon. Gentleman's behalf, that we were approaching a General Election and that he hoped to be able to stop the Bill altogether. There is generally an informal understanding on a Finance Bill, and I am all for that, because it is flexible. If a Minister mishandles an Amendment, he may waste some hours. There must be some flexibility, as otherwise we will not get a balance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend is right because he was one of the minority. I was not. If the electors of West Woolwich had had a bit of sense, and if the electors of many other marginal constituencies had had a bit more sense, back in 1955, we would have had a majority on that Committee then, and we would have brought change forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "preceding_text": " Committee. I agree very much with the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) that what we recommended in paragraph 8 is not clear. Certainly in our draft report our general idea was that the House should have a ruling that 15 minutes was the normal time for back bench speeches and 30 minutes for Front Bench speeches. That was put clearly by the hon. Member for Northstead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.705.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (TRANSPORT DRIVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "We could not disagree more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (TRANSPORT DRIVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "We could not disagree more—[ Interruption. ] We could not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (TRANSPORT DRIVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "art in negotiations with the firm, and knew something of the conditions relating to the agreement. The Government were fully aware of the serious situation in the cat industry. What worries me is that the Ministry of Labour, which it would appear is responsible for answering for the Orders—we are familiar with my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary who appears here regularly to deal with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (TRANSPORT DRIVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The average working week approaches 60 hours on the maximum level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (TRANSPORT DRIVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman was listening carefully to me, so he will remember that I did not say that in the Government's opinion it was not a productivity agreement, but that the evidence to convince us that it was had not yet been presented to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-19", "file": "debates1967-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "c4ae47649558f735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (TRANSPORT DRIVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More efficiency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "peat what I have said. I have conceded to my hon. Friend that there may well be some individual firms for whom the return loading is a new arrangement, but I have not conceded that anyone has made out that the new arrangement is a productivity agreement. The question I have asked my hon. Friend remains unanswered: what is the benefit to the nation that he describes as coming out of this agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-19a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "This is exactly the matter that is being considered by a working party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the full statement made by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has been made available to hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "To suggest that I could have been engaged in those discussions with Mr. Kosygin without being fully privy to the message which the President sent to Mr. Ho Chi Minh suggests that, in the hon. Gentleman's mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "irst, in saying what President Johnson' said to me during that week in \"rich Texan language\". He said nothing of the kind in Texan or any other language. What he said was quite the opposite of what the hon. Gentleman wrote in The Times. He further made a statement which was totally false about the American attitude to the initiatives which we took that week and the hon. Gentleman now has the duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that week in \"rich Texan language\". He said nothing of the kind in Texan or any other language. What he said was quite the opposite of what the hon. Gentleman wrote in The Times. He further made a statement which was totally false about the American attitude to the initiatives which we took that week and the hon. Gentleman now has the duty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"]—I have answered it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.2", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Prime Minister has produced an extremely thin-skinned comment on a matter entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I said that the Prime Minister had made an extremely thin-skinned comment on a matter outside the question which I have raised. He has not answered the question which I put. What he has done, is make, as he frequently does, slurs on some other matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "d the question which I put. What he has done, is make, as he frequently does, slurs on some other matter—[ Interruption. ] I should be much obliged if I could have your advice, Mr. Speaker. In what way is it possible for a private Member here, confronted with the Prime Minister's abuse of his personal position in making such an attack across the Floor of the House, which I am not in a position to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The last hon. Gentleman I would feel thin-skinned about is the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths), who, when claiming inside knowledge from the American administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.806.8", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman was not capable of deducing that from what I said, I will repeat that, as I have said on previous occasions, I kept in the fullest touch with the President—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.806.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.807.0", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why did you not repudiate Kosygin then?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman was not capable of deducing that from what I said, I will repeat that, as I have said on previous occasions, I kept in the fullest touch with the President—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the answer?\"] I kept in the fullest touch with the President and not only did I know every detail of the President's exchanges during that week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.806.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.814.5", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "When I gave that assurance I gave it in terms of what we normally mean by controversy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.814.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.814.5", "colnum": "814", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "When I gave that assurance I gave it in terms of what we normally mean by controversy—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—party controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.814.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.815.3", "colnum": "815", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "When hon. Members shout \"Object\" I take it that they want further discussion. We did not have a vote against the Motion. Hon. Members opposite asked for further discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.815.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.816.1", "colnum": "816", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. For the guidance of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.816.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.821.5", "colnum": "821", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Again, I should have thought that an intemperate remark. If the hon. Member had listened to what I said when winding up the debate yesterday he would have realised that I made it clear that the fifth Motion was one which, in view of the view of the House, I did not want to press. The hon. Mem- ber must be fair to the Leader of the House. I made it perfectly clear yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.821.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "en suggested, particularly in a very interesting article in the Observer recently, that we should consider subsidising the family rather than the house. At present, some people who really need help and who live in council houses do not get enough help while others who are in need do not get it. I think that I have put that the wrong way round, but hon. Members know what I mean and will not bother.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": " here thinking of such things as welfare foods, school meals, meals on wheels, home helps and the like. At present, there are too many gaps in our supporting services. Of course, we all recognise that this would mean a great demand on both professional and voluntary social workers, but if we as a nation are short of money—and, unfortunately, under the present Goverment we are short of ready money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "esearch. We will continue to press for a strong research unit based on the Ministry of Social Security and linking and stimulating and reinforcing the work already being done in the universities and in the industrial world and by voluntary organisations, both here and in other countries. I have criticised the right hon. Lady for her failure to press forward her policies. I do not really blame her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Social Security (Miss Margaret Herbison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Social Security (Miss Margaret Herbison)", "preceding_text": "ore years in Opposition so that it may learn the facts of life about the ordinary people. These two years have certainly taken the blinkers from its eyes. It was scarcely out of office before it discovered all these areas of poverty. They were not known before. As the hon. Lady thought, we came in at a time when we have had to deal with financial and economic chaos and mess, not of our own making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Social Security (Miss Margaret Herbison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Social Security (Miss Margaret Herbison)", "preceding_text": " finished before we moved, and we have moved in many ways, to the benefit of millions of people, as each part of the review was completed. The hon. Lady has given some of her ideas of security, and I will give some of mine. I believe that, of the elements that make up family security, the three most important are, first, that the father should have a regular job and a proper return for his labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.841.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "She has sat down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Lady sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or over-population.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In spite of those excellent Front Bench speeches, no attention has been directed to what has been the fundamental cause of poverty, at any rate since the advent of the Industrial Revolution about 150 years ago. The cause is the imbalance in society. I recall discussions in my more youthful days when we argued whether poverty was due to under-consumption or might be attributable to over-production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has seen the light.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I am not seeking an argument with the hon. Lady. I have not seen today's Sun. I have spoken to my right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) who was in the Gorbals over the weekend and who was shocked by the things he saw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.885.3", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "ing not right when two spinsters discuss child poverty and family poverty, although I must admit that I have usually found spinsters to be very good at looking after people, even though they do not have personal experience. This afternoon, the hon. Lady the Member for Melton (Miss Pike), on behalf of her party, reached a new low in a cynical, politically opportunist approach to this whole subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.885.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " by the Selective Employment Tax and that the very poor with very small incomes have been hit by the wage Freeze while, at the same time, the cost of living has been going up. My hon. Friend the Member for Melton reminded the House that only yesterday morning we were informed in the newspapers that since last July, while the wage freeze has been going on, 2,000 grocery items have gone up in price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ld pay for their programme …out of provision in the National Plan involving a growth rate of 4 per cent\". He said that not when the National Plan was produced, but last year—the day before the General Election. The facts speak for themselves. They are that during the last two years of the Conservative Government the economy grew at 4·1 per cent. and 5·9 per cent. respectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady nods in assent and obviously thinks that this is extraordinary. It is, of course, precisely what we did when we were in office, although, according to the Government, it is impossible to do this with the Labour Party in power. This is why the future is so bleak for the people of this country. To give the right hon. Lady credit, she did the best she could, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister without Portfolio (Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker)", "preceding_text": "ts of people, according to their income, which they did not really need, and it would be very expensive. It is not likely to be supported very widely. But there are variants of this which are not so expensive and are possible, such as limiting an increased family allowance to, say, the third and subsequent children, or something of that sort. The net cost of that scheme would be about £64 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "60 million cost of other schemes. There are, therefore, arguments of importance on both sides on all these issues and one cannot rush into decisions on this kind of matter. The Government must decide between them or, perhaps, a combination of them. Certainly, this debate will be of great help to us in coming to our decision. We will carefully take into consideration the points that have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "ltrincham and Sale has only to have a little more patience. We will certainly produce our decision and our policy this summer. With all the options that are still open to us, and because there are considerable difficulties and the survey is not yet fully analysed, we feel that we must have longer to deal with this matter. Family endowment, in whatever form, will not alone get rid of child poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "With all the options that are still open to us, and because there are considerable difficulties and the survey is not yet fully analysed, we feel that we must have longer to deal with this matter. Family endowment, in whatever form, will not alone get rid of child poverty. [ Interruption. ] It is a many-sided problem and needs a many-sided approach. One of the most important of these is to tackle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-20", "file": "debates1967-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "bcd7aff8cb212a22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "and all the considerations which one ought to have in mind. Although we have, rightly, in the debate concentrated upon child poverty, and it has been most valuable to do so, we must never forget the other claims upon our attention, particularly the claims of the elderly. When one is debating one aspect of social security, it is important not to forget others. We shall not stop until we have made —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-20a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to follow the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) but I cannot take the same view. What we on this side of the House find strange is the serried ranks of people on the benches opposite. I would not be distorting their view of politics if I said that they are very far to the left of centre of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am very glad to follow the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) but I cannot take the same view. What we on this side of the House find strange is the serried ranks of people on the benches opposite. I would not be distorting their view of politics if I said that they are very far to the left of centre of the Labour Party. [HON. MEMBERS \"Get on with it.\"] I see that my point has gone home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "We are discussing a very serious matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.6", "colnum": "954", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "unists to stop fightng. They were just a gimmick which inhibited the United Nations forces under American leadership did not in any way inhibit the behaviour of the Communist forces in North Korea. I sought to remind the Americans that now they were the top nation the peace of the world was their responsibility today and that they should now do something which we did for several hundreds of years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.6", "colnum": "954", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "behaviour of the Communist forces in North Korea. I sought to remind the Americans that now they were the top nation the peace of the world was their responsibility today and that they should now do something which we did for several hundreds of years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—yes: something we tried to do—to give stability to the world, to see that international trade flowed freely, and tried to rid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.954.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "einforce regular divisions of the North Vietnamese army which are now invading the South, and opportunity was taken to supply arms along the various trails and routes from North to South. No, I look on this as a Left-wing movement of the Labour Party, and I am much surprised that they have forgotten their history so quickly. It was so much the Left-wing of this Labour Party which in the 'thirties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.957.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I think I had better not. We tried to make our contribution to peace and stability in that part of the world. We tried in the Persian Gulf. Now the Americans are very gallantly doing so in Vietnam. They have got help from Australia; not much help, but I must tell the House how deeply grateful the Americans are for that contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "said to be pro-American, has been rejected. Therefore, we can only accept, perhaps regretfully, that nothing that we do will make one iota of difference to the position in Hanoi or indeed to the position of the Vietcong. We can only influence events in so far as we can influence the other side—America. Some of my hon. Friends will say that we have had precious little influence over America so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "I am sorry—no. I have given way twice already. In these circumstances, can we expect that any condemnation by us will add anything to the condemnation which has been made by other countries of Western Europe or by the liberals in America?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.972.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "I dealt earlier with the aspect of how far one can consider North Vietnam as a separate State. Both sides agreed in 1954 to the establishment of two separate countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An Hon. MEMBER: \"And Rhodesia\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "p which tried to expand into Europe, and that was stopped by the Berlin airlift. Then we had the Chinese dictatorship in North Korea trying to take South Korea, and that was checked by the action of the Americans and UNO. That is why 46,000 Koreans are now fighting on the side of South Vietnam in this terrible war. Then we had similar attempts in Malaya by the Communists to try to take over there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ent—for nearly 20 years. I have the record to show hon. Members if they would like to see it. But, however many objections I had and still have to American policy, whether in Vietnam or anywhere else, this much I know clearly: the Americans are not in South-East Asia for reasons of self-aggrandisement. They are there at the request of the legal Government—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"0h\"] —which we recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1012.2", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "e attempts to head off Left-wing attacks on his own Government. I accept unreservedly the genuineness of the Prime Minister's efforts in Vietnam, and when I encountered attacks on his sincerity while in. Washington I rejected them out of hand, because there are no party politics on the other side of the water when we are in America. We are all Englishmen or Britons—not Conservatives or Socialists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " them in the highest places in the land, are deeply suspicious of the present Prime Minister on the question of Vietnam. They suspect him of using his Vietnam peace efforts for domestic, political advantage. They hesitate before giving him their complete confidence, if only out of an anxiety that he may be thought capable of seizing on any new American initiative and trying to claim credit for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1013.5", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I want to get through my speech quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1013.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Naturally, I wrote to the Prime Minister last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is only a short time left for the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1014.3", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rhubarb\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " works and supply dumps much closer to the centre of Haiphong. What has the Prime Minister said about that? He has not dissociated now. He spoke one way six months ago and he speaks a different way today. Hon. Members know that this is true. It is this kind of morality mincing which does most to deepen American mistrust of his policies. But that is not the end of it. Following Mr. Kosygin's visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1014.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " than any other Member, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, I asked the Prime Minister a Question on the subject of Vietnam, and I asked it because I was given the impression in Washington that the Prime Minister, though he knew in general terms that another American peace initiative was under way, was not advised of the contents of Mr. Johnson's letter to Ho Chi-Minh until after it had been delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "of my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths), even though his was perhaps slightly controversial, of my hon. Friend the Member for Horncastle, of my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Sir Ian Orr-Ewing) and of my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten), that we are all deeply concerned and worried about the bloodshed and the horror taking place in Vietnam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put down a Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "wn that bombing of North Vietnam takes place from the American air bases in Thailand. This has recently been published in the Press. British troops are stationed in Thailand. A small battalion of engineers has been building an airfield and is now working on roads. I would like to know from the Under-Secretary whether, if we are so requested, we will send more troops under the S.E.A.T.O. agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "careful consideration, namely the idea there should be a belt of unaligned States in Laos and Cambodia and Vietnam under international supervision that would have their neutrality guaranteed by the major Powers. This should be the final out- come of the Vietnam war. Behind this there could be an Asian security system composed perhaps of Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": ". Atkinson) on having had this debate on this very important subject. I, too, am very critical of the Government's policy over Vietnam, but not for the same reasons as many hon. Members opposite. I am critical because in this vitally important matter the Government's policy is absolutely equivocal. The Government are sitting on a fence and, by doing so, are greatly diminishing Britain's influence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": " States effort in. Vietnam is the inescapable logic of the defence policy which the Government have so far pursued. While \"confrontation\" continued it was absolutely valid for Britain to support Malaysia and make our contribution to law and order in the Far East in that way. But now that \"confrontation\" has ended there is no reason or excuse for Britain not to lend a hand in Vietnam without delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1045.6", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your further intervention, Mr. Speaker. I do not pretend that this policy of military intervention on behalf of and beside the Americans in Vietnam would be universally popular in this country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1045.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-21", "file": "debates1967-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ceb2e50570ebe8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "I was thinking of a nominal contribution by Britain to show that we understand the moral right on the part of the Americans in this part of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-21a.1046.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kerr", "preceding_text": "Whilst I thank my right hon. Friend for that reply, I am not sure that it entirely answers my Question, which suggests that we should have expert advice. More and more Members of Parliament are finding their constituents coming up against blockages of various types of bureaucracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Minister will look up the records and give the required information. I have no means of doing so. The hon. Gentleman is getting this wrong. Can we not apply ourselves, as I appealed, to a constructive Parliamentary discussion of what should be done now? If the House cannot get away from perpetual post-mortems on what has happened in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "ing appreciated that the intervention for which we are asking, and for which we have been asking for a long time, is intervention which is economically advantageous to the nation. For example, the business man does not always know what is best. The gibe \"Whitehall knows best\" is familiar to us. Very often Whitehall knows very much better than other parts of the country what is good for the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1220.6", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member. He has referred to the lock-out of draughtsmen. Will he go further and tell us what his views are on the situation that exists in the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside, namely, that no orders whatsoever are coming forward? It has nothing to do with the draughtsmen's lock-out. Under the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1220.6", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member. He has referred to the lock-out of draughtsmen. Will he go further and tell us what his views are on the situation that exists in the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside, namely, that no orders whatsoever are coming forward? It has nothing to do with the draughtsmen's lock-out. Under the Conservative Government—[ Interruption. ]—for a period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1220.6", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " on the situation that exists in the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside, namely, that no orders whatsoever are coming forward? It has nothing to do with the draughtsmen's lock-out. Under the Conservative Government—[ Interruption. ]—for a period—[ Interruption. ]—we had a good number of orders for the shipyards on the Tyne. Will the hon. Member deal with the problem of Vickers, in his constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1220.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "t only the crude numbers, which add to the unemployment figures, but the fact that we are losing skills. That is very important. The Secretary of State for Scotland spoke at the weekend of the importance of housing in relation to migration. I do not want to re-open that question, but neither in Scotland nor in any part of the development areas has the present Government's housing record been good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They were never invited.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Noble) talks about credibility we have to judge it on the promises, pledges and everything else which he and his party supporters have been putting forward tonight; and look at their credibility. He mentioned the meeting at Dunoon during the week-end. One thing which neither he, as Secretary of State, nor any Tory Secretary of State, ever did was to speak to the Scottish Trade Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": " As soon after the election as possible, the right hon. Gentleman started predicting disaster for all the regions. I believe that it was the hon. Member for North Angus and Mearns (Mr. Buchanan-Smith) who suggested that we inherited a wonderful situation. What a wonderful situation it was for the whole country! We had to take strict measures right at the start to deal with the balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has nothing to do with the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": ") who suggested that we inherited a wonderful situation. What a wonderful situation it was for the whole country! We had to take strict measures right at the start to deal with the balance of payments. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members opposite cannot laugh off a debt of £840 million. Even though we succeeded in halving that debt in one year it could not be considered funny and cannot be laughed off now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Amendment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "se years arose because we saw the dismantlement of the training centres and the abandonment of advance factories as a way of dealing with the imbalance. It took us 10 years to convince the Tories to go in for advance factory building. It was not until 1957–58 that they started to wake up and realise that there was a problem. In 1961, one of the things which they did, but which we never did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is obviously not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1270.3", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The Report of the Estimates Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1271.2", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederick Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER; \"Come to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederick Bennett", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have sat here throughout the debate. This is a perfectly genuine point which I wish to raise with you. I understood that the Minister would deal with the whole subject of the debate, which covers all the regions and not just one. I feel that we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1271.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1271.5", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "I want to give the Minister the maximum time to reply. Perhaps I may be allowed to put my point of order in silence. I would like you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "problems of the areas. The right hon. Member for Argyll had already committed himself. When we were discussing the proposal for a selective employment premium—I think that this came in an intervention in a speech by his right hon. Friend the Member for the City of Chester (Mr. Temple), during the Budget debate—the right hon. Gentleman said that the selective employment premium would do great harm.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "\"It has.\"] Selective employment premium has not even started yet. The hon. Gentleman thinks that we are talking about Selective Employment Tax. He had better wake up. Selective employment premium is only a proposal in the Green Paper. The right hon. Member for Argyll was at odds with some of his hon. Friends about the proposal. The right hon. Member for Mitcham asked about the question of clarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Gentleman the official figures. The right hon. Member for Mitcham spoke about the future industrial prospects and the C.B.I. survey. Manufacturing investment in 1966 was higher than was originally estimated by the Board of Trade, which has no evidence that during the last few months manufacturing industry generally has become more pessimistic about the future, and that is also true about Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "This does not mean that there was a hold-up, a slowing-down of completions in the projects that had been approved. These full figures with 1966—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"County council elections.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " these areas. My hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) returned to our debates, to which he is no stranger. I can assure him that I certainly welcome his support from the back benches. I was not altogether happy about his suggestion that we were over-confident when we were in opposition. We were not over-confident. We knew that we could do better than that lot and we are doing better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " grants and the S.E.P. in development areas. He should appreciate that the variety is already there in loans and grants under the Local Employment Acts. Those are advantages for projects which are capital intensive and there is a balancing feature with the new S.E.P. if the projects are labour intensive. The hon. Member spoke of housing. In Scotland, we have nothing to apologise for about housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "otland. During their last two and a half years they built 74,000 houses in Scotland, whereas since we became the Government we have completed 90,000. They left office with houses under construction and awaiting approval numbering 55,000, whereas today the number is nearly 70,000. Hon. Members spoke of the energy of my hon. Friend the Minister of State: we are now seeing the results of that energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1274.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman had had a go at me several times and I have never had a chance to get back at him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1278.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1278.4", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman had had a go at me several times and I have never had a chance to get back at him. [ Interruption. ] During our 13 years of power, we never had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1278.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-24", "file": "debates1967-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "c5595c855f028d2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1278.11", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF THE REGIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is walking out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-24a.1278.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1317.8", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "May I inform my hon. Friend that he can rest assured that we have tabled this Question in an effort to help solve what is a difficult problem and that we are not in any way affected by the detestable racialism of which we have just heard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1317.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1318.8", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Have I no means of protecting my good name—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1318.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but it should be remembered that the number of staff any organisation employs—whether it is a private or public enterprise—must, of course, be related to policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "membered that the number of staff any organisation employs—whether it is a private or public enterprise—must, of course, be related to policies—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and since we are always being pressed by hon. Gentlemen opposite to do more in various spheres, it must be accepted that we require more people to carry out these tasks. I believe that at the end of the day we shall be judged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that if we want to create a Socialist Europe, as I am sure he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1323.3", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Opposition are behaving as though we were already at 9.30 in the evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1335.3", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "NEW ROYAL MINT (LOCATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "If I may put aside constituency considerations for a moment in what is essentially a national question, may I ask the Chancellor whether he will bear in mind that some of us, on reflection, may feel that a great national institution such as the Royal Mint really ought to remain in the capital city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1335.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1401.3", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " 17, in page 8, line 32, at the end to add: 'an order made under this subsection shall be subject to approval by both Houses of Parliament'. This is another attempt to ensure that there is a check on what is done under the Bill. Tremendous power is given to the Secretary of State in subsection (4). I have no objection to giving it to my right hon. Friend, but he will not be in office all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-25", "file": "debates1967-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "03a1a046a5e456b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "It would be a waste of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-25a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1525.0", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "inly my experience—I have had something to do with several Finance Bills—that a series of all-night sittings is not a necessary concomitant of Finance Bill Committee stages. We have sometimes managed without them, when adequate time has been provided by the Government and when, if I may say so without immodesty, Treasury Ministers have shown themselves willing to compromise and accept suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ays. I do not understand why the Government are pressing forward with the proposal now. I have not yet read the Finance Bill, but in the light of the Budget it would not appear to be likely to be one of the more seriously controversial of those which have been introduced by either side. Why is the right hon. Gentleman so insistent on pushing this through now in respect of the present Finance Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "preceding_text": " who do such an excellent job. I cannot have expressed myself clearly enough. The point I was trying to make was in support of the Motion, but saying that in my opinion it did not go far enough. What I am going to say now will be anathema to the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames. I believe that it would be to the advantage of debates in the House if we had a timetable for all major Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1551.6", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "ed on a tax reforming Finance Bill of a major kind which would test it really thoroughly. Nevertheless, this happens to be the moment at which this agreed compromise is offered to us, and we consider that it should be accepted and tried because we regard the proposals in the Motion as the alternative to something which Liberals would resolutely deplore, that is, the removal of the Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": " a much greater procedure, with 22 stages throughout the year, in one way or another—hon. Members will recall that from an earlier Report—is, in my view, unbalanced and ridiculous. It dates back to a previous age when the whole idea and philosophy of Parliament was that, if possible, Governments ought not to exist and that they ought to be kept to the minimum if they had to exist for some purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1553.2", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "te, as only a palliative and temporary measure. It is not what the majority of Members want. I noticed that the representative of the Liberals, the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Richard Wainwright), spoke, contrary to their claim to desire reform, in favour of the tradition that the Finance Bill should remain on the Floor of the House. Who actually wants it to remain on the Floor of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1553.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1558.5", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or by three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "ebate—the timetabling of Bills, if the timetable applying to a Bill contained roughly the amount of time desired by the Opposition multiplied by two, I do not believe that anyone would object to such a timetable. The effect of a timetable is to give Government back benchers an opportunity to speak. Presumably if the time required by the Opposition were multiplied by two, there would be ample time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1558.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "private whispered debate. The Leader of the House will know that the word I used is a classical term meaning prolonged and silent whispering. This sometimes goes on late at night when both sides are getting tired and when the Government are prepared to be more placatory and when the Opposition are prepared to forfeit some of their right to criticise. This is done in the joint desire to get to bed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1587.4", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Would not the Minister agree that the essence of good insurance is simplicity in buying the security, and that this proposal maximises security while at the same time removing some of the present duplication between taxation carried out by local authority staff and insurance by private companies. Does he realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1609.6", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Aberdeen appreciates very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1609.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1609.6", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Aberdeen appreciates very much—[ Interruption. ]—the efforts that my right hon. Friend has made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1609.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1616.3", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "NORTH VIETNAM (s.s. \"DARTFORD\")", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ary realise that whether or not a British ship was involved the bombardment of Hanoi and Haiphong, coupled with the escalation in the U.S. bombing attacks on Mig bases in North Vietnam, can lead only to the result that ultimately Communist China will be drawn into this confrontation with global results? Will he, therefore, make the strongest representations to the United States Government against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1631.3", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may just finish reading Clause 3 to myself, on my feet. I apologise for doing so, but I may be saving the time of the House, having wasted it. I understood that on the com- mittal charge the defendant himself could opt to say that the matter should not be reported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The court would have the power to act in that way without sending the case to the parole board. In non-urgent and urgent circumstances alike —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1733.3", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "end to think, provisionally at least, that he would not be caught unless he said affirmatively at some stage of the trial that he was at a different place at the material time and gave some details of that place. It would not matter for the purposes of the Clause whether he did so in chief or in cross-examination. Once he had done it, he would be caught by the Clause. That is how I understand it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "er hon. Member said in Committee, but in Committee there was a tendency for more than one hon. Member to assume ex ipso facto that a minority of one was an obstinate idiosyncratic, odd individual who was standing against the current of modern thought. All history shows that that is not true. We do not know what happens in the jury room, and I do not suppose that it would be a good thing if we did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " agree to a verdict of not guilty—or whether we should put her to the shame and public anxiety of a second trial.\" Who would like to say, in that dilemma, what should be done? It was certainly, if not a legal, a sensible, human and kindly thing to say, \"The lady should go free and be relieved from this burden and worry.\" So the jury recorded a verdict of acquittal, and a unanimous verdict at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "osition to the Clause have confused both arguments, which in my view are quite irreconcilable. Either we are discussing something that is of comparatively little importance because it affects only a few cases, or we are discussing something which affects the great bulwark of our liberty. In Committee I took the view that the real attitude to take to this reform was that it was a useful little one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-26", "file": "debates1967-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "ae3da5249a41e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Specified?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "We have now been considering this Clause for about two hours, which is the time specified, and I would not wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-26a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1808.3", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gerrymandering?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "As I have said, we are discussing all aspects with the Government of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1817.8", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This was in the course of a long Press conference, and I was very much pressed on this question. I said what I felt. Many people in the past, not least our own seamen's union, have often made the point about flags of convenience to us. I thought it right to say this. I have no evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1817.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1818.7", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \"TORREY CANYON\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "In so far as the swift action taken by the Government in preventing what might have been a great disaster on our coast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1818.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1833.6", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Come off it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Why are we being given such a long Whitsun Holiday, when the most important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1833.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1898.4", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Clause 10.—(MAJORITY VERDICTS OF JURIES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "d our say. I have spoken three times on this question, and I doubt that anything more said at this stage will change people's minds. The only point I make in reply to the right hon. and learned Member for Warwick and Leamington (Sir J. Hobson) is not a substantive one. He said that the great weight of views had been against the proposal. This is not true. The weight has been fairly evenly balanced", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1898.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1902.0", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Clause 10.—(MAJORITY VERDICTS OF JURIES IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": " and that of many of my hon. Friends—I am glad to have the approval of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Solihull (Mr. Grieve), who did not agree with me on the main issue—it is a bad thing to create first- and second-class verdicts which are to be made public in the way subsection (2) provides at the moment. Let us consider the position of a prisoner who is found not guilty by a majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Clause 14.—(RESTRICTIONS ON ISSUE OF SEARCH WARRANTS UNDER OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACT 1959.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "preceding_text": "is debate with some surprise and I have heard criticisms of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General which are completely out of place. In determining, in the first place, not to institute legal proceedings, my right hon. and learned Friend acted solely on the advice available to him. It would have been entirety wrong for him to have ignored the vast weight of advice proffered to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Clause 14.—(RESTRICTIONS ON ISSUE OF SEARCH WARRANTS UNDER OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACT 1959.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "preceding_text": "n entirety wrong for him to have ignored the vast weight of advice proffered to him. [HON. MEMBERS \"Why?\"] I will come to the reasons shortly. I urge the House to consider what certain newspapers said about the book. The Attorney-General knew that they had said it. The Scotsman referred to the book as … one of the most meaningful landmarks in the literature of its generation. The Listener —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1928.1", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "Clause 14.—(RESTRICTIONS ON ISSUE OF SEARCH WARRANTS UNDER OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACT 1959.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "are now considering was not in the Bill when the Bill was before the House on Second Reading. Therefore, I allowed a rather wider debate than I think would have been permitted on Report if the Clause had been in the Bill in its original form. On the question of sub judice , the hon. Member for Bradford, East (Mr. Edward Lyons) is, as I understand him, about to make observations about another book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-27", "file": "debates1967-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "b8904ace8a0cfa8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1934.1", "colnum": "1934", "heading": "Clause 14.—(RESTRICTIONS ON ISSUE OF SEARCH WARRANTS UNDER OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACT 1959.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I must not say that the hon. Gentleman should not believe everything he is told by the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-27a.1934.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-04-28", "file": "debates1967-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef254c15c5c86da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-28a.2032.1", "colnum": "2032", "heading": "Clause 2.—(GRANT OF LICENCES AND AUTHORISATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "em to operate in the way the hon. Member has suggested, it could not be reasonably held, because the business is being carried on apart from an ordinary office block, because it is being carried on from a man's own home, that it must necessarily be an improper or an unsavoury sort of business. Nothing which the hon. Member has said has suggested that it would be. If that is so, this does not make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-28a.2032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-04-28", "file": "debates1967-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef254c15c5c86da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-28a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "Clause 2.—(GRANT OF LICENCES AND AUTHORISATIONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Square, giving him, through his inspectors, complete carte blanche about what may be deemed suitable or unsuitable. The hon. Member for Putney has not attempted to give any indication of what is suitable and what is unsuitable. He seems to say that it may be suitable for a person to run a business from a bedroom, and it may still be considered insufficient if he has larger offices. We do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-04-28a.2035.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LIVE HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Miss Alice Bacon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Miss Alice Bacon)", "preceding_text": "icised this morning. At any rate, it seems to have achieved one thing. I seem to have had more than my fair share of business on Monday mornings, and I have sat in the House and gazed at empty benches. At least the Bill has brought hon. Members to the House on a Monday morning. I never thought that I would hear hon. Members criticising the Government for giving more time to Private Members' Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.42.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman allow me to intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "1K measures up to the operational requirement, what it costs, how the dollar cost is being covered, and, finally, though my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Technology will speak at greater length on this, the part played by the F111K in an overall programme of aircraft procurement which is calculated to preserve the British aircraft industry as a technological leader in Europe and the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": ". I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman will be able to develop his other point if he catches Mr. Speaker's eye. All I would say in this phase, and I say it as much to my hon. Friends as to the Opposition, is that defence in the present age is appallingly expensive, and it is getting more expensive every year. That is why we in the present Government give such high priority to disarmament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ed the early 1965 TSR2 figures by 10 per cent. This is a very moderate figure, in my view, as I shall make clear in the next stage of my speech. What emerges is that over the 15 years from April, 1965, to March, 1980, the TSR2 programme as planned by the previous Administration and adjusted, as I have explained, would have cost over £700 million more than the cost of the programme we have adopted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "There is no guarantee that it will ever be built. It seems to me, therefore, that it is no wonder that there should be such concern in the Royal Air Force. The Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "first quarter of an hour of the Secretary of State's speech was directed to members of his Left Wing, very few of whom are here. His peroration also was directed to them. I suppose that, in anticipation of the time when they read HANSARD, he said all the nice things to keep them quiet about British commitments in the Far East, which he hardly touched on at all as far as this aircraft is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "es for our constituents but always with the interests of the defence of the nation in our hearts. It was particularly unwise for the Secretary of State to make such a statement, because, if such accusations are to be made, people in glass houses should not throw stones. The right hon. Gentleman referred to Mr. Richard Worcester, who is an aircraft consultant and who is adviser to the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": " to the Labour Party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am sorry. I quote The Times of 26th June, 1965, which said that Mr. Worcester told The Times last night that he had written a report in March, 1964, which was presented to the Labour leadership and read by them in March and April. On June 20 he attended a meeting with the party leaders who appeared to be well satisfied with the report and to accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "It would perhaps have been better if the right hon. Gentleman had said that the F111 had escalated by 250 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.213.2", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Storehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Storehouse", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that these countries are buying arms from somewhere. It is only right that we should give opportunities to our industrialists to sell in this part of the world as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.213.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be unwise to be drawn on specific figures. But, as my right hon. Friend said, the total research and development cost will be about £150 million, and there will be an addition to that of an amount for the production of these aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the penalty clauses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "There is no question of Her Majesty's Government accepting the delivery of these aircraft unless they are up to our requirements. My right hon. Friend has made that clear. We still have to negotiate the details of the supplemental ceiling price, but I am sure that it will provide for a figure that will be fully consistent with the assurances that have been provided to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "the details of the supplemental ceiling price, but I am sure that it will provide for a figure that will be fully consistent with the assurances that have been provided to the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the penalty clauses?\"] The question of penalty clauses does not arise, because the assurances we have had on the delivery of these aircraft fully assure us that our requirements will be met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Reginald Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Reginald Bennett", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, when I was bluntly interrupted on the previous occasion, the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House argues cogently and closely, but not always from the soundest of premises. Although he was at his most persuasive last Wednesday, he put up some thoroughly bad propositions. At the moment of interruption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " Vol. 745, c. 1517–19.] In my view, this is to hand over the Opposition, literally gagged and morally bound, to the mercies of the Government. This would lead to two abuses. First, it would lead to an increase, if that were possible, in Ministerial arrogance or intransigence, or even in getting away with ignorance. Ministers know that they cannot get away with this now, because if they try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.231.5", "colnum": "231", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " and the Executive. This is where we disagree with him, because there will be great differences. First of all, Treasury Ministers can expect a great deal more support, not to say padding, from the benches behind them. That will all take away from Opposition time. However, if there is no change in the basic balance of power between the Executive and the House of Commons, why make the change at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I had the impression that it was more frequently on Report that Government amendments were put down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.257.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-01", "file": "debates1967-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "e6110b75d9dc7f3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "FINANCE BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ent would, of course, include consideration of the unusual situation in which the Government have put down 100 new Amendments, in which case the timetable would obviously be revised. I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) made it perfectly clear; and that those who are not understanding it are being reluctant to understand what is being proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-01a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Minister's reply and in view of the brutal treatment accorded this British subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) has lost his sense of proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) has lost his sense of proportion. [ Interruption. ] There are 7,000 British nationals in Uganda; there have been 24 incidents in the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.306.8", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I have made clear that the responsibility now lies with us. It is a pity that in this, as in a few other matters, it did not lie with us earlier. Then it would not have been quite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.306.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.310.6", "colnum": "310", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "the capitals of the Six have confirmed the validity of this approach in terms of the practical working of the Community and its institutions. It is in this spirit that the Government intend to embark on the negotiations which must precede entry. The House will, I am sure, agree that they ought not to be unnecessarily complicated with lesser issues, many of which can be best dealt with after entry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "While expressing my unqualified delight at the Prime Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A large number of right hon. Members have expressed different views at different times. I remember the mandate on which the party opposite won the 1959 General Election, for example. In 1960, I was very critical of the fact that the then Government were not approaching the European problem with enough sense of the European dynamic that was being created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It still does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the 1959 General Election, for example. In 1960, I was very critical of the fact that the then Government were not approaching the European problem with enough sense of the European dynamic that was being created. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If the hon. Member wishes to make it a party matter he can get it back, but this is a matter that has divided both parties and at one stage even all three parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m with enough sense of the European dynamic that was being created. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If the hon. Member wishes to make it a party matter he can get it back, but this is a matter that has divided both parties and at one stage even all three parties. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It still does.\"] Certainly, it still does. Many right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House have changed their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He had resigned by then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is pretty cool. He calls it disrespect to the House to have a three-day debate without the Government laying before it all the technical information that it is possible to amass. The Government of which he was a senior member—we did not complain then and I do not complain now—made their announcement about entering Europe on 31st July, 1961.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "that we have had Corporation Tax all this time. I referred to the years from 1950 onwards, and I finished with the year 1966. I demonstrated that the figures showed an ever-increasing reduction in and lightening of the burden of company taxation as a proportion of gross trading profits from 37 per cent. in 1950–54 to 21 per cent. in 1960–64—long before there was any Corporation Tax.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-02", "file": "debates1967-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "262920ac77586a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ndard rate, and 3d. off the reduced rate, at a cost, incidentally, of £200 million. I would have applauded such a move, because I felt that it would have created a mood which might have been very useful. But the right hon. Gentleman had something much more ambitious in mind. He implied that this, and further moves in this direction would be the answer, and would solve all of our economic problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-02a.381.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "FISHING VESSEL GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "is essential. I was interested to see the other day that the Services in the United States co-operate with the fishing authorities by dumping old motor cars off aircraft carriers to provide a reef under the sea, which fisherman cannot fish on because if they did they would tear their gear to pieces. This makes a very good breeding ground for fish. Perhaps this is something which we could consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.489.5", "colnum": "489", "heading": "FISHING VESSEL GRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "n this matter. Most of the contributions made in the debate so far have come from representatives of constituencies with a direct interest in the catching of fish and in the livelihood of that grand body of men, the inshore fishermen. I therefore apologise for intervening as a representative of a constituency that, by no stretch of the imagination, can claim any direct interest in inshore fishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.489.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.514.8", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "As I replied to the hon. Member's right hon. Friend, the submission has gone to the Board of Trade. My right hon. Friend will be examining it, and I cannot say more than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.514.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.518.5", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I do know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.518.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend say how far the reduction in the number of farm employees has been due to the spread of battery farming, particularly with regard to hens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.530.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.535.4", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is not the real answer—to avoid all this embarrassment in relation to foreign nationals owning land in this and other countries—for the British people to own the land themselves, and should not we nationalise the land?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.535.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "f was engaged in the contracting industry for many years and was working alongside electricians and, therefore, I have some knowledge of their problems and their conditions. Secondly, I am opposed to this Order. They are two very good reasons why I should speak here this afternoon. I find that this Order is about the strangest one we have had in front of us since we have had this series of Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " This must lead to a great deal of conflict, and unhappiness for the members of the Electrical Trades Union in Scotland. I put to my hon. Friends on this side of the House, and to my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Government Front Bench, the situation where the Electrical Trades Union workers on the contracting side are working alongside their brothers who have come on big sites from Britain —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "outh and then try to apply it to Scotland. I say that not just as a criticism but in an attempt to understand why so little attention has been paid by many of us who are now raising these matters to the jungle of wage structure and negotiating machinery which at present exists. On the specific case before us, we are dealing with human beings and, after all, members of the E.T.U. are human beings.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "s which are not strictly relevant but which none the less go to make up the whole picture. There was, for instance, the discussion in May last year about holiday payments and the acceptance by the Inland Revenue that for tax purposes wages would be increased by this amount. Here, I address myself particularly to my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, who, presumably, will reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.563.3", "colnum": "563", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "taking this sort of action by Order, the question of legality comes in. If that is the sort of argument which we are to have from hon. Members opposite on the electricians' case, they ought to realise—they have less excuse than anyone to be ignorant—that they do themselves an injustice and they mislead people outside by attempts to suggest that the Scottish contractors did not do anything illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.563.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Laughter. .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "t seen fit to put up a more senior Minister. He has been sitting there—goodness knows, he has a weary task!—listening to the debates on these problems, but he has very few notes on some of the questions asked by some of his hon. Friends behind him. On this occasion he has had the moral support, if one can call it that, of various denizens of the Foreign Office—I mean of the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.568.4", "colnum": "568", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "e when Governments do not live: up to the letter and spirit of their undertakings. But it is quite another matter when Governments by their policy, as in this case, procure the breach of a promise by someone else, because that really does damage. I hope that hon. Members opposite will accept from me that I feel every bit as strongly as they do and that this is not a piece of political opportunism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.568.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "is is one Order that I cannot, in common sense, support. I urge the Minister not to give a stock reply but to get down to the fundamentals of the problem and to examine the case thoroughly. If he does, he will realise that he and the Government would not lose face by changing their minds. Indeed, the Labour Movement as a whole would be injected with new life and vitality, particularly in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "preceding_text": " why there should be this state of affairs, all the reasons pouring forth from the benches opposite trying to explain the situation away and accuse the Secretary of State of being lethargic in his approach to Scottish affairs, apathetic about the interests of Scotland, inept in his handling of Scottish affairs. This is not the time to instance the remarkable achievements of the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dundee? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that you allowed me to make that one point, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sure that there is confidence in the Secretary of State for Scotland—in Glasgow and Aberdeen, for instance. There is no question about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend. I regret that I cannot now list the contributions made by my right hon. Friend to the wellbeing of Scotland. It would be a pleasant task. I could break the record of my hon. Friend the Member for the Western Isles (Mr. Malcolm MacMillan) and speak for more than two and three-quarter hours. It is the people of Scotland who are enjoying the fruits of the Secretary of State's efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.638.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-03", "file": "debates1967-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "63dbdbb7ee3692fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (EARNINGS LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "preceding_text": "or statutory deductions. Although I have no reason to doubt the Minister's word when he says that this matter will be dealt with later, it is unsatisfactory to ask the House to pass one part of the package when it makes no provision for statutory deductions, merely on his word that the next part will deal with that aspect. What would happen were the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-03a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that we do not share all his views on the immigration question, nor, indeed, any of them. I am certainly not prepared to say that we shall make it a condition of entry into the European Economic Community that the hon. Gentleman can solve his problems, or the problems to which he keeps drawing attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ropean Economic Community that the hon. Gentleman can solve his problems, or the problems to which he keeps drawing attention—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"]—I am answering the question by saying that I shall not give an assurance. The hon. Gentleman asked for an assurance that I am answering by saying that I will not give an assurance that we will, as he said, make it a condition of entry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.737.5", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot give any assurances in advance about what the statement will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.737.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.741.2", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "In a situation in which so many local authorities have been elected on a firm policy of selling council houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.745.3", "colnum": "745", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "May I ask a slightly less controversial question on the three-day debate? Is it the intention of the Leader of the House to suggest to the House that certain different topics, related to the Common Market, might be taken on different days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.745.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for talking to me before putting his question to me this afternoon. I have looked at the Motion and the substance of it, and I have suggested to the hon. Gentleman that, in the first instance, he might consider that this is a suitable case for the Parliamentary Commissioner to investigate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "GOVERNMENTAL STATISTICAL SERVICES (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is dead now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": " been more controversy about it, but the controversy may arise when we have planning. We shall see. We recommend that urgent steps should be taken to increase research on forecasting methods, and on the data used in forecasting. This is something new. I am sure that 30 years ago, when some of us were learning classical economics—and, after all, I was brought up on Alfred Marshall at my university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "GOVERNMENTAL STATISTICAL SERVICES (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Up to five stars?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "tional indices—shall we say the ones regularly and continually used by politicans and economic journalists—must no longer be tucked out of sight in \"Sources and methods\", a document which seldom sees the light of day. They must be attached to their statistics like the kitemark of the British Standards Institution or the stars attached by the A.A. and the R.A.C. to the names of their listed hotels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "GOVERNMENTAL STATISTICAL SERVICES (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a standard speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Many of us. Certainly I have held that view ever since I have been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-04", "file": "debates1967-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "842008ee06dbc718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "GOVERNMENTAL STATISTICAL SERVICES (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " one is entitled to ask whether the Ministry knows as much about the movement of incomes of these people as they do about the movement of incomes of people whose incomes are, at least in part, determined by collective bargaining. That question was addressed to the Minister of State at the Department of Economic Affairs earlier today. He said that the Government did know as much about the movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-04a.791.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1059.6", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The trend in the right hon. Gentleman's constituency is certainly better than that in the Greater London area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1059.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eat possibilities for beating that squeeze by increasing the use of home-produced grass rather than cereals as the essential raw material for many of our livestock farmers—a policy not without advantages also for cereal producers. My right hon. Friend will deal with some of the special problems of our farmers in the more difficult areas, the hill farmers of Wales and Scotland and parts of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "roving. But let us be clear, as, indeed, our European friends are clear, that not only do we need to make and keep our balance of payments strong, but that we have the will, the plans and the policies to do it. The events and measures of the past year have not been lost on our friends abroad, but there is one problem whose significance became clear to my right hon. Friend and myself on our visits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "to give increasing sums to Commonwealth enterprise. It is, therefore, in the financial strength of Britain that the Commonwealth is vitally interested. I wish to address the House for a moment on the question of the impact on British agriculture. We will hear at a later stage what reasons have induced the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to be converted from an opponent into a champion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1104.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As in a little more than two hours the winding-up speeches will be taking place today, and as there are 10 Front Benchers still to come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1109.2", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ns require that 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 and not have this trade wrecked by the levies the Tories are so keen to impose. It was on that pledge that the Prime Minister got the votes of thousands and millions of voters. Does he stand by that pledge today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1109.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "tion of converts in this debate. The right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) referred to converts. I am not sure whether he was the best person to do so, not because of the \"dead duck\" speech, but he spoke for part of his time on European matters, and I am not sure whether the last surviving man of Munich in this House should instruct us about the unity of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "indicated that the approval is not unanimous. I think that the best way for us to say that, to avoid the farce of having the failure to represent opinion in the country about the subject, the failure to represent properly to the people in Europe the feeling that exists, is to have a vote. That is what I propose. If anybody will join with me on the Government's Motion, I propose to vote against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "I much admire the fortitude of the hon. Member for Wembley, South (Sir R. Russell). In speaking in this House he overcomes a grievous physical handicap. I am sure that hon. Members, on both sides, will admire the strength of conviction which he injected into the speech which he has just delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1143.6", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Well-wishers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "urces of a continent, For this age of technology has created a new order of scale which means that a nation with a population of 50 or 60 million, no matter how rich or how gifted its people, can no longer play the world rôle that such history and gifts deserve. That sums it up, although it might be better if our American friends and well-wishers kept out of the argument for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1150.1", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ical industry should be nationalised. I assure hon. Members that I have read a number of other documents. Indeed, I have with me one leaflet which states that if we join the Community we will be joining a Communist organisation. Another pamphlet states that we must protect Protestantism and, to do so, we must keep out. There are certainly some strange and weird arguments adduced about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1154.5", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ety now largely dominated by capitalist politicians. I do not deny it, and it would be foolish to deny it, because it is true. But what about E.F.T.A.? What about our partners in E.F.T.A.? Portugal is a very great \"democratic\" country dominated by Socialists! Certainly Sweden is a social democratic country. In the Commonwealth, we have Socialist Governments in New Zealand, in Australia, in Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1154.5", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "hat may well be so. It may well be that I shall go down in history as a Socialist who spoke in the House of Commons of a muddled and confused idea about a Socialist United Nations of Europe. That is O.K., but let those who feel that way remember this. Winston Churchill stood almost alone in this House and fought on the question of Munich, and so on. His opinion ultimately became the majority view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1154.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig", "preceding_text": "debates recently about what we think ought to be happening in Rhodesia and in Vietnam. There have been Motions about what we think should be happening in Greece. We have opinions on everything, and I have a suspicion that, round the world, people are a little fed up with the way we stand here pontificating, saying what should be done all the time, but not having the wherewithal to do it ourselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-08", "file": "debates1967-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c46faa92409cf36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "The object of the negotiations will be to see that it does not suffer at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-08a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1248.9", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "STANDING ORDERS (PRIVATE BUSINESS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This Amendment is designed to meet certain misgivings felt by Members of all parties on both sides of the House. It simplifies the procedure for bodies such as amenity societies to petition against Special Procedural Orders. It will bring the procedure on such Orders into line with the practice on Private Bills, and I commend it to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1248.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1250.0", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The answer is \"No Sir\", it does not conflict.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1268.7", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that the correspondence to which he refers was connected with Questions in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1268.7", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "say that every Question in the House is a representation to the Minister, we are rather misusing language. I am perfectly well aware of the letters which have been received, because I have had something to do with replying to some of them. We have been asked whether representations have been made on this matter recently, and I have replied that there have been no representations from the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Representations.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that this is a Question from the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1275.4", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH FORCES (EAST OF SUEZ)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend represent to the Australian Prime Minister that if he wants British troops east of Suez he should pay the market price for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT (CORRECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We will see that the right people are reported as round the hon. Lady's neck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT (CORRECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We will see that the right people are reported as round the hon. Lady's neck. [ Laughter. ] Seriously, it is not easy to report interventions, and the wonder is that so many of them are so accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " rich man's club. It is now a very acceptable position to have established. As to the industrial tariffs with the Commonwealth, gone is all the derision on the kangaroo meat which, in fact, took only about five seconds. What they are going to take up is all the industrial tariffs which we negotiated during the course of those hard-drawn negotiations. All this gives us cause for great satisfaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t I would term Community solutions, solutions which are on a Community basis, which are consistent with one unified market, and solutions which affect the Community as a whole; because this is the structure and the nature of the Community. Solutions which are put forward purely from a national point of view, except as a transitional phase, will not be accepted by the Community as a final solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman did not deal with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "portfolio, the answer in the Community, once we are in the Community, or while we are going into the Community, is to bring about a state of affairs in this country in which people will not want to move portfolio investment out into Europe or direct investment out into Europe either. That is the real answer to the anxieties which the right hon. Gentleman has about portfolio and capital investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "as. The main alternative is to go on as we are, as a member of E.F.T.A. and of the Commonwealth preferential area. That is the alternative. Let us be quite clear about it and face it—either to have a European policy, endeavour to be successful and, if we are, to carry on in the Community, or if we are not, the alternative is to go on as we are in E.F.T.A. and in the Commonwealth preferential area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not clear about what the right hon. Gentleman has said. Does he accept or repudiate the proposal to share Britain's so-called independent nuclear deterrent with other European countries? I do not say \"held in trust\", whatever that may mean. Is the right hon. Gentleman advocating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "d with Russia and the United States. I hope that he will take an early opportunity of explaining what he had in mind, because some interpretations that could be put on what he said could be highly dangerous in the attempts that are now being made to secure the non-proliferation treaty and in trying to rid the world of the nuclear threat. I do not intend, however, to follow that matter up any more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ional forums seem to know more than the members of the legislatures do, and that this is influencing me in my consideration of the problem, which has been raised in the House more than once, of how far we ought to publish to the House of Commons economic forecasts which we are ready to give to international organisations. It seems rather absurd that they should know more than hon. Members here do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1305.0", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " appropriate groupings and relationships with their neghbours, as do those in Africa. It would be difficult to speak, as my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) did yesterday, in one breath of the necessity to build up the Commonwealth, and in the other of the necessity for ending the east of Suez policy. These two things are not compatible. One can have a changing relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1313.3", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t total exports, which are £5,000 million a year. I indicated in the Budget that we can secure a rate of growth of 3 per cent. a year; that is, £1,000 million of extra resources every year. Part of that would need to be allocated to additional exports. The Government's view is that a 3 per cent. growth rate is the base line from which we start. It can be bigger as our competitive efficiency grows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1313.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ny of us to look too far into the future, but I would hazard my own guess that, 10 years from now, if Britain becomes a member of the Community, it will be healthier for Britain, advantageous for Europe and a gain for the whole world. I do not know of many economic or political problems in the world which will be easier to solve if Britain is outside rather than inside the Community. From outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A three-line Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "My colleagues are perfectly prepared to vote for themselves and to make up their own minds. If the hon. Gentleman is here tomorrow night his anticipation will be answered and he will see exactly what we shall do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1351.3", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He resigned because of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "He was a member of that Government, but not when the Common Market was debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "us occasion when the Conservative Party tried to get this country into the Common Market. Many of Mr. Gaitskell's colleagues were very disappointed when he made his Brighton speech, not least one of the leading members of this Cabinet. Many of us, including Mr. Strachey and I, went to see him in his room and tried to persuade him to stand firm. He did not. He made what I call a face-saving speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "rtain is that, whatever price England may have to pay for entry into the Common Market, Wales will have to pay a higher one. Indeed, if the situation is as bad as I have described it, to put Wales into the Common Market without a Government of her own will be an act of criminal folly, and for a Labour Government to do this provides evidence that it is Labour policy to write off Wales as a nation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is still time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "ly very shocked at the tearing up of the London Agreement, under which it was a question of \"all in or none in\". As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition pointed out, it is most regrettable if a position has now been reached in which the most that the E.F.T.A. countries can hope for is merely a good transitional period. When I heard this I almost changed my mind about how I would vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1368.3", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": " countries can hope for is merely a good transitional period. When I heard this I almost changed my mind about how I would vote—[HON. MEMBERS: \"There is still time.\"] I will tell hon. Members why I decided not to change my vote, and then they can say whether they think I was wise or not! I am relying on an assurance given to me at Question Time on Tuesday of last week by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1368.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": " is right to go in. It is possible, of course, to make a very formidable case against, as my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Hazell) did when he spoke about agriculture in Norfolk. Anyone who knows his record as a negotiator knows of the conviction with which he speaks and he deployed his case with very great effect, but I could make just as good a case for going into the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"TO pull the wool over our eyes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "munity. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Make it.\"] Someone says that I should make it; in that case the House would be in for a long speech. I want to deal with general principles. I could make a case concerning my constituents in the wool trade which would prove the decline of the wool trade in the Commonwealth and its upsurge in Europe. If I took the wool industry alone, I could make a good case for going in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "eech in the teeth of the wind and not with the flowing tide from the wrong people, was his greatest speech. But for that speech and that stand, there would have been no Labour Party and there would have been no Labour Government for the Prime Minister to have inherited. Let us get all that perfectly clear when people speak about \"the Gaitskell conditions\". I speak with some emotion on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I was not saying that the Commonwealth is buying British cars. I was talking about Imperial Preference, which we enjoy over a very large part of our exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Rodgers", "preceding_text": "th are guilty to a certain extent—was because, at that time, the political parties were divided. If the Conservative Party had expressed any intent, we would have found an almost united Opposition from the Labour benches. One thing about which we can congratulate ourselves now is that the majority of hon. Members of the three major parties are in support of Britain's application to join the E.E.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "llenge, and not one which we should burke. If we rise to that challenge, it will be of enormous benefit to the country. I thought that the Prime Minister played down a little the effect of that cold wind of competition. The negotiations are likely to take quite a time. It may be five years before we get into the Common Market, and it will be about 10 years before we recover from the first effects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Frederick Peart)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Frederick Peart)", "preceding_text": " examine. It is because these matters are important and of great moment, which hon. Members and people outside the House wish to understand, that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland and I were asked by our colleagues to present a White Paper. I can assure my hon. Friends from Scotland that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State accepts responsibility for this White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Frederick Peart)", "preceding_text": "sponsibility for this White Paper. [ Laughter. ] It is a Departmental Paper. There is no need for anyone to be hilarious about it. My right hon. Friend and I produced it. I am merely suggesting that in the White Paper we cover many agricultural matters affecting Scotland. However, it is not for me to get involved in controversy over the choice of speakers. This is certainly a matter for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "We have presented the White Paper. I hope that all hon. Members, including right hon. Members opposite, have read it. First, joining the European Economic Community will inevitably create problems for this country in this sphere. The Prime Minister's statement recognised this fact. It is just no good pretending that these problems do not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "Lord Balniel rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "y higher. The price of butter would probably double; the price of beef, if we take an average of all qualities, might well rise by over one-third; and the price of bread by something approaching 20 per cent. These increases would be substantial. They would fall particularly heavily on those people with small incomes and often with big families where food is the largest item of the domestic budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "rticularly heavily on those people with small incomes and often with big families where food is the largest item of the domestic budget. [ Interruption. ] Right hon. Members opposite should be concerned with this; it makes it all the more essential for increases to be spread over a transitional period. This period must be fully adequate to cushion the shocks involved in a radical change of system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "d we would be paying full Community prices for our imports of food from other members. Secondly, on the basis of the present financial arrangements, we would be a very large net contributor to the Community's agricultural fund. This is mainly because we are, and would largely remain, in spite of an expansion of production to be expected in some sectors, a big importer of food from third countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:' \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "e would be a very large net contributor to the Community's agricultural fund. This is mainly because we are, and would largely remain, in spite of an expansion of production to be expected in some sectors, a big importer of food from third countries. [Interruption.] I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will listen. I know that his right hon. Friends would have the minimum of a transitional period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1413.3", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Grantham can explain his position tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-09", "file": "debates1967-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "faf4136ef5dde2ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1413.3", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about horticulture?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " these arrangements were applied to us without modification they would impose on this country a quite inequitable share of the burden of supporting the common agricultural policy in an enlarged Community. That is important. We should hope that the people with whom we negotiate would recognise these problems. I have tried to deal with the main issues arising for our agriculture, fisheries and food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-09a.1413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1442.4", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "CARRIAGE BY AIR (OVERSEAS TERRITORIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Laughter. .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "We certainly should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1442.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1472.3", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "Because the Selective Employment Tax is designed to strengthen the economy as a whole it is therefore bound to strengthen the tourist industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The matter about which a letter was written to the Minister of State was rather involved and I can assure the hon. Gentleman that there is a reply to him in the post which he will receive today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "overnment therefore have taken their decision. We feel sure of the way we ought now to proceed. Therefore, we call today upon this House to approve our decision so that we may apply straight away to join the Communities. We shall make our application short, clear, positive and to the point. In the application there will be no \"ifs\" and \"buts\", no conditions or stipulations. We shall apply to join.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) feels, I think, that that is what the Minister did. I am going to say that I feel that the right hon. Gentleman's assessments are wrong, and it is my duty to analyse them as I see them and get on the record what I and others think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1520.3", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "2026; There will be those who accuse me of being negative in my approach … \"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th May, 1967; Vol. 746 c. 1403–4.] The right hon. Gentleman was clearly on the defensive about the White Paper, and I am not surprised when I look at its contents. First, I do not dissent from the general conclusion which the right hon. Gentleman reaches in paragraph 73 of the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1528.1", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "The Minister was extremely coy about this last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1529.2", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I will not give way again to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nds, firm demands, strenuous demands, that my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture should resign. I beg him to do nothing of the sort. On the other hand, if some right hon. Gentlemen, almost the hierarchy of the Labour Government, were to resign, I could bear it with my customary fortitude. If time permitted, I should like to occupy the time of hon. and right hon. Members by running over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nd the Minister of Agriculture, in that remarkable speech last night, made it clear beyond a peradven-ture that problems of the most intricate, grave and profound character have to be considered, and eventually negotiated, before we decide to associate ourselves with the countries of the Six. Better to have this frankness than concealment— the House is entitled to frankness, and so is the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "een called all sorts of names. I have been accustomed to that for many years, and have survived, but some of the things that have been said about some of my hon. Friends and, in particular, about myself, deserve a reply. We have been described as \"Little Englanders\", as anti-Europeans, as being obtuse, obdurate, obstinate, perverse— and, worst of all, as ancient Britons. I am proud to be a Briton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "hat the objective is and what we are up against. M. Spaak says this: At this point, a very important question has to be raised. If Great Britain is one day to join the Treaty of Rome, is she ready to accept all the political implications? Is she prepared to pursue step by step the stages which would lead to a united political Europe? In 1963, Mr. Heath was categorically affirmative on this point\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1538.1", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "hat are to be negotiated? If so, we are entitled to know. I leave it there, although much more could be said. I do not often commit anything to writing, except when I do so for the Press, and provided the fees are substantial. There is nothing wrong in that. I just follow the lead of many others. In any case, one has to earn a living. Besides, one must look ahead; one has to consider one's future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1541.5", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n Market. The people of this country are far from unanimous. Will that be denied? The Gallup Polls are a deception, loaded with loaded questions. No Government have ever been entrusted with a mandate from the electors. In the Labour election manifesto in 1964 only a brief reference was made to this subject. It was then regarded as a \"dead duck\", and at the last election there was hardly a whisper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1541.5", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ith loaded questions. No Government have ever been entrusted with a mandate from the electors. In the Labour election manifesto in 1964 only a brief reference was made to this subject. It was then regarded as a \"dead duck\", and at the last election there was hardly a whisper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, just a whisper. It is doubtful if any candidate referred to the subject or was asked a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1543.6", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the same in the South.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman says that, I accept it; but what was the result? I always try to be fair. If there is objection raised to what I have said, I can only say that in the North-East and the northern area there was never a word said about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1543.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "e in a world dominated by huge countries like the United States, the U.S.S.R., and, very soon, China. Therefore, like most hon. Members—as, I am sure, the Division will show—I look to Europe knowing that we have much to offer our fellow Europeans. One of the problems—and let us be frank—is that in the same way as I said that we had not been defeated, General de Gaulle was never defeated and he is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison", "preceding_text": " interests of the E.E.C. first, and of their own countries and Britain second. Control will pass from Westminster, and that will be the pattern for the future. If the Government are set on joining, we must be clear that heavy concessions will be necessary and that the more keen the Government are, the greater they will be. It is clear that the five Gaitskell conditions are already no longer valid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will agree that 90 per cent. of industrialists have expressed, through the C.B.I., the opinion that there will be a benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1576.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Craddock", "cue_text": "Interruption. .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Craddock", "preceding_text": " repeated by my right hon. Friend the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) on Monday afternoon—that if we had been in the Community, or if there had been an E.E.C. years ago, we might have avoided the appalling catastrophies of two world wars. This may well be so. I concede the possibility. But, equally, it could be said that if, prior to 1914, this country had developed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Craddock", "preceding_text": "gain, I refer to the leading article in the business section of The Times on Monday, which cast grave doubts on our position in relation to sterling balances and other aspects, even at this time. It is the essence of prudence to try to negotiate from strength, not from weakness. I am very surprised that the Prime Minister has chosen this moment to try to enter the Community. Finally, I am certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1580.3", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "For unavoidable reasons, I suppose, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary cannot be with us at this moment, but I should have preferred that at least one senior member of the Cabinet, perhaps the one who is to reply to the debate or the one who opened it today, would be here to listen to the discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "We ought not to waste time on propaganda questions at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is in HANSARD.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "pret the policy of his leader. We must ask the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath) to explain his policy which he has arrived at with the advice of the Shadow Cabinet. The hon. Gentleman is not a Member of the Shadow Cabinet. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the same subject when giving the Godkin lectures in the United States the other day. That is not the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "uninstructed way, that this was a treaty designed to prevent the spreading of nuclear weapons. Now we are told, on the authority of the Leader of the Opposition, that this is not so, and that the treaty has been redesigned and so arranged as to leave room for a new and additional nuclear command within E.E.C. This is something which the Prime Minister has always denied, except yesterday afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "e from strength to str2ngth in recent years. That industry and the top fruit industry will be gravely threatened if we enter Europe. The one sop of the Minister of Agriculture to the consumer was to say that tomatoes and apples might be a bit cheaper. That might be very nice for the housewife, who faces price rises for beef, butter, cereals, and so on, but it is a very hard outlook for the grower.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "ough the Act of the Patronage Secretary's father—the Town and Country Planning Act brought in by the noble Lord, Lord Silkin—put the first nail in the coffin of the progress of the glasshouse industry. The second nail was the revived Town and Country Planning Act, and the last one is the Land Commission Act which will make this natural process even harder. Let us, however, stick to the main issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "rs in competition with our own and, even more so, their willingness to take military and political decisions even against our interests or the interests of each other. The Commonwealth ties are, I believe, loosening fast. To those who refer with justifiable emotion to our kith and kin, I would only point out that there are more of our kith and kin outside the Commonwealth than there are inside it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "capitalist lines. We had, I am afraid, little confidence in the effectiveness of our Socialist colleagues or any understanding of the degree to which the Government of any political party, under the influence of Socialist ideas and thinking and Keynsian ideas and thinking, would run their economies with the idea of maintaining full employment and certainly the success with which they have done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "Well, that is my view. It is no good examining dogma. What we want to examine are conditions of life of the people, because that is what Socialism stands for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "go into Europe, we go in as one amongst equals and as one of the great States of Europe. If we go into an Atlantic Community, can it be as anything other than the 51st State of the United States of America? I do not speak as an anti-American, because I have the greatest respect for the United States. I approve of what the Americans are doing in South-East Asia to preserve that area from Communism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1602.6", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "old us a few years ago to go back and to reapply when we were ready to accept both the spirit and the letter of the Treaty of Rome. We have come back and have admitted that our policies towards the E.E.C. and in Europe since the end of the war have been wrong. By applying for the second time and in a simple form, and undertaking to sign the Treaty as it stands, subject to the necessary safeguards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1602.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "to get here and, furthermore, I made a choice. I had the opportunity in 1940, after the collapse of France, of emigrating to the United States, but, instead, I chose to emigrate to the United Kingdom. What made me do that? First, the fact that Great Britain stood alone. Although I was born in a country which was dismembered by Hitler because of the errors committed by the party opposite at Munich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "em fail to say what alternative they offer the youth of Britain. Our Empire has gone and the Commonwealth is disintegrating fast. What are we to offer in their place? An opportunity to play a vital role in uniting this great Continent of Europe is a goal and challenge which we need as a nation. Just to argue about the price of tomatoes or to say that we want to know about nuclear defence treaties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "ue, he will have to tell them that it is not a subject which is being discussed. It cannot be discussed because provision for such discussion is not contained in the Treaty of Rome. Now that Great Britain is genuinely prepared to take this decisive step to join the Community, what excites Europe is the fact that this decision has been taken by a Labour Government who represent the British workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.3", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": " invited to play a full part at the meeting at Messina; that was where the Treaty of Rome was written. At that time hon. Gentlemen opposite were in office, but they would not even send an observer. They withdrew. I am glad to have them in the Lobby voting with the Government on this issue. It is a national issue and any hon. Member who is prepared to shilly shally or dilly dally on little matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1603.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Donald Anderson (Monmouth) rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1614.3", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "r Hall, I stand astonished at my own moderation. These are the calculations put forward for us by The Times, and they have not been gainsaid or rejected by the Treasury. These are matters of trade. If they were to be refuted, who more authoritative, one would think, than the President of the Board of Trade, a man of known integrity, ability and experience? But we have not heard him in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "possess, the influence they have in the world and the expertise they have obtained in their journeys around Europe to do precisely that, it would bring enormous benefit to our people, because here is a really expanding market. The market of the Six is not an expanding market any more. It is slowing down. West Germany has the same number of unemployed as we have. Its productive capacity has fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "ecause here is a really expanding market. The market of the Six is not an expanding market any more. It is slowing down. West Germany has the same number of unemployed as we have. Its productive capacity has fallen. [ Interruption. ] The market of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, on the contrary, is a growing market where our consumer goods and our engineering products could find a ready sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": " notice that there are the following considerations which we should bear in mind. The first is a very obvious one, but it has certainly been obscured in the presentation in some organs of the Press, that, for example, the changes in the cost of living do not occur all at once and overnight. This was made very clear in the speech of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture when he stressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-10", "file": "debates1967-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "90984a770b11c683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister dealt with that point on television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-10a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1676.6", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "On the normal forecasting techniques—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1676.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1685.9", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise how unsatisfactory that Answer is, because an illegal political broadcast was made last Saturday on Radio 270 by the hon. Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Wall)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1685.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to make it quite clear to the House that I have given notice to the hon. Member for Haltemprice. I am hardly responsible for his nonappearance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1691.9", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am aware of that now, but will my right hon. Friend agree that as that speech showed the remarkable achievements of the British people, initiated by Government legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1691.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1696.5", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Alibi.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have made clear, for the first 2½ years of these we have had to clear up the £800 million deficit the right hon. Gentlemen left. I know that the right hon. Member would like to forget about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1696.6", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that although growth is very desirable the country is right behind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1696.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1696.6", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that although growth is very desirable the country is right behind him—[ Interruption ]—and the Government in their determination to repay our borrowing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1696.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1701.2", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION (50th ANNIVERSARY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": " on the attainment of its fiftieth anniversary. We reaffirm our confidence in the work of the Commission, which has brought comfort to so many bereaved families and has earned the admiration of countless visitors to the war cemeteries and memorials, and we pledge our support for the continuance of its work in the future. I am sure that the whole House would wish to be associated with this message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1705.0", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "g the whole arrangement. The right hon. Gentleman's second question was about the air element. If he thinks about it, he will appreciate that the maintenance of an air element on the ground requires a very large number of troops for its protection. If we are talking about coming out, about conceding independence, then I suggest to right hon. Gentlemen opposite, who know as much about this as I do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about N.A.T.O?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly), with the honourable name which he has, that freedom has never been supported by troops from other countries standing there trying to guarantee it for one. This is the way that freedom is lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1707.2", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " opposite ought to know the difference. N.A.T.O. is an association of equal sovereign Powers I am talking, as was my hon. Friend, about a colonial-dominated State, with a so-called imperialist Power. The situation is totally different, and until hon. Gentlemen opposite understand this, they will not understand why the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys) got us into the mess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1708.0", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I wish that the right hon. Gentleman had spoken just for a moment or two longer. I would like to read a letter which he wrote to me yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1708.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1708.6", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Yours, Duncan.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1708.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1709.0", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign. Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brown rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1708.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1709.2", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that it is clear to the House what the congratulations were about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1711.1", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I rather hope that the latter part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary question does not arise. But my understanding with Sir Humphrey is very clearly understood by him and by me, that, before he recommends, I hope that he will report exactly how he feels and what he finds. On the question of independence and troops and all that, of course there are always exceptions to prove the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1714.5", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (INFANTRY REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I should like to make it clear that this new organisation does not affect the separate identity of the individual regiments. They will keep their insignia, although at some later time it may be agreed to be desirable to make some rationalisation in dress. The existing cap badges will remain, at any rate for the time being, although again, at a later stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1714.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1737.1", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "s Ruling, though I bow to your Ruling, of course, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I merely wish to fortify this point, because there has been a great deal of partiality. I can recall the fine which was inflicted on the son of George Lansbury for the harmless reporting of an innocuous Cabinet matter. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have taken many opportunities with the Establishment when they have been out of office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1739.3", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "In deference to your Ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ich my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has committed the Government will be violated, and this is the last opportunity that I have to urge the Government to reaffirm the statement made by my right hon. Friend that the British Government are totally opposed to the bombing of main population centres in Vietnam. There is a further escalation which it is expected will occur in the next few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1755.3", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "My relation to the Motion is precisely that of the hon. Member for South Ayrshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Czechoslovakia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": " Government to make statements about the internal affairs of another country—and therefore I am anticipating the reasons why the Government may not wish to make a statement. Nevertheless, a statement should be made. We should, first, express the gravest concern that, for the first time since the end of the war, democracy in Western Europe has given place to a dictatorship in one of the countries.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1840.4", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "May I have the assistance of the House? Would it meet with the approval of both sides of the House if we were to take both the Ploughing Grants Schemes at the same time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-11", "file": "debates1967-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "7f352fa4c69e0447", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1840.5", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (PLOUGHING GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "l. Given that there can be dangers in a number of circumstances in continuous cereal growing, the remedy is not necessarily a long break with a ley of three years or more. A short break in which some other crop is grown can often be equally suitable; and one of the crops which could adequately provide this is field beans, for which in this year's Price Review we have proposed to introduce a grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-11a.1840.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. One of the reasons why we increased substantially the number of our defence attaches in Saigon was to obtain relevant information. The House should be aware that we learned a great deal about the way to deal with this type of problem ourselves during the confrontation operations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I have no idea what the plans of the Conservative Government were. One of the rules to which I am subject is that I am not allowed to investigate the plans of the Conservative Government. We would all be a great deal wiser if I were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.81.5", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am glad to be able to tell the House that the cost of the aircraft programme planned by the present Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.81.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "I told the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) immediately it was drawn to my attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.89.4", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the feeling on this matter of a large number of hon. Members. Indeed, my hon. Friend has himself been telephoning my office every 10 minutes since last Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.89.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.91.2", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that we would be more convinced about the indignation being expressed by his hon. Friends if they showed equal concern for keeping the Gulf of Aqaba open to international shipping?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.100.5", "colnum": "100", "heading": "TARIFF NEGOTIATIONS (KENNEDY ROUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member has got the facts considerably distorted. I am not quite sure to what he is referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "iet-backed move of this sort in the Middle East was successful, within one year the Soviet Union would be the only major Power in the Middle East with any influence. A fortnight ago there were only two hardliners in support of Nasser—Syria and Iraq. Today, those who have been comparatively cool-headed—countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Tunisia—have been forced into the Egyptian orbit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " Obviously, we should attempt, at first, to act through the United Nations and to build up a new emergency force. If Egypt is genuine in saying that the reason for her action is a threatened invasion of Syria, and if the Israelis are also sincere in saying that they have no intention of invading Syria, let them be persuaded to have a United Nations force on Israeli soil on the frontier with Syria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "peech by some of the guilty men of the Suez aggression of 1956 is one of the most disagreeable byproducts of this situation. We are told by some of them today that Egypt's actions prove how correct they were in 1956, on which occasion they disgracefully deceived Parliament and the people by pretending that they were taking action to stop a war which, in fact, was promoted to seize the Suez Canal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "romoted to seize the Suez Canal.—[ Interruption. ] Now, in 1967, they pretend that their action was to preserve Israel from her neighbours. It is about time that they admitted the truth, which is becoming increasingly recognised by the accumulation of unimpeachable evidence. The fact is that the present crisis is a direct result of their use of Israel as an aggressive weapon against Egypt in 1956.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "t Egypt in 1956. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] It is all very well for hon. Gentlmen opposite to say \"Rubbish\", but they must remember that the events of 1956 were condemned by the United Nations and by the Labour Party. I am simply referring to what happened. I repeat that the present crisis is, in my opinion, a direct result of the Tory's use of Israel as an aggressive weapon against Egypt in 1956.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1", "colnum": "143", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. Gentleman's view?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": ". I repeat that the present crisis is, in my opinion, a direct result of the Tory's use of Israel as an aggressive weapon against Egypt in 1956. [ Interruption. ] This is a free House of Commons and I am entitled to state my view—and I shall say why. It is the conviction of Arab nationalists everywhere that Israel was created as an instrument of imperialism and not as a refuge for persecuted Jews.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "That is what they say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "That is what they say—[ Interruption. ]—it is just as well that we should try to understand what they are saying, and that is what I am now trying to tell this House of Commons. Every event, since the creation of Israel, from the Israelis' seizure of Eilat after the 1949 armistice, to which reference has already been made, to Mr. Eshkol's threats against Syria earlier this month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ready been made, to Mr. Eshkol's threats against Syria earlier this month—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]—is seen by the Arabs as part of a design further to erode their territory. That is how they see it, and this is what I am saying. There is ample documentary evidence. There are lots of newspaper reports, if anyone doubts what I say, of what spokesmen in Israel were saying about Syria early this month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "accuracies. For instance, the right hon. and learned Gentleman said: When Nasser nationalised the canal it did not thereby absolve Egypt from the obligation to keep it open. When he failed to do so, Israel developed its Red Sea port so as to make navigation of the canal by its ships unnecessary. The fact is that Nasser nationalised the canal in 1956 and Israel seized Eliat a few years before that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Right—we are agreed on that. Last Friday I returned from a short visit to Egypt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Right—we are agreed on that. Last Friday I returned from a short visit to Egypt—[ Interruption. ] I was accompanied by three of my hon. Friends, and I want to explain how the visit came about and why we went there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "of the Labour Party—understood a little more about what is happening internally and socially since the Arab revolution was carried through in Egypt in 1952. I can tell my hon. Friends that the dispossession of the land owners and the dispossession of the wealthy has gone to very great lengths indeed in the U.A.R. There is much in the internal actions there which ought to appeal to every Socialist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "here is much in the internal actions there which ought to appeal to every Socialist. [ Interruption. ] It was to look at the internal situation that we went to Egypt. We saw a very great deal that was of enormous interest and benefit to us. We had the experience while we were there of the crisis and the international crisis building up. We had the opportunity of being received by President Nasser.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, one side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has misunderstood. I have said that there have been a whole series of border incidents in which both sides have been involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.148.5", "colnum": "148", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you believe it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " want to give way more than is absolutely necessary. These incidents, call them what you will, terrorist raids or reprisals, were in fact happening. Whether the House believes it or not, we were told that Egypt believed that by the middle of this month there was a serious threat of an Israeli invasion of Syria. The Egyptians believed that mobilised along the Syrian frontier were 13 or 14 brigades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We know it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " Nations force is interposed between the contending parties again—as I hope it will be—that force will be stationed not only on Egyptian soil but on Israeli soil. I want to say a word about the dominant position which the Egyptians have occupied since the United Nations withdrew on the Gulf of Aqaba and the position on Sharm el Sheikh. The House ought to hear the Egyptian point of view about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "because of the Israeli occupation during the Suez war of Sharm el Sheikh, from which they only withdrew after the installation of a United Nations force ensured the continuance of a policy which suited them. Thus Israel benefited by the 1956 aggression, which was condemned by the United Nations, condemned by the Muslims of the Commonwealth, condemned by this party, and at least half of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " regard, and quite rightly, has repeatedly said that these people ought to be taken back into what is now the State of Israel. One really cannot help but recognise that this is the background of the conflict today. The President of the United Arab Republic, President Nasser, insists that he will not attack first. I believe him. Israel has apparently been prevailed upon to withhold military action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-05-31", "file": "debates1967-05-31a.xml", "sha256": "38f16a8a7b1ae970", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": ", Exchange (Mr. Will Griffiths), except to say that the House always likes to hear both sides of a question; but, with all respect to the hon. Gentleman, I do not think that Colonel Nasser's case has been much assisted by his speech. I find myself in general agreement with the speech of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. But on this occasion I do not intend to write him a letter about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-05-31a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Progress!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "This area was being covered by cycle post and we introduced a motor post within the area. Although the motor van is faster than the cycles, which is understandable, it has further to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.254.8", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If the Question has already been withdrawn, was it not improper for the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.254.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "HONG KONG (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "preceding_text": "urances of our complete support and determination to fulfil our responsibilities in Hong Kong. Finally, I want to pay tribute to the calm and courageous leadership during these difficult times of the Governor, Sir David Trench, to the ability and determination shown by the whole Hong Kong Administration, to the spendid behaviour of the police and to the spirit of the people of Hong Kong generally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.266.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "re of reflation over the next few months. The Amendment, designed to remove the regulator, would remove not only the power to increase the revenue but the power to reduce it and thereby the power to initiate reflation of a particular kind at any time over the next 10 or eleven months. I find the Amendment hardly serious. This power must remain with the Chancellor during the period between Budgets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " time I have voted during the Committee stage of the Finance Bill on the abolition of fuel oil duty. There is hardly a Member who does not privately agree with me. Only the Whips on the Labour Government benches prevent hon. Members opposite voting with me, save only the 37 Members of the National Union of Mineworkers, who, of course, owe an allegiance to the union which sends them here. Dreadful!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "r. They are far more eloquent, coming from a leader of this great industry, than any words I could pronounce in this Committee. But I give the Financial Secretary a warning from the Midlands. He is hardly a Midlander, perched on a branch at Derby. The motor trade is centred in and around Birmingham, and the motor workers live largely in Worcestershire, which is why they elected me as their Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "overnment to increase the tax? This cannot be a sensible way of running our affairs. The most important point I have not heard made is on the question of international sales. I suppose that Members of Parliament go abroad probably as much as any other section of the population. We go to Mauritius, or to Turkey, or to some other country. What we do first when we get there is to try the local drink.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.399.5", "colnum": "399", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are plenty of those.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "dull vista of gloomy austerity of their own making, and I find it abominable. Not only that, but I think that in the exercise of their discretion they may be wrong, in that there will come a time when the rates upon these things impose such a burden that the consumption goes down and the return through duty diminishes. Looking at the benches opposite the only things of beauty are the empty spaces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.399.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-01", "file": "debates1967-06-01a.xml", "sha256": "b098824ed6bc2de9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "oted, my right hon. Friend was referring not just to the surcharge on alcoholic drinks but to the whole range of surcharges and he was saying that the consolidation measures would bring the total revenue to the same position as it was before consolidation, and that, therefore, these measures would not justify an increase in the price level, which is, of course, an average of many different prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-01a.409.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-02", "file": "debates1967-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d95b66c4e0fa52f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Hiley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Hiley", "preceding_text": "ort the new Clause. I was interested to hear the concluding remarks of the hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Simon Mahon). I assure him that the sentiments he expressed are shared by many of my hon. Friends. When we were debating the Betting and Gaming Act, 1960, the hon. Member who is sponsoring this Bill, the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) was probably still at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-02", "file": "debates1967-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d95b66c4e0fa52f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "I will not provoke any further conversation on that. I suggest that Eon. Members do not see themselves as others see them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.509.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-02", "file": "debates1967-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d95b66c4e0fa52f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "r some of us to support the Bill—they are entitled to have at least one sponsor present in the Chamber listening to what they say. If the Bill is so important, this Clause will make it easier for some of us to support its long-term aims. The Committee upstairs seems to have been composed of those who were wholeheartedly in favour of these proposals, and those who were wholeheartedly against them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-02", "file": "debates1967-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "8d95b66c4e0fa52f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.534.1", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "or any man to have to make, whether one approves of the decision or not—on the same evidence he would have made exactly the same decision again; because, although he killed hundreds of thousands of people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in his view at the time he saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans who would otherwise, over a long, bloody war, have had to conquer the islands of Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-02a.534.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonintervention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend remember that we tried intervention once in Spain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "e to the consumer and so draw a certain amount of business from other parts of the country. To some extent the arguments against the proposal cancel each other out. The arguments I have quoted say that it will not be effective because all will be swallowed up in higher wages and profits but I have heard arguments from other areas, not the development areas, expressing anxiety about their position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.663.8", "colnum": "663", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "But how can I ask a most important question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.663.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.663.13", "colnum": "663", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "No. I only want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.663.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.664.4", "colnum": "664", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Be quiet.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is very mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.664.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.664.5", "colnum": "664", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "oyment premiums until such a study had been completed. It is fair to say, also—I recognise the problems of certain areas none the less—that one does not find any broad areas of industrialisation outside the development areas where unemployment is so high as to justify a reclassification. That is one question. Another and more pressing question is raised by what are sometimes called the grey areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "to see the effect in those areas to realise how serious the position is. The effect could be multiplied many times as one gets close to a development area. What is happening is a sorry picture. I regret to say that the situation is deteriorating. These proposals will make this type of area and these towns 1,000 times worse. I believe that it would crucify areas such as that which I have mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I wonder if you could inform the House what criteria you use regionally for the selection of speakers today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "l industry was a heartless, soulless industry when it was under private ownership. The National Coal Board is attacked for a great many things, but let there be no doubt about this—and my hon. Friends from mining constituencies know it: it has accepted more social responsibility than any private owner ever did, or thought of doing. But what has happened? As a social responsibility, the Coal Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.743.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are dreary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "have not cured this sore by these methods. Therefore, it is vital that we should try out this new system which we are now undertaking. I should like to refer again to this problem of the so-called grey areas. I ask my hon. Friends who come from those areas to agree that if I promise not to use the term again, they will not do so. Can we not find a better term than that? It is a dreary description.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-05", "file": "debates1967-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "8466c3c51a27c4fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT AREAS (REGIONAL EMPLOYMENT PREMIUMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ition of the Opposition Front Bench, and those who come from the so-called grey areas and who say that it will be the most powerful magnet ever seen. Obviously, both cannot be right. I can only say from my own experience and my own contacts with industrialists that when this proposal goes through, it is likely to have the most profound effect on their thinking about their new investment programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-05a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.781.4", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodnutt", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for confirming what I already knew. Would he say why he completely misinformed me in the House on 11th April by telling me that such instructions had been given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.781.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nationalise it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend do something even at this twelfth hour to help the Sunday Citizen, as he promised to do not long ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.795.2", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must realise that it was not possible to get any clear answer out of General de Gaulle on this question until we made an application. That was his attitude. It was the attitude of the Six. If we had said that we were not going to make an application until he said that we would be accepted in, there would never have been an application.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.795.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.806.2", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER (VISIT TO CANADA AND U.S.A.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that if it is found that the Soviet Government are continuing arms supplies to Egypt and to Syria, whose Governments have publicly pledged the destruction of Israel, our country will not leave the people of Israel without the wherewithal to defend themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ords 'an excise licence for the sale of exciseable liquor' there shall be substituted the words 'a certificate under the Licensing (Scotland) Act, 1959 or a licence under Part III of that Act', and for the words 'a certificate' there shall be substituted the words 'such a certificate or licence'. By any standards of judgment that really is awful—terrible! I have no idea what a Keeling Schedule is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.828.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nt so strongly. As to general economic and financial strategy in this context, I strongly disapprove of the Chancellor's speech at Leicester last Saturday. It was a deplorable speech. The reception in the Sunday Press was exactly what I did not want in the nation's contemporary economic position. The principal Sunday newspaper, that is, the one with the largest circulation, the News of the World —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "A passing reference only, Sir Eric.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I do not want to detain the Committee too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government and the country would get a tremendous boost if the Amendment were accepted, because it would mean that people would get a little more. The Chancellor would then find it possible to achieve growth and improve our social services, just as we did during our 13 years of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Over-feeding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ayer earns it invariably by the sweat of his brow and his capacity to lead and his ability as an executive. In all my experience in industry I have never found any of these top level men to be overpaid. They go to an early grave for the most part; they suffer a higher level of coronaries, stomach complaints, lung ailments, haemorrhages and the remainder through gross overwork, anxiety and fatigue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "early grave for the most part; they suffer a higher level of coronaries, stomach complaints, lung ailments, haemorrhages and the remainder through gross overwork, anxiety and fatigue. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Over-feeding?\"] No, never over-feeding. I correct my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, South (Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid). They eat sparingly, drink sparingly and indulge the other vices sparingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "overwork, anxiety and fatigue. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Over-feeding?\"] No, never over-feeding. I correct my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, South (Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid). They eat sparingly, drink sparingly and indulge the other vices sparingly. [ Interruption. ] The Solicitor-General really should mind his language. He should not say, \"What the hell do they live for?\" He knows better than I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " emigration of scientists and technologists to the United States. That is all perfectly true. It has been well registered this evening. Even the Chancellor admitted that there was a grain of truth in it. We are coaxing him along the right paths, though very slowly. He takes only faltering steps. No doubt by next year his voice will be raised in our support, with his Left wing hostile to his views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "mand, and which they can command in the United States. They can get a much bigger take-home pay there. One of the problems facing younger men is that of having to wait for the shoes of those who retire. Whichever way one looks at it, I think that it would be as well if we could all accumulate capital out of saved income, and another reason why people go to other countries is that they can do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "e attracted both by the dignity which this knowledge confers—because there are many people who would be willing to accept public appointments at a lower salary if it were not for the fact that it would slightly declassify them—and for the remuneration itself. But I deny completely that their major concern is with the level of remuneration and what they can spend. That is a separate issue entirely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "the common activities of the State. Of course he does not like it, mostly. He does not like contributing to a National Health Service which he does not use, or to education which he does not use because he pays for it separately. He much prefers to spend his own money in his own way. This Government believe in intervention by the State and taxation is better described as the level of intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.960.6", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "—was called on in 1960–61 to pay £6,806 in Surtax. Today—that is, with the additional 10 per cent.—he pays £5,513, a reduction of £1,293.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.960.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-06", "file": "debates1967-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "cb901361eb5198b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.960.8", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": ". I gave the figures during the course of the Budget debate. They do not act as a deterrent to those who have these responsibilities, having regard to the interest, the power and the attraction of their jobs. I say that this is purely—I would not call it a campaign, but rather a smokescreen behind which to hide what many hon. and right hon. Members want, which is simply for the rich to get richer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-06a.960.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "financial statistics of this magnitude are a national disgrace. The Minister of Power—this same Minister of Power—is responsible for the mistakes made in the National Plan, and the fact that within 18 months he has had to double his earlier figures is disgraceful. Having said all that about the hopelessly inadequate financial forecasting of the Socialist Government—a national scandal and disgrace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sauce.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the difference is between instant gas and instant rhetoric, but it is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for the Royal Shakespeare, who is, I understand, a shire Member—I think for Worcestershire, South. I have never understood what that is either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "Could I persuade or even charm the hon. Lady", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Can the Government now depart, at least to some extent, from their attitude of neutrality by congratulating the State of Israel and the Israeli forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "gainst economic boycott, and free passage through international waters, including the Suez Canal? Can we have assurances of that kind? Will my right hon. Friend take it from me that the noises behind me have no effect on my mind whatever? I am not afraid of this crowd. I am not afraid of the Arabs and Nasserites. I am not afraid of anyone. I take sides, and I am on the side of the State of Israel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1071.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "This is exactly what I am afraid of. One over-stated, emotional, partisan statement invites the contrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1096.0", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruec-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruec-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "has been accustomed to receive from her savings in previous years, because of the arbitrary effect of bunching, the effect of the squeeze and determined Government discrimination against distributions, and the effect this has had on the dividends from her savings. Hon. Members opposite will, of course, argue that a lady with an unearned income of £3,000 a year probably falls in the parasite class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-07", "file": "debates1967-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "521d389bdf114da8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "preceding_text": "ere we have one of the few opportunities which will arise during our discussion of the Bill to discuss what one might call the social service Clauses. It is an extraordinary commentary on the interest of the Labour Party in these matters that it is able to muster no more than one honourable and hearty soul for the debate. I hope that he will not only listen to the debate, but will take part in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-07a.1113.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-12", "file": "debates1967-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b6f4a61873d60af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-12a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fifteen years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What is the revenue that we are likely to get from the tax? In his 1965 Budget speech the Chancellor of the Exchequer estimated that it would build up to, I think he said, £125 million at some unexplained time in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-12a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-12", "file": "debates1967-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "7b6f4a61873d60af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-12a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": "I should not like to say which Members of Parliament make the greatest contribution. Just because in a particular class of taxpayers there is a minority who may not contribute all that they should to the country's wellbeing and welfare, that is no argument for imposing a fiscal injustice upon all of them as a body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-12a.145.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.284.8", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I repeat categorically that they are not gravely disadvantaged. The staff in question deal with a whole host of problems, such as disconnection of supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.284.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ent would readily consider them. But we must be satisfied that any such suggestions result from a genuine willingness to seek such an acceptable solution and that those who make them do so with the ability to give effect to any agreed solution. To this end, my right hon. Friend the Commonwealth Secretary and I have asked the noble Lord, Lord Alport, to pay a visit to Salisbury in a few days' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Prime Minister for his reply? Without wishing to probe at this stage, since it would be rather unhelpful, into exactly what he means by \"meaningful\", may I quite simply ask him whether he is aware that there will be, I think, widespread relief that some new moves are now at last being made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e first part. There was nothing new in what I said, because I have said it in answer to the right hon. Gentleman before, as the right hon. Gentleman will remember. In fact, he expressed satisfaction, I think, at the time. What we have also to emphasise—this is a point we do not get from certain right hon. Gentlemen—is that this is an illegal regime in a treasonable situation, that they have since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.307.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first point, the six principles have been laid down by, I think, all of us in the House, though I have expressed my anxiety about some of the new developments, for example, again, the new methods of segregation of population as between African and European population, which fly still further in the face of the fourth principle. On the second question, no, there was no consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "D NOTICE SYSTEM (REPORT OF COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The House will read the Report for itself and our White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.311.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.314.3", "colnum": "314", "heading": "D NOTICE SYSTEM (REPORT OF COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "preceding_text": "We are all grateful for my right hon. Friend's statement. Did the Radcliffe Committee examine the statement made by Mr. Chapman Pincher on 22nd February that his inquiries showed that Although sporadic checks of cables had always been permissible\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.328.4", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "s 1, 2 and 3. These powers are subject to considerable safeguards. When the Prices and Incomes Act was passed, and again when Part IV of it was called into operation last October, a number of apprehensions were expressed that this was giving too great an arbitrary power to the Government. I think that the course of events and the use of the power since then has largely removed those apprehensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.328.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ring the past 12 months under that criterion. They include agricultural workers, people in drapery and footwear and many sections of the distributive trades. What would have been the situation without powers, when there would not have been this special incentive to the development of productivity agreements and when probably all money wages would have risen and prices would have risen much faster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.342.5", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would the right hon. Gentleman put in its place?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Nor, let me assure the hon. Gentleman, would it be any advice from me. But let me say to him and other trade unionists that we would get rid of this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.342.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.350.6", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A profit spree.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "employers, without the balance being tilted too far one way or the other. Secondly, there must be a reduction in the growing proportion of the gross national product absorbed by Government expenditure for non-productive purposes, thus leaving more room in the economy for immediate productive growth. Thirdly, there must be a reform of our tax system. The principal need is to reduce direct taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.350.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Average.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ssurance at the time that that policy would not involve increased prices. That was part of the package deal announced on 20th July. What has happened since? On the Friday before the House rose for the Whitsun Recess, the Minister of Power took his shoes off and crept into the Chamber in his stockinged feet so that no one could hear him and announced a 10 per cent. rise in the price of electricity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "re that the Prices and Incomes Board was never designed so that it should become a mechanism of arbitration. It was never designed to become a mechanism of price control. It was never designed to be the sole regulatory power or sole regulatory valve for a prices and incomes policy in the next 12 months. I do not believe that that was ever in the mind of Mr. Aubrey Jones when he went to the office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He jolly well had.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ism of arbitration. It was never designed to become a mechanism of price control. It was never designed to be the sole regulatory power or sole regulatory valve for a prices and incomes policy in the next 12 months. I do not believe that that was ever in the mind of Mr. Aubrey Jones when he went to the office. [An HON. MEMBER: \"It was.\"] If it was, I can only say that he had delusions of grandeur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "preceding_text": "that will then become liable for the same negative Resolution procedure as will Clauses 1 and 3. Therefore, the parliamentary cover will apply at a later stage. The debate has produced a very remarkable situation. Despite the fact that the right hon. Member for Enfield, West decried the Bill itself, he did not say that the Tory Party opposes a prices and incomes policy. Does he wish to say so now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Frederick Lee)", "preceding_text": "outside the House the great industrial organisations within the T.U.C. and the C.B.I., and other organisations which are not affiliated to either of those bodies, are also in favour of an effective voluntary prices and incomes policy. Yet tonight, on the rather frivolous grounds which the right hon. Gentleman has just been basing his argument, the Opposition will divide the House against the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.430.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-13", "file": "debates1967-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "3960c8bcc1d05f1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.437.4", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-13a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "No, Sir; this is a considerable exaggeration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.552.7", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the recent statement by Cunard caused great anxiety on Clydebank? Is he aware that, apart from an oil rig, the Q4 is the only contract and that its cost escalation is as much the Government's responsibility as it is that of George Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.552.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.556.5", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Especially when we have good aircraft.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Carr", "preceding_text": "Then why does the hon. Gentleman think that our share of this vital North Atlantic route is falling?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I would say that it is a strong argument for having reservations about British membership of the Common Market. I do not especially like the Latin expression \" a fortiori \". I should have preferred my right hon. Friend to say \"a stronger argument\" rather than an argument \" a fortiori \". It is not that I am anti-Latin or anti-anything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "preceding_text": "It comes as no surprise to many of us on this side of the House that the party opposite should adopt such a wholly negative attitude to this proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The hon. Gentleman has already spoken. This debate is going on for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They may be right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "pany at two-thirds the market price they will ask: What is the gaffer up to now? He is trying to take us for a ride. They are suspicious. Every year they see great placards in shop windows, advertising goods at half price. They buy things and then decide that they are sorry to have bought them. If one starts selling shares at two-thirds the market price they will think that there is a catch in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "bove the bottom level. It is becoming fundamental thinking in the Socialist brains trusts, and the progressive societies and the ordinary people want to talk about this problem. If we are to get the welfare society which provides the sort of standards which we want, it will require a great deal more private insurance than we have accepted up to this moment, and the final thing which I want to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-14", "file": "debates1967-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "9eb965de5777ff05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Young Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": " our new Clause, committed an indiscretion which is often noticeable when proposals on co-owner-ship are being discussed. He suggested—and it has been done before—that we want to shift the worker into management. Not at all. There is no evidence in any Liberal booklet on co-ownership that we want to interfere with management. What we are saying—and it is a simple proposition—is that those workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-14a.725.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wasting time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Did I understand my right hon. Friend to make a statement on behalf of the Secretary of State for Scotland indicating his intention in this matter, and do I take it that no further statement will be made by the Secretary of State for Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.750.2", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Since the headmasters are speaking from experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.750.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.772.7", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.772.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.772.10", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "I was trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.772.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL (DETAINED BRITISH SHIPS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "It is not possible to know precisely why it is blocked at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL (DETAINED BRITISH SHIPS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I cannot tell my hon. Friend immediately the nationalities of the other ships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to talk to my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, but this has been discussed through the usual channels and my right hon. Friend did say that he would be prepared, naturally, if this was desired by the spokesman for the Opposition, to see that the basis of his statement was made available on Friday to the Opposition spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-15", "file": "debates1967-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "1c7d05e2b4a1ae8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Whether there is to be a statement or White Paper, there will be an important statement on defence towards the end of next month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-15a.786.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Hooley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Hooley", "preceding_text": "en Lord Caradon said in the United Nations: It should be left to the Mission to decide whether and how to proceed with its task. On behalf of the British Government, he was saying that the Mission should do its job in its own way. Unfortunately, it was not allowed to do so. The approach to the various parties which it thought best was not permitted. It was interfered with by the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "preceding_text": "hon. Friends picked on these particular proposals with very profound suspicion indeed. I wish that we had had time to do what the hon. Member for Windsor (Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe) suggested might have been done, which was to publish these very long and detailed proposals as a White Paper so that people could have had an opportunity to read them as a whole and therefore, perhaps, have taken a rather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "deal on how he defined this as a pledge, and then went on to describe the pledge in his own terms. The House is entitled to know exactly where the Government stand on this matter. The right hon. Gentleman is inclined to lecture us a little at times, and we on this side of the House are just as conscientious guardians of Britain's obligations in the world as any Government that this House has seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "This is a carrier force including a commando carrier, and these are the combat troops that I refer to. If the right hon. Gentleman, who has experience in these matters, thinks about this, he will realise that there is sense in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rst few years of independence, including the powerful military support which I have outlined\". Does the Minister of State repeat those words and adhere to them? Does the right hon. Gentleman also confirm that the V-bombers will be there as long as the Government decide, taking into account the circumstances, including the view of the Federal Government, and that the troops on the commando carrier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1263.9", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call the hon. Gentleman, may I say that I understood that the Second Reading was to be taken formally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1263.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1263.11", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "rast, this Bill is a relatively simple and straightforward Measure. I should warn the House that I intend to move it in what will turn out to be a pretty dull speech. The Bill's purpose is central to our discussion today. Though this may sometimes have been lost sight of, we have, after all, been discussing Aden on the eve of independence. The Bill makes the necessary provision in our law so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1263.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1297.7", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I think we should ask you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if you can find out from the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1297.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1298.3", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unlike the others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—a genuine one, I can promise you, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1298.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "H0N. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "With respect, there is a point of order. As I understood him, Mr. Speaker indicated to the House that it was his view that the Aden Bill, which we have just taken, would be taken formally, in which case this Order on the gas borrowing powers would have come on immediately at 10 o'clock. It is now a quarter to 12, and it really must be a question of the protection of the rights of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I feel very guilty indeed at detaining hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1303.4", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "wers is whether any of this expenditure will be used to carry out capital works, or to finance projects to remove the appalling differential in the price of gas throughout the country. On 23rd January of this year I asked a Question of the Minister of Power, relating to the price of gas. At that time the Minister revealed the most recent figures he had available, which were in respect of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1304.3", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I must apologise for being detained on this matter, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but I must answer this point. The fact is that, before this debate took place, I had a very full consultation with a good number of my hon. Friends representing Scottish constituencies, and they have expressed their confidence in me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": " Before the hon. Gentleman works himself into too much of a frenzy, will he consider this? Given the importance of the Order which we are discussing and the vast size of the sums involved, does he still think that, even on Derby Day, more than six of his hon. Friends would have turned up?\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th June, 1967; Vol. 747, c. 988.] I assume that HANSARD is capable of correct mathematics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "es. There can be no gainsaying this. The odd thing is that the House is asked to agree to the means of financing what the Foreign Secretary once described as \"a squalid hand out to the Tory Party's oil companies\". Of course, the Government are to be congratulated on having swallowed those words with almost convulsive haste and proceeded with the policies which were initiated by their predecessors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "s, which would encourage the maximum exploration? I believe it to be of the highest importance in the national interest that the country should know what is in the North Sea. It is no good hon. Members opposite babbling every now and again about nationalising the whole affair. I would like to see some of them going and drilling a hole in the North Sea. The consequences make the imagination boggle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A lot of money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Wainwright", "preceding_text": "This has been a rather long debate on a very small Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1364.3", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "ciple that prices should reflect costs. The only variable will be transmission costs since the gas to and from all sources is necessarily pooled. Investigations have shown that because gas transmission costs are low differences in bulk supply costs to area boards will be too small to justify straining to differentiate prices for gas coming from several sources of supply to many bulk supply points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-19", "file": "debates1967-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "387a5166569c456e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I cannot go beyond what I have already said, that the position is obscure. I hope that hon. Members will accept that the position in the Middle East, and matters arising from it, is so delicate that it is not something to be bandied about freely on an occasion like this. I am trying to be Quite serious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-19a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1410.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My noble Friend, who has worked assiduously on the disarmament problem —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "I intervene in the debate because I believe that the House should hear the views of someone who was not a member of the Standing Committee. So far, everyone who has taken part in the debate, from the Minister downwards, has been a member of the Standing Committee and was present on the now famous occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LEASEHOLD REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "I think not. The hon. Gentleman had a very long say in the debate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4.—(SPECIAL COVENANTS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES ETC. ON ENFRANCHISEMENT OR EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "mmittee and on Report is to diminish the scope of the injustice it causes. If it brings to an end an injustice, as the Minister said just now, then it creates many others. There is still the serious injustice of the lack of compensation for the property which is being taken away from the landlord; there are the injustices to the many great estates which will be fragmented as a result of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1623.3", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4.—(SPECIAL COVENANTS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES ETC. ON ENFRANCHISEMENT OR EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ill suffer by the damage done. The Government have pressed forward determined to give away an owner's property to his tenant—apart from that, without really knowing what they wanted to achieve. As they worked out the proposals contained in the Bill in legislative form many anomalies appeared, but the Government obstinately refused to remove them. The Bill could have been a good Bill, but as it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-20", "file": "debates1967-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "58ef0801c38821ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1626.0", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 4.—(SPECIAL COVENANTS WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES ETC. ON ENFRANCHISEMENT OR EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It is not as good as we would have liked, but it has done something to remove once and for all the many iniquities that we have suffered in South Wales for so long. The people of South Wales will bless this day. When the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames suggests that it is a bad Bill, the people in South Wales will be waving the flags tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-20a.1626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1679.2", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Clause 11.—(SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "The B.B.C. is making a considerable effort to produce local radio stations which to some extent may fulfil an alternative to the pirate programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1679.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1719.8", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member will appreciate that the matter is being considered and actions have been taken. He should know that there is capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1719.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1720.6", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows that in that case there was a difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1720.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1722.13", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the First Secretary is the second most important Minister in the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1722.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say whether these figures are those which were issued today, and was that the reason for his delay in coming here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1723.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1729.3", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA (MUTINY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Kick him out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I apologise for interrupting the Minister, but I distinctly heard a former Under-Secretary of State for War call my father a murderer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1729.4", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA (MUTINY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am always rather troubled when hon. Members bring to the notice of Mr. Speaker interventions which he has not heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1729.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1729.5", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA (MUTINY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stand up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am always rather troubled when hon. Members bring to the notice of Mr. Speaker interventions which he has not heard. [Hors. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I need no help. But if a right hon. Gentleman did call another light hon. Gentleman a murderer, then he must withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1729.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1752.3", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Certainly not—giving my interpretation of the position? Is it not somewhat improper in a \"punch up\" that the referee should take one side and not the other?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1824.0", "colnum": "1824", "heading": "Clause 1.—(THE NEW DECIMAL CURRENCY.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " choice right rather than simply to fit it into their immediate programme. I should like the Minister to explain or expand on the statement which the Chancellor of the Exchequer made in the House on 7th March. This was before the House had had an opportunity to discuss the Government's proposals. On that occasion. the right hon. Gentleman said: Administrative decisions have, of course. been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1837.4", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Clause 1.—(THE NEW DECIMAL CURRENCY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That is a matter entirely for my hon. Friend. Neither the right hon. Member for Enfield, West nor the hon. Gentleman does the House any service by saying that it is turned into a cipher under a two-line Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1838.3", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "Clause 1.—(THE NEW DECIMAL CURRENCY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "A report in The Times , or any newspaper, whichever it might be, is not something on which I have to comment. We all know how inaccurate the newspapers are in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1838.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1862.3", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Clause 1.—(THE NEW DECIMAL CURRENCY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "y do not intend to have a halfpenny equivalent, experience has not shown that they need it, and there has been no marked rise in prices. It is difficult to see what is left of my hon. Friend's case, apart from his skill in advocacy, when one looks at it in that way. I do not even consider that the £—mil system is second in the list. I even prefer the Government's £—cent—½—cent system to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Clause 1.—(THE NEW DECIMAL CURRENCY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MarDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MarDermot", "preceding_text": "nny would reach the term of its natural life in about 1972. Hon. Members are horrified at the prospect of our having a currency without a halfpenny equivalent. I do not know what they would have felt living in this country in 1914, when the smallest coin was the farthing. In fact, the farthing of 1914 was worth more than double the halfpenny of today, which hon. Members are so terrified of losing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1893.1", "colnum": "1893", "heading": "Clause 5.—(FUNCTIONS OF BOARD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ng them. It is not for me to comment on what another place should do, nor shall I comment on what this House would do if another did what it might do. All these are things for the future. One thing, however, which is clear at the end of the proceedings on the Bill in this House is that the differences with which we all started remain unresolved. None of us has succeeded in convincing anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-21", "file": "debates1967-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "331ed9cf9fbcf22c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1896.6", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "PUBLIC WORKS LOANS (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "64 days. Then, finally, there would be bills. If we were to have this type of development, it would help if local authorities could pay annual interest instead of semi-annual interest. This would rationalise and make much simpler the administrative work in which local authority treasurers must indulge. These are minor matters which add up to a rationalization of local authority borrowing. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-21a.1896.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "Does it not follow from that very helpful answer that the Palace of Westminster is the only place where police on duty indoors are required for any length of time to wear helmets, and would it not now be appropriate that we should review this practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that at the very first meeting of Mr. Speaker's Conference on 30th June, 1965, I proposed, without success, that all proceedings of the Conference should be published, so that when the House came to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1950.4", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r talks and discussions at the United Nations. But my right hon. Friend's reference to \"territorial aggrandisement\" in his speech was a warning against the idea that boundaries could be settled just by military action. The boundaries have to be settled by an all-out settlement. This settlement could be of the greatest value in giving security all round if, for example, as it most certainly should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1950.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1953.2", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the unsatisfactory reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1953.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1954.2", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "RAILWAYS (CONTINENTAL FREIGHT TERMINAL, STRATFORD)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "As regards the industrial dispute, I have nothing to add to the answer I gave to the hon. Member on Monday, 19th June, 1967.—[Vol. 748, col. 183. ] I hope that hon. Members will not press questions on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1954.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1957.0", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At ten o'clock?", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "nance (No. 2) Bill, which it is hoped will be obtained in time to allow consideration of the remaining stages of the Aden, Perim and Kuria Muria Islands Bill. THURSDAY, 29TH JUNE—Supply [22nd Allotted Day]: Debate on National Airport Policy, which will arise on an Opposition Motion. Afterwards, the Government propose to facilitate further consideration of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1956.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1957.1", "colnum": "1957", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "At ten o'clock on Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1959.0", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I was not a little disturbed to hear the right hon. Gentleman say that further consideration of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill would take place at ten o'clock at night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1959.3", "colnum": "1959", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The question of how exactly to arrange the programme is a complicated one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1959.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1961.0", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "tion to hold up the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, or obstruct it in any way, but will he not consider that the real convenience of private Members on a Private Member's Bill is not to sit through the hours of night? On Government business, the Government have the Whips, and their own facilities, but is it not really a mockery to try to force private Members' legislation through like this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1960.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1961.4", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I think that hon. Gentlemen opposite who are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1962.3", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that hon. Members on both sides, regardless of their feelings about the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, deplore the decision which he has reached about the timing of the debate next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that that view should be expressed by the right hon. Gentleman, that there is a general feeling that we should not debate the Bill late at night. I cannot help saying to the right hon. Gentleman that the Bill is a matter on which the Government remain neutral, and have only offered to give time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "that that view should be expressed by the right hon. Gentleman, that there is a general feeling that we should not debate the Bill late at night. I cannot help saying to the right hon. Gentleman that the Bill is a matter on which the Government remain neutral, and have only offered to give time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes. The opposition to this proposal tends to come from those who oppose the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw. Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "is a general feeling that we should not debate the Bill late at night. I cannot help saying to the right hon. Gentleman that the Bill is a matter on which the Government remain neutral, and have only offered to give time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes. The opposition to this proposal tends to come from those who oppose the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I have got the impression from my part of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1970.6", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I very much hope that I did not create that impression. I know that opinion on this matter is not divided on party lines. I thought that criticism of my putting it down for Thursday evening was on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1970.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1972.6", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "s Motion. It has raised issues of the greatest importance to the national interest. There should be no misunderstanding about this. What is at issue is not the mere interpretation of two D Notices, or the conduct of an individual journalist and his newspaper, or even of the Government and the Prime Minister. It is the fundamental question of the nation's security and how, in a free and democratic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1972.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course; I shall read out whatever is thought helpful to the House. Paragraph 60 states: We conclude, therefore, that it would not be right to say that the article amounted to a breach of the D notices\". This is the very point I am dealing with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1977.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1978.3", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I have every intention of putting this accurately, because it is very important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1978.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1978.4", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes, \"not\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I have every intention of putting this accurately, because it is very important. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The Committee says: It is not altogether satisfactory to rely on silence only when the story touches 'particular cases and persons', because it is often impossible for those not behind the scenes\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1979.3", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It starts on page 25 and proceeds to page 26.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1979.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1982.1", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1982.2", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "out G.P.O. cables being collected by the Ministry of Defence; there were no D notices and you said you would come back to me. 'He agreed. The Committee of Inquiry—and I do not blame it; there were so many conflicts of evidence to be dealt with—did not deal with this, but if Colonel Lohan is correct the House may think that the statement in the Daily Express on 22nd February was highly misleading.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1982.2", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rnment to publish a White Paper setting out their own conclusions on a Report which they have commissioned, particularly when these conclusions go beyond what is in the Report. On this matter, I can do no better than quote the Attorney-General of a previous Administration of which the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition was a member. On 28th July, 1959 the then Attorney-General said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1993.3", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I imagine that this is the sentence in which two gentleman of the Daily Mail disagreed with this view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1993.3", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " Daily Express office. In fact, Sir Max was in a telephone box at the Garrick Club. Secondly, the Foreign Secretary thought that the Editor, Mr. Derek Marks, was actually by the side of Sir Max. In fact, he was still at the dinner table. Thirdly, the Foreign Secretary spoke on the assumption that Sir Max knew all about the story. In fact, he had no idea to what the Foreign Secretary was referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1995.2", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1995.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1995.5", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " known to many of us. Why did the Foreign Secretary choose him? Mr. Greig did not have a clue of what it was all about. He had no particular position with regard to security. He had never even seen the D Notices. Despite this, he was the man who, at this critical moment, was asked to telephone the Editor of the Daily Express on a matter of vital security involving, so we are now told, men's lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1995.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1995.5", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "at he was puzzled by my inquiry. I will be only too delighted to read more of Mr. Greig's evidence if hon. Members wish me to do so. Mr. Greig was, of course, in an impossible position. To have asked him to undertake this task was sheer incompetence if the matter was as serious as we are now told it was. There is one rather sordid aspect of all this to which I must draw the attention of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1995.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1997.1", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.2", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has invited me to make references to the evidence. Would he now please look at paragraph 44 of the Report which deals with the Foreign Secretary's knowledge and state of mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.5", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Paragraph 44.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Certainly I will read it. If I am to read this I shall also quote a highly relevant extract from the Foreign Secretary's evidence. The paragraph begins At about 10 o'clock on that evening\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.7", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "had reported, after his lunch with Mr. Pincher, that he regarded the situation as under control,\"— that is true. This is in the afternoon— that he thought that the Express were not going to publish and that if they decided to do so we should have another opportunity'. The Foreign Secretary decided on the basis of that information that he would not try to make a personal intervention at that stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2000.0", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It says: At about 10 o'clock on that evening the Foreign Secretary was dining at the house of a friend and there received a telephone message … and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.1999.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2009.2", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " not follow the right hon. Member's example and comment on the merits and demerits of the Foreign Office officials, nor on the security rating of Colonel Lohan. Like the right hon. Gentleman, I did not particularly want to be a member of this Committee. It involved the Prime Minister describing me as an elder statesman and thereby ruining my chances of a modest position in the next Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "eneral the right hon. and learned Member for Epsom (Sir P. Rawlinson). I have been an expert witness in the courts and have earned a few guineas. I know how evidence is concerted, when one has three people together. This is one advocate managing three people. I do not blame him for this, and I make no complaints of the conduct of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, which was no doubt inpeccable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2011.1", "colnum": "2011", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "n). I have been an expert witness in the courts and have earned a few guineas. I know how evidence is concerted, when one has three people together. This is one advocate managing three people. I do not blame him for this, and I make no complaints of the conduct of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, which was no doubt inpeccable. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"] He has very properly stayed away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2014.1", "colnum": "2014", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "med. But this was a relationship in which men met together and lunched once a month. I should have said that that man was very much more powerful than any man at the Foreign Office for putting over the fact that there was something amiss, because he was the bridge, he was the appointed official. The Daily Mail took from him what the Daily Express would not take. But the matter does not rest there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2027.5", "colnum": "2027", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Fletcher", "preceding_text": "h. One vivid occasion in my mind occurred a month ago when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was not very friendly to me, nor I to him, and we had it out. As for conducting a campaign against the Government Front Bench, there are many of us on these benches who know how to handle ourselves in both speech and print. Mr. Chapman Pincher is a journalist who ignores the ethics of his profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2027.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2031.1", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " the degree of his vetting, and whether he was at this crucial meeting or not. I have a serious accusation to make, but I have to make it. I have spoken to three defence correspondents, and at the moment Fleet Street is buzzing with rumours to the effect that Colonel Lohan has been the source of many of Chapman Pincher's stories in the Daily Express in the past. I do not know whether this is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2033.4", "colnum": "2033", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. If an hon. Member says something in the heat of the moment and then unreservedly with- draws it, is it not the usual custom Mr. Speaker, not to comment, but to allow it to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2033.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Even the Daily Express. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "r the Government to establish in the future a much more precise kind of D Notice. But editors should maintain their freedom to publish. I am not prepared to accept a decision by a faceless committee in the Ministry of Defence as to whether a thing should be published or not. If we have a responsible Press, the responsibility eventually rests with the editor, and in the end he must weigh it all up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2044.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2044.1", "colnum": "2044", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": ". \"] Hon. Members say \"even the Daily Express \". Some of the arguments from the other side of the House are frightening. It seems to me that hon. Members opposite cannot distinguish between what I think was in many ways a slanted and unfair attack on the Government, using this information, which is clearly what many newspapers have done from time to time—Labour newspapers have done the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2044.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2050.2", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "een the Executive and the newspapers, lies firmly and securely on the side of the newspapers. I have followed this affair closely. I held the view that the Prime Minister was wrong—marginally perhaps, but nevertheless wrong. Given the choice between a good politician and a good journalist, my inclination, as always, was to opt for the good journalist as the one most likely to be telling the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2060.1", "colnum": "2060", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ensor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ensor", "preceding_text": "murder of his best friend. He also said—and I quote from what he told me that afternoon: If it could be proved to me that cable vetting was essential to the security of the country, then I would not have divulged the circumstances surrounding such an operation. But although Colonel Lohan was well aware of my physical whereabouts, no such offer was made. The irresponsibility of Mr. Chapman Pincher—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ce system, it was necessary to go more deeply into some of these questions.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th June, 1967; Vol. 748, c. 313.] There is a proper way of going more deeply into this question, and questions of a conflict of evidence, but what did the Government do? I have here a letter which the Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence sent to the Editor of the Daily Express.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "tices was \"No\", but he was not content with that. He had to rush in and make the allegations against the newspaper which we know so well. He could not content himself and, when challenged the next day, he repeated the allegations. But there was one difference. Instead of speaking then just of breaking two D Notices, he spoke of breaking the D Notice convention. When I heard that, I said to myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "content with that. He had to rush in and make the allegations against the newspaper which we know so well. He could not content himself and, when challenged the next day, he repeated the allegations. But there was one difference. Instead of speaking then just of breaking two D Notices, he spoke of breaking the D Notice convention. When I heard that, I said to myself—[ Laughter. ]—I said to myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " been found—by an impartial commission headed by a most distinguished judge, who heard all the evidence and saw the witnesses—to be wrong. That is the clear fact. Although the Prime Minister may himself believe that the D Notices were enforceable, the Committee in fact found that the practice was not so. What is more, Lord Radcliffe examined the witnesses on every item in that newspaper statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "t the D Notices were enforceable, the Committee in fact found that the practice was not so. What is more, Lord Radcliffe examined the witnesses on every item in that newspaper statement—[ Interruption. ]—on every single item—witnesses who knew all the facts about security and intelligence—and Lord Radcliffe's decision, as given in his Report, was that the Prime Minister's charge was not sustained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "d. Whatever the reason for his making those statements, they have been proved to be wrong. They are damaging to individuals and to a national paper. I therefore urge the right hon. Gentleman to take what is, I believe, the only honourable course open to him and to withdraw those statements. The Prime Minister knows full well that the House of Commons is generous, whatever may have happened before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "which led to the Bank Rate Tribunal. They were all found to have been completely unjustified, whether against the Chancellor of the Exchequer inside the House or against Mr. Poole, as he then was, outside the House. But the Prime Minister completely refused to make any expression of regret. We remember his accusation against Mr. Macmillan and the Rambouillet Conference during the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "that the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) was more concerned with castigating me than with national security, and I think that this is equally true of his right hon Friend the Leader of the Opposition. But I recognise the difficulties of the Leader of the Opposition. This has been a much-heralded debate. There was a tremendous build-up for it, and he had a lot to live up to.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2074.3", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rfan, where my right hon. Friend's speech was endorsed the following week by the judge presiding over the inquiry. The right hon. Gentleman's general argument at the end of the day was that the whole reason for all these things was that I have a bias against the Press, and that that was the motive. I will just say this to the right hon. Gentleman: this Government have not sent journalists to goal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2074.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Your slip is showing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.3", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. There was so much noise. Did I hear the Prime Minister say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.8", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.9", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Speaker needs no help from anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.11", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must warn the hon. Member for Honiton that if he does not keep his seat I must ask him to leave the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.15", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2076.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.2", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise to you if I did not finish my sentence. But the Prime Minister said to the House that the Government had not sent newspaper men to prison. Is it in order for any Government to suggest that another Government were responsible for sending persons to prison?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.4", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is even less than the original point and is not a point of order at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.5", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.7", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Whether the hon. Member for Honiton (Mr. Emery) could hear me, I do not know, but it is clear that some hon. Gentlemen are resolved to ensure that I do not get heard tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.7", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wiggery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " first duty. This is why we did not do what the right hon. Gentleman quite fairly recognised as the easy way out. I want to be more specific about the question of what security means. To some hon. Members and some journalists, and many of the general public, the word \"security\" occasionally carries with it overtones of a rather sinister kind, including snooping and intrusion into personal privacy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2081.1", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will explain why in a moment, but the right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Hugh Fraser), who has had the duty of being Secretary of State for Air, should understand why. I have not said that men's lives have been endangered by this particular publication, or the events which followed it, but, equally, I cannot say that they are not being endangered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2081.1", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did not the Radcliffe Committee say all this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lly assessed. This problem was not available to the Radcliffe Committee. I am telling the House the effect of blind acceptance of the Radcliffe Report. I am passing on to the House what has been given to me in good faith and I pass it on in good faith. If the House does not accept it, it shows that it is more concerned with political animus than this important question. I must tell the House that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2088.8", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " have been loath also to report to the House, until I had been challenged to do this, on the security status of an individual civil servant—because Colonel Lohan is a civil servant. He will not be much longer, because he is resigning, but he is a civil servant. The right hon. Member for Ashford quoted again a confidential letter which was exchanged between two high civil servants on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2088.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2090.1", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman told the House that he paraphrased it. I recognise the right hon. Gentleman's deep concern about his constituent. I know that he was interesting himself in these matters two weeks ago, and I know that information about some of these internal Civil Service matters appeared in the Press at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2090.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-22", "file": "debates1967-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "d3e1dc42ba023e0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2090.4", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "THE D NOTICE SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r. Chapman Pincher. Finally, I was asked—and I will answer it—whether Colonel Lohan had been given full positive vetting clearance. The answer is that he has not. Had there been more time, I would like to have followed the point concerning the future of D Notices, because, as the House knows, I am discussing this with the editors and I will report to the House when those discussions are completed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-22a.2090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2119.6", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "our of this Clause. First, I wish to say something about prisons. Again, I have no special knowledge of prisons. I was a strong supporter of my then right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, now Lord Butler, in all he tried to do during his years at the Home Office in prison reform matters and in combating the rise of serious crime, notably crimes of violence, all of which led me to a casual interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2119.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2120.5", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. I am merely putting in his correct place the hon. Member for Walton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2120.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2122.0", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "preceding_text": "force. The second method of advertising these practices is by way of the advertisement panels which are usually seen outside newsagents' shops. I must admit that in the recent past many of those have disappeared, but they have not completely disappeared. One has only to go to the area just off Piccadilly Circus to see the type of advertisement panel which seeks to advertise all sorts of practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2147.0", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "is in our hag-ridden London today. It is the filthiest of filthy lucre against which I am protesting—and all we get is a curt answer from the Joint Under-Secretary of State, the back of the Home Secretary and just one speech from a sponsor of the Bill who very kindly gives us from his great knowledge cases from the past. But it is those who make money out of this filthy game that I want to punish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2147.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2152.2", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(PROMOTION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Not in mid-sentence in the middle of a speech. Sir Cyril Osborne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2172.1", "colnum": "2172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause No. 3.—(CONSENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "In the light of some of the comments that were made in the discussion on New Clause 3, I must remind the House that this is a Private Member's Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2183.0", "colnum": "2183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause No. 3.—(CONSENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman has gone too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "those with legal knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, I think that there is a duty on those of us who may not be legally competent to present to the House the view of possibly the ordinary man on a matter which I believe to be of central importance. I am sorry that the Home Secretary is leaving, because I wished to deal for a moment with the case as his Under-Secretary put it a few moments ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2195.8", "colnum": "2195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF LAW RELATING TO HOMOSEXUAL ACTS IN PRIVATE.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "An hon. Member has just shouted to me that this is a wasted day. I do not think so. My colleagues and I, who may not be absolutely right, but at least our motives are honourable, have done our best to protect youth. Yet a so-called learned Member of the House says that it is a waste of time to protect the young and the weak. I am ashamed of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2195.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2196.1", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF LAW RELATING TO HOMOSEXUAL ACTS IN PRIVATE.)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Those of us who have done work in various youth clubs and youth movements, as I did 40 years ago, know from experience that there are some who mature young and some who mature older.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-23", "file": "debates1967-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "543e465b8b976882", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2198.1", "colnum": "2198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1.—(AMENDMENT OF LAW RELATING TO HOMOSEXUAL ACTS IN PRIVATE.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "e Bill. It is an incredible thing at a time like this that they should go back to their constituents and say, \"We, the guardians of youth in this country \"—because this does deal with the youth of the country—\"have walked through the Lobbies in order to reduce the sentence on men who abuse lads between the ages of 16 and 18.\" It is inconceivable. Yet that is what hon. Members are proposing to do.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-23a.2198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will do my best to deal with all of those matters. If I miss any one of them, no doubt I shall be reminded. On the first point, about what I said and how the right hon. Gentleman got it wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "minded. On the first point, about what I said and how the right hon. Gentleman got it wrong—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—yes, if the right hon. Gentleman had, in fact, waited to read my speech, and in particular paragraphs 19 to 22, he would have seen that one follows immediately after the other, and the real point was that the misunderstanding so far as he was concerned was that, not for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.94.0", "colnum": "94", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " the Canal, it is in fact blocked in two different areas between Ismailia and Port Said and at the southern end. I think it is reasonable to assume that it was blocked by ships or other obstacles which were placed there by the Egyptians. It is, as I said when I was in New York, a matter of great urgency to persuade the Egyptians or use some other means of getting it open. Concerning our own ships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.94.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "On the last point, the only man I have met in the last five days who cast any doubts on the lie being a lie appears to be the right hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "s. Nor will it ever lead me to the extent to which the right hon. Gentleman makes up his other deficiencies by seizing on them and trying to use them. On annexation, the right hon. Gentleman says there was never any evidence; and I ought to tell the House, as he must well know, having served in the Foreign Office, there are things that one cannot in fact say in public. But he must take it from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.97.0", "colnum": "97", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "In view of the Foreign Secretary's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.97.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) for his kindly opening. I share the same thing. As to whether I discussed my speech with Mr. Eban before I made it, the answer is that I most certainly did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "is that I most certainly did not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I am about to explain if the House will hold itself for a second. Many delegates, many other Foreign Ministers, many Prime Ministers, wanted to see me before I made my speech. I decided that, if I saw any of them before I spoke, there was the gravest risk of its being alleged that what I said was due to the influence of someone or other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.102.2", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FOREIGN SECRETARY (VISIT TO NEW YORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Both cases.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " mind, or in that of Her Majesty's Government, that Israel has lived under provocations and difficulties which should equally be taken care of. There is nothing more uncomfortable than trying to maintain a genuinely neutral rôle. Like everyone else, I have views and I have to try to relate them to realities. We have to see that both cases are heard, are dealt with and are dealt with fairly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.102.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.124.3", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DEFICIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.124.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.124.4", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DEFICIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e constantly borne in mind. If we are to modernise, there are implications here for manpower. Do not let anyone in the House underestimate the difficulties involved in edging the men in the industry forward on this difficult path. There is nothing easier or more superficial than to jibe about the mounting deficit. As The Times said this morning, there is no material here for petty debating points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS (DEFICIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ity spending. The result was that British Railways were forced, perhaps against their commercial judgment, to offer properties and land to local authorities, and yet another Government Department was preventing these local authorities from obtaining sanctions. At the end of 1966 there were £8 million worth of sales uncompleted to local authorities, many of whom were unable to obtain loan sanction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BRIGHTON MARINA BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I should have informed the hon. and learned Member that the Amendment he has on the Order Paper is not selected. A list of the selected Amendments has been published. He can speak to this Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-26", "file": "debates1967-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "25a16afc2f94295c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.173.12", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BRIGHTON MARINA BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "desirable concomitants and would inflict unjust compulsory powers. It would put yachts in a dangerous place, involving loss of life. It would steal away public beaches used for generations. It would spoil beautiful scenery enjoyed by thousands of people, young and old. It would deprive Roedean school girls and students at other schools who go down to these traditional beaches to study marine life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-26a.173.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend repeat the Government's adherence to N.I.B.M.A.R., without qualification?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.235.7", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "While in no way condoning the broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.235.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "onsidered that General de Gaulle's apparent reluctance to allow the United Kingdom's entry to the European Economic Community might not, in part at least, be due to his suspicion of English nationalism and, in particular, to the traditional, historic rôle that England has played in keeping Europe divided? If Scotland were permitted to play a more significant rôle in the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Prime Minister one specific question and, in doing so, assure him that I am choosing my words very carefully?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.259.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "st was transferred from one Department to another and following further consideration, from Aviation to the Ministry of Defence, the whole matter was reopened again. As I have said, the reopening of it—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\") I am answering—was deferred because of that particular inquiry. Since the right hon. Gentleman chooses to quote a letter which, as he knows, is headed \"Staff—in Confidence\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Since the Leader of the Opposition quoted, in paraphrase form, from a letter between civil servants which is headed \"Staff—in Confidence\", I think that it would be wrong for me to answer that question any further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "thout answering other letters in the same sense. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to know all the exchanges—and I am not having one selected in this way; it happens to be the one which has been handed out to the right hon. Gentleman —and wants to pursue the whole general matter, the importance of which I agree with him, then this is not the place to be bandying about arguments of security stages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In the statement which I made on the day of publication of the Report, I said that all of us understood lie extreme difficulties and anomalies of Colonel Lohan's position. It is a lonely post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng through the hands of the Secretary, we decided to reopen the question over a wide field, and those inquiries were going on. I agree with my right hon. Friend that very many things have gone wrong, and I take my share of the responsibility. It is not a question of one individual. As I said last Thursday, I had no intention of bringing out this information and would have been very loath to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"0h\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ngs have gone wrong, and I take my share of the responsibility. It is not a question of one individual. As I said last Thursday, I had no intention of bringing out this information and would have been very loath to do so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] I know the speech which I had dictated, and which I was ready to give in the House. I was very loath at that time to bring out anything about any individual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The position is—in fact, I could put it even better from the right hon. Member's point of view than he did—that Colonel Lohan had been acting Secretary of the Committee during the very serious illness of Admiral Thompson and as he had been acting for some time he was given the job. Admiral Thomson of course, a very distinguished admiral, was never positively vetted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "headed \"Staff—in Confidence\". It was not headed \"Secret\" or \"Top Secret\". My own practice with \"Staff—in Confidence\" documents is to treat them as at least as secret as those headed \"Secret\". This document was in the hands of the Secretary and, obviously, it is now in other hands. I do not think that it is a matter for me to pursue further. Some very odd things have happened in the last few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first part of the question, that is what I ask the right hon. Gentleman to believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.269.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.269.3", "colnum": "269", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sandys rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.270.2", "colnum": "270", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not answer that part of the question. I have already told the House what I think is the right answer in this case, which is for the right hon. Gentleman to see all the papers I have seen. If not, the only alternative I can see, from the way things are going, is that we shall get Questions about this unfortunate individual week after week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.270.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Mr. Barber rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.271.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Then why do it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I think that I should make it clear that I had no intention of intervening this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.272.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.272.7", "colnum": "272", "heading": "SERVICES, PRESS AND BROADCASTING COMMITTEE (COLONEL LOHAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " particularly with what happened in 1964? Does he realise that in his concluding remarks about Colonel Lohan he referred only to 1964 in terms which have been widely interpreted as being highly defamatory? If he intended to refer to 1964 at all, why did he not also refer to the decision in March, 1966, to which my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition has referred? What possible security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.272.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "ive groups: tobacco; the one we are discussing, which is spirits, beer, wine and British wine; hydrocarbon oil; Purchase Tax; and the other remaining duties which are covered. This being the case, if we were now to have a further fragmentation of groups in the way suggested and single out one particular class of goods—in this case, spirits—it is difficult to see where the sub-divisions would stop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. I have finished that point. The case for a variation of the Order depends on whether the scheme itself will be effective or not. If the scheme is effective, I would argue that there is a case for a variation as suggested in paragraph ( a ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All five of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ain, on that earlier occasion, the chief spokesman for the Liberal Party, the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Nebles (Mr. David Steel) gave his party's support for the Clause which it is now sought to amend. He made a long speech without, as far as I recall, any reference to difficulties or the question of flexibility, and he took the whole of his party into the Division Lobby with us On it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-27", "file": "debates1967-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "aa51a40e3d00b9c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "Surely my hon. Friend is imparting an entirely new dimension into this concept of regional employment premiums? A number of us who were not really critical of the idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-27a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT, 1964", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Rowland", "preceding_text": "estion of the involvement of Members of the House. Second, there is the size of potential profits. I know that you will correct me, Mr. Speaker, if I go out of order, but I should like to say, speaking as one with no interest whatever to declare in commercial television, that I see no reason why Members of Parliament should not be not only directors but chairmen of commercial television companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.485.4", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend suggesting that contrary to hon. Members' expectation that the tolls might be abolished, the review might result in an increase? I hope not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.485.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"As a fabricator.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I would describe the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e whether establishments can be legitimately separated, these criteria are reasonable. They are a simple but substantial test of whether the two activities are genuinely separate, although operated under the same roof. I hope that the House will also understand that, as we come to consider the application of these rules, we do it in as sensible and practical a way as possible. Of course we accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.621.3", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No limit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "Yes, as long as is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.642.5", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No. Wait one second. The noble Lord, unlike me, has much experience of owning things and leasing them to other people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.642.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.644.6", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What do they drink? [ Laughter. ]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Yes, as the hon. Gentleman says, there are 300 or 400 people who live there. We would have to create all the installations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.644.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.644.6", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "What do they drink?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.644.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.644.7", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "May I ask the House, if we are taking this argument seriously—if it was intended seriously, and I do not know if it was—how would we present ourselves to the world, having allegedly given independence to South Arabia and then create a base with all the installations required and all the ancillary requirements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.644.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The Foreign Secretary has made an important and very helpful statement. I understand now that it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government to achieve the internationalisation, under the United Nations, of the Island of Perim. He has said that he expects to achieve this, if it can be achieved, by the date of independence of the Arabian Federation, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.662.6", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": " up and Aden itself will wish to opt out, and that we should, therefore, give her the opportunity to do so now, rather than getting out and expecting it to happen later on. It could be argued that there is no indigenous movement towards the separation of Aden from the Federation, but my information is to the contrary, and its source is exceptionally good, though I am not at liberty to disclose it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.662.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where does the hon. Member find himself?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "I resent strongly the implication that I am casting any aspersions en the functions performed by British Forces. What I am arguing about is the strategy of placing them where they find themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has now repeated a part of his speech. All I am saying is that, if that is what Liberal Members want to say, they should not do it by voting against the Clause. If they say that about the Bill, they could have put down Amendments to say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.668.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "Mr. Robert Cooke (Bristol, West) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I must confess that I find that the tone of the right hon. Gentleman's contributions to these debates has been rather sad. I see no reason why I should be accused, having contributed as constructively as I could, of tricking the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-28", "file": "debates1967-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "cbf69e88d55f5d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADEN, PERIM AND KURIA MURIA ISLANDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "on. Members, I had a previous engagement and was not able to be present when it was discussed. However, I understand that the Government will sympathetically approach the question of putting the Island of Perim into a special United Nations category and under the sovereignty of the United Nations. As the Chairman of the Anti-Slavery Society, I am, naturally, very interested in this part of Arabia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-28a.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The main point of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is not a matter for me, but I agree that he has a point. There is one specific grievance, I agree, that telephonists here have. Under an arbitration award of 1962, telephonists outside get 12s. for night work. Telephonists in this House do not get it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "We are starting Radio 247 on 30th September. It will be a robust music service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.741.6", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that that is a very surprising Answer? Is he further aware that the Paymaster-General is now playing no part in the Parliamentary life of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.741.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "Would not the Prime Minister agree that the war broke out because the Prime Minister, having originally said that he would assert the freedom of the Canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in another place the Lord Chancellor indicated that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.757.4", "colnum": "757", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "that on this Bill there are matters of principle and passion aris- ing among Members on both sides, in respect of which I would expect a lengthy debate. If we have a lengthy debate I think that the right thing is to have it at the time I have allotted. It does not seem any more likely that people will abuse procedure at night. I believe that they will debate the matter fairly and honestly together", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.757.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "After some of the humbug expressed by hon. Members opposite, is the Leader of the House aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.758.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.758.1", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "After some of the humbug expressed by hon. Members opposite, is the Leader of the House aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Grow up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.758.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.765.5", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PETROL PRICES (SURCHARGE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Suez?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that the reduction of petrol prices to which he referred was due to the operation of a free market? Secondly, what is the Government's view of the effects of these rising costs on the balance of payments? Thirdly, do the Government expect that rationing may have to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.779.0", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that he is now on a very dangerous argument? He is putting at hazard the whole question of safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.779.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": ". in office space, and 50 per cent. in ground personnel, could increase the capacity of Heathrow and, therefore, extend the date at which the third airport must be needed. So we say that there is time for such an inquiry. To sum up, we believe that Britain must take her full share in what is one of the world's most rapidly growing activities, namely, the transport by air of passengers and freight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.790.6", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "The figures of 200,000 and 170,000 compare with a smaller population at Bishop's Stortford, Harlow and Sawbridgworth, which are immediately south-west of Stansted. Even after the planned expansion of Harlow is reached in about 1981 the population will be only about 120,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.790.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the inspector's conclusions, and the hon. Gentleman is only occupying time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "x00E7;-vis Parliament to consult not merely the South Eastern Planning Council but even the British Airports Authority, which I was not able to consult following a decision by the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Kilmuir, on 8th May, 1961. The right hon. Gentleman was a little lighthearted in describing the principles of the Council on Tribunals as being \"all hooey\". That is not the view that we take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.792.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " quote from a letter which has appeared in the Press from four residents of Saffron Walden, who say, We would like an opportunity to say that we are enthusiastically for the airport. It must be good for all of us who live and work in the area. It will create new opportunities for us and our children, more variety of jobs, better facilities for shopping, for leisure time and all other activities. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.800.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.812.0", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was Clemenceau.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "sage pointing specifically to any one alternative site. The message points, however, unmistakably and unchallengeably, to a proper review and reappraisal, giving weight to all considerations. In doing that the matter must be broadened beyond the mere technical aspects. I forget whether it was Lloyd George, Clemenceau, or who, who said that war was too important a matter to be left to the generals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "of the inter-departmental committee's deliberations, and the inquiry, was concerned with this point to such an extent that Sir Milner Holland said that his case rested on it. The case was that access would be to London's West End and not to the City. Indeed, people wanting to go in the area of Grosvenor Square would not be able to do the first bit of the journey by car in under about half an hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Minister is obviously not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.876.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.877.10", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Throw him out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Mr. Rippon rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.877.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.877.13", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Mr. Greenwood rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.877.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "y of Housing, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury. The hon. Member for Saffron Walden (Mr. Kirk) asked a number of questions, one of them about a remark made by Mr. Masefield on television the other night. I am authorised by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade to say that Mr. Masefield had misunderstood the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": " I never rejected the advice I got from inspectors appointed to consult at inquiries. We really cannot shuffle off our responsibilities on to further committees of inquiry, Royal Commissions or any other bodies of that kind. The time has come to make a decision on a problem which has been the subject of discussion since at least 1953. We must make a decision. This has been an interesting exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.881.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman tell the House whether a proper cost-benefit analysis was made about all the different sites; and will he publish the results of it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I have sat in the House throughout the debate and have not heard a more deplorable speech than that of the Minister. He totally failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.882.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.882.4", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer. Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "I was comparing the decision for the termination of a pregnancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order for an hon. Gentleman to read a newspaper in the Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.906.4", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I know that the Minister would not wittingly mislead the House, but he has just made a statement which is not correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.906.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.906.6", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.906.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "be under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner holding an appointment as a consultant under the National Health Service or by a registered medical practitioner approved for this purpose by the Minister. The Minister is aware that not only has the House rejected that suggestion, on his advice, but that he has completely misled the House, and I hope that he will withdraw what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.907.3", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "is time one woman who was pregnant had committed suicide. She was a married woman with two or three children, attending a psychiatric clinic at the time. She needed psychiatric treatment. So in a 12-year period in Birmingham we have one suicide amongst pregnant women and here abortion would not have influenced the outcome. Dr. Sim goes on to go into details, with which I will not burden the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.907.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. I wish to speak particularly on one of the group of Amendments, No. 10. It is a very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "It is a very great triumph for those of us who have opposed \"well-being\" throughout Second Reading and Committee that at last the sponsor of the Bill appears to recognise that our arguments were good and sensible. It has taken a great deal of effort to make him see reason about this, and it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "t seems to me, must be a moral judgment. Sometimes it may be argued that abortion is justified on social grounds. For myself, I have made it clear that when medical grounds are involved, I am with the suggestion all the way. We are now discussing social grounds, however, and whether it is right for an abortion to be committed simply and solely because the coming child is unwelcome to its parents.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not said that the hon. Lady is completely' out of order: merely that she is going into too much detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.933.2", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State to the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State to the Home Department (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "While we may not all share the hon. Lady's slightly obsessive interest in the details of this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.933.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Myer Galpern", "preceding_text": "I welcome the indication that there is to be a substantial amendment to the Clause, but I take it that \"well-being\" will be retained in sub-paragraph (ii) of subsection (1, a ).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "I do not want to have a difference of opinion with the Chair. I was trying to talk about the risk to a pregnant woman's physical and mental health and future well-being, and that of her children or future children. Doctors must adjudicate on the words \"total environment\" which appear in Amendment No. 15. I have no intention of filibustering", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "mittee, from filibustering to my Catholic religion, and I will take all that and more, but it is a sad thing when Members of my own party behave as they have done tonight to a man of my reputation in the Labour Party. But they will not keep me quiet. It was our record over things like environment and well-being and the dignity of family life which made us a Government: it was not fantasy policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "use by its very nature it is unable to speak for itself. I have no hesitation in saying that if I were a doctor I would put the interests of the mother before those of the child. I know that in saying this I probably speak against the views of many Roman Catholics, who think that the unborn child's life is even more valuable than that of the mother, because it is a life without sin and it is also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.979.0", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the hon. Member's intervention. In a way he has helped to explain this difficult case. The psychiatrist felt that he had to exclude from his consideration of the problem all the existing five children. It was because of the strain of trying to cope, unsupported by an errant husband, with the existing family that the conclusion was reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.979.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Summers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Summers", "preceding_text": "d, it seems that it is going beyond all common sense. I allude to this only to illustrate the dangers of bringing in the consideration of the size of the family or the effect on the existing children. If this consideration is brought in, I can see dangerous things flowing from it. In the preceding Amendment which was lost, the idea of cutting out all consideration of the children was lost with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) has come chuntering into the Chamber without having been present and has then had a little furtive conversation with the Chair and fluttered to and fro. It will be in your personal recollection, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that at the conclusion of the Budget speech of 1966 you, with the greatest respect, were in certain difficulties, if I remember rightly, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wasting time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "the Chair and fluttered to and fro. It will be in your personal recollection, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that at the conclusion of the Budget speech of 1966 you, with the greatest respect, were in certain difficulties, if I remember rightly, because—[ Interruption. ]—of some tic-tac or flag wagging that went on behind you which you were unable to see because you were on that occasion in the little Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "ers: \"Wasting time.\"] We have observed approximately every two hours this evening the right hon. Member for Leeds, West coming in and going through these movements and then sitting in a position in the Chamber out of sight of the Chair and going through this same sort of tic-tac movement. Is this not, frankly, an abuse of our debate when the right hon. Gentleman has not listened to the discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "to remain there until we were—sure", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.998.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.2", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would you, at this stage, be prepared to entertain a Motion to adjourn the debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.9", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I beg to move, That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be now adjourned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.10", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "It is clear from the sounds that we heard when I moved this that some hon. Members think that I am doing so for delaying reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.10", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He wants to go to bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "It is clear from the sounds that we heard when I moved this that some hon. Members think that I am doing so for delaying reasons—[ Interruption. ] I can only say that they will realise that I am not by reason of the length of speech which I propose to make. It will not be a long one. I move this Motion for two very simple reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.10", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "only say that they will realise that I am not by reason of the length of speech which I propose to make. It will not be a long one. I move this Motion for two very simple reasons—[An HON. MEMBER: \"He wants to go to bed.\"] It must be obvious to anyone who is aware of the way the procedure of this House works that the Government will not allow their own business to be interfered with by this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.999.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No more tickets for you\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "s clear from the course of the debate that full consideration of the Bill on Report and Third Reading will not be completed by the hour I have mentioned. In these circumstances it seems wholly and utterly reasonable for the sake of hon. Members on both sides of the House and to those in support of and against the Bill, and the officers of the House—we have had an example that some are not exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "The consideration which the hon. Member is extending to hon. Members on both sides of the House is utterly misplaced. Hon. Members on both sides who do not wish to stay can go home. This is private Members' time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By an overwhelming majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "hat should be precious to hon. and right hon. Members on both sides of the House. If we are to waste our own time so sparingly granted each Session by the Sessional Orders, we are unconscious of the injury we are doing to our interests as private Members. This is a squalid manoeuvre. It is difficult to discuss it except in contemptuous terms. This Bill was given a Second Reading nearly a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why nine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "Yes. I confessed how difficult it was to speak with any restraint. We have until nine o'clock or after. We can make further progress on the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1002.6", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": " the privilege and interest of serving on the Standing Committee. I have studied the Bill with care and followed its progress with great interest. I have taken a very limited part in what has been going on today. The discussion has been good debating and interesting. Several points of great importance have been raised and dealt with. It is absolutely wrong to say that there has been filibustering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1002.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": " true, as my right hon. Friend said, that most hon. Members knew that we were in for a long sitting. I believe that all hon. Members, whatever their views on the Bill, who want to come to a decision on the Bill and on points on the Bill, would now think it reasonable not to hold it up but that we should go on and use some of the re- maining time available. I think that we can use four hours or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) who moved the Motion in a most moderate fashion, has, I think, the support of a great many hon. Members. This is a Bill of transcendent importance. Hon. Members who are rather excited about it and want to get it through very quickly are perhaps in the excitement of the moment forgetting that we are dealing here with human life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "e already had seven hours' debate. I think it is true to say that the debates up to now have been of a very high standard. I accept what the right hon. Gentleman the Home Secretary said about that. I think it is true that the debates have been very thoughtful. I do not accept at all the view that there has been filibustering, and so on. I think the debates have been of a very high standard indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "tering. That was the only reason why I entered into the history of the Bill. My hon. Friend the Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maude), who said he had spoken only three times to the Bill, has taken a great interest in the Bill. He has spoken tonight, as have other hon. Members interested in the Bill. For many of us this is the first opportunity we have had of getting our teeth into the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "g. I accept what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Sowerby said about that: if the House Commons wants to keep its authority and dignity we should see that those who have to carry out the laws we pass can see, as they have the right to see, that those laws were passed at a reasonable hour of the day or night, and not in the early hours of the morning, when our judgment is, perhaps, affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "May I submit that that was a point of order? It is a clear point of order. The hon. Member who moved the Amendment pointed out that when you were not in the Chair the word \"well-being\" had been deleted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1018.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1019.2", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "r by two doctors who are acting in combination. It is interesting to note that one of these must be a head physician, a medical officer or a physician of equal rank. An earlier Amendment, containing a similar proposal, was rejected earlier in the debate. 5.45 a.m. The great majority of abortions carried out in Sweden are authorised by the Board or the panel of experts, either on social grounds or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1019.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "The continuous conversation in which the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) has been indulging makes it extremely difficult to hear what my hon. Friend is saying. I would be grateful if my hon. Friend could elaborate a little on how these procedures work in Sweden. I have been somewhat disquieted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1020.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1020.10", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1020.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It would help the interests of the objectives which both hon. Gentlemen wish to achieve if neither of them makes these interventions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it has long been held by the Chair that that which it does not hear it does not inquire further about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.0", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, it has long been held by the Chair that that which it does not hear it does not inquire further about—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I want to deal with this. It was said of a very well-respected Speaker of the House—Speaker Fitzroy—that, like most great men, he suffered from the infirmity of not hearing what he did not want to hear and not seeing what he did not want to see. I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Since I am delighted to say I do not have the benefit of the close friendship of the hon. Gentleman to whom I referred, Mr. Deputy Speaker, perhaps, on consideration, it would be fairer now not to make that assertion because I am really not qualified to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On your instructions, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.6", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On your instructions, Mr. Deputy Speaker—[ Interruption. ] I will certainly withdraw that assertion. Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "sidering the evidence in the documents which come before it, the committee has additional powers. It can ask medical specialists for an opinion or arrange for an examination of the applicant for an abortion. If we had this sort of system, the further question arises of whether there should be some kind of right of appeal. There is no provision for that in my Amendment, and there is none in Sweden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "Whether he said it or not, it is true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. When an hon. Member calls for order because the right hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) is moving very slowly down the middle of the Chamber, is it in order for the right hon. Gentleman to say \"Bloody impudence\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. O. J. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. O. J. Robinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I shall apologise if I am wrong, but I understand that the Amendment refers to a proviso—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "House that abortions should not be carried out which are not necessary to the well-being of the families involved. We all agree, I am sure, that the fewer abortions there are the better. One of the things which emerges from the Swedish system of panels is the quick check which they are able to carry out. There has been a considerable diminution in the number of abortions authorised over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "My name was put down to one of the Amendments because I was certain that there would be a mass of argument on this interesting subject and I wanted to ensure that I was called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "ood faith. I put my name down originally because I thought that Amendment No. 40 was an attractive Amendment. But I had no sooner done so than I realised that there was a snag. I took an opinion. I had no intention of exposing myself to this criticism, but throughout the passage of this Bill I have spoken as I have felt. I have spoken honestly about these matters. I found that I could not support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "ical Association and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is that these Amendments are not acceptable to them. I will say why. The House must accept the fact that we may pass an Act of Parliament which says what two registered medical practitioners may or may not do, but it will not make the slightest difference to the number of therapeutic abortions carried on outside this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady wishes to make progress, and I do not wish unduly to delay the Committee. I was on the point of saying why the responsible leaders of the medical profession do not find the two Amendments acceptable. I felt it my duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "e medical profession do not find the two Amendments acceptable. I felt it my duty—[ Interruption. ]—it is difficult to engage with half a dozen hon. Members opposite at the same time. Having put my name to Amendment 40 in good faith, and having listened to the trend of the debate, I considered it my duty to rise, although earlier I had no intention of doing so, and to say that I did so mistakenly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "We have been here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "Well, if one is to express the need for an Amendment one has to give reasons why he is expressing the need for the Amendment. That is precisely what I am attempting to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I and several other hon. Members were in the house when your predecessor in the Chair pronounced on the right of reply of the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) to this debate on these four Amendments. If I remember rightly, that pronouncement was made in extremely non-committal terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1085.6", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The point has already been put to me and I have answered it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1085.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is not my intention or my desire to delay the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "substitute \"probability\" for \"substantial risk\" in paragraph ( b ) instead of substituting \"certainty\", as my Amendment would do. I think that \"probability\" is better than \"substantial risk\" because \"risk\" is vague and \"substantial\" has nothing very concrete to it. Therefore, \"probability\" is a better word because a definable meaning can be attached to it. I take it to mean \"more likely than not.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "in paragraph ( b ) instead of substituting \"certainty\", as my Amendment would do. I think that \"probability\" is better than \"substantial risk\" because \"risk\" is vague and \"substantial\" has nothing very concrete to it. Therefore, \"probability\" is a better word because a definable meaning can be attached to it. I take it to mean \"more likely than not.\" [ Interruption. ] That would be an improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Up, Charlie!", "preceding_speaker": "Several hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several hon. Members rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Not unless the hon. Gentleman insists. If I sense the feeling of the House, it seems to be that the House should reach an immediate decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1096.10", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "entitled to organise opposition to that treatment of the Bill in a dignified and efficient way. That, I think, has been the aim of hon. Members opposed to this Bill from both sides of the House. There was only one moment I think during the evening—and that turned out to be a misunderstanding—when there was a question about lingering in the Lobby. Certainly there was no plan to linger in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1096.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I was one of the Tellers concerned in that Division and addressed Mr. Speaker afterwards, I know that Mr. Speaker did not rule anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1098.5", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We on this side distinctly heard the right hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. C. Pannell) point across to my hon. Friend here and say the word \"liar\". Is this not an unparliamentary use of language?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1098.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1098.7", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I did not say he was a liar. I said, \"Do not lie\", which is a distinctly different matter. Out of respect for you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I of course withdraw that. But I must say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1098.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-29", "file": "debates1967-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d647b8633f828314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. McAdden", "preceding_text": "erations he had in mind was the business which the Chancellor of the Exchequer wants dealt with at eleven oclock. I should like to know from the hon. Gentleman whether, by his courtesy in moving, \"That further consideration of the Bill, as amended, be adjourned\", to the satisfaction of the Chancellor's desires, he has in return received a pledge that further Government time will be made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-29a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-30", "file": "debates1967-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "b43cd31c704bdefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-30a.1157.0", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "MARINE, &c., BROADCASTING (OFFENCES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": " Gentleman to assure us that the date is not already determined in his mind. If it is, he is laughing at the Amendment. He is accepting it, knowing that he will not accept it at heart. If this is not done the Government have been utterly deceitful in the last phases of the Bill. In another place my noble Friend who proposed the Amendment was implored by the Lord Chancellor not to divide the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-30a.1157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-06-30", "file": "debates1967-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "b43cd31c704bdefe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-30a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Clause 11.—(SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chanson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Time-wasting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chanson", "preceding_text": "Of course I will not, and I apologise for being led astray.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-06-30a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "leman aware that as a result of the Bill which is passing through the House the treatment of addicts by general practitioners is to cease? Is he satisfied that the facilities which now exist, and which he is hoping to set up, will be able to deal with those addicts who will no longer be able to go to a general practitioner and who will need treatment? Is he aware that if he does not fill this gap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1270.0", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "ALGIERS (BRITISH PILOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "The gentleman in question is not a British citizen so we have no means of making direct representations in that sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1271.10", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "ALGIERS (BRITISH PILOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker is not omniscient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1271.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1272.5", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to draw your attention to a matter which you may think constitutes a breach of Privilege. I refer to a report in The Times newspaper today of a speech made over the weekend by the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) in which some hon. Members—those who support the Sexual Offences (No. 2) Bill—are accused of depravity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1336.3", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Social Security (Miss Margaret Herbison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Social Security (Miss Margaret Herbison)", "preceding_text": "n the national wealth which they had helped to create. The vast majority of pensioners are people in modest circumstances who have made their plans for retirement on this basis, and I ask the House and the country: are we now to break faith with them because of the kind of criticism which has been levelled at us by the Opposition and by what I call some of the responsible journals in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "preceding_text": "ty the hardest. The burden is harder for the employed person on the lowest wage. When they were in opposition, hon. Members opposite criticised increases in flat-rate National Insurance contributions as a \"regressive poll tax\". They do not have much to say about that at present. The proposals for raising the supplementary benefit scales, welcome as they are—I stress that we welcome those measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "preceding_text": "nd of the Government to thrash out and agree upon their social policies and social objectives. I do not know where the right hon. Lady is going for her summer holidays. Last year, if I remember rightly, she went to Yugoslavia. I hope that she enjoyed herself, but this year she might perhaps stay in this country and brood over the need to get some sort of plan agreed before she goes to Scarborough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Mervyn Pike", "preceding_text": "efully both Press reports and the speeches made by well-informed and realistic people, many of them her own supporters. It is obvious that the right hon. Lady and some of her hon. Friends find it difficult to eat some of their words, and we do not want to make it more difficult for them. What matters is not raking over old scores or continually asking, \"Why didn't you do it in the last 13 years?\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Member cannot address himself to the Amendments I must ask him to resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "s high as 21, have not gone high enough. What are we doing here? It is no good looking for a logical basis or for something else in our law which we can use as a comparison. What we have to do is to try to get what is practicable and will secure the desired objective. I suggest at least three reasons why the age of 21 is a bad choice. 10.45 p.m. It comes right in the middle of a university career.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Taylor", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. When a group of Amendments has been taken in the House, it has been traditional that we should be allowed to vote on each Amendment and each Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1430.10", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Sir C. Taylor rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1430.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1431.2", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must guide the hon. Member. He has been in Parliament a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stop at Carlisle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": " Secretary rightly had some fun at my expense on the question of British Railways sleeping cars. I do not begrudge him that, but the point involved here may have escaped his notice. The Bill does not apply to Scotland. Night sleepers regularly run from Euston to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and so on. If the Amendment is not accepted perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will tell me what the situation will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1455.4", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgusting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "e not breaking the law? Again, as my right hon. and learned Friend asked, when two, three or more people are involved what is the situation in relation to the \"peeping Tom\"? Two people indulging in these practices may imagine they are unobserved and they may be all right. On the other hand, they may think that other people of the same convictions would like to look in on them, and may pay to look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1455.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "is important to realise that all the supporters, as named on the Bill, are not here tonight to support it. It has been the practice for a very long time that hon. Members, when speaking, should declare their interest. I am not suggesting that the supporters of the Bill, or those who are voting against all the Amendments tonight, have a direct interest which they ought to declare and tell us about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1477.6", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As one who was intimately connected politically with a victim, whom I respected and trusted and whose word I always believed, a man of great courage in the service of his country, a man of integrity, a man who was sent to prison for four years from this House after having already endured several years' imprison- ment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1477.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1479.3", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I wish that the hon. Gentleman would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1482.2", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "ainly nobody in the House, with half the experience of the courts in deciding what is right in sentencing. No one else has the facilities for getting all the facts. This is the job of the courts—to represent the public in delivering sentences. If they sentence too severely, there would soon be a public outcry and the matter would be put right. What is the sense of limiting sentences to five years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1487.0", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "thing to remember, it is not a question, necessarily, of the sentences which are imposed by the courts. It is the effect on the moral attitudes of people, and these are affected considerably by the maximum sentences or punishments which are available. We have seen—and I shall not pursue the matter in any detail—the effect of the abolition of hanging as a punishment for armed and violent criminals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": " the hon. Member who has just sat down feels very deeply about it and, whether his remarks were in order or not, surely we should all respect some of the things which he said from his heart. We should not laugh at them. I preface my remarks by saying that I think it peculiar that, within four or five days, two Private Members' Bills have been before the House, and both sponsored by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-03", "file": "debates1967-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2ed899ea47fcfd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "SEXUAL OFFENCES (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "rs of the Bill does not truly represent the opinion of decent and reasonable people in Britain as a whole. If the House gives the Third Reading to an obnoxious Bill like this, the people of Britain will suddenly awaken to what is being done in their name and will react very violently to it. I hope that every newspaper will pulish a full list of those who vote for the Bill, including the Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-03a.1516.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1538.2", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I certainly understand the fears and apprehensions with regard to the future of the industry among these men. I would add that during the visits I have made to different parts of the country which are affected, or are likely to be affected, the kind of hostility to which my right hon. Friend has referred has not been shown to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "There has been a lot of consideration on the point which the hon. Gentleman makes. It is a very real possibility, borrowing on the open market, as he knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "The Minister has just said that there is a very real possibiilty of borrowing on the open market. Will he stop being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I start by saying that I am not particularly impressed by the hon. Gentleman's new-found concern for the poorest members of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1558.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend agree that, not being in the Common Market, Great Britain has nevertheless in the last couple of years made remarkable recovery to economic stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—and as a Merseyside Member, I agree with the hon. Member that probably all of us, regardless of party, recognise the very important place which the Grand National holds in the sporting life of the country. All of us, or most of us, would, I think, desire to see it continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1563.5", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No Merseyside hon. Member who visits his constituency at the week-end of the National can be other than fully cognisant of the interest which Irish breeders take in the National, sometimes with a successful result, but it would be in the interest of most of us that this historic racecourse should be safeguarded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1563.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1700.3", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "hat is what, with great wisdom, sagacity and accuracy, my hon. Friend is concerned to deal with in his Amendment. The hon. Member for Bristol, North-East said that in the play it was the right number. This again shows that collusion might enter into the matter. It is a point about which we want to be very careful. We need great precision here. In an expanding service it is easy not to properly vet", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1711.0", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "I should like the Press Gallery to know that I admired the Postmaster-General's paintings. They were very pleasant and they gave an atmosphere of comfort and ease. There was one of a young lady and young gentlemen sitting on a seat, very friendly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-04", "file": "debates1967-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "370d874419111ac6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Osborn", "preceding_text": "ve been cast are eradicated and that companies using Post Office facilities will feel free to consult and work on a basis of trust with the Postmaster-General. We tabled a new Clause relating to consultation. The Assistant Postmaster-General implied that the Measure had the backing of the firms concerned.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee B, 15th June, 1967, c. 71.] A good deal of the Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-04a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "an be briefly stated. Senior officers with £3,000 a year salary and with their fees reimbursed from the naval education fund pay nothing from their own pockets. A seaman's widow, on the other hand, with a bare £4 a week pension, has to go out to work and pay fees for her orphan son to be educated at the Navy's orphanage. The Under-Secretary of State cannot and does not attempt to deny this charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": " after her younger children in order to pay fees for her orphan son to be educated at the Navy's orphanage. No one will deny that argument or convince me that it is not 100 per cent. correct. In other words, the whole thing is a complete charitable racket. These charitable scandals are legitimate cause for drastic criticism of the Estimates. It has been said that I make the same speech every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Harry Pursey", "preceding_text": "ty is the trustee of Greenwich Hospital, and will still be liable to answer Questions. I have not asked Questions on the subject for a year, but I shall start doing so again and so keep the pot of criticism boiling. The subject may well be considered suitable for an occasional Adjournment debate, as the hon. Member for Merton and Morden said. With ingenuity, a great deal can be said in 15 minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1795.7", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman. This Question was down for Oral Answer but was changed in the last 24 hours to a Question for Written Answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1795.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1804.3", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I do not think I have a better crystal ball than the hon. Member, but the Government have a responsibility to make up their mind what sort of military tasks will make sense for Her Majesty's Government in 10 years' time. This is a very important consideration in deciding what weapons we shall then require. I have never denied the value of carriers while we have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1811.0", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The Question refers to a breach of the prices and incomes policy, but the hon. Member now states that pay has nothing to do with it. No airman is worse off as a result of this. Over the years the cost of items—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1823.9", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have just been given it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Without notice I cannot say what is the cost of the base at Majunga.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1823.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1826.0", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "ANGLO-FRENCH VARIABLE GEOMETRY AIRCRAFT PROJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I think that on reflection the hon. Gentleman—who normally takes these matters with great seriousness—will regret the words he has used and will particularly regret attempting to attract some petty party advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1826.0", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "ANGLO-FRENCH VARIABLE GEOMETRY AIRCRAFT PROJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "y party advantage—[ Interruption. ]—that is what it is; a party advantage—out of what is a very serious matter, not only for Britain but for Europe as a whole. To answer the particular points he raised, I have been repeatedly and, in my view, rightly urged by hon. Gentlemen opposite to try to make a success of Anglo-French co-operation in the aircraft field. If I have failed, that is not my fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1828.3", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "ANGLO-FRENCH VARIABLE GEOMETRY AIRCRAFT PROJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " the last one, and so did my hon. Friends, and I look forward to the next. However, on the question of the future needs of our aircraft industry and the Royal Air Force, the whole of the Opposition Front Bench supported me in trying to achieve the proposed Anglo-French aircraft, and I think it shows a very shabby and sordid side to them that they should now attempt to draw a petty party advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1835.4", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": " not out of control, and this was as true of Scotland as of the whole United Kingdom. Therefore, the growth of jobs in 1965 and early 1966 was a legacy of conditions under a Conservative Government and it is no use this Government claiming credit for that harvest. Ships coming off the stocks now were ordered when my right hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Mr. Marples) was Minister of Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1835.4", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "dered when my right hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Mr. Marples) was Minister of Transport—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"]—the hon. Gentleman says, \"Rubbish\", but it is undeniable that the harvest of ships now being completed was ordered under the previous Government. The Socialists stoked the boom instead of damping it and then, when they recognised that they had misjudged the economic climate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that it is rubbish, but his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland used to make great play of the loss to Scotland of 174,000 people between 1951 and 1962. My reckoning is that during 1965 and 1966 half that number will have been lost to Scotland in net emigration—in two years compared with 11—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1840.3", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ave been shown up as empty by his performance in Government. I said at the start that the task of any Government in this respect was difficult, but the Government have made it much more difficult for themselves, first by losing control of the economy and, secondly, by keeping the right hon. Gentleman as Secretary of State for Scotland. I quote from an article in yesterday's Scottish Daily Express.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1840.3", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who wrote it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman as Secretary of State for Scotland. I quote from an article in yesterday's Scottish Daily Express. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members would be foolish to laugh at an organ which is read by so many millions of people. Writing of the right hon. Gentleman, the article says: His assurances are meaningless and are unanimously criticised. This is not the reputation to foster confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Douglas Jay)", "preceding_text": "en allocated. Incidentally, three of the allocated ones have already been extended at the request of the tenants. The 10 allocated include two at Bellshill taken by Honeywell Controls, one at Cumnock by Chemstrand, one at North Cardonald by Bovril, one at Blantyre by Fabri-Tek Ltd., one at Queenslie by Phillips Drill Company, and one at Stranraer by a shoe company known as Baby Dear Shoes Limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1853.1", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is splitting the most enormous hairs. Anyone who read the reports of the speech—but no hon. Member opposite ever believes anything written in the papers—would have received the strong impression that the Secretary of State indicated to the tourist industry that it was doing jolly well, and all of us know that it is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1904.3", "colnum": "1904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "f Trade outlined. In April there were 260 redundancies at Fred Braby and Company, Glasgow. In 1966, 300 clerical staff were declared redundant at Colville's. At Singer Sewing Machines, 350 staff were declared redundant in October last year, at Beards and Scottish Steel there were 465 redundancies in January of this year, and at William Beardmore Ltd. there were 120 redundancies in the same month.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1933.1", "colnum": "1933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "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 of the then Cabinet sitting smiling at this. What a position it was for them after all these years, when time after time they were just pulling their way out. After all this time, when they were going to do all these wonderful things, they finished by talking of a boom. They left us bankrupt, not booming, and that was not the first time that a Labour Government had to take over the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1940.1", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "as a whole or on any part of it. I could quote one speech after another made by hon. Gentlemen opposite in which they pointed out how we must get the national economy right and keep it right. But in the past when we ran into difficulties, it was Scotland who was hit first and which was the last to recover. Reflation and boom usually landed us in another Tory disaster, and Scotland was left behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1940.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1941.2", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Sorry. I will not give way. I have much to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-05", "file": "debates1967-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "439e7809a6fdc38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1941.4", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "come, but in getting the right kind of industry. We see that in Fife, in Dundee, in Lanarkshire, and I hope to see it in some other areas that are threatened. The hon. Member for Dumfries expressed concern about pit closures. He has discussed the matter with myself and the Board of Trade. He had better watch himself. Do not let him talk the N.C.B. into the premature closing of some of these pits.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-05a.1941.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption. s", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take cognisance of the fact that many of the criticisms from this side of the House are very genuine, because we are concerned at the policy's effects on workers, whilst those from the other side are an exhibition of", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1976.1", "colnum": "1976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman realise how terribly difficult it is for anyone to remember these seven-figure telephone numbers? Is it not possible to devise some simpler method? Can the right hon. Gentleman say with his hand on his heart, or whatever it is that he has there—perhaps a block of ice—how many old telephone numbers he can remember under the present system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1977.6", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As it is perfectly clear that all Welsh Ministers are frightened at the present time of talking about this matter, I give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1977.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1998.0", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where was the Leader of the House then?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "We have discussed this with the Serjeant at Arms. We shall have much the same arrangement as last time. The arrangements worked very satisfactorily throughout the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.1997.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "he Security Council or the General Assembly coming to some resolution which will satisfy Russia? I doubt it. If not, I admit it is a pessimistic view and does not coincide with the point of view of the right hon. Gentleman, we shall be in a very difficult position. That is what leads me to think that perhaps the old alliance system under present circumstances may be better than the United Nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2035.1", "colnum": "2035", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "r Orkney and Shetland, which I endorse, and tell us what the Government's policy is over the supply of arms to the Middle East. If we go on in the way in which Russia means to do, as sure as fate there will be a fourth occasion in which the pre-emptive strike will come, and from a different quarter—the Arabs. The Israelis have shown that a pre-emptive strike is the answer, and I do not blame them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2040.3", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It has happened before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "or committed these acts of murder will be invited to join the South Arabian Government or, as it now seems to be called, the caretaker Government. May we be assured of that? It makes a nonsense of the Government's intention to re-establish law and order if after there has been a bloody rebellion they immediately ask the people who were responsible for it to take over the Government of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2065.1", "colnum": "2065", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "craft from Damascus to Tel Aviv. The reconciliation of the two branches of the Semitic race is a prime need of mankind. It seems strange to recall that only last year General Dayan was talking in terms of an Israel-Arab partnership within a confederacy of the Levant. It seems a distant prospect now. It seems visionary when the guns have not yet become silent and when burnt children are in torment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2115.7", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "At least let me get started. If I have made a mistake, if somebody described him as \"President Nasser\" when I was not here, I will withdraw, but while I have been in the Chamber no one has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2115.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-06", "file": "debates1967-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "35b3948edb442187", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2116.0", "colnum": "2116", "heading": "MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Absolute nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " have called him \"Colonel Nasser\". Others have just said \"Nasser\". I really think that here there is a great difference between us which the other side of the House ought to face up to. President Nasser is the President of his country. Whether we agree or disagree with his policies is another matter. We do not achieve anything by being rude in this way to the leaders of other countries whose only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-06a.2115.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-07", "file": "debates1967-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "069e4d414226f96f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-07a.2202.1", "colnum": "2202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "ointed at Cabinet rank with overall responsibility for the future of social security. I noticed that Minister pop into the Chamber for 15 minutes or so during the Second Reading debate, but then he vanished. I only hope that our long-term thinking about this problem has not also vanished. My main reason for supporting the Clause—and I promise to be brief; indeed, I have been instructed to be brief", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-07a.2202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-07", "file": "debates1967-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "069e4d414226f96f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-07a.2221.0", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Farnham\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "for persons born crippled, or incapacitated in some other way in body or mind, or for the wife who, as a result of accident or disease, is stricken down and becomes completely helpless in her own home. I have raised this matter before, as, indeed, many hon. Members have, and I shall not do so again today in any detail, except to say that I entirely agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-07a.2221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-07", "file": "debates1967-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "069e4d414226f96f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-07a.2224.3", "colnum": "2224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "there was no change in his condition. He was and always had been a helpless dependant. I concede at once that we are faced with a number of difficulties here. It may be argued that, if we accept that these are circumstances which warrant a breach of the requirement that benefits are only paid where contribution requirements have been met, we open the way for the erosion of that principle in other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-07a.2224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "That is a rather curious statement. I am trying to clarify the situation. I can understand the view of the party opposite, because once we start to interfere with the price mechanism of organisations, we start to interfere with those who sponsor the membership or hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Of course— Where by virtue of a reference to the National Board for Prices and Incomes under section 2(1) or (3) of the Prices and Incomes Act 1966 …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "s will have accepted that he was not in any way deceiving the House. He went out of his way to say that it would be wrong, that it would be imprudent, to give any assurance that no continuation of legal powers would be necessary in any circumstances. But we are in some difficulty. Over the weekend, we have had a speech, and it is no good denying it, from the Leader of the House, whom we miss here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "t, to give any assurance that no continuation of legal powers would be necessary in any circumstances. But we are in some difficulty. Over the weekend, we have had a speech, and it is no good denying it, from the Leader of the House, whom we miss here—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"]—though when he is here he does not always contribute to the harmony as one might expect from the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.249.7", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I am surprised about that sort of complaint. I should have thought that I was one of those—perhaps in a minority in the House—that even the cloth ears of those opposite could hear what I have to say. I was speaking about a section of the community which gathers no sympathy from those opposite. Therefore, many of the things which have been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.249.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Macleod", "preceding_text": "ght, if indeed not earlier, as to what are the intentions of the Government and how far they think we might reasonably go tonight. We shall not undertake to fall in with their wishes, but it would at least be interesting to hear them. Secondly, on the spirit of complaint, I think that the House of Commons has been disgracefully treated by the Government and particularly by the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "em that the next group of Amendments is of the greatest importance and will take a considerable time to discuss. The Government should call a halt now, and allow hon. Members to start again refreshed—perhaps with larger ranks on the benches opposite—so that we may properly tackle the subject of productivity, to which the following Amendments refer. I, too, wish to refer to the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "vity, to which the following Amendments refer. I, too, wish to refer to the Leader of the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he\"?] It must be embarrassing to the Government Front Bench not to have the right hon. Gentleman here. The objection to the Motion appears to be based on the fact that the right hon. Gentlemen opposite are not sure whether or not the Leader of the House would be with them, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "this is so—and it must be so; the right hon. Gentleman would not have said so otherwise—it seems to make his speech even more damaging. It means that the right hon. Gentleman is now suggesting that the Government, as a matter of policy—because it was a matter of policy that he was considering giving the medicine to the British electorate—are considering massive unemployment. This is an even worse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "eeds to explain completely a speech which so affects this Bill, and which has been given an interpretation completely different from that which we have heard from the Treasury Bench in these debates. If the Leader of the House were fulfilling some appointment outside London, one would not press this point, but when he is in the building, as I know from having seen him only a matter of an hour ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "this Bill, and which has been given an interpretation completely different from that which we have heard from the Treasury Bench in these debates. If the Leader of the House were fulfilling some appointment outside London, one would not press this point, but when he is in the building, as I know from having seen him only a matter of an hour ago—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]— it seems to me to be a matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I welcome the appearance of the Leader of the House, and I will immediately cut short my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"YOU do not carry anyone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that, Mr. Speaker. The Bill is one of the most important Bills, if not the most important Bill, that the House has debated this Session. There are very strong feelings on both sides, and I am sure that I carry a great many hon. Members below the Gangway opposite with me on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "\"YOU do not carry anyone.\"] There is great feeling on both sides about the implications of the Bill. Therefore, however the business of the House is organised, it will be—and it should be—a long debate on all the Amendments on Report. We have been debating the Bill from half-past three until half-past one. It cannot be said that there has been an irrelevant speech throughout the whole of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I support the Motion which has been moved so admirably by my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod). I wish to support the Motion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your support, Mr. Speaker. My reason for supporting the Motion is that the general level of speeches is deteriorating so rapidly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Is it not a fact, when he talks about providing extra time for the Committee, that this was extra time to sit in the afternoon when the House was already sitting and that this would have been exceptionally inconvenient to hon. Members who wished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " We suspected all the time that the Leader of the House was lurking on the premises and we believe that he voted in the last two Divisions. It is obvious that he came here in the end only because the Foreign Secretary, with his great experience and—let me say this quite genuinely to him—his feel for the House, felt that the time was long since past when the Leader of the House ought to be present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "ital equipment is utilised to the fullest possible extent, so that the customs which have been growing up over past years which are no longer relevant to the present time are prevented from being carried forward into the new era in the future. 3.0 a.m. This is why I think this Amendment is so important, because after all that is what productivity is all about. Pro- ductivity is not just matter of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "le to urge acceptance, I should put something in its place. I think he knows that something is already in its place. Unlike the right hon. Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr), my hon. Friend did not say that there was no mention of productivity in the Bill. Those were the words of the right hon. Gentleman, and in a limited and literal sense, they are true. In this Bill \"productivity\" does not appear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.326.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I could not possibly advise it. I cannot say more than I said in reply to the hon. Member for Oswestry, that it is clear that the Bill does not make that illegal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.357.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-10", "file": "debates1967-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "9e2790756ee0bc5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 2.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER INCREASE OF PRICES OR IMPLE- MENTATION OF AWARD, BUT BEFORE PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "After 14 hours on Clause 1 we now move to Clause 2, which is infinitely more complicated and difficult to understand than Clause 1. If I fail to explain it to the crowded House I hope that hon. Members will forgive my speech for deteriorating, in the immortal words of my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Knutsford (Sir W. Bromley-Davenport)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-10a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Naturally, I always consider carefully the suggestions of the Leader of the Opposition. The House has a clear choice. A great effort is being made—and I think it can be done—to get the House up for the Summer Recess in a reasonable time. It would be possible to change our plans and to take an extra week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member knows that if we were to do as he suggests, and postpone business it would possibly mean having to sit a week later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of four all-night sittings this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No morning sittings\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "We ought to look at this summer in perspective. We have had the Finance Bill through, for instance, I think without a single all-night sitting. Before I came to the House this afternoon I looked at the list of sittings during the last year of Conservative Government, in 1963, which showed that, after June, they had 11 late-night sittings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.428.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where was he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "—Is he therefore aware that hon. Members who have not been in bed since Sunday night are quite prepared to stay here, and that the Leader of the Opposition is talking humbug?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.429.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.429.8", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, while hon. Members on this side want the Government to get their business and private Members to get theirs, there are two ways of doing this and that the way of extending this part of the Session into August might perhaps be the best way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.429.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.429.9", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.429.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "CARE OF THE ELDERLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "thorities. Clearly this ensures much more effective use of beds and welfare homes. This is, a splendid move and we welcome it. The Minister's task is to co-ordinate all these activities. When my hon. Friend the Member for Somerset, North (Mr. Dean) asked the right hon. Gentleman on 26th June what he was doing about this, he gave a somewhat vague reply and admitted that he had no staff. I am aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.560.4", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Chair never seeks to cramp debate as long as the debate is in order. If the hon. Gentleman will look at his Amendment he will see that he must address himself to the question of the differentiation between the two groups that he is talking about so far as the six months is concerned. We cannot discuss the whole attitude of the hon. Gentleman to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.560.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "May I continue with the Amendment, Mr. Speaker, because it is important? I suggest that it creates two classes. It is impossible to argue that we should create a specialist class without referring to the other. If that is not in order, I do not know what possibly can be in order in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "I will certainly do my best to speak to the Amendment proposed by the hon. Member for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo). I can understand the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is enough of a didactic Member, and, now that he been good enough to arrive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.580.0", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": " a man lives on. This significant difference has not been made sufficiently clear by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite. One is a necessity and the other an argument. The argument is about whether it is profitable to continue production because of a Board decision on prices, but workers must accept the refusal of a wage increase because their future depends on that income. Under the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " law, but the Bill proceeds on an assumption that we are presumed to know the intended wishes of the Government's White Paper, and it is precisely this potentially devastatingly dangerous distinction which lies at the heart of so much of the opposition which unites certain elements on both sides of the Chamber, although the unity is never consummated in the Division Lobby. I support the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Clause 3.—(IMPOSITION OF STANDSTILL AFTER PUBLICATION OF BOARD'S REPORT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "No. I have given way a great many times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Clause 4.—(MODIFICATION OR CLARIFICA TION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": " a gross breach of a basic human right, the right to strike, and it is for very little purpose. I hope that, since it is such a tremendous breach of this basic human right, which is protected by various conventions, international and otherwise, and enshrined in our law since the days of Disraeli, who introduced it in the great Administration of 1870, that it will not now be disfigured in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Clause 4.—(MODIFICATION OR CLARIFICA TION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he consent of the Attorney-General. I must remind the House how wildly hypothetical we are now getting. For a prosecution to succeeed, it would have to be shown that the person making the speech was at the very least persuading. To say, \"I regard this as a scandalous law\" cannot reasonably be held to be the same thing as, \"I urge or persuade you to break it\". The two propositions are not the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.648.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 6.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend must not repeat a complete untruth. Mr. Jenkins was replying to a retort from the floor. He was not talking about looking after himself in selfish terms of trade union leadership. He was talking about looking after himself in relation to the platform, not in relation to the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.8", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 6.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Just a moment. I am replying to one intervention. My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.16", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 6.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "eads is in a strong bargaining position, may decide to exploit that to the full, whatever effect it may have on the general economic situation, then I do not believe that that is the right thing to do. Indeed, I do not believe it to be in the long-term interest of even the members whom he is hoping to serve, and that is the point I am making. If I did an injustice to Mr. Clive Jenkins, I am sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.16", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 6.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "whom he is hoping to serve, and that is the point I am making. If I did an injustice to Mr. Clive Jenkins, I am sorry—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear\"]— but I am bound to say that if words like \"smear\" are to be thrown about, those who take the opposite view to that of the Government are not particularly nice in their choice of words. People must not be as thin skinned as this when they are being outspoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.16", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Clause 6.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ould be fairly wide agreement that there can be circumstances in which some degree of legal powers can, for a time, be justified. That leaves us with this point in dispute: is the amount of legal power in the Bill, for the time stated in the Measure, justified at the present time? Having stated the issue, it would be going beyond Third Reading if I tried to argue the economic arguments to and fro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.700.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-11", "file": "debates1967-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e17a190efca2cd24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Clause 6.—(SUPPLEMENTARY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "oughout the movement is more widespread than one individual or one union. It is widespread in terms both of the numbers of people involved and of the strength of their feelings. My right hon. Friend should not try to elevate, if that is the right word, Mr. Clive Jenkins into the bogy of the single opposition to the Bill. Mr. Jenkins is the officer of a union. He has to do what his union tells him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-11a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-12", "file": "debates1967-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4643d3d603c31aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-12a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "ROADS (70 M.P.H. SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ch as the increase of police activity due to there being a speed limit, the installation of different fog lighting, the fact that she has imposed this regulation on commercial vehicles going into the fast lane, will all have affected the statis- tics on the motorway during the period? Even with these effects, the drop is less than the previous year. As far as any experiment with a 60 m.p.h. limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-12a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-12", "file": "debates1967-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4643d3d603c31aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-12a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "New Clause No. 19.—(BOARD OF TRADE'S CERTIFICATE THAT A PERSON IS A BANKER TO BE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF THAT FACT FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE MONEYLENDERS ACTS 1900 TO 1927.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Before the Division is called, I should like to repair an omission. I think that earlier on I should have congratulated the hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby (Mr. Michael Shaw) on appearing for his maiden effort on that Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-12a.884.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-12", "file": "debates1967-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4643d3d603c31aed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-12a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "New Clause No. 1.—(AMENDMENT OF SECTION 149(6) OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is \"The Mikado\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ught to look at the whole aspect of this matter. It is no use inflicting fines on people who act for corporate bodies. They might be very serious cases. I know, Mr. Speaker, that you are a great devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and I am reminded of some lines in, I believe, \"H.M.S. Pinafore\" to this effect: My object all sublime I shall achieve in time— To make the punishment fit the crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-12a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.982.6", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that it reached me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.982.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "I do not think so, in regard to this particular service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.989.6", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Does he agree that the number of mis-phone calls through errors of dialling is still too high? The dialling system is even more complex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.989.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "That is the most utter nonsense because the money comes out of the same pockets; whether it is licence fees or the profit on a packet of \"Daz\", the same people have to pay for it. I am, of course, quite aware of the interests of hon. Members opposite in commercial radio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "es out of the same pockets; whether it is licence fees or the profit on a packet of \"Daz\", the same people have to pay for it. I am, of course, quite aware of the interests of hon. Members opposite in commercial radio—[ Interruption. ] I said the interests of hon. Gentlemen opposite in commercial radio. I know their interest in that, of course, because there is a lot of money to be made out of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that N.I.B.M.A.R., which lies at the heart of the negotiations, is the most massive and monumental stumbling block since the Pharaohs tripped over the Pyramids, and that it shares with those edifices the ability to bury reputations? It is asffitial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1009.6", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. It would be a very grave reflection on the right hon. Gentleman, who is such an assiduous student of speeches by myself—indeed, he has followed that to such a point that he has no time to work out any policy for his own party—if he had not made this point several times in the House, as he has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1009.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1016.6", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "If that was the purpose of the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1016.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1037.3", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Mr. Carr rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1038.0", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "This is a very serious matter. The right hon. Gentleman has made a most serious allegation against my right hon. Friend the Minister of Technology, but it turns out that he has no means whatever of substantiating it. Is it not one of the customs of the House that he should withdraw the allegation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1037.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I have read the speech and I will not argue further about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "of helicopters for operations then going on in Borneo and South Arabia. To judge the Tory Government's achievement, let this arsenal be compared with the aircraft already available, not only to Russia and to the United States, but to France. France has the Mirage IV, supersonic, already flying. Compare this arsenal with the arsenal available to Indonesia, Iraq and Egypt—all with supersonic MiG21s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "1964, 1965 and 1966 in which the Opposition hammered away at that theme. It was absolutely untrue. Let us look at the situation in 1966, the year after all those cancellations had taken place. The output of our industry was an all-time record and its exports were twice those of the last year of Conservative rule. The size of the industry has hardly changed and there is no sign of any decrease yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "while, however, the French had begun to put greater emphasis than before on the aircraft's interceptor performance. An operational requirement for the new aircraft in this mixture of rôles had been already agreed by the military staffs of the two countries. Hon. Gentlemen who want to pursue collaboration, as I hope most hon. Members do, must recognise the nature of the problems which arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " already agreed by the military staffs of the two countries. Hon. Gentlemen who want to pursue collaboration, as I hope most hon. Members do, must recognise the nature of the problems which arise—[ Interruption. ] I shall be very glad to answer any hon. Member who wishes to criticise me, and I hope that hon. Members will intervene if they think that at any stage I have handled this matter wrongly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The B.A.C. design team at Warton was fully engaged at that time in working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will be patient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "re of a very much more serious nature, reflecting upon the honour and integrity of the French President, have never, to my knowledge, been withdrawn. I wish that the Opposition had chosen to face the full implications of the French withdrawal from this project with a full sense of the economic cost of an independent production for a purely national need. I thought that the hon. Member for Mitcham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ilitary needs. I could understand the Opposition's Motion if they had themselves opposed this project as the basis of our long-term programme, but they did not. On the contrary, they took credit for it themselves when it was first agreed in 1965—incidentally, they told us then what to do; they said we should do this, and they repeated their support in 1966. The hon. Member for Mitcham for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "d some support aircraft and would need helicopters; that any delivery system is unlikely to he by manned aircraft—that strike would he by missile—and that producing a variable geometry aircraft of a strike specification would be like trying to keep the cavalry in being, something for which we have no need. Mr. Deputy Speaker, I think some representative of the Defence Department should be present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "of Technology is familiar—with which we can counteract terrain-following equipment. The great argument in favour of variable geometry aircraft, that somehow or other low cover gave a certain invulnerability, has been destroyed by modern radar techniques. I therefore hope that there will be a proper analysis again of the future effectiveness of VG. What does the Secretary of State for Defence mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Opposition Front Bench spokesman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I should like to register a rather strong protest that the Secretary of State for Defence should have attended such an extraordinarily small amount of our debate. He made his own speech and then listened to the Opposition Front Bench speech, but since then he has not been in the Chamber. As the debate centres around him, his absence shows a certain disregard for the views of the House itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "h achievement was foully done to death. Tonight, like Banquo's ghost, the TSR2 is a spectre at the feast. It is the uninvited guest in the Chamber. As far as I know, one of the prototypes is still in my constituency. It stands outside the hangar, neglected and deteriorating in the weather. There was nothing like it in the world, but today it serves only as a monument to Socialist irresponsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the cost.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "types is still in my constituency. It stands outside the hangar, neglected and deteriorating in the weather. There was nothing like it in the world, but today it serves only as a monument to Socialist irresponsibility. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but we saw it flying regularly day by day. It flew up to the Pennines, down to the Scillies. It exceeded the highest hopes of its own designer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We had it today.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "he House—that the very important statement was made by the Minister of Aviation in answer to a question of his, that We\"— that is, the Government— are very well advanced with contingency planning about what we should do. We would hope to make an announcement\"— presumably an announcement of what they should do— almost immediately if it failed.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th November, 1966; Vol. 737, 427.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "wal. But instead of this, and this was entirely predictable from the beginning, the right hon. Members for Mitcham and Wolverhampton, South-West have chosen to make this debate a chance to attack my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence. I must say that, watching the development of this argument over the last few months, it has been very evident to me —and even more evident tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "th-West have chosen to make this debate a chance to attack my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence. I must say that, watching the development of this argument over the last few months, it has been very evident to me —and even more evident tonight—[ Interruption. ]—that members of the party opposite were hoping that this project would be cancelled so that they could mount an attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "One cannot write into an international contract a provision which is capable of being upheld—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "he market and have built collaboration upon that. To say that all one has to do is to produce one's own aircraft—as Julian Amery said today, even if it means some sacrifice of current consumption, because we must have the industry—is to miss the whole nature of the problem which confronts us. The debate which we should have devoted to the question of the next stage has very largely been by-passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AND ROYAL AIR FORCE (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I are well advanced. Authority to sign was arrived at on 29th June when my right hon. Friend met the French Minister. The production stage is due for launching this year, and the work and the costs are to be shared on a 50-50 basis. In addition there is the possibility of bringing the Germans in. There has been no reference to this. One would think that one cancellation constituted a complete end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1160.8", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Administration (Mr. G. W. Reynolds)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Administration (Mr. G. W. Reynolds)", "preceding_text": "Tuesday last, when Government business was being hotly contested by the Official Opposition and by—if I may so refer to them—the regular band of opponents below the Gangway, that we managed, on that hotly contested Bill, on which the House was divided, to cope with Amendments at the rate of 35 minutes per Amendment and went through Third Reading very quickly. Perhaps 35 minutes is not a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1160.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1161.2", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know that the hon. and gallant Member will listen while I address the House. We have before the House serious business on which the House is divided, divided fundamentally. I would imagine that the opponents and supporters of the Bill would want to debate the issues, rather than spend time on points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1164.3", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "While the sponsors of the Bill may have disagreed with previous Amendments there was in those Amendments at least a clear-cut point of disagreement, but I must confess that this Amendment is exceedingly muddleheaded, and was, if I may say so, with all respect, introduced with a very muddleheaded speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "ed against allowing rape to be pleaded as a ground for abortion, so that a woman must lodge her complaint within a given period; and within a short time. There is an argument about whether what we are discussing is the right period or not. Perhaps a longer period should be allowed because if a woman has been subjected to a rape in circumstances which we can all envisage there is bound to be shock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1170.1", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "I take the point, but the hon. Member might have quoted the case of a white girl falsely alleging rape by a white man. I think that the instance he gave was unfortunate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "tes other and greater ones. I know that the House needs an assurance on the question whether or not a doctor would be prosecuted for performing an abortion on the grounds specified in the Amendment. These matters can be tested only in a court of law. Those hon. Members who have asked for the presence of a Law Officer know that in the last resort it is a court of law which determines these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "y. A young married woman who attended the meeting was asked, in a civil manner, whether there was a way into the back of the school over a playground, and she went round the corner of the school with the man to point out that there was such a way. The man picked up a brick and hit her on the head with it. She tried to run away, but he hit her again and threatened to kill her if she did not submit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that we do not pretend that the Amendment is perfect. But the hon. Gentleman refuses to recognise the difficulties and the human unhappiness which is caused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1186.6", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "No. I understood that the House wanted to come to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1186.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1190.4", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "l not be addressed on a point of order while I am dealing with a point of order. My understanding is, from my experience of Parliament, that this nodding through of hon. Gentlemen who have medical reasons for not being able to walk through the Division Lobby is an arrangement between the Whips and Tellers of both sides. From what the hon. Gentleman has said, I do not think that it obtains tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1210.5", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Perhaps, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I am making the mistake of trying to relate the Bill to the interests of the women whom it is supposed to serve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1210.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "out this racket, which is thoroughly immoral. This is where the number of abortions which may take place after the Bill is enacted is directly relevant to this Amendment. Having listened with interest to the discussion, I have been most impressed by the fact, of which I was not aware, that it is, apparently, accepted on all sides that the National Health Service could not cope with more abortions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "pacity the hon. Member has more knowledge about this than I have. The fact that the fear exists that the National Health Service might not be able to cope, at least for some years, with the additional number makes the Amendment that much important. The House would, I think, feel that unless the Bill results in a larger number of medical terminations, it will all have been a rather barren exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ions … shall not apply to the termination of a pregnancy by a registered medical practitioner in a case where he is of the opinion, formed in good faith, that the termination is immediately necessary where there is a definite possibility of the death or grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman\". I say that there are too many Clauses all in that one part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1228.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "at he can freely act in an emergency. There must not be wording which is so loose that it enables such safeguards as there are in the Clause to be avoided and permits a horse and cart to be driven through the Bill by means of the Clause, which has quite another purpose. Therefore, the Minister of State should give a full explanation of how this wording was arrived at and what her reactions are to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1228.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What has it to do with you?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1233.0", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I am debating the Amendment, Mr. Speaker. It is difficult for me to make up my mind whether I prefer Amendment No. 31 or Amendment No. 57. I am not a lawyer. I accept the arguments which have been put for both those Amendments, because I think that each represents an improvement on the wording of the Bill. This is an important matter. We are dealing with the risk to the life of a person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have said this before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "en no Law Officer of the Crown present throughout the proceedings to explain the precise meaning of these words. The purpose of my argument is to point out that when the sponsor of the Bill considers these matters he would be wise, in the interests of the Bill, the medical profession and, above a, the women whom we are seeking to help, to ensure that the words are as clear as they can possibly be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1237.5", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to detain the House, except to emphasise once more that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1237.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Having waited for the appropriate time, may I say a word on the Amendment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Lancashire?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree, Mr. Irving. I have been consistently in favour of a Royal Commission and I have always regarded the Midlands as one of the most progressive parts of the country in the best sense of the term. Where the Midlands leads today, the rest of the world will follow tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ireland. Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I certainly agree, Mr. Irving. I have been consistently in favour of a Royal Commission and I have always regarded the Midlands as one of the most progressive parts of the country in the best sense of the term. Where the Midlands leads today, the rest of the world will follow tomorrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Lancashire?\"] And Lancashire is well in the van, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "icy in this respect. 4.45 a.m. If I may just say this to him, without, I hope, causing offence. We have had assurances from him on other matters on this Bill, and they have not been carried out when we have got to later stages of the Bill. We had support from him on supervision of abortion, and approval from him, which has not been adhered to when the matter has returned to the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "he reference that the Home Secretary made to me in other proceedings, when he said that he was glad that I was not in my place. That was a little ungracious coming from the right hon. Gentleman. If I may pour some coals of fire on his head, I am always pleased to see him, just as a I am pleased to see his right hon. Friend the Minister of State. They make a unique combination of brains and beauty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Parliamentary Secretary the brawn.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "as not in my place. That was a little ungracious coming from the right hon. Gentleman. If I may pour some coals of fire on his head, I am always pleased to see him, just as a I am pleased to see his right hon. Friend the Minister of State. They make a unique combination of brains and beauty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is which?\"]—the Home Secretary providing the beauty, the Minister of State the brains.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be offensive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "E9; of the Clause, but no really adequate explanation has ever been given to anyone about why it is in the Bill, whether it is necessary, and what the effect of it will be. I should not have thought that there was one hon. Member who knows what a relative association is. Does the right hon. Lady, who is a principal sponsor of the Bill, know what it means? I will gladly give way if she can tell me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend knows that the majority of visiting forces in this country are from the United States of America. I can appreciate why she has suddenly decided to take such an interest in our proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1302.9", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "I respectfully submit to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that if another hon. Member rises after an hon. Member has sought to withdraw his Amendment the matter must proceed to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1302.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong Bill.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "I am sure the hon. Member is unintentionally misquoting. There is no reference to the \"well-being of other children\" at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1328.3", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "bortion because he did not feel that the abortion was justified. A very worried doctor has put to me the question, suppose that he had carried out an abortion before? This would make it even more difficult for him to clear himself in the dock. Those making charges against him could say, \"It is clear that you do not have a conscientious objection because you have carried out this operation before.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1330.0", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " Given that this is so, and given that the law must operate in respect of this operation as it operates in respect of any other, we cannot leave a bolt hole in the Bill as a result of which a doctor could say when charged with negligence, \"I had a conscientious objection\" so that that would be the end of the case. This would be the situation if we left out the latter part of the conscience Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "on claiming it. 9.0 a.m. I will give another example. There is the case of a nurse. I have a great respect for the nursing profession and I am not saying that my example is likely to happen, but it could. In an evening's operating theatre list there are two cases of terminations and two nurses on duty suddenly discover they have an important date and are not in the theatre, but have suddenly left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "preceding_text": "k to the life or of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman … and then, … or the future well-being of herself and/or the child or her other children\", In other words, carte blanche from the word \"go\". Destroy, even although life has not begun to function. Eligibility for abortion is no longer limited even to this. Well-being or environment have to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "now on the question of abortion on demand, there would not be a majority in favour of it. But that is what will happen as inevitably as anything is inevitable in this life, because within the Bill are the seeds of that destruction. It is a sad commentary—sad, perhaps, but accurate—that after 1,000 days of this Government there has been no extension of freedom save to the bugger and the abortioner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "At this ecumenical moment, one might extend it to Northern Ireland. There are differences of opinion, but 1 do not think that there has been a filibuster on the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Galpern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Galpern", "preceding_text": "omething to congratulate ourselves on. I take an entirely different view, as do many others. That is surely not the purpose of the Bill. The hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles expressed surprise that no one had referred to the recent conference of the B.M.A. which gave overwhelming support to the Bill. But he was rather unfair to the House in not stating that the approval was qualified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir M. Galpern", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir M. Galpern", "preceding_text": "s between 50,000 and 100,000 annually. What will be the position if a woman approaches her medical practitioner? Will it, as my hon. Friend the Member for Perry Barr said, only be for the doctor to initiate the request for an abortion. If he visits a house and finds slum conditions, will he suggest that the woman have an abortion? The initial approach and request will come from the pregnant woman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. C. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. S. C. Silkin (Dulwich) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "might cost the life of the mother, my conscience says that I will not do it\". I do not believe that that is right. I do not believe that the ordinary member of the medical profession would think it right. I very much hope that when the Bill goes to another place the re-thinking, which the hon. Member has promised will be done, in fact will embrace this principle of the conscience Clause above all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1381.5", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been here all night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "I will be very brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1381.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "May I continue? I do not want to take too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "May I continue? I do not want to take too long. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] But I want to establish that the Bill does not mean that women will get more easy abortion through the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-13", "file": "debates1967-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d63358e95681486", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1384.4", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has finished.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman giving way to me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-13a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1531.10", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA (OIL)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the United States.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Well, then, does the Minister propose to use the Government's famous pressure on the French, the Greeks, the Germans, the Japanese?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1531.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1535.7", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "f the Transport and General Workers' Union on Thursday last, 13th July, the result thereat, and the comment in support of that resolution as reported in the Evening News —it was, of course, reported in other newspapers, too—of that day. It comes under the sub-heading: Cousins men to 'vet' Ministers. There is a main heading: Pop Pirates Walk Plank … but the heading with which I am concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1535.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1537.1", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am in some difficulty about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1539.0", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. With respect to the hon. Member—and I know how interested and troubled he is about this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "nteresting that Treasury Ministers are laying emphasis on private investment at the same time as they are setting out to erode private interests by means of the controls they may impose on private companies. I come to the threat to local government. In my part of the world, though we made some progress at the last local elections, local government is, in the main, in the hands of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ct. Up to a point, I was delighted at the introduction of that legislation, but when one looks at the matter more closely one soon realises that the powers of the Parliamentary Commissioner are extremely limited indeed. It is pleasant to quote in support of one's case such a distinguished man as Lord Justice Salmon. He has paid great tribute to Sir Edmund Compton and I congratulate the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1557.1", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "st week—I forget which night it was, for we had so many of them—when the Government majority was down to 20 because a considerable number of hon. Members opposite were profoundly unhappy about the restrictions which the Government were placing on prices and incomes, because those hon. Members genuinely believed in collective bargaining. I am not making a partisan speech for the sake of making one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1557.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "sity and to crush individualism. My hon. Friend the Member for Tyne-mouth spoke of individual liberty in the context of nationalisation. Individual liberty is being eroded by the Government who have as their long-term aim —I quote from this remarkable document \"Labour's Aims\": an expansion of common ownership substantial enough to give the community power over the commanding heights of the economy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1561.5", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "an spend that money as they think best. As taxes go up, freedom of choice and independence go down. We have seen taxes going up and up in the last two and a half years while freedom of choice has been eroded. The Government seem to be blinded by their egalitarianism. They squander public funds on universal benefits regardless of real need and subject helpless people to the imprisonment of poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1561.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": " had not re-read them. The moment I saw it—I was in mid-sentence—I was about to mention this subject without putting any pros and cons and find my way into the next paragraph by saying that I did not intend to speak about it at all. It is the last thing that I would do since Mr. Speaker is to rule tomorrow. When trade unions abuse their powers and fail to distinguish between the national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1566.3", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "Parents who have not got the means have one of the finest State educational systems in the world at their disposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1598.4", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "at the Labour Government have some vast octopus of power which is quite insensitive to the rights or liberties of the individual. He challenged me on the question of increases in taxation since we came into power. I thought that an unusual piece if impertinence, since he must know perfectly well that the reason for those taxation increases was the need to deal with an economic situation which was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966 (PART II)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "the chaotic condition described. The question is, therefore, how do we tackle the problem. I have tried to show that there is no difference about what we want to achieve and that it is how we achieve it with which the House is now concerned. Over the months we have developed our ideas and we have placed them before the House. The Official Opposition has consistently opposed and voted against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1639.1", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966 (PART II)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "No. I think that the Government are possibly hoping to continue the discussions held over the last 12 months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966 (PART II)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "That was not quite the argument the right hon. Genleman was putting forward. He was arguing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966 (PART II)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": ", I want to take up some of the points made about the past use of the powers by my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme), who described what had been done about prices as a \"fiasco\". The right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod), in search of further words, used \"bluff\", and another word which escapes me at the moment. Let us look at what has happened. It was made clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-17", "file": "debates1967-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "ba509bcea0aed7cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1680.5", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES ACT 1966 (PART II)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-17a.1680.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1690.3", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There ought to be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "There is no particular connection between the growth rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1695.6", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have never used the word \"massive\" and so I see no reason to take responsibility for it. I still see the prospect of a substantial balance of payments surplus in 1968.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1707.9", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "n. and learned Friend agree that it has been calculated on the basis of the conversion of machines, in particular, that there will be an expenditure in terms of replacement or conversion of something like £80 million? Since the Labour Government will be in office in 1970, could we now have some understanding with the traders involved about some pertinent criteria in which compensation can be paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1707.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1722.2", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "SONIC BANG TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Frind set the public's mind at rest by saying whether it has been established that these supersonic bangs can cause abortions in animals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1722.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1725.5", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": " Prime Minister, whom no hon. Gentleman below the Gangway would accuse of adhering too dogmatically to his former Left-wing Socialist policies. But no one can object that the Minister of Transport is changing her former Left-wing policies. As the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) wrote recently in Tribune : At least in the Ministry of Transport there is a Socialist at work in Whitehall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "by private enterprise. When the hon. Gentleman tries to mobilise the backing and sympathy of the railwaymen and waves at me copies of the Railway Review, I would remind him that it is his and his party's concept of the freightliner that railwaymen have been fighting—the concept of the iron bridge which the private haulier can use when it suits his economy. However, I have a very different concept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ester to think a little about the implications of the container revolution for port planning. It needs careful central thinking and planning. It is no good lightly playing off one port against another: the question is far too serious for that. The question is whether we as a trading nation are to remain with major ports directly on the trans-Oceanic routes or are merely to provide feeder services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I did not publish my first document. I am sorry—it was issued. There were various alternatives spelled out. We have been thinking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1748.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1762.3", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " twelve members again—I ask the House to note— appointed by the Minister. Note the composition: the National Port Authority is to have trade union representation. I do not think that anyone would take exception to that, but the novel element enters on the regional port authorities. They face … a statutory obligation to arrange consultation and negotiating machinery and worker participation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "for some curious reason. Thirdly, not only are the areas designated by the Minister, but the members of the boards will be selected arbitrarily by her, and it has already been pointed out by the hon. Member for Worcester that there will be no opportunity for an objection by a local authority and no possibility of a public inquiry. Surely that is dictatorship at its very worst, and something which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ciple behind the N.F.O. is that it is ridiculous to have two publicly-owned transport organisations in competition with each other. It is competition which she does not like, because that upsets her idea of the right balance. She goes on: I can't believe that anyone will seriously defend this waste of money which comes from competition. This is the language of the police State and of dictatorship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "p—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"] Of course it is—and certainly not that of a democracy. Coming from a woman, it is all the more incred- ible. Or did the right hon. Lady enjoy, during the war, having to put up with the utility clothes which the gentlemen in Whitehall provided for her, rather than being free to indulge her own fancy in fashion? Does she believe in freedom? Does she not understand", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1803.3", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ty that they do not have the guts to stand up and fight for the things they once believed to be so dear. I ask the Parliamentary Secretary to tell the House why it is not to be told that it can examine the details and why the public, for which the services are presumably designed, is not to have the power and opportunity to examine them before they are imposed. The proposals themselves have three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "BUS OPERATORS, ROAD HAULIERS AND PORTS AND DOCKS INDUSTRIES (NATIONALISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "preceding_text": " There is no formal procedure for objection. My hon. Friend the Member for Tavistock explored this matter very thoroughly. As there is no method for objection, we want to object now. We want the country alerted now. We shall alert the country again on the Second Reading, and we shall continue during the debate in Standing Committee to improve this Bill so that the people get justice and democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The answer, I should have thought, is perfectly obvious. If that Bill is being dealt with in another place at present it cannot be included in a Bill here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ons, to the Select Committee on Science and Technology. I make this further point on the question of nuclear costs as compared with the costs of coal generation, which, of course, is crucial to the argument. I have consulted the A.E.A., the C.E.G.B. and the Ministry's Chief Scientist's Division. The advice from these three totally different angles was unanimous. Obviously, they could all be wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1866.2", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's point. I am not suggesting that they are infallible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1866.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1866.4", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"If we can get it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ent. of our needs. There will probably be some slackening in the very rapid growth of recent years in the use of oil, but sectors where it is irreplaceable, such as transport and petrochemicals will continue to grow. Even allowing for the foreign exchange element, oil is cheap in real terms. The evidence is that even with a fuel oil tax of about 40 per cent., it can still compete with other fuels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1866.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1871.11", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "This is a serious debate. Many hon. Members wish to speak. I want now to turn to the social consequences of this position. Since I became Minister of Power I have realised that, if one was not aware before, one very rapidly becomes aware, when once involved, of the very real hardship which can and does occur in some areas where mining is the mainstay of community life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1871.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1883.7", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Where is the Leader of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1883.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I hope that before the the hon. Gentleman presses his criticisms too far, he will bear in mind the difficult situation that we are in tonight of having to debate this important subject so late is very largely due to obstruction by his right hon. and hon. Friends on other matters earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1902.2", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"When were you a coal miner?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "r Barnsley (Mr. Mason) had been made Minister of Power, for then at least the coal mining lobby opposite would have had a miner in control who understood their problems. So little does the Minister of Power understand the problems of the mining industry—let alone the Leader of the House; he does not know the difference between a lump of coal and a can of oil—that I propose to quote him once again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1902.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says that it is more credit to the Socialists. I profoundly disagree. I am one the side of the coal miners", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1905.1", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Because they thought that the hon. Gentleman was dim.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": ", South Worcestershire. I do not propose to offer myself for a mining seat this side of kingdom come. I remind the hon. Gentleman that, when I addressed the miners' conference in South Yorkshire, so pleased were they with my performance that they appropriated temporarily the silver miner's miniature lamp which was to have been presented to a miners' official and gave it to me to mark the occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1905.2", "colnum": "1905", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "And probably the last time.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "een presented to a miners' official and gave it to me to mark the occasion. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Because they thought that the hon. Gentleman was dim.\"] But they had bought that expensive trophy to give to one of their officials. Did they think that he was dim? They took it from him and gave it to me. That was the only time a Tory Member has received a trophy of that kind from a coal mining audience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1907.3", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Surely the international oil situation, though there is plenty of oil in the world, ought to give us a great deal of cause for concern today. With the Suez Canal blocked, all Arab oil cut off, on the eve of petrol rationing in this country on 1st October, with all the petrol coupons printed, surely we ought to diminish, where it is practicable and economic to do so, our dependence on imported oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1907.3", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the somersault that the hon. Member is doing which worries him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "al blocked, all Arab oil cut off, on the eve of petrol rationing in this country on 1st October, with all the petrol coupons printed, surely we ought to diminish, where it is practicable and economic to do so, our dependence on imported oil. [ Interruption. ] I do not know why the hon. Member for Dearne Valley (Mr. Edwin Wainwright) should be so upset with me for pleading the cause of coal miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1907.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1910.2", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It was only for reasons of brevity that I did not quote Lord Robens at length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-18", "file": "debates1967-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6aa19d7e5d76df9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1910.2", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He never said that\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " have the same fuel and power philosophy as the right hon. Member for Easington, for whom I have a healthy regard. At least he is an honest and patriotic creature. He said tonight that the miners hoisted the flags at the colliery pitheads on 1st January, 1947, to symbolise the onset of nationalisation, but he concluded by saying that he recognised that nationalisation had failed. Of course it has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-18a.1910.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2133.4", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister of State look at this advertisement which I hold in my hand, which appeared in a Nigerian newspaper?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2133.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2133.6", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "This is a great reflection on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2133.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2133.11", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Could my hon. Friend tell us what is the likely psychological reason why the hon. Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) has such an obsession about sex?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2133.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2272.1", "colnum": "2272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "I support my hon. Friend the Member for Abingdon (Mr. Neave). In many instances, accounts of the parent company do not go into great detail about the emoluments of the directors of subsidiaries. If it is desirable for the public to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2274.0", "colnum": "2274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "etation, which, on reflection, I realise was wrong. I gave the impression that if a subsidiary company employed somebody at over £10,000 a year, when it came to grouping the accounts all the £10,000 people in all the subsidiaries would have to be grouped in the group accounts. That was wrong, because all that has to be grouped in the accounts is the requirements of Schedule 8 to the principal Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2308.3", "colnum": "2308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "ntion of the President of the Board of Trade to the group life schemes because, here, it cannot be the employees who receive anything at all; it can only be the next-of-kin. So I assume that there will be no return whatever because, by definition, although the employee makes a contribution, or one is made on his behalf, he can never benefit from that contribution at all. There are two small items—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2314.4", "colnum": "2314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or maybe one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "and retail department. It is a multi-purpose company, with many interests. When one divides the remuneration between all these companies, with all types of employees added, one gets a wholly false picture. When I read in the Sunday Press that in 10 years' time, industry will be in the hands of 330 groups, I think that if we have a few more years of Socialism it will be in the hands of 230 groups.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2319.1", "colnum": "2319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-19", "file": "debates1967-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "6d01bb199de27a11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2329.1", "colnum": "2329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": " as relief for the Jordanian refugees—which would not come within any of these definitions. It would be much better to leave this as it is, because to lay down definitions would make it far more difficult for the directors of companies. If I might just reply on the point about Scotland, the answer is that the courts in this country have defined charities but they have not been defined in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-19a.2329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2500.0", "colnum": "2500", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "the sort of treatment about which he spoke, cannot my right hon. Friend say something about why the Chinese may be behaving as they are? Would he care to comment on the fact that while we voted for China's inclusion in the United Nations, we went on, at the behest of the United States, to vote for China's exclusion by means of a procedural device, which meant that we knew that everybody else knew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2504.1", "colnum": "2504", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I have read the reports, but, as I said to the right hon. Gentleman in the Middle East debate the other day, this is a matter in which the initiative ought to be taken by the authorities of the country on whose territory it is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2504.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2543.1", "colnum": "2543", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am happy to follow the hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Alan Lee Williams), as his views are much more in keeping with those expressed on this side than on his own. In the vernacular, I say to him, \"Welcome aboard\". We are glad that he has been able to join us in these matters. There has seldom been a time when her Majesty's Ministers have enjoyed so little respect in the capitals of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2543.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2545.0", "colnum": "2545", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Thirty million tons.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "t action, or lack of it, which has mainly been responsible for the weakening of relations that I now detect. One aspect is the collapse of the Government's economic policies. The faltering of our economy is holding back our diplomacy at every level of foreign affairs. I remember Ernest Bevin's statement—I think I quote him correctly\" Give me an extra 1 million tons of coal and I will lead Europe\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2556.1", "colnum": "2556", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "preceding_text": "rguments and views which could not be expressed by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), the official Opposition spokesman on defence, in next week's debate. I think that, after that debate, there will be some diversity between what is said by the official Opposition defence spokesman and what has been said by the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2576.1", "colnum": "2576", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "dictatorship, says that she will not take her holidays in Greece this year. She is showing concern about the situation which I hope will be followed by a great many others in regard to the victims of the miltary dictatorship. I pass to the subject of the Common Market, which has not been discussed today. I believe that on balance, given the right conditions, we should enter the Economic Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2603.1", "colnum": "2603", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "ution in Africa and South America. China failed to summon the Afro-Asian conference she set out to achieve. She failed to defend the Indonesian Communist Party, the third largest Communist Party in the world. She has horrified the uncommitted nations of the world by her attack on India. Now, as a result of the failures of her external policy, China is rent in twain by the Maoists and anti-Maoists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2631.5", "colnum": "2631", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "e he said, in effect, that this is the requiem of the Civil Defence services of this country. I am inclined to agree in that, though I agree with little else that he said. If that be so, it is essential that someone should pay a tribute to the thousands of men and women who, not only during the war but in all the years since, have given selfless voluntary service to our civil defence organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-20", "file": "debates1967-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "7933e30cc3581a18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2654.1", "colnum": "2654", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So has the hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I listened to the plea for a debate on the subject with rather more sympathy when it was made by my hon. Friend the Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) than when it was made by the hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. MacArthur). At least my hon. Friend has taken the trouble to stay, despite the difficulties he described of being present on a Thursday night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-20a.2654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-21", "file": "debates1967-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b1fa36c8a98e1194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-21a.2691.3", "colnum": "2691", "heading": "SUMMER TIME", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Eire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "for themselves by themselves. It was at their request and to be more tidy in this respect that they were included in the Order. It is a matter entirely for them, and they wanted their summer time to begin in April. If we had refused to include them in the Order, they would have legislated for themselves. As for Central European Time, we shall be in step with Europe, with the exception of Portugal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-21a.2691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.41.10", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman undertake that when he has had an opportunity to consider the Report he will make a statement on his reactions to it to the House as opposed to some outside body like the Labour Party conference or anything of that sort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.41.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "FAMILY ENDOWMENT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pike", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pike", "preceding_text": "ate stopgaps will be received with dismay by all those who seriously care for the plight of the low-income families? Does he not admit that 70 per cent. of the low-income families have three children and fewer and that, in his own words in speeches in this House and outside, a large number of these families have only two children and fewer and that they will get no relief at all until April, 1948—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "FAMILY ENDOWMENT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "About 51 per cent. of the children in question will continue to be below the supplementary benefit level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.62.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.64.4", "colnum": "64", "heading": "FAMILY ENDOWMENT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heath rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "FAMILY ENDOWMENT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And disincentive.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "Part of the family allowances, of course, is taxed according to the taxable income. To this extent, there is selectivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.68.5", "colnum": "68", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": " of the Opposition. We have seen another instalment of compulsion on prices and incomes. We have had the Chancellor making it clear that public spending is to go ahead at a rate that was linked to the National Plan, although it has been acknowledged that the National Plan programmes are dead. We have seen the Minister of Transport busily preparing her plans for wholesale transport nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.68.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "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": " thanks. The very fact that there are so many opinions and so much conflict of advice about the state of the economy and the solutions that should be followed reflects both the complexity of the problem that the country is confronted with and the difficulty of getting agreement about a solution. I welcome this discussion. I take no exception to coming here to discuss the Government's policy today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stand on your own feet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": " Government have never attempted to hide the fact that during the years ahead this country will be walking an economic tightrope which needs a cool nerve; and a slip would have serious consequences. The fact that this should be so and the fact that the margin of safety is so small represent the real crushing indictment of the failure of the party opposite to act in the years between 1951 and 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Government have been blown off course.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "her with the change in our defence arrangements, will enable us to follow a successful policy and one that is right; and that it would be frivolous to be deflected from our present course because one quarter's trading figures are not as good as we would like and because the temporary closure of the Suez Canal has worsened our balance of payments. It is a long-term operation that we are engaged in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "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": "r, our trading results were so good that they led in some unofficial quarters to a much higher degree of optimism than I shared. Unofficial balance of payments forecasts for 1967 were published that even then seemed quite unrealistic. The right hon. Gentleman referred to the pledge that I gave the Labour Party conference in 1965 to obliterate the deficit by the end of 1966. He is right; we failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now the Government will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "d of 1966. He is right; we failed. [ Interruption. ] I will go through the figures again. If hon. Gentlemen opposite raise this they will have to have them time after time. The deficit in 1964 was £761 million. It was reduced in 1965 to £315 million. It was reduced again in 1966 to £189 million. This year I have said up to the time of the Suez Canal temporary closure that we should have a balance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poplar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "So far there has been an increase disproportionately large in regard to the rise in demand. It may be that, from now on, a much smaller proportion in the rising demand will be met by imports. My hon. Friend the Member for Shoreditch—for Stepney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have already given way once to the right hon. Gentleman. I will give way again when I have given these figures. The number of schools completed has increased by 44 per cent. compared with the last three years of the Conservative régime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Well done Jim!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ed on a sound appreciation of our own domestic position and requirement, as well as our responsibilities to the international community. So the Government stand where they did on this. It is not a matter of prestige with me. That is rubbish. I do not regard sterling as being any great symbol. I just do not want either to devalue our own word or to bring down the standard of life of our own people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private enterprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "d that can be done only by better and more efficient methods and machinery. I come back to the right hon. Gentleman's distinction between public and private enterprise. Does anyone doubt that the reason we are so much behind the United States in the production of wealth and in productivity is that there is far more electricity and power behind the elbow of every American worker than there is here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Candy floss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": " am happy to accept it and look forward to those results. Second, we have had the so-called selectivity of the S.E T, by which one distinguishes, in rough terms, between manufacturing and non-manufacturing. This is not really selective at all. It is very much \"bull at a gate\". Some non-manufacturing industries are vital, some transport industries are vital, some manufacturing industries are froth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.140.3", "colnum": "140", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "ill not do. Whereas the Labour Government think that they have convinced the country how all-powerful they are and that they are in office for a great many years, I warn right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite that the Prime Minister's image has been severely dented and the Labour Government are rapidly becoming discredited. Something will have to be done by the rank and file of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.140.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wants to interrupt my speech he should stand up. Can we be told what is being done to bring about economies in Whitehall and in local government? Can we have a clear answer about what is being done and about the Government's intention? In diagnosing the problems of the economy we have also to consider confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "cy. They are bewildered by it. It is not the policy which they were promised and which won the Labour Party votes. Speaking as a businessman, and not as a politician, I would warn the House—I was trying to deal with the difficult problem of exports across the Iron Curtain, where we are making great efforts, in a factory this morning—that the outlook today is worse than at any time since the 1930s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "tician, I would warn the House—I was trying to deal with the difficult problem of exports across the Iron Curtain, where we are making great efforts, in a factory this morning—that the outlook today is worse than at any time since the 1930s—[ Interruption. ] I am speaking for myself. I am not like the hon. Gentleman, who thinks he knows everything. I am connected with quite a number of businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman, who thinks he knows everything. I am connected with quite a number of businesses—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"] I am proud of it. I am proud of being successful. I leave it to the hon. Members opposite to be proud of being failures. An accountant who has specialised in bankruptcies for many years told me recently that his office is beginning to remind him of the bankruptcies of the 1930s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The £12 limit does not apply to the hon. Gentleman, and there are many like him. On the whole, we are spending roughly £3,000 million a year in the way I have indicated which we are not fully earning. We should tell our workpeople and ourselves: either we cut down or the foreigner will cut it down for us. The Chancellor was like Gracie Fields, \"Painting the Clouds with Sunshine\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ite clear. They want nationalisation and sale of overseas private holdings; they want import controls, capital controls, heavier taxation, more nationalisation at home, less and less defence and they question the parity of the £. That is the very clear policy of the 70 hon. Gentlemen opposite. The alternative is to follow the policy which we have put forward continuously on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.174.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Michael Heseltine (Tavistock) rose — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.185.4", "colnum": "185", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "In Scotland, since the right hon. Gentleman's time, the total has doubled, and in Wales it has actually trebled. Or take Board of Trade factory building alone, which is even more completely under the Government's control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.185.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster (Belfast, East) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "n addition to what I have already said, I will say this. As a Government, we shall keep up the export promotion campaign by every possible method and take further measures to stimulate domestic demand as and when they are needed. But we shall not return to the free-for-all slide into deficit and disaster which temporarily damaged the country and permanently discredited the Tory Party back in 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "That is quite true, but it was after our debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "There are reasons why those hon. Members are not here tonight. The hon. Gentleman should think of that before he attacks them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "The Minister who was dealing with this in the other place advanced as an explanation that those who were putting the case from Orkney and Shetland were against any change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "When the Minister moved this wretched and indefensible proposal that the House should disagree with the Lords Amendments he appeared to complain that we had spent a lot of time discussing this question during the various stages of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "WATER (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Not without permission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.265.3", "colnum": "265", "heading": "FURNITURE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Divide.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ultation in this matter. I could tell the Minister of a dozen experts in timber and wood-cutting processes who could give him a far finer definition of the difference between joinery and furniture than that contained in this Statutory instrument. But there has not been reasonable time allowed for these consultative processes to go forward. The Minister is nodding. I do not want to delay the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-24", "file": "debates1967-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "63cc5cdc5e37139e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "FURNITURE INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " great confusion in the future. It is on those grounds that we think it reasonable to say to the right hon. Gentleman, \"Take your Order away. Do some more homework on your Order. Withdraw it tonight; this will incommode nobody.\" I have consulted various branches of the industry. They do not mind waiting three months. I am in the industry and I am much better informed than the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-24a.266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "SOCIAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "While yielding to no one in my admiration for Sir William Beveridge and his work—I will be glad to send my hon. Friend a copy of my Beveridge Memorial Lecture, which is being published this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.322.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "MALTA (GIFT OF A BOOKCASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House would wish to thank the delegation for carrying out so excellently the duty which we imposed upon it, and the Resolution which the head of the delegation has conveyed to the House will appear in the Journal of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.334.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.334.5", "colnum": "334", "heading": "ZAMBIA (GIFT OF A SPEAKER'S CHAIR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Again, the House would wish to thank the delegation for carrying out so splendidly the duty which we imposed upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.334.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmer Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmer Nicholls", "preceding_text": "will be relevant, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In supporting this proposed 12 weeks' recess, I am asking the Government to concentrate their mind upon some way by which they can reduce the expenses placed on small firms upon whose success the nation depends. If the Government could use the 12 weeks to do that, I am certain that I shall carry the House with me in saying that the 12 weeks will be well spent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And see what you got!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e? Do they really think that they make any impact on the conference platform? For perhaps 50 years I have attended Labour Party conferences, and I made no impact; and when I was on the platform nobody on the floor could make any impact on my mind. As for the Tory Party conference, one knows what happened there not long ago. There was a disputation about who should be the Leader of the Tory Party.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Consume three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ybody wants to return earlier than that, it would not suit me. The hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Jopling) raised the question of eggs. I agree that this is a very serious matter. I can understand their distress. The egg business is not doing so well. I assure hon. Members opposite that I am not an opponent of theirs in this matter. I consume two eggs every day. What could one do more than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He would double his majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " Canal remains closed. I want at the earliest moment to know what the Government intend to do to ensure its reopening. I am sure that in saying that all these are valid reasons I have the House with me—except for the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls) who, by the way, suggested that the Government should resign. Does he realise what that would mean? There would be another election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " resign. Does he realise what that would mean? There would be another election. [An HON. MEMBER: \"He would double his majority.\"] Does he realise the effect of another election? Let him recall what happened last time. He got in by the skin if his teeth—a matter of three votes. He should not ask the Government to resign. The longer the Government remain there, the better it will be for his chances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e not enjoyed outside the House. Those outside the House often wonder what we are getting at when we are spending time discussing the question of coming back at a certain time, offering reasons why we should come back earlier, when we know very well that, although theoretically we have the power to change the situation, we do not intend on either side of the House to push the matter to a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "ugh always from the back benches which distrust the Treasury Bench and the Executive, irrespective of the party in power. Unless the back benchers on both sides of the House can get together and have some organisation—and I really mean this—we will not change this archiac system and bring it into line with modern times. We now have an extraordinarily able, generous and helpful Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There was nothing in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "gs uncomfortable for Governments. Oppositions rightly do that and I do not resent it. If the right hon. Gentleman looks again at the number of late nights we have had, he will see that they got bunched because we did not have one late night this year on the Finance Bill owing to the admirable arrangements between the two sides for managing business on the Finance Bill, which worked extremely well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We did not need checking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ontrol of the Executive, a 12-week gap is a very long one for a Parliament which claims to be continuously checking the Executive. What strikes me as remarkable, however, is how, for 13 years, that was not noticed by the Conservative Party when they were in power. I am glad that they notice it now, although when they were in office they did not check the habit and they had recesses of that length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "SONIC BANGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "sible. That happens on the doorstep of Parliament, yet not a single hon. Member has ever made a protest about it to my knowledge. But repeatedly when I have been serving in Committee, windows which have been opened to allow in a breath of fresh air have had to be closed, because of the noise made by river steamers, in order that the business might proceed uninterrupted. Therefore, we accept noise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "OLDER INDUSTRIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "preceding_text": "nd development facilities, which is essential to make them competitive with the foreign shipyards which have taken so much of our traditional shipbuilding export trade in recent years. An outstanding example of a plant with a successful research and development policy is that of the Consett Iron Company's steelworks in my constituency, which will pass into public ownership at the end of this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "OLDER INDUSTRIAL AREAS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Keep going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "preceding_text": " be entirely in line with the proposals in the Defence White Paper, which proposes a £30 million reduction in defence research, because it would assist the objects of that reduction by channelling more of such research into civil research, particularly in the older industrial areas where it is so very much needed. I appreciate that other hon. Members wish to speak in this debate and other debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.480.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "SCOTLAND (FUEL COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I should be grateful if the hon. Gentleman would explain how 1st April, 1967, is before the freeze. What is the Ministry of Power's revised date of the freeze?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.601.4", "colnum": "601", "heading": "SCOTLAND (FUEL COSTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I understand the position about the two boards, and the 10 per cent. increase. I was making the point that there could have been some misunderstanding about what the hon. Gentleman was saying. I had the impression, perhaps it is wrong, that he was saying that the 10 per cent. increase announced by the Minister on 12th May imposed additional burdens in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-25", "file": "debates1967-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "25d92bf073c0f842", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "COUNCIL FOR WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He was very efficient.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "at she will welcome the opportunity to make the Government's views clear. I completely oppose any nominated council for Wales, and this view is shared by hon. Members opposite. Such a council is not new. Wales was governed by the Nominated Council for Wales and the Marches several centuries ago, and the redoubtable Bishop Roland Lee of Worcester, who probably hanged more Welshmen than anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-25a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "It is customary not to reveal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "In response to that, I certainly welcomed the proposal to look into the matter, but does the right hon. Gentleman not realise that unless he contols imports he cannot provide our egg producers with the security that they want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.720.10", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not just cereals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am quite certain that, in relation to cereals, there is no question of a fall in confidence among growers, and I am rather surpised to hear that suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.720.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Definite action‡", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveys", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that we have had sympathetic noises from the Minister about this for over a year? When will these sympathetic noises be turned into a definite statement of policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the right hon. and learned Gentleman's general position, and I understand his desire to reserve comment until he has seen our detailed proposals. It has been my endeavour to take soundings of opinion in the House so far as possible in arriving at this general decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the right hon. and learned Gentleman's general position, and I understand his desire to reserve comment until he has seen our detailed proposals. It has been my endeavour to take soundings of opinion in the House so far as possible in arriving at this general decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] There have been many questions and exchanges of views and expressions of opinion in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three parties.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "il he has seen our detailed proposals. It has been my endeavour to take soundings of opinion in the House so far as possible in arriving at this general decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] There have been many questions and exchanges of views and expressions of opinion in the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I will certainly endeavour to bear in mind the opinions in both parties in framing the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Four parties.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "pinion in the House so far as possible in arriving at this general decision. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"] There have been many questions and exchanges of views and expressions of opinion in the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I will certainly endeavour to bear in mind the opinions in both parties in framing the details. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Three parties.\"] All three parties; I have pleasure in amending that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary not aware that there is a general feeling throughout the country, and in all sections, that one of the best ways of easing the recent tension that we all deplore in this country would be to reduce the inflow of immigrants into this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "UNIVERSITY EXPENDITURE (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman three questions arising out of his very important statement, which we shall certainly wish to debate along with other aspects of higher education before the end of the year? First, the right hon. Gentleman stated that the Government have received the advice of the U.G.C. Can the Secretary of State tell the House that the statement he has made has the approval of the U.G.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "UNIVERSITY EXPENDITURE (PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two and a half sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "ote the advice they have received from the U.G.C., whether collectively or from its Chairman, and I think it would be improper for me to alter that custom today. On the second point of academic freedom, I agree with the right hon. Gentleman in the interpretation which he has placed on the phrase. I do not think there is any difference between us on this question between the two sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " payable. In fact, no compensation will he payable for the right of way, but it will be payable for such additional structural work as is necessary to support the walkway. The hon. Member for West Ham, North was the only one who allowed politics to raise its head in the debate. He said that the City of London Corporation was 100 per cent. Conservative. It is, of course, 100 per cent. nonpolitical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-26", "file": "debates1967-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "20c3663a217f1813", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATING AND VALUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " substantial increase which has taken place in commercial valuations. The second question, more detailed, is on the matter of making allowance for inequalities in comparing the Scottish nationalised industries with the English ones. The Minister pointed out that a working party had recently told him, in a blinding flash of the obvious, that the electricity industry in Scotland was paying too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-26a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.944.6", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Gentleman tell the House what legal power he thinks he has to withhold funds from Surrey schools as a means of blackmailing Surrey County Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.944.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "Ignoring the last phrase in the hon. Member's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.969.8", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for the latter part of his reply, but has his attention been drawn to the Amendment on the Order Paper? Will he take it from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.969.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.969.8", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for the latter part of his reply, but has his attention been drawn to the Amendment on the Order Paper? Will he take it from me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—that there are some on this side who, while not wholly supporting it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.969.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, as I said earlier, there are difficulties in taking that course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.975.5", "colnum": "975", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I repeat that there are physical obstacles in the canal, but actual movement of these obstacles would not be a very great engineering problem. The great problem about opening the canal, let us face it, is a political one", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.976.3", "colnum": "976", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many hon. Members on both sides of the House warmly appreciate the work that he has done in the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.976.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not an unwritten tradition of the House that parties will not use for party political propaganda the interests of this nation in foreign affairs and that it is more important to protect the nation's interest than to score a victory for a party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.977.5", "colnum": "977", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the main channel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for giving me a chance to put right something that I said earlier which, I understand, was misleading. There are, physical obstructions south of the Great Bitter Lakes. If I said something during the course of an answer to a supplementary question which made that sound differently, I am sorry. There are, to our certain knowledge, physical obstructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.977.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "in a moment. In Europe, which is the only theatre in which we have any expectation of using nuclear weapons, provided that our allies do as we do, our dependence on nuclear weapons will be very much as it is today; no greater and no less. Perhaps I can take advantage of this natural break, so to speak, to remind the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West of the words he asked me to quote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1000.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will refresh his memory by reading the report of that debate, he will see that I said that his duty was to provide the Services with the weapons they needed to carry out the task given to them, and not to give them all they wanted. He need not misquote me as well as my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Healey rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1011.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1011.6", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "eferred to fighting and winning a conventional war in Europe because the right hon. Gentleman put that view in an earlier speech when he argued with great force that it was obscene and immoral for us to cut the Territorial Army because we must be capable of winning a war in Europe without resort to nuclear weapons. He has recently written a review of a book by General Beaufre in the Sunday Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1011.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "centage of a rising gross national product that was spent upon defence, a fall between 1957–58 and the last year of our administration—1964–65—from 7·3 to 6·5 of, I repeat, a rapidly rising gross national product. At the end of that period the right hon. Gentleman inherited defence forces which were the best weapon that any Defence Minister in this country has ever had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "efence, a fall between 1957–58 and the last year of our administration—1964–65—from 7·3 to 6·5 of, I repeat, a rapidly rising gross national product. At the end of that period the right hon. Gentleman inherited defence forces which were the best weapon that any Defence Minister in this country has ever had. [ Interruption. ] Do not hon. Members opposite agree with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evan Luard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Tibet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evan Luard", "preceding_text": "ion by China, to what sort of expansion are we referring? If what is meant is expansion by direct military attack on China's neighbours, I would consider this highly improbable. China has deliberately and voluntarily entered into frontier agreements with virtually all its neighbours, except with India, where it has established what I believe to be the frontiers it wants, and with the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1066.3", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Well that is still not altogether clear to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1066.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "s, the cost of a defence budget under the Conservative Party's policy would, at 1964 prices, total £2,250 million in 1975. That is £450 million more than the Government budget. That is excluding anything we have heard about the right hon. Gentleman's European policy. Let us be generous and add another £50 million for the right hon. Gentleman's European policy. That would make it £500 million more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend referred to slamming the door on the rest of the world, I think. Would he not agree that one can have an open door to the rest of the world without necessarily keeping substantial forces all over it for the indefinite future?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "That is not the point I am making. If we are to continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1095.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1100.5", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about last Monday's debate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Perhaps the two right hon. Gentlemen could sort it out and let us know the result. If they do not succeed perhaps the Leader of the Opposition would take a hand. It is a little remarkable that in a major defence debate the Leader of the Opposition has not sought to intervene. When I was Leader of the Opposition I spoke in most defence debates. We even took the initiative in having some sometimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1100.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he decision now? Our policy is clear, because it is in the White Paper which the House has been asked to approve. I remember many defence debates in the past. There was the famous one in February, 1964, when the debate ended in an uproar because of a debating point scored by the then Minister of Defence on what our policy would be. Our policy here is clear. We and the country have a right to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman has studied the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1103.3", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "intend to withdraw by the middle 1970s. I should have thought that the long experience, sometimes fought by hon. Gentlemen opposite, is that to delay a withdrawal too long is the very way of provoking instability in the area. That is what they should have learned from Cyprus; that is what they never learned from India. Now, I want to know where the Opposition stand. We have heard nothing today Of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "without announcing that you're going to do so? The answer was: I very much doubt whether it should be necessary, except for purposes of internal consumption …\", whatever that may mean. Yes, but the right hon. Gentleman, who is shadow Defence spokesman, does not get anywhere by pointing across the Chamber. He should tell us: does he support a decision to withdraw in the 1970s or does he not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1103.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I asked the right hon. Gentleman whether the Opposition support this decision to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I asked the right hon. Gentleman whether the Opposition support this decision to—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The answer is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1104.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he question of our commitments and obligations and how we are to honour them. The right hon. Gentleman will not face up to the question that must be decided tonight—whether it is necessary to stay in the bases with a physical presence in order to honour those commitments and obligations. We say that it is not. The right hon. Gentleman who the defence spokesman for the Opposition refuses to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1105.0", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t at every defence debate. I will give the figures. The average new naval construction programme under the 13 years of the Tory Government was £47·1 million. In their final year they got up to £51·8 million. The average for the three years that we have been in office is £84·7 million. I do not think that that suggests that we have gone back on what I said at Devonport in 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.6", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We are not interested.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister is obviously not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.7", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " for themselves, except with an inordinately expensive use of resources they cannot afford. It is the ability, from sea and air, to provide the sophisticated support, with all the expert equipment that they cannot afford, necessary to deter a potential aggressor from launching a sophisticated attack on them. This is something which they cannot and should not now be asked to provide for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.7", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nuclear weapons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed to provide for themselves. [ Interruption. ] I do not know why hon. Gentleman opposite want to make a joke out of a lot of this. Recently, Malaysia was facing an Indonesia armed with highly sophisticated aircraft. It was our role, under successive Governments, to provide a deterrent against the use of those aircraft. It still makes sense in our defence relationships with Malaysia and Singapore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.7", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "has said that he could see a situation in the mid-1970s where the capabilities which Britain can contribute … could easily match the kind of capability which we can ourselves produce on our own, and together with the Malaysians, the Australians and New Zealanders, we can present a formidable combination. I should have thought that these statements would provide some reassurance to the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1106.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1111.2", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-27", "file": "debates1967-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "34e9f7f570b224d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "HILL LAND IMPROVEMENT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member knows that I have waited on four occasions. He has had his say, and now, with respect, I will have mine. We recognise the problem of cattle and sheep, and I recognise something of the weight of the argument put forward by hon. Members but this is not the time to enter into debate on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-27a.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-07-28", "file": "debates1967-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "931a004f7929194c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-28a.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "SOFT DRUGS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": " we are in danger in this country—I am not speaking only of cannabis but also of some other drugs which have been mentioned, particularly L.S.D.—of some people misleading young people by not only taking drugs themselves, but trying to influence the minds of young people and trying to encourage them to take drugs. I do not often read the magazine the Queen, but I was at the hairdresser's yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-07-28a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1273.1", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "hat is worse is that this is no temporary collapse of confidence, but one which will remain as long as the Government stay in office. This loss of confidence has risen partly because the word of the British Government just is not trusted and partly because the Government themselves have such a transparent distaste for the world of the free enterprise system and the profit motive in which it lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "indicated assent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": " real prospects could be improved. This observation is confirmed by the Jones Report which said that one-third of the average annual output of engineers and technologists emigrated. Surely there can be no clearer demonstration of the present lack of confidence. Where do hon. Members opposite stand? Do they want to take a still larger proportion of the gross national product for public expenditure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Alan Williams)", "preceding_text": "ich runs us into these periodic inflationary bouts. If we did what my hon. Friend asks, if we conducted a general form of reflation, whether through the type of policy that he has advocated or through some similar policy, we would probably ease the position this winter, but as surely as we would ease the position this winter we would guarantee that the position would be worse in winters in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Good.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "at it was very largely the solution to a political problem that has led us to much of our economic difficulties today. Against a structure that is so substantially different in the regions and the areas of prosperity, if we had a general reflation, as suggested, there is no doubt that in these prosperous areas the relatively shallow pool of unemployment would very quickly be sucked up and cleared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e dynamic economy, whichever party is in power, there will be more movement of labour between industries and job. Therefore, there will inevitably also be an increase in short-term unemployment. I do not think that there is anything basically unsocialistic about this. If hon. Members say that they resist this, then they are saying that they resist the whole process of modernisation of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1292.0", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "It was of manufacturing industry I was speaking. This increase of 7 per cent. is in the manufacturing sector. I was excluding the service sector for this very reason that it was open to this criticism. The increase of output per man hour in manufacturing has gone up 7 per cent. since 1965, compared with 3 per cent. in the earlier period.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilney", "preceding_text": "s of surplus resources. However, in Lancashire, there are formed communities with churches, schools, and social conditions which have a special character, not only in terms of skilled operatives but in many others. Those areas are slowly bleeding to death, and London does not seem to care. The textile workers are worried, as are the footwear employees. What does the Minister intend to do about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Now that the Government's policy of weakness and vacillation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1348.1", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Now that the Government's policy of weakness and vacillation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"]—has, as was inevitable, led to the triumph of terrorism, is it not humbug—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1348.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "COMET AIRCRAFT (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "ived. The investigation is continuing. So far, the bodies of 51 of the victims have been recovered. The House will, I know, wish to join me in expressing sympathy with the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in this tragic disaster. The House will also join me in expressing gratitude to the crews of the ships and aircraft of various nationalities who joined in the search operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1351.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "COMET AIRCRAFT (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Could my right hon. Friend tell the House the actual cause of the Comets now being grounded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1353.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "COMET AIRCRAFT (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "They have not been grounded?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "VIETNAMESE STUDENTS (ADMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "That shows that the hon. Gentleman is not interested in freedom or in freedom of speech, because he has said that because a particular person holds certain views which he regards as wrong that person should not be listened to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1432.5", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "VIETNAMESE STUDENTS (ADMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "d the Home Secretary. I was glad that one of my hon. Friends referred to his liberal approach on very many important social questions. He is a champion of free speech in Britain. His reputation is not held in question this evening. Some of my hon. Friends have carried the argument a little far in suggesting that students in this country are not free to express their own or any other point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "VIETNAMESE STUDENTS (ADMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "It was my hon. Friend the Member for Epping (Mr. Newens) who used the term \"the steady erosion of our freedom\". He used this term after he and others had suggested that in some way there was a limitation on the freedom of students to argue, and express their views.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1435.3", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "VIETNAMESE STUDENTS (ADMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " time. He was the deputy head of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front permanent mission in Cuba. He is, therefore, a diplomat based in Cuba. He was the leader of the so-called student delegation. To imagine that this was a little group of friendly students who had come over to express their own personal views in frank discussion with their student brothers—those who made that suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1435.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1437.2", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "VIETNAMESE STUDENTS (ADMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I think that quite a number of people were taken in by the circumstances of this case, and this is one reason why I welcome the opportunity to reply to the debate. Clearly a number of my hon. Friends and a number of student groups were under the impression, no doubt sincerely, that this was a small group of students instead of a group of middle-aged people who were clearly coming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1440.4", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "VIETNAMESE STUDENTS (ADMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "No, they have not. There is a difference, as my hon. Friend will recognise, in our relationship with the United States and the representatives of North Vietnam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-23", "file": "debates1967-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "1359dd7017061aec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1444.2", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "SCOTLAND (MURDERS AND POLICE RECRUITMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I should like to raise very briefly the subject of the increase in murders in Scotland, and the shortage of police in Scotland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-23a.1444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1484.3", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I will look into the case which my hon. Friend has raised. On the second point, it must be borne in mind that there are limits to what the British taxpayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1484.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1501.2", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Not wishing to intervene in the controversial exchanges which are taking place", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1501.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1501.5", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For no reason.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In these matters my right hon. Friend will no doubt be guided by the Governor, although it will be recalled that when his predecessor, Lord Aylestone, was there on two occasions last autumn repeated and formal requests by him to see the African Nationalist leaders were completely rejected by the régime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1501.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1532.0", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Clause 1.—(TENANTS ENTITLED TO ENFRANCHISEMENT OF EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "We are accustomed to hearing extraordinary arguments adduced from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1535.1", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Clause 1.—(TENANTS ENTITLED TO ENFRANCHISEMENT OF EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who wants to keep that up?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "ng away an asset of the landlord. Some hon. Members may think that there is ethical justification in the case of the private landlord, that he deserves all that is coming to him. But when the landlord is a charity, from whom are we taking that asset and that money? Not from the landlord, but from the beneficiaries of the charity, like Alleyn School, Dulwich College, the picture gallery at Dulwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Clause 1.—(TENANTS ENTITLED TO ENFRANCHISEMENT OF EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": " accepted. I offer my sincere congratulations to my hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Mr. Maddan) on his tenacity over this matter throughout the passage of the Bill. From Second Reading, through the Committee stage, through Report and Third Reading, he has put forward this case most cogently. It seems that perhaps he is now in sight of reward. He has been skilful in de-hybridis- ing the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Clause 1.—(TENANTS ENTITLED TO ENFRANCHISEMENT OF EXTENSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "the local authority. This just shows the extraordinary results of legislation of this sort, which we on this side have said all along was not properly thought out before its introduction. Another strange suggestion made by the Minister of State was that the Letchworth Corporation should adopt the fiction of accepting a scheme under Clause 19 so as to hold matters up for a year and get the Bill in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-24", "file": "debates1967-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "ba38a04ddf0cd945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Clause 12.—(DISCHARGE OF MORTGAGES ETC. ON LANDLORD'S ESTATE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "itle deeds relating to the original tenancy he is to be similarly entitled to the deeds relating to the new tenancy, and imposes upon the leaseholder a duty to hand over the new lease to the mortgagee within one month of its being executed. That is the clear obligation which is placed upon the leaseholder. It can be regarded as a corollary to subsection (5) which already makes a similar provision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-24a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1662.4", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "lion in loans would be given to the Northern Ireland region for public authority and local authority works. I felt that before that money was given to the Northern Ireland Government, strings should be attached to it, so that we should have some say as to how it was spent. That money, given to the Northern Ireland Tories, is being spent in the areas where they will gain the most electoral support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1662.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Totally untrue.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": " that we should have some say as to how it was spent. That money, given to the Northern Ireland Tories, is being spent in the areas where they will gain the most electoral support.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] In the City of Derry, the town of Newry and in Strabane not one cent of that £50 million has been received, yet it was given to the Northern Ireland Government for the development of those areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "he male population unemployed and 11·9 per cent. of the female population. In Omagh the figures are 14 per cent. male unemployed and 8·9 per cent. female. In Strabane it is 25 per cent. male—one man in every four—and 9.8 per cent. for females. Most hon. Members on this side of the House at least will agree with me that these are figures which would not be tolerated in any other area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1666.1", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "in reply to me a few days later, said he had found that the advertisement was authentic. I then made further inquiries. What he regarded as authenticity was this: a man went into the newspaper office, asked for the advertisement to be inserted and paid for it. In fact, no job there was available, no such firm existed and, what is more, it was done by supporters of the Unionist Party in an attempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I have said what I have said without hesitation. Indeed, I have now discovered the name of the person who placed the advertisement. I am referring to a member of the Unionist Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I have said what I have said without hesitation. Indeed, I have now discovered the name of the person who placed the advertisement. I am referring to a member of the Unionist Party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] I give an undertaking to the Home Secretary that I will send him the name and address of this person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " part as we thought of the one he made in this House about telephone tapping by the Unionist Party and the fact that it had been admitted in the Northern Ireland Parliament? On that occasion we were told that evidence would be submitted to the Prime Minister. Have we seen any such evidence? When are we likely to see it? Or will the hon. Gentleman withdraw that assertion now, because until he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "ence in Scarborough and I listened to Anthony Lester speaking on the Race Relations Act. He spoke of the population in America and said that he did not want the same situation here with such riots as there have been in Chicago and other areas. Those people are entitled to take steps to rectify their grievances. I predicted what would happen in Northern Ireland. I did not incite people to violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "The Tories from Northern Ireland have been speaking in debates here for the last 40 years. I have an opportunity to speak now, and I shall certainly take that opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stratton Mills rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1674.5", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "ow that over the summer last year we had some trouble with what have been called Protestant extremists in Northern Ireland. They were condemned in this House, and rightly condemned, for what they did. I was among those who condemned them, but I am in some doubt as to whether they have done so much more harm to good community relations in Northern Ireland than has the hon. Member for Belfast, West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1676.0", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He was there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "That is not my interpretation of the hon. Gentleman's speech, nor is it the interpretation put upon the speech by the Belfast Telegraph, which wrote a perfectly responsible report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1676.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " among the security forces in a recent campaign, millions of £s of damage, and injury to the person in many cases. The hon. Gentleman knows that. I know it. This is the report of the Camden Town Hall meeting: Mr. Fitt told the delegates that although he had always opposed the policy of the Sinn Fein, the policies of force, he was having second thoughts and was now wondering if this was the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1676.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "May I resume my speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1678.1", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " tenants. There is a Government training scheme on which millions of £s have been spent. The hon. Gentleman knows all that. The same is true in the Strabane area and particularly in Enniskillen. My hon. Friend the Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Lord Hamilton) knows this full well. I have the facts here. Unfortunately, there is not time to state them. I will show them to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1687.3", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "nt the friendly relations between our people we find the opposite to be the case. I would also refer to remarks made by the Reverend J. McGarvey, parish priest of St. Mary's, Limavady, who said to Captain O'Neill on his visit to St. Mary's school there: Your visit is evidence of your genuine desire to sponsor good relations throughout the country. There are many other quotations that I could give.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1729.4", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "To the South Arabian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1729.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1770.6", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Clause 1.—(MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "May I have the leave of the House to reply?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Clause 1.—(MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why should there be consultations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "of this as a purely legal, technical problem. This Clause would be greatly improved by the removal of the subsection. I hope that the sponsor of the Bill will agree to this. In the course of a previous speech he said that there had been consultations on the redrafting of the Clause. There were certainly no consultations with me. I was never asked whether the change of wording was acceptable to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-25", "file": "debates1967-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "6cc1997a161731a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": " we come to partners. I can see that the sharing out of the annuity or compensation money will be difficult. The Minister and his officials will have to watch the position carefully. I myself had a sleeping partner for a long time before I bought him out, and it may be that a small farmer who has done all the work will feel that he should have the lion's share of the annuity or compensation money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-25a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1860.7", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "While on this subject, will the right hon. Gentleman say a word about brutality to the police. You will be aware, Mr. Speaker, that among the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1860.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1870.6", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that I have never heard a more ridiculous statement, even from the hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1870.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1878.3", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is with great regret we note that this action did not take place many years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1883.0", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a serious cost, though I think that that cost will shortly be diminishing. I should answer the right hon. Gentleman frankly that during the period of closure so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "We will, perhaps, be able to return to these matters in a little more detail on the Gracious Speech in a week's time. I will make only three short points now. We agree with the right hon. Gentleman that our application should lie on the table and not be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1896.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1897.0", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "terling, again, I am not quite clear what he means by \"examination in depth\". I have said repeatedly, and my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has said many times in various forms, that we do not see any way in which this is an impediment to our membership of the Community, but if any of our would-be partners in the Community wish to raise the question of changing the international monetary system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1897.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1991.1", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "ABERFAN DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ether the new assurances, which undoubtedly we shall be given, will this time be honoured? We do not know. But I make this comment. It is a jolly sight easier to exercise control in private industry. For example, it would be easier to tip off Courtaulds the ex-President of the Board of Trade than it seems to be to exercise control over the National Coal Board, which we own. This, surely, is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.1991.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-10-26", "file": "debates1967-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "81e380fb6ee02ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.2006.0", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "ABERFAN DISASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ig issue. I made the point at the begin- ning that there is a difference between the argument about the conduct of the inquiry to which he has given his explanation, and this other matter. This is on the record. He was disowned, or at least some of his views were disowned, by the Board's own counsel. It is known, and on record and it is secondary to the main problem, which was the disaster itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-26a.2005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "tle optimistic in his reading of the paragraph in the Gracious Speech on trade union reform. In my study of it I do not find any specific commitment to action, but only a commitment to consider the Royal Commission's report when it arrives, and then to place before the House any conclusions which the Government may, in due course, reach. We all hope that the hon. Gentleman's optimism is justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "our proposals concerning another place. Since the theme of this Gracious Speech and those which have preceded it is the modernising of our country, we cannot ourselves, as a Parliament, lay ourselves open to the charge that we are failing to modernise Parliament itself—and not only the elected Chamber. I was not quite clear where the right hon. Gentleman stood, whether he was for it or against it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do they mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "r country, we cannot ourselves, as a Parliament, lay ourselves open to the charge that we are failing to modernise Parliament itself—and not only the elected Chamber. I was not quite clear where the right hon. Gentleman stood, whether he was for it or against it—[HON. MEMBERS:\"What?\"] I understood that he was for consultation, but I was not sure whether he was for the words in the Gracious Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "this judicial approach—by rushing in several weeks ago with a condemnation of the Bill before he even knew what would be in it. Frustrated a year ago by his attempt to instruct the T.U.C. to reject the Government's prices and incomes policy, on this occasion he thought it more helpful to address his instructions to the Confederation of British Industry.\" Private enterprise\", he said, \"must fight\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he thought it more helpful to address his instructions to the Confederation of British Industry.\" Private enterprise\", he said, \"must fight\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—all this before he knew what was in the Bill. I remember how hon. Gentlemen opposite made fools of themselves last year over the Industrial Reorganisation Bill, which was then, and which has ever since, been accepted by industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "have entered upon a period of transcendental meditation. After all, he got it wrong last year when he and his hon. Friends had the Bill to study. This year he had only his own imaginings and nightmares to tell him what was likely to be in the Bill, and then he got it wrong. That being so, I will enlighten him. This Bill will be an essential instrument in the Government's partnership with industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m sized firm; and the danger is that, because of their size, these advances will not be exploited on an adequate scale. Since there is a risk in the use of Government money for these purposes—and this means the taxpayers' money—it is undeniably right that the public purse, which has made possible a successful enterprise, which stood to lose if things went wrong, should have a share in the profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Speech the normal debating that we generally give it because that was the very day of the crisis in Suez with which the right hon. Gentleman was so intimately associated. Sombre though it may be, I think it was something of an exaggeration to say that it is the most critical since the war. Perhaps I ought to mention first, in relation to Aden, which was not mentioned by the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have answered this question many times for my hon. Friend. We agreed at the Commonwealth Conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have answered this question many times for my hon. Friend. We agreed at the Commonwealth Conference—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I know that some hon. Members are quite prepared to see the Commonwealth break up on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the dock strikes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "appened 10 years ago. Right hon. Members opposite should not try to make too much of our economic difficulties arising out of Suez, because so much of the responsibility lies not on our shoulders but on theirs. There is no one on our side of the House who misled the House and gave wrong facts about Suez, as later came out from those who have given their testimony of what happened on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-10-31", "file": "debates1967-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3c907b4af1b1bd11", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.47.1", "colnum": "47", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", the benches opposite were practically empty. The only contribution made to the task of stimulating the Government to still further efforts came from the Liberal Party and from my hon. Friends. But today the new Session has been launched. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite will have their opportunity to join with us, by day and by night, in examining the legislation that we shall bring forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-10-31a.47.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden", "preceding_text": "e days for legislation will be increased by six and the number of those for Motions will be correspondingly diminished. My first reservation may possib12, seem to some of my hon. Friends rather \"square\" and old-fashioned, but it is a feeling which I genuinely hold. It is that already in this House we have quite enough time for debating legislation. There is quite enough legislation coming forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.160.2", "colnum": "160", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "I too have doubts about the change in emphasis between Bills and Motions, for two reasons which I shall state very shortly because I think the House wants to get on to other business. The first is that almost every Bill is a proposal to reduce personal freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ys. It is absolutely untrue to suggest that legislation necessarily restricts personal freedom. I have tried for some time to introduce a Bill to allow the wives of absent voters to vote as their husbands can in Parliamentary elections. I remember the hon. and learned Gentleman coming here on Friday after Friday and shouting \"Object\" behind his hand so that people did not know who was responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "If it was not that one, it was one of the many others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Chapman", "preceding_text": "nd I think we all hope he will—this will mean something like six extra half-days per year for back-bench Private Members' Motions. It is in the total context of that consideration that I hope we shall look at the proposals which he is putting before us today. If the proposals of the Select Committee on Procedure are carried out, there will be some extra private Members' time and it is going to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I should not have thought that anybody in this supposedly free democracy was precluded from attacking with all the means in his power measures to be introduced by a Government which he thinks wholly detrimental to the wellbeing of the nation. We are seeing a campaign against free enterprise more vicious than any Government outside the Iron Curtain has ever embarked upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "of the Bank, from both the former Governor and the present one. The speech of Lord Cromer, the former Governor of the Bank of England, in New York on 22nd November, 1966, should be read by every Minister. He there described as \"some curiously Anglicised Hungarian goulash\" the thesis that the disappointing growth in the British economy over the years was attributable to private investment overseas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " Pakistan and West Indies alone, let alone the other parts of the old Empire, and let alone those who came in illegally. This is why I make my plea, and this is why our people want immigration stopped and want it stopped now. The English people are not anti-black. They simply want their country to belong to their grandchildren and not to be filched from them by the ever-growing army of immigrants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ion which will shake the foundations of the Civil Service and of this country, but if we are to have a positive economic policy in future then something revolutionary must be done about our economic thinking and policies. I am glad that we now have a senior Minister present, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who can hear what is being said about our economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"He is not likely to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that. He has done a service because the Chancellor of the Exchequer whom, except in relation to decimal currency, I always support at least 95 per cent., is a little complacent. Whether he is a victim of Treasury domination I do not know; he has not told me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": " slightly. The main thing, therefore, is to get the balance of payments right and sterling will be O.K. This is a thesis which is widely shared by many quite radical economists such as Sir Roy Harrod, but which I think is wholly mistaken. Not only does the fact that we have a reserve currency aggravate our economic situation but it also to some extent is the cause of some of our economic dilemmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-01", "file": "debates1967-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "1999a392c9110888", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH GRAND COMMITTEE", "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": "debate. Additionally, we had our share in the major debates in the House. The only time we discussed agriculture was not in Scottish Standing Committee. It was discussed here in at least two major debates. I can remember it because I wound them both up. I can remember Scottish Members discussing these things and playing their part within the United Kingdom. There is nothing new here under the sun.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-01a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way? I am very much obliged to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or irresistible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ntrary, if my hon. Friend will sit back and think about what I am saying he will see that what he has raised is contrary to what I have been saying. Whenever one thinks of anything as an irresistible force, one's thoughts turn immediately to the immovable object. Let me say, first, that I do not believe anything in the real world of international relations and historical developments is immovable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they doing there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "g in Vietnam stopped. What is more, I am convinced that it will stop as soon as it is clear that the possibility of progress to negotiations and to peace is in sight. But with no indication from the other side as to what might or might not flow from a decision to stop the bombing, the cost has to be counted in terms of Vietnamese, American, and, let us not forget, Australian and New Zealand lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.334.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.334.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "efore, that an agreed text for a Security Council resolution has not yet emerged. The responsibilities of all members of the U.N., and especially of members of the Security Council, to promote action towards a settlement of this dangerous problem are very heavy. There must be no compromise on principles. But, equally, no insistence on any particular approach should be allowed to obstruct progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did they say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "learing of the southern part of the Canal and, therefore, to ensure the release of the ships of eight nations, including four British vessels, that are now blocked in the Great Bitter Lake. I have represented and continue to represent very strongly indeed that this should be done. I instructed Sir Harold Beeley to take this up with the U.A.R. authorities when he visited Cairo the week before last.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "s debate that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary made it perfectly clear on the issue of the Common Market that he had the backing of the Labour Party conference, though when we come to the question of Vietnam, of course, that is a horse of another colour. One cannot have it both ways. Let us deal with the first point. How did the Government get the decision at the Labour Party conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Do not waste my time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend boasted that he had the support of this House in the debate which took place last May. He had the support of the majority of Tories. If that is the sort of thing he wants, he can have it. I extract no enjoyment from support provided by a majority on the other side. My right hon. Friend had a large majority. There were 110 members of the Government who voted under threat of resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Have we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ary, but it is not difficult for some of us. Let me deal with one other point. It has been argued—my right hon. Friend has argued this in the House or outside—that the Israelis must abandon the occupied territories It is remarkable this argument that it is immoral, if one has won a victory, to occupy the territory one has gained. If that argument is sound we should never have had a British Empire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "has been argued—my right hon. Friend has argued this in the House or outside—that the Israelis must abandon the occupied territories It is remarkable this argument that it is immoral, if one has won a victory, to occupy the territory one has gained. If that argument is sound we should never have had a British Empire. [An HON MEMBER: \"Have we?\"] I hope what I have said is not regarded as offensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you do now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": " it. In the last debate, in June, I urged Her Majesty's Government to try to introduce some leading personalities from the Federal Army into the Federal Government, because I felt that the Federal Army held a key position in this situation. It was never any good running after people who were controlled by Cairo. That is what the present Government did from the start, and the result was disastrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have done enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "controlled by Cairo. That is what the present Government did from the start, and the result was disastrous. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you do now?\"] The hon. Member may ask what I would do now. It is rather like somebody taking a glass bowl, dashing it on a stone floor and then saying, \"What would you do about it?\" If I had continued to be responsible, this situation would never have come about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is not, of course, above using a quotation to suit himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.385.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Foreign Secretary should have heard all the speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)", "preceding_text": "Order. I have heard nothing objectionable so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Farcical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": " on in London, Stockholm, Vienna, and other places who, by such curious coincidence, seem to stage their demonstrations on the same weekends. I believe that these are largely unashamedly Communist-run organisations, but which also largely consist of well-meaning people who wish to see peace, but who have not thought out the problem and who are duped by very cleverly organised Communist propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": " we have to follow the same line? Is it not time that we looked in other directions, showed a little more adventurous spirit and were a little less conventional in our foreign policy and our home policy, too? We must consider these bread and butter things. We are in politics because politics means power. We have to consider the effect that this will have on us when the next General Election comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-02", "file": "debates1967-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "1af784a211f86a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "preceding_text": "This has been an extremely good debate, although naturally on an occasion like this it has ranged very widely. It has been a serious debate and I think it has done a better service than the fireworks that my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) said he came to the House this evening to witness—or, I would suspect, take part in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-02a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-03", "file": "debates1967-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a5de24ee7af5c34b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-03a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "ess. Public business should be conducted on the floor of the House of Commons and not in first-class hotel rooms in Italy, Switzerland or France. I do not think that Lord Attlee, whose death we all mourn, would have acquiesced in this sort of business. I hope that the Government Front Bench will pay very serious attention to the matter. I think that the credit of my right hon. Friends is at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-03a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-03", "file": "debates1967-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a5de24ee7af5c34b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-03a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "de at the time has been quoted quite fully in the House, that it was absolutely clear that we had agreed in principle that the scheme should go ahead and that the only consultations which were to take place were on matters of timing, of re-phasing the scheme, of arranging the rehousing and matters of detailed architectural design? Will not she accept that the Secretary of State is, in fact, lying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-03a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-03", "file": "debates1967-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "a5de24ee7af5c34b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-03a.578.0", "colnum": "578", "heading": "EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": " that the scheme should go ahead and that the only consultations which were to take place were on matters of timing, of re-phasing the scheme, of arranging the rehousing and matters of detailed architectural design? Will not she accept that the Secretary of State is, in fact, lying—[ Interruption .]—every time he makes his assertion that we did not have a firm decision in principle on the scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-03a.578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.613.4", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Not without notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.613.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.633.7", "colnum": "633", "heading": "B.E.A. COMET AIRCRAFT (WRECKAGE RECOVERY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Board of Trade (Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Board of Trade (Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu)", "preceding_text": " 9,000 feet or more. From the pattern of the cabin debris recovered from the sea surface and the nature of the accident, much of the wreckage is likely to consist of small pieces distributed over many square miles of the sea bed. Immediately after the accident the question of search and salvage was examined with experts from the Ministry \"No.\"]—that dock strikes happened when they were in office?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.647.7", "colnum": "647", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"George will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "chdale, who was Chairman of the National Ports Council, opposed nationalisation and was in favour of developing Portbury, so he was given another job and replaced by someone from one of the nationalised boards. This is a complete record of any person who disagrees with the Minister being removed to another job. Who will take on the job of Chairman of British Railways, with this sort of background—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.647.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "spects of the Bill I shall be presenting to Parliament before very long. I gave him a White Paper on the inland waterways part at the beginning of September. I do not think that he has even read it, and today he has not made so much as a passing reference to it. I will come in a moment to the perfunctory way in which he has dismissed another White Paper, which he has had in his hands all morning.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ight have given a little attention to the White Paper on railway policy, which, at last, should have enabled him to deal not with speculation but with fact. I appreciate that this document was available in the Vote Office only at 11 o'clock this morning. It was due for publication tomorrow, but when the Opposition chose today for this debate I thought it only courteous to expedite its publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "of centralised control. So the drain goes on—Mr. Fiennes one day, Sir Stanley Raymond the next, and now Mr. Shirley, almost the last of the Mohicans. Nor is the City, so we hear, interested as the right hon. Lady hawks her tarnished wares down Lombard Street. I wonder whether it was because of her failure to attract top management that the right hon. Lady paid a visit to Hungary during the Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "e for the right hon. Lady to say \"Oh my God\" and invoke the Deity, but we know that her visit to America was not exactly a success. What did the right hon. Lady expect to bring back from behind the Iron Curtain which had any relevance to traffic conditions in this country—unless she hoped to bring back a tame Hungarian who could turn her mess of pottage into a dainty dish to set before this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.673.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.683.2", "colnum": "683", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Park", "preceding_text": "iminate the delaying powers which the other place at present possesses. I shall deal no longer with that particular topic, but the issue of consultation was raised by the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare (Mr. Webster), and I would remind him that this Government and, indeed, the Labour Party, have already consulted on those plans a much larger and more important body even than the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.683.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The electors.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "Who?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.683.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "n met the local authority representatives in the afternoon and became involved in not unacrimonious dispute. At the end, no doubt the local authority representatives said that they wanted to make an agreed statement to the Press, only to be told that the matters discussed were confidential. That is like saying to a man, \"I propose to cut off your head. Come and discuss with me how I should do it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "the matter should be raised in the House in full debate on the White Paper, with hon. Members representing the local authorities concerned taking a full part. We want to hear hon. Members from Manchester, Liverpool and Gateshead looking after the interests of their ratepayers. If they do not, the rate- payers will push them, as we have seen in the case of various parts of Scotland and the regions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "nisation will pursue an expansionist policy. It will actively promote voluntary acquisitions …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 22nd February, 1967; Vol. 741, c. 1735.] In other words, the private enterprise haulage industry is for the chopper. I will tell the House precisely how the Government intend to set about it, but first let me warn the Government that both in the House and throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "er will be whittled away and the taxpayer will foot the bill. This is the essence of Socialism, as we have seen time and time again with other nationalised industries. If anyone doubts what I say, let me remind the House that since nationalisation the railways have lost over £1,300 million and the annual deficit of the railways is now equivalent to more than 6d. on the standard rate of Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "ould congratulate the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) on his maiden speech as Chairman of the Conservative Party and say that if we have many more hammer blows of that kind with his sort of feather duster he may go down very well with Central Office, but he would be the first to admit, I think, that he said very little indeed about the issues which are principally before us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.759.0", "colnum": "759", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.759.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The escalation of Opposition interest in this debate is very flattering, but I have said all that I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The escalation of Opposition interest in this debate is very flattering, but I have said all that I have to say—[ Interruption .] Nobody better than the right hon. Gentleman ought to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.764.4", "colnum": "764", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "he work that is beginning and will be further developed. If I may add to this one reference to the view we take about the need to get much more of this research out in industry itself, a reference was made to the Industrial Expansion Bill. The right hon. Gentleman called it the Industrial Expansion Act, which was a very wise piece of prophecy. But the whole purpose of the Industrial Expansion Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-06", "file": "debates1967-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "937caa4146bc1fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.781.1", "colnum": "781", "heading": "ROADS (SPEED LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "imit of 70 m.p.h. or not?\", there is an extraordinary column headed, \"Electors who are motorists in England and Wales\", which contains the answers: Yes, 62 per cent.; No. 36 per cent.; Don't know, 72 per cent. That adds up to 170 per cent. Which figures are wrong? There is no erratum in the front. Yet the Minister has used these bogus figures to claim popular support. She should read them through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-06a.781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the Government are not concerned with expropriating anything from anyone at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.810.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.810.0", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "Clearly, the Government are not concerned with expropriating anything from anyone at this stage. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There are occasional fiscal adjustments, but never expropriations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.810.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.811.6", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the Government accepted the Geddes Report and that it calls for special rates for the shipbuilding industry in negotiation with this nationalised steel board? Is the nationalised steel board going to sell the shipyards down the river?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.811.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "It is always possible to rationalise these things after the event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.822.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.824.5", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend not ware that yesterday's lobby by the miners was one of the biggest ever held in the country? Is he further aware that unless his Ministry changes its point of view radically there will be a revolt in this Parliament against the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.824.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "This is a serious problem and, for coal miners, it is a very tragic one. One of the great pities is that we did not look at the contraction of this industry in other fields five or six years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am rather disappointed with that reply, because I had expected that the Minister would have been able to say precisely how much interest had been paid to the former colliery owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman had put those questions down, I could have picked the answer he wanted. However, he did not put them down and I answered the Question that he tabled. I do not carry in my head the total number of British subjects at present in Aden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hen we leave would, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, have arisen whenever we left. The right hon. Gentleman knows full well that we were planning to leave at some date. When we have gone, those who remain will be like the British citizens in any other foreign country. Her Majesty's Government, through the High Commissioner, will negotiate an arrangement with whatever successor Government emerge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.840.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "ADEN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " he talks better than that. He knows very well that this is now the critical period. The last fortnight before we left, whether it had been on his time-table or on ours, was bound to be the critical one. With very great respect, I advise the Opposition that it was not a useful operation to table this Question today, because our people there matter more than going through the motions in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.846.0", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "veral of the Amendments. At the end of the proceedings on the Queen's Speech, hon. Members have three courses open to them. They may vote for one or other of the Amendments tabled by the official Opposition, they may vote against those Amendments, or they may abstain from voting. These three processes enable the viewpoints of all hon. Members to be expressed and ascertained with as much precision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.846.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "sual, too—the Report stage is simply an opportunity of blowing off steam. I hope very much that the Leader of the House will consider this. I put it to him as a very serious point. The reason we are doing this is so that we can go to bed earlier. This comes quite clearly from the Report of the Select Committee on Procedure. In my view, the occupation of government is not suitable for office hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "bour Administrations under two Labour Prime Ministers. Taking all the Tory months, the average unemployment figure is 1·8 per cent., and, taking all the Socialist months, the average unemployment figure is again 1·8 cent. The figures are identical to one-tenth of 1 per cent. We can all make our points on by-election platforms, and I am as good at selective quotations as anybody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.851.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "That is the question from the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) to the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which people?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ase in public expenditure which was disguised last year and will, I fear, be only too naked next year. The views of this side of the House on the reform of trade union law are known, and so is the response from the other side of the House. Therefore, I will not go into that matter now. The other main item that I must urge once more upon the Chancellor is the provision of incentives for the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "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": "ut and seeing how we get on, leaving the House freer for other detailed discussions either of matters of general policy or of legislation. if hon. Members so desire. Frankly, I do not see any great constitutional issue here if there are appropriate safeguards, and I am certain that the Government will ensure that there are. If the Bill goes upstairs, I think that a time table will be needed there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "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": "need to be the same kind of timetable, if not a more detailed timetable, if the Finance Bill went upstairs. It would certainly be a very great convenience to Treasury Ministers if the Finance Bill, when it is considered upstairs—if it is decided to send it there—should be considered in the afternoon and not in the morning. There is a great deal of Treasury work to be done, as my predecessors know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.866.3", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is my policy, as it was that of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, that local authorities should be able to borrow more from the Public Works Loan Board in future than they have done in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.866.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "dit creation cannot be done on a short-term basis. It is not so easy to adjust the world economy as some of our domestic economies, and, therefore, an initial basic period before distribution of five years has been fixed, with a distribution of the drawing rights each year—unconditional and unqualified. Let me give an illustration. It—and this has not yet been agreed—the basis of the distribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "sed resources, what he said I agree with. He said: it is impossible to manage a large industrial economy with the very small margin of unused manpower and resources that characterised the British economy in the 1940s and 1950s\". That is true. I will come to the other points later. We must have a somewhat larger margin of unused capacity than we used to try to keep. That is the truth of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, try. My hon. Friend has been here long enough. The real problem of how we increase the resources of this country is to my mind basically a question of the distribution of resources between the regions like Wales, Scotland, the North and the rest of the country. It is not a question of the total level of unemployment that we are concerned with, but the distribution of that unemployment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "expansion. My next preoccupation is that in the latter part of 1968—and it may seem rather odd to say this now—we should not let the economy roar ahead too fast for our basic strategy, nor that we should allow the growth of private consumption to collide with public expenditure. Both these things will have to be watched very carefully during the next six to twelve months in our long-term policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "nd my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, who disagrees with me so violently. It is because until we get this right we will not be able to get the changes in our basic approach that many of us want in order to achieve some of our Socialistic beliefs. A healthy economy lies at the root of all the changes we want to do. It lies at the root of decent housing, it lies at the root of decent education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "a Polemic\" says: If financial opinion is sensitive to disquiet voiced in the City of London generally it is hypersensitive to any suggestion that alarm over Government action and competence is shared by the Bank of England itself. Sir Leslie O'Brien has been the subject of criticism here tonight, and I do not want to use the privilege of speaking in this House to launch a personal attack upon him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "We have started on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ion defeats and for the Opposition Amendment, to which so many hon. Members opposite have alluded with support. The Labour Party voters in the country feel that they have been let down by the Government and they are absolutely right. Secondly, there has been the growing feeling in the country that, in the conduct of their offices, Ministers have been debasing steadily the standards of public life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "incur from the courts a censure on the scale no Minister, to my knowledge, has ever received before. Now the Secretary of State is in trouble again about the British Museum. Those of us who have read Lord Radcliffe's letter in The Times will have seen once again how much the Government ride roughshod over the rights of individuals and how little time they have for consultation in the proper sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "every one is an example of the way in which the Government have undermined the Labour Party's position in the country. Then there is the double-talk and the blaming of others, of which the Prime Minister is a notable exponent. There have been the famous D Notice episode, the \"tightly knit group of politically motivated men\" who have disappeared with the others, the incident of the \"Torrey Canyon\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not severe enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ices of our imports and exports. The other side of the balance of payments is the capital account. Certainly, on capital account things are substantially different from what they were. There has been a new inflow of American capital for North Sea gas, for one thing. The main change in capital account, however, is the severe cutting back of overseas investment which matters so much to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "y are getting a 6 per cent. absolute decrease. All these are examples of the stagnation which has fallen over the economy, as a result of which we should have had a very substantial improvement in our balance of payments. As I pointed out earlier, however, the improvement in the balance of payments is very much less than we should have expected or could have hoped for. Now, the economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "ed Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) said that what the Government desperately need and what ought to have been provided for in the Queen's Speech are measures to reorganise the machinery of government, particularly the Treasury. A glimpse of light. When we took office we had a great deal of sympathy with this view, but there was just this difference between them and us. They spent 13 years in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "ing to find ways and means to reform our own House. The idea that we should start reforming other people and leave ourselves unreformed, or, even more ridiculous, that we should reform this House and leave in existence the only Second Chamber in the world still based on an hereditary system and still retaining a built-in Conservative majority would mean that we would be regarded by people outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Guillotine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "urances and I think that it is only courteous to reply to those requests. He asked me, first, that there should be full and proper consultation and, secondly, that powers would be considered along with composition. There will indeed be consultations, as my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made clear on the first day of this debate. Indeed, those consultations are due to start tomorrow evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "f the House. Indeed, the only limitation of our readiness to consult is the right we must reserve, if the prospect of agreement seems so remote as to rule out agreed legislation this Session, to put our proposals before the House. I hope that the Leader of the Opposition will regard those assurances as sincerely meant, as they are. I now have more time than I had hoped to deal with the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "ey are so keen on higher prices for the workers that they pledge themselves to scrap our admirable British support system, not as a condition of entry, but so as once again to shift taxation on to the back of the consumer. It is nice to see that this is the kind of thing the right hon. Gentleman tells the boys at Brighton and spares the Chancellor. I will not deal with the third and fourth points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "man cannot have been here much of the afternoon or he would have known how the Opposition like to treat this subject. We each run debates in our own style, and the Opposition have spent the whole of today attacking the Government. We have had Stansted, we have had the British Museum, but, till I came along to fill the gap, we had no account of what our alternative Government have got ready for us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": ". Being a docile pupil, I learned from him. I told myself that I would be good, I would lay a foundation so that my successor would be able to come back in due course and tell the Leader of the Opposition that the Government were willing to learn, that we were determined to do what we were told, and we were determined to see that the number of houses under construction should be a suitable number.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ne months of 1966. That is not too bad an achievement. As for houses under construction, I am sure that the Leader of the Opposition will be glad to hear that the number of private houses for owner-occupation under construction—the ones I was specially accused of not getting built—at the end of September, 1967, was 14 per cent. up on a year ago. The total of houses under construction was 498,000 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "mple one. It is the choice between the policies expressed in the Gracious Speech—which, despite all the difficulties, are beginning to work, and which given time, will create a stable economic basis—and, on the other hand, a return to the men and measures which were rejected by the country three years ago. It is for these reasons that I ask the House to reject the Amendment and accept the Motion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "What about textiles?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-07", "file": "debates1967-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "3c0e5440df20066e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENT AND SUSSEX LIGHT RAILWAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "Similarly, the spokesman for Kent, the other county council, said to interruption to traffic at the three level crossings in Kent was \"undesirable\", but that the council would not object if there was public need for the railway. He asked that the Minister should be thoroughly satisfied on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-07a.993.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "South Africa.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Do the British Government hold themselves responsible for the integrity of Rhodesia against aggression or subversion from outside?.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I might, first, say that I am sorry that the hon. Member should not have accepted, as most of the House has accepted over many years, the discretion of Mr. Speaker in matters of the kind he has raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Some very important questions arise from that Ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "do to bring them up to supplementary benefit level? In his speech to the Labour Party conference, the Leader of the House seemed to abandon all hope of helping these children by means of social security. He said: We think that a national minimum wage has much more to do with this question than social security. We cannot deal with the fundamental problem of low wages by social security regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1052.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "And losing cases, as my right hon. Friend mentions. On that same day, the right hon. Member for Leyton, the Minister in charge of the social service review, said, One way which attracts very little support is to raise\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "jor proportion of the children whom this Measure is intended to help, it would have been an impossible burden through any kind of benefits across the board. To take even 90 per cent. of those children out of poverty my right hon. Friend would have required an increase of £1 a week, and if my arithmetic is correct that would have entailed a cost of something like £320 million a year. I accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Foot", "preceding_text": "—and after an hour or two, someone pointed out that, apart from that of the Minister, not one speech had been made from the Government benches. Mr. Smith then rose and said, \"There is no need for it. We arrived at a decision in our caucus meetings and, therefore, there is no reason for anyone other than the Minister to speak.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "as soon as he delves in to the affairs of Africa. It is a matter of constant astonishment to me how one whose views on affairs in this country are so often liberal and humane should be so intensely selective as soon as he directs his attention to Africa and to Asia. I could not recognise from his description the same countries to which I know he was referring. He was describing as a police State.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "bate, but if I were challenged on a suitable occasion I could list one after the other of Commonwealth African Nationalist States which have done just that, and give particulars of what I mean. The whole trouble that we are dealing with tonight arises precisely because the Rhodesians are not made that way. They are British, like us, and they jolly well mean to stand by their word when they give it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1149.3", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. and learned Gentleman frightened of, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman talked to ordinary Africans in Rhodesia, he would find that they are not followers of Mr. Sithole and Mr. Nkomo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "H0N. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "p, the time devoted to it will not have been wasted. I beg the Minister to note this point and transmit it to his right hon. Friend. It is very difficult now to isolate a point which distinguishes the Rhodesian situation from others which we have successfully negotiated. If that be so, then for heaven's sake let us be governed by the fact that Rhodesia is the most moderate régime in Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1151.3", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kenya.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ian situation from others which we have successfully negotiated. If that be so, then for heaven's sake let us be governed by the fact that Rhodesia is the most moderate régime in Africa—[H0N. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—yes, the most moderate régime in Africa. Let anyone who disagrees name the régime which is more moderate, more democratic, and which gives greater freedom to its subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "y take, one must surely regret an act which is inevitably harsh, even though one may think that for other reasons it is justified. I must, for a few moments, refer to the Prime Minister who, even for him, has an unusual record of change of mind in this matter. It is only a short time since he said that on the best advice he had received the sanctions would be effective in weeks rather than months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I need hardly tell the hon. Gentleman that that is the point at which I will arrive, but I will make my argument in my own way. I was also in Lisbon during the Recess —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I need hardly tell the hon. Gentleman that that is the point at which I will arrive, but I will make my argument in my own way. I was also in Lisbon during the Recess —[ Laughter. ]—and I had one hour with the Portuguese Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " mind my telling the House some of what he said. He said, as he was entitled to do, that he had expressed no public view of our Rhodesian difficulties, but added, \"You, the British, have for long proclaimed the great issue of freedom of the seas but have put a cruiser opposite a Portuguese port and have stopped oil using a Portuguese railway. You have cost the Portuguese about £12 million a year\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1164.4", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I have given way three times already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": " many African farm schemes whose funds have been blocked and various other charities which are not allowed to send their money to Rhodesia, even though, in some cases, those charities exist purely to help the African people. Moreover, the Africans are the people who are suffering from sanctions. I know what the average African view is. I took as broad a cross-section of African opinion as I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stooges.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "Speaker, the hon. Gentleman may be able to make his long and inaccurate speech. In the short time he has spoken so far he has made a number of inaccurate statements. I was not on a conducted tour. I paid my own fare to Rhodesia and back. I did not see a single African nominated by the Government for me to see; I saw people I know and have known for many years—businessmen and other African leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1176.5", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Stooges.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentlemen's intervention was even more foolish than usual, because I was quoting the words of an African Member of Parliament, elected by Africans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1176.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1176.7", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Another stooge.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Members will keep quiet for a moment I shall quote from the speech of another African Member of Parliament, Mr. Rubatika—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1176.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "—and by the Rhodesian Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "I believe that the \"Tiger\" constitution is the only possible solution to this problem.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1181.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1181.11", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "If I may put my points from a standing position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1181.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "e British and Rhodesian Governments as a reasonable compromise, and I support that constitution. I do not, and did not and will not support the Prime Minister's formula for a return to legality. It was rejected by the Rhodesian Government, and voted against by hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House, because it had too many loop holes. It meant Rhodesia and Rhodesians trusting our Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1187.2", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "e spoken as though a settlement was easy to reach, as though all we have to do is to be reasonable. What we have to do, apparently, is to throw over our moral scruples. It has been my privilege to serve in this House a long time, and I value and cherish the right to be a Member of it. I value it as one of the greatest things in my life. This House has heard the voices of Gladstone and many others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1187.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am going to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.4", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I want my intervention to be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.4", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I want my intervention to be brief—[ Interruption. ] I do not know whether it is the Rhodesian section of Rentacrowd that has arrived in the Public Gallery, Mr. Deputy Speaker, or whether it is still the Greek lot, but it was my aim to be brief, though it is sometimes difficult when one is constantly interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.4", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State chose to intervene rather early in our proceedings, and he accused my hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Wall) of some discourtesy. I have never looked for discourtesy from the Minister of State, but he told us that he wanted to speak then in order to answer the points made in the debate. Other hon. Members on both sides of the House wish to contribute to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-08", "file": "debates1967-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "39a7180546197870", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "crimination against Scotland is intended, because the same practice operates on the Severn and the Tyne, but I am a little perturbed, because this comes before the House apparently without any opportunity for discussing the general principle. I do not think that there should be tolls on any Scottish bridge. The Labour Party in Scotland thinks the same, though that is not necessarily the last word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-08a.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1230.8", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I do not see any reason why our aid should be confined to medical aid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1230.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1237.4", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer for my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "In view of the reported promotion of the Paymaster-General, will the Prime Minister consider appointing the Governor of the Bank of England to fill the vacancy? Alternatively, will he consider appointing a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "In view of the reported promotion of the Paymaster-General, will the Prime Minister consider appointing the Governor of the Bank of England to fill the vacancy? Alternatively, will he consider appointing a—[ Interruption .]—real horse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Chancellor's precise words on Tuesday were: We must have a somewhat larger margin of unused capacity than we used to try to keep. That is the truth of the matter. Is the Prime Minister aware that every explanation that he has given this afternoon is totally incompatible with this statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "LONDON DOCKS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Most of us have the highest regard for the right hon. Gentleman personally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "This is something that we could always consider, but I would suggest to my hon. Friend that it may be possible in another place upstairs that he and I might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1257.2", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "This is something that we could always consider, but I would suggest to my hon. Friend that it may be possible in another place upstairs that he and I might—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] —in different conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1257.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1285.1", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ensor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ensor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says, \"A great deal worse.\" That is a matter of opinion. Be that as it may, it is a very cheap meal today. This has been done by an intensive economic business which has produced an industry from nothing to £320 million in fifteen years. Why has it been done? It has been done because no one in his right mind will suggest that we should ill-treat our birds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come, come.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "cently I went to the Island of Rum, under the auspices of the Nature Conservancy. On the island, there are two or three pairs of golden eagles. It has been discovered this year that the eagles' eggs are infertile. The main diet of the eagles is fish, and the antibiotic or whatever it is which has got into the fish must have been washed down from the land years before and is now present in the sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the hon. Gentleman's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "The trouble is that it is not apparently so easy now. I wish it were. At that time, according to the right hon. Gentleman, there was certainty about it. We have had a brisk and rather thoughtful debate. It is a pity that there have been, for such long spells, completely empty benches on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-09", "file": "debates1967-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "9692f5c442bb3b7a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1359.2", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I cannot go further on that as an Agriculture Minister. We are dealing with hypothetical cases. It will depend entirely on the nature of the deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-09a.1359.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-10", "file": "debates1967-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2cf5459098cb890d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-10a.1414.4", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Are you aware that there is considerable support in the House for the Amendment, that it is supported by my learned Friend, Mr. Emlyn Hooson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-10a.1414.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-10", "file": "debates1967-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "2cf5459098cb890d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-10a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDermot)", "preceding_text": "sion to be almost doubled, so I hope that all hon. Members, beginning with the Leader of the Opposition, who cannot tolerate the growing army of bureaucrats, will have the courage of their convictions and vote against the Bill. If the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. Friends want us to preserve the sea, sand, cliffs and the countryside, they will have to put up with a few more civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-10a.1414.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-13", "file": "debates1967-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f603e13a99261ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.5.7", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was it true?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the odd one, that came from that quarter, but I think it most unfortunate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.5.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-13", "file": "debates1967-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f603e13a99261ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — STEWARTS AND LLOYDS, CORBY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. and learned Gentleman confirm that there is nothing to prevent any citizen from going to Rhodesia, as, indeed, did the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-13", "file": "debates1967-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f603e13a99261ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ashton-under-Lyne.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "I agreed with very much of what the hon. Gentleman the Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-13", "file": "debates1967-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "f603e13a99261ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "and to achieve who knows what in terms of advanced engineering. Surely that is something which should be welcomed. I know that all the people involved in the project would appreciate from time to time some mark of thanks or appreciation from this House, even perhaps from the Public Accounts Committee, for what they are doing. The spirit and enthusiasm on this project has to be seen to be believed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-13a.89.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Absolutely disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will join in gratitude to those who have made so many sacrifices in Aden in the last few months. I have never disguised from the right hon. Gentleman that, if the road is rough, that is Her Majesty's Government's responsibility very largely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "AFRICA (SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Rhodesian what? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that most people in this country are glad that he has re-established contact with the Rhodesian Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.234.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, appertaining to the same subject but couched in different terms. We appreciate your position as the guardian of the few back-bench rights we still maintain in the House over the Executive, Mr. Speaker, though they are very few indeed, and we are very proud that you do at times guard them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "I have been listening with close attention to the interventions, and say straight away that I will bring to my right hon. Friend's notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the wrong one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": " is too great a burden on Mr. Speaker and that it is right to allow Mr. Deputy Speaker to be able to put the Closure. Motion No. 9 dealing with Statutory Instruments is one which I cannot advise my hon. Friends to accept. It has not even got the safeguards in it which exist at present for Prayers. Under Standing Order No. 100, in the case of Prayers, Mr. Speaker only has to put the Question if he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is Motion 18.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "for Prayers. Under Standing Order No. 100, in the case of Prayers, Mr. Speaker only has to put the Question if he—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the wrong one.\"]. I will not waste the time of the House on that point, but I thought there was a provision relating to Prayers whereby Mr. Speaker could, if he was of the opinion that the matter had not been sufficiently discussed, allow the debate to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "We hear again of the mysterious sources from which this has come. I should have thought that it was obviously a matter for the Select Committee. If the House is to do anything about it it should have a recommendation one way or the other from the Committee. Until we have that, I hope the House will reject this stupid attack on the dignity of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.353.4", "colnum": "353", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Let us see how this works out. So far, I have been dealing with paragraph (3), which relates to notice. I believe that the idea of notice of urgency before 12 o'clock is entirely wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.353.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-14", "file": "debates1967-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "4c3b208de91dda16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": ". 5 we shall get that right. Particularly as a result of Motion No. 5 we shall know that if we are in favour of an Amendment we vote \"Aye\" and if we want to vote against an Amendment we vote \"No\". We shall know also that if we are in favour of the Second or Third Reading of a Bill we vote \"Aye\", and if against it we vote \"No\". Again, this is not a major matter, but I think a help to hon. Members.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-14a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.418.7", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e the outcome of our further collections of the October figures because they have not all come in yet, and then we shall have to relate them to traffic and analyse them. I have always tried to bring as scientific an approach as I can to road safety. Therefore, I would not wish to be drawn into any anticipation of the evidence. With regard to the rest of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.418.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.418.7", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "yet, and then we shall have to relate them to traffic and analyse them. I have always tried to bring as scientific an approach as I can to road safety. Therefore, I would not wish to be drawn into any anticipation of the evidence. With regard to the rest of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary Question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] I am aware that there are some efforts to organise opposition to this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.418.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I am a little curious to know at this stage what is the attitude of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I was saying that hon. Gentlemen opposite, who supported the legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I was saying that hon. Gentlemen opposite, who supported the legislation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Now they do not want to be confronted with their own decision. But they supported the creation of the new offence, and they supported the introduction of the breath test—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I was saying that hon. Gentlemen opposite, who supported the legislation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Now they do not want to be confronted with their own decision. But they supported the creation of the new offence, and they supported the introduction of the breath test—[ Interruption. ] I am well aware that hon. Gentlemen opposite are now being approached by the licensed victuallers to oppose it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.419.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.432.6", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "Why cannot the Government get on with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.432.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "I am aware that it would be something rather unusual, but is the Minister aware that the £14 million cut in road building which the Government have instituted will result in serious and lasting damages to these beautiful Cotswold villages, where I happen to live?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.432.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "This, as the hon. Member, I know, is fully aware, is not a laughing matter although some of his hon. Friends are tittering on this issue of safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.436.4", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that reply, but what I have in mind is that where a plurality of local authorities are involved in submitting an application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.436.6", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "If I may continue, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ve to face this every year. It was the Labour Party in opposition which insisted vehemently that this review should take place. It is remarkable how responsibility has altered right hon. and hon. Members opposite. They opposed bitterly the Act which they now find so useful and without which they could not operate and called those who had asked for it names which I was ashamed to have thrown at me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged. It does not alter the position in the slightest. I asked, if the rate of immigration continues, which it will if the Bill remains the same, because the pressure outside will grow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Absolute nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " decrease. As for their birth rate, I should have thought that once they came here and the immigrant women had the benefit of our excellent medical facilities it would tend to increase and not decrease. This is the answer given to me. On this assumption, in the lifetime of our grandchildren, in 70 years' time, at this rate of progress, there will be more coloured people in this country than white.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " This is my speech, and I am going to make it. I cannot believe that any hon. Member would want to see that happen. I cannot believe that anybody would want to see Britain with a greater number of coloured inhabitants than white. That is why I not only support the continuance of this Act but would like to see increased restrictions imposed, which I am sure the Home Secretary will do in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "e who work on the racial susceptibilities of people that hon. Members are able to talk about coloured people as if, somehow, they were different from us and were not entitled to the same consideration and respect as human beings as we accord to one another. If prejudice has been spread which has necessitated certain action, it is thanks to people like the hon. Gentleman. But it does him no credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Doctors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "want it made more strict in form and operated with greater strictness. I should like to go further, for reasons which I hope to explain and which are not inhumane but realistic, and attuned to the needs and anxieties of the people whom I represent. I think that there should now be, for an indefinite period, a total stop to the entry of Commonwealth citizens. It really is time now to cry, \"Enough\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.581.7", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "our words with care because, whether we like it or not, and whether we want it or not, we are listened to, and it is important that we should be part of the effort to educate the public. In this sense I pay tribute to the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants which, with Governmental assistance, plays an important rôle in this respect. 10.45 p.m. I must bring my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.581.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-15", "file": "debates1967-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "63804c897526f014", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "mber's satisfaction I will write to him about them. I think that the Committee would now expect me to bring my remarks to a close. Some reference was made to racialism. I do not want to go out of order by dealing with this. It is right that we should recognise that there are racialists of different colours, and our condemnation of black racialism should be as sharp and clear as of white racialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-15a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.608.2", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the hon. Lady really means to be discourteous to Professor Tress, who has, by general agreement, done a splendid job in the South West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.608.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, one of the factors in making firm assumptions is the likely behaviour of the balance of payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's question is misplaced. Contrary to the actions of the Tory Government, we did not deliberately deflate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.618.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.619.4", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ession of gratitude for his very comprehensive statement in answer to my Question? First, will he examine the possibility of bringing forward any Government contracts which are still outstanding? Secondly, will he please look again at the B.O.T.A.C. applications so as not to make the mistake made under the Hailsham Report and instead, to ascertain the viability of these firms, because in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "As this country is in such need of overseas aid, will not the Prime Minister give way to a Government who will inspire national confidence and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be aware, of course, that the economy is now on the turn and showing strong signs of moving upwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend quite satisfied that the phasing of pit closures with the introduction of new male-employing industry in those areas subject to closures is sufficiently adequate to prevent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that my right hon. Friend's démarche in relation to Westinghouse and in relation to Dounreay was one of the finest things I have seen for a very long time. I am sorry if the hon. Member supports Westinghouse against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that my right hon. Friend's démarche in relation to Westinghouse and in relation to Dounreay was one of the finest things I have seen for a very long time. I am sorry if the hon. Member supports Westinghouse against—[ Interruption .]—in what can only mean that Westinghouse by paying slightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "FOREIGN LOAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that many hon. Members on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "FOREIGN LOAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Everything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that some of us, at any rate, are totally opposed to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "We are in touch with the United Nations in New York and with the United Nations command in Cyprus about any lessons to be learned from this incident. I think that it underlines the important rôle the United Nations peacekeeping force can play", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.637.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "Naturally, it is a comment on Mr. Cook's unreliability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "ssible to believe that he was guilty of such an offence, and I pay very warm tribute to the courage with which during these months he has faced the ruin of a promising career. The Home Secretary condemns him unseen, unheard. If he could not visit Court Lees with me, he might at least have accorded them an interview. I said at the beginning that I accepted the Report for the purpose of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. We have had 60 minutes spent by the Front Bench and I am going to state my case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have the Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have the Report—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"]— In due course. We have had 60 minutes of the Opposition Front Bench, and I do not want to take up more time. This is one of the charges which was found—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "I said that I was not debating the merits of the case. It is the manner in which the action was taken that counts, and I am not entering into a discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "der evidence relating to the general work of the school or to the professional integrity and records of the two men. The allegations were considered in complete isolation from their general backgrounds and careers. It was not a tenure hearing and, in the interests of common justice, these men are entitled now to a full tenure hearing, whatever else they are given. The Home Secretary was requested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "at that bit was added by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Handsworth (Sir E. Boyle), whose name is on the Motion but who, wisely, has not attended any part of this debate. There are 41 members of the staff, and the position of 37 of them—I shall come to the others in a few minutes—has retained an element of uncertainty precisely because of this dilatory attitude on the part of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "There is no point at all in this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "We have no record of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COURT LEES SCHOOL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "other point which I must mention here. After the appointment of Mr. Gibbens, a good deal of beating continued to take place at Court Lees. There were 10 such canings between mid-May and mid-June. In his letter to The Times last week, the chairman claimed that these were all carried out only after express permission had been obtained from the appropriate official at the Home Office. That is untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-16", "file": "debates1967-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "dcba814aa6868404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "nderstand that the Ministry of Technology spent a sum of £31,000 at Hatfield for the development of and investigation into micrography for the reproduction and distribution of books. In America already this is an industry with a £100 million turnover while we, as part of our programme of development, are spending £31,000. I am looking at the clock with regret and with apologies to my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-16a.743.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-17", "file": "debates1967-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c11869b037a3ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-17a.858.2", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "kly. It must be very rare that a Government announces its intention to introduce legislation and it is then introduced as quickly as the Home Office has introduced this legislation. I was surprised that my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, West, to whose erudition and knowledge I pay tribute, should give a nagging and niggardly reception to a Bill which both sides of the House warmly welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-17a.858.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-17", "file": "debates1967-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c11869b037a3ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-17a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He should have been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. My hon. and learned Friend has made a considerable study of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-17a.862.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-17", "file": "debates1967-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "c11869b037a3ec6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-17a.874.5", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I have the leave of the House to speak again for not more than five minutes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-17a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.908.7", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is not being very helpful. I thought that discourteous references to leaders of foreign countries was something to be deprecated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.908.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.910.8", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIDDLE EAST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Is that not surprising in view of the recent exchanges in this House about Vietnam? Are we applying double standards on some of these ventures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.910.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL (BRITISH SHIPPING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I suggest that we should not link these two objectives together. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRENCH FOREIGN SECRETARY (STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether Lord Chalfont was the chief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRENCH FOREIGN SECRETARY (STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Was Lord Chalfont, our chief Common Market negotiator, informed of Thursday's decision to devalue the £ before he made his speech the following morning in Paris, or was he instructed by the Cabinet to deny this truth, and if so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "lance of payments deficit. As I see the situation developing after devaluation, the bulk of the increase in personal consumption that would have taken place will be transferred to exports and we shall get rid of the deficit. This is the price we shall have to pay. When we come to 1969 we should be able to afford a rise in personal consumption and this will be coupled with a continuing improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.935.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.939.0", "colnum": "939", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "nd devaluation as an act of policy to the Cabinet last week. But the change having been made, and the new parity having been fixed, I believe that the House as a whole will agree that, provided we are ready to pay the cost, we have a great opportunity to improve our position, to expand our exports rapidly and achieve a strong surplus with a fully employed economy. That is the Government's purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that not withstanding one's criticisms of the deflationary aspect of the package, I believe that he and the Cabinet are to be most warmly congratulated on their decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.940.4", "colnum": "940", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "There were not discussions on an internationally agreed basis. A number of bilateral talks took place, because, as this operation has been carried through in an extremely successful manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I have thought about this problem, naturally. My hon. Friend and the miners will recognise that the effect of devaluation itself does give them the equivalent of a tariff against fuel imports. It makes oil cheaper and coal relatively dearer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Since the immediate alternative is increasing stagnation and unemployment, is the Chancellor aware that many of us accept the inevitability of devaluation while deploring the lack of planning and the mistiming and regard it as an inevitable price to pay for following Conservative economic policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On Friday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "uld debate with the right hon. Gentlemen rather than attempt to give an answer offhand. As to the timing and nature of the operation, outside those who wish to take some party advantage, the rest of the world believes that the timing of the operation and the manner of its execution have been exceedingly well carried out. The degree of consultation that took place with all the major areas affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The export rebate and that part of the premium to which I have referred have met with considerable international criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.944.4", "colnum": "944", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "have met with considerable international criticism. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members opposite are still intent on making party points, are they? As I was saying, these have met with considerable international criticism of a growing character. Our industries which export will get a substantial price advantage if they choose to do it that way. No doubt they will choose whichever is in their interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.944.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e to say it if the taunt is to be thrown around that three times is more than enough. When I had been in office for one month I was approached by a very senior monetary authority in Europe, a person known to everyone concerned with this field, who spoke, as he said, on behalf of the Six. He said that he believed that we ought to devalue by between 10 and 15 per cent. So if there is any accusation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.946.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hat three times is more than enough. When I had been in office for one month I was approached by a very senior monetary authority in Europe, a person known to everyone concerned with this field, who spoke, as he said, on behalf of the Six. He said that he believed that we ought to devalue by between 10 and 15 per cent. So if there is any accusation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—if there is any accusation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alibis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If there is any accusation that this devaluation is the result of the Labour Government's economic policy, I say to the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) and to the Conservative Party that it was the view of many distinguished authorities that, when the Conservative Party left office, this country was in a state of fundamental disequilibrium. I rejected the view that that gentleman put to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.947.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.947.2", "colnum": "947", "heading": "£(Exchange Rate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "libis.\"] I am not looking for alibis. I am trying to get hon. Members opposite to understand the truth. I rejected the advice then because I believed that it was right that this country should make every effort, through prices and incomes policy and in every other way, to overcome that fundamental disequilibrium rather than take what would then have been regarded as the soft option of devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.947.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "AGE OF MAJORITY (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "aign, I found that thousands of my constituents had met my predecessor personally and many spoke of him as a man who had actually solved a problem for them. They made it plain to me that the only way for any M.P. to stay in Hamilton was to give the kind of service which my predecessor gave, personally, diligently and patiently. Although I have never met him, I would begin by paying tribute to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-20", "file": "debates1967-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "1ad30e332ae469a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS CORPORATION (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Useless\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "ision cannot be decided solely by the needs of the airline. Other considerations must be taken into account. The Government as a whole must make up their mind and then publish a decision. 12.15 a.m. Various hon. Members have expressed doubt, as did the Select Committee, about the machinery for working out procurement. There is a thing called T.A.R.C., the Transport Aircraft Requirements Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-20a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Will be very hard hit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend said that the poorer sections of the community who will be hard hit—who might be hard hit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "In view of the recent developments, will my right hon. Friend indicate whether the Government will now make a personal approach to General de Gaulle to discuss the new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1132.3", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "In view of the recent developments, will my right hon. Friend indicate whether the Government will now make a personal approach to General de Gaulle to discuss the new—[ Interruption .] I wish the anti-Common Marketeers would shut up for a minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not say that the Nassau Agreement today was the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not say that the Nassau Agreement today was the problem. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] I said that it was the treatment of General de Gaulle by the then Government over the Nassau Agreement. I stand by the words that I used in the General Election, which were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1140.5", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "e \"stop\" associated with the names of Mr. Peter Thorneycroft—as he then was—and the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd). Then the Conservatives went into reverse, and we had the so-called Maudling strategy—really, grit your teeth and hope for the best—which landed us in the disastrous deficit of 1964, with which this Government have been struggling even since.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1140.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1145.2", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "e outside world, is not in our control, it follows we must be ready to adjust the other side, our own economy, to fit. We are not willing to face this. It is difficult to describe, without using terms derived from psychiatry, a notion having so few points of contact with reality. That comes from a speech made by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), in May of this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1145.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Of which year?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "April, probably, as far as we can tell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Mr. Victor Goodhew (St. Albans) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And you will.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "way to minimise it—required of the British people. But I am certain that any other than the hard way out would be merely a palliative, merely a short-term alleviation, whereas we want a long-term cure. It will be well worth the extra sacrifice to get the problem off our backs once and for all. Nor is devaluation by itself a cure-all or a panacea. We could \"fritter away\" the advantages it gives us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1156.4", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "od is £150 million, which I do not accept, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have succeeded in negotiating a devaluation, with most of our competitiors still at their rates of exchange, thus giving us a benefit and thus giving us a trading advantage. At the same time, they have succeeded in obtaining loans to enable us as exporters to obtain export orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1156.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1157.5", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The answer, of course, is \"No\". Both the Chancellor and myself talk to a wide range of people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1157.6", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I rise, not on the 1964 point, but to refer to the Leader of the Opposition's broadcast last night, in which he referred to the bungling manner in which this operation was carried out. Immediately after his broadcast the B.B.C. commentator put to Dr. Emminger, in Bonn, who has been at the very centre of these affairs and is Chairman of the Deputies of the Group of Ten this phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1157.6", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "thing I have said about the cost to the country of £150 million. This is what the commentator said: Mr. Edward Heath, the Conservative Opposition Leader here, you may have heard at the beginning … before this programme, said that this deflation had been done in the worst possible way and the worst possible time. Do you agree with him? Dr. Emminger:\"— and remember the reputation of this man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " concerted action, advance consultation, so as to ensure that the other currencies, the major currencies, have stayed firm And I think if you compare this devaluation with the one in 1949, there is a great contrast and in favour of the present one…. It has been a much more orderly process and I think this has been very much to the advantage of the £. This is the man to whom I was referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A little gnome.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "Sir Cyril Osborne (Louth) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'On Friday?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ay to proclaim the responsible way in which devaluation had been brought down. He said: As to the timing and nature of the operation, outside those who wish to take some party advantage, the rest of the world believes that the timing of the operation and the manner of its execution have been exceedingly well carried out. The degree of consultation that took place with all the major areas affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is his name?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ork brought him in touch with a prominent banker. He was told on that occasion that a loan of £1,000 million would be provided for the United Kingdom and that the Government would devalue up to 15 per cent. He returned to Britain on the Friday. He had not read British newspapers and he concluded that in the light of this information that when he got back devaluation would already have taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1178.2", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tomorrow night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "have arisen in the first place if he had had sufficient foresight. I believe that the decision to devalue was inevitable. At last the Government are beginning to get their priorities right. It is because I am not satisfied, I have not confidence in the adequacy of the package measures behind it to enable full advantage to be got out of it, that I and my hon. Friends will go into the Lobby tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only for a time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": " that in a moment, too, but nonetheless they have given themselves margin. They now have the power to effect a whole range of policies. My hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale mentioned some of the things that he is interested in. I could—I will not now—give a list of some of the things that I am interested in and would like to see the Government act upon. However, they now have the chance to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "ney with us—indeed, anybody abroad who has held money with us have had its value reduced. That is a point of which hon. Members opposite make much. I wonder whether they are prepared to make as much of this point. How on earth is it supposed that we held a lot of that money in the first place? By having interest rates over the last decade which have been nearly 2 per cent. above the New York rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I was not saying that at all. What I said earlier was that I disapproved of a system of Income Tax which, at the top end of the scale, destroyed all initiative. That is quite different. We must get back to the principle of selectivity, because this is the only way by which we shall provide the social services needed by the poorer people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "rations and their prejudices and the realities of the situation. If this democratic institution is to survive, if the House of Commons is to express the views of the working class, and if this party is to express its views, it is essential t hat there be a much closer rela- tionship between my hon. Friend's views and theirs. If they doubt what I am saying, let them look at the by-election results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1202.4", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " increase; one understands this. First, I suggest that we introduce, throughout the country, price control officers, attached to every local authority in the same way as rent officers are attached to local authorities, so that if retailers are tempted to put an additional 1d. on to the increased price which the manufacturer is legitimately charging, the local housewife can refer the matter to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": " rate. As I am in the happy position of not having any responsibility whatsoever for policy, I propose to make a few suggestions about how it can be defended. It can be defended primarily by a change of thinking on the Government Front Bench. I shall give them a few hints about a change of feeling. The first thing which I put to them is that they should defer the raising of the school-leaving age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "I am not making any vague accusations at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "nd that was all right. But that has all changed. Firms do not allow that now. One has to get into a jet, get there in six hours, and get stuck into the job of selling. I do not know how many hon. Members opposite have tried to sell British goods abroad. I would say very few. I have spent many years trying to sell British aircraft in foreign countries. It is a difficult task and not very enjoyable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": "It used to be the custom in the House that the vote followed the voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give us the eggs.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": "lties. Of course we must have capital investment. But what happens? The first thing that is done immediately we are faced with balance of payments difficulties is to clobber the very people who can get the Government out of their trouble. I was going to say that it is absurd to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, but I feel that this is such a hackneyed phrase that one must no longer use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": "tlement opposite must make up their minds what they mean. Let us assume that industry is capable of making profits provided that it is given any incentive to do so. I want to deal with the sort of burdens which are being envisaged for the people the Government are asking to export more. Various vague statements have been made. The Prime Minister's speech on television was an unsavoury performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": "that it cannot go ahead unless the building is put up elsewhere. It may, therefore, have to carry out the operation in another place, with the result that highly paid and very important key personnel, both technical and managerial, are going to have to spend much time motoring to and fro to the branch factory, wasting their time, hardening their arteries and bringing on incipient coronary trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "e new post-devaluation figures—of loans has been taken from foreign countries and bankers and used. The American loan, already increased in value by the first Socialist devaluation, has now been increased in value by the second Socialist devaluation so that despite 12 repayments of instalments by Tory Governments, it now stands at a higher figure than when it was originally borrowed after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much is the dollar portfolio worth now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "inally borrowed after the war. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] I have not finished the catalogue yet. Today, the stocks of this country, built up as part of the 1964 expenditure, which has been so much criticised—because expenditure on stocks accounted for a great deal of the current account deficit in 1964—are £400 million less in value than when the Socialists took over—more consumption by the locusts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": " intensely careful not to let too much steam build up so that earnings drift gets dangerously high? Does the right hon. Gentlemen really think that the T.U.C. Vetting Committee and the Prices and Incomes Board would be able to have any control over earnings drift? These bodies have not been put to the test at all in the relative recession which this country has been going through in the last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "to the test at all in the relative recession which this country has been going through in the last year—[ Interruption .] I will tell those on the benches opposite what we want. We believe that the main barrier to higher earnings unaccompanied by lower costs is the subjection of employers to really tough competition coupled with lower Government expenditure, trade union law reform and tax reform.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put a fresh record on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "h this country has been going through in the last year—[ Interruption .] I will tell those on the benches opposite what we want. We believe that the main barrier to higher earnings unaccompanied by lower costs is the subjection of employers to really tough competition coupled with lower Government expenditure, trade union law reform and tax reform.—[ Interruption .] We believe that is the barrier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ce expenditure that comes under that particular definition of public expenditure. It is the defence expenditure cuts which were announced and also a certain part of the civil expenditure cuts, again more details of which the House will hear shortly. On the question of the defence cuts, there will be a further statement tomorrow. Those are three of the more important questions which were put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1263.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1263.6", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "hose figures which my right hon. Friend gave. Therefore, they cannot be set against that. As I have said, what is set against the public expenditure figures as defined by my right hon. Friend are the defence expenditure and a part of the civil expenditure, of which we shall have more details soon. That, I hope, is enough for that particular question. I would now like to take up some of the points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " number of things. I think that he is quite wrong on the facts, as he put it, of three Socialist devaluations. He knows perfectly well that the devaluation which took place in 1949 was a devaluation in this country by which, like virtually every other combatant country in the world which fought in the Second World War—we were forced to readjust our exchange rate in an entirely different situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "act of the matter is that this year, and for the reasons that have already been given to the House, we were continuing to accumulate a deficit on the balance of payments of over £200 million and, as has already been explained, the outlook for next year was in no sense encouraging. I think, therefore, that the question for policy was: what new act of policy ought to be introduced in this situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ced. There may be a very small temporary reduction for some of those in full-time work. But this will be accompanied by the increased standard of living of those now unemployed who will be drawn into employment in the course of next year by the reduction in short-time working and the increase in overtime working. In addition, although this is not the occasion to reveal what is in Ministers' minds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-21", "file": "debates1967-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "d4443c100217e85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " temporary reduction for some of those in full-time work. But this will be accompanied by the increased standard of living of those now unemployed who will be drawn into employment in the course of next year by the reduction in short-time working and the increase in overtime working. In addition, although this is not the occasion to reveal what is in Ministers' minds—[ Laughter .] If I may finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-21a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1286.6", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The reason for the increase is that insurance companies, like most other people engaged in this kind of business, are now using mechanical devices which means that the costs of the single operation of looking after one policy are of course increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1286.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1311.7", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman the President of the Board of Trade quoted a statement as coming from a speech by me. The speech in question was delivered on 25th May last at Hanwell, and the full text was issued to the Press at the time. The quotation given to the House yesterday consists of a combination of three distinct passages. The first two were separated in the original by three sentences not quoted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1311.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1311.8", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ent as coming from a speech by me. The speech in question was delivered on 25th May last at Hanwell, and the full text was issued to the Press at the time. The quotation given to the House yesterday consists of a combination of three distinct passages. The first two were separated in the original by three sentences not quoted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The third passage occurred about 350 words later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1311.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1314.6", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Throughout this debate so far the arguments have been heated and feelings have run high. This is understandable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1314.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1317.2", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read all of it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "anfully and went on to argue it basic point by basic paint: The fundamental fact about devaluation as a deliberate act\"— a deliberate act— is that it consists in making the product of the labour of our people cheaper while making the product of foreign labour dearer. That precisely sums up the total effect of devaluation. The Chancellor went on to say: Let there be no dodging about this\". He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1317.3", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " the same time, say that it is not necessary to have extra production so as to get the same return. Such an argument would be untenable. The plain fact is that if the Chancellor wants a keen competitive edge, which means a substantial reduction in prices, every worker will have to produce far more even to stay in the same place. That is what the Chancellor meant when he made his statement in July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.2", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.5", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Would he not agree that he obviously appears not to understand the facts? I am a major exporter in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.5", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Would he not agree that he obviously appears not to understand the facts? I am a major exporter in this country—[ Interruption .] Many thousands of exporters will have done what I have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.6", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": " obviously appears not to understand the facts? I am a major exporter in this country—[ Interruption .] Many thousands of exporters will have done what I have done—[ Interruption .]—which is to increase the sterling price equivalent so that the benefit of devaluation entirely comes to this country, and I shall not be exporting one extra sheet of paper to obtain the same amount of foreign exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.5", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heath rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.7", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman and I can end hostilities if I congratulate him on the way in which the shares of his company have risen in the past 24 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.8", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Queen's Award?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Obviously, not cheap. Very expensive. It indicates that people would rather hold his shares than money, and I congratulate him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.8", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Obviously, not cheap. Very expensive. It indicates that people would rather hold his shares than money, and I congratulate him. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Queen's Award?\"] Yes, and he earned it. The next point for the Secretary of State is the reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1320.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1321.2", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down. Name, name.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Maxwell rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1321.4", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "eveloping countries. It is a remarkable fact that most have not moved with us in devaluation. Zambia, whom we have been supporting now for so long to a considerable extent, has not found it necessary to devalue. Even Rhodesia has not found it necessary to devalue. We have broken faith with those other countries. Now I come to the point where the Chancellor said that devaluation would be justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1321.4", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "y powerful analysis of the consequences of devaluation and pointed to the fact that there was no justification for it, why has he done it? Why have the Government devalued? The country and the rest of the world must draw their own conclusions from what has been happening. I believe that the Government have been influenced by external factors which have very largely caused them to lose their nerve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1321.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "When the Bank Rate is either put up or put down, it is done after consultation between myself and the Governor of the Bank of England. Considerations of party conferences or anything else do not enter into that. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to withdraw that remark, because he has absolutely no evidence for saying anything of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1324.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The House can judge entirely from what the Chancellor says and from events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ional £37 million taxation on road transport, which will put up all our industrial costs. This indicates vividly the dichotomy in the thinking of this Administration. There will be time to discuss in detail many of the consequences, but I want to mention two or three today which are important. First, there are the regional policies. There is no stronger supporter of regional policies than myself.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You gave it to him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ear that his target for removal sits not in front of him, but beside him. I do not intend, having listened to the Leader of the Opposition, to enter into the dialogue between him and my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Maxwell). It was a very unequal contest. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, my hon. Friend knows what he is talking about because he has won the Queen's Award for exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask Lord Cromer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend of timing this for political purposes. That was his charge—an accusation of economic management for politi- cal purposes; and that coming from the Chief Whip of Harold Macmillan. But lest the right hon. Gentleman might think that anyone might take that remark of his about Bank Rate seriously, let him cast his mind back. On what date was Bank Rate put up by my right hon. Friend?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd that coming from the Chief Whip of Harold Macmillan. But lest the right hon. Gentleman might think that anyone might take that remark of his about Bank Rate seriously, let him cast his mind back. On what date was Bank Rate put up by my right hon. Friend?—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask Lord Cromer.\"] I am replying to the right hon. Gentleman, not to a speech in another House, which would be out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o surplus this year, 1967, and to achieving a substantial surplus in 1968, which would have meant a turn-round in our balance of payments from 1964 to 1968 of well over £1,000 million. But for the events of which the House knows, we had the right to expect this. However, I take the point that we cannot go on on the basis of being at the mercy of events of that kind. Our fourth proposition is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " devaluation and I have said what the dangers would have been of having conditions imposed when we might have had to halt this process of industrial expansion in its tracks. The events of the past three months—I am not seeking here to lay the blame on the Middle East or on docks strikes or on speculation, a great deal of it emanating from this country, as the right hon. Gentleman knows very well.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "al, and had not got the guts to resign—that is his morality. His Leader cajoled and bullied the back benchers into supporting not only an action which was immoral, but which was sold by the right hon. Gentleman to the House on a basis which we now know to be totally removed from the truth. What we do not know is whether the right hon. Gentleman was himself deceived or was a party to the deception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1335.0", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "orality. His Leader cajoled and bullied the back benchers into supporting not only an action which was immoral, but which was sold by the right hon. Gentleman to the House on a basis which we now know to be totally removed from the truth. What we do not know is whether the right hon. Gentleman was himself deceived or was a party to the deception. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Some day he will tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There were three contingency plans which we found ready to be put into operation. They were, import controls, that is quotas, import surcharges and devaluation. En making the choice of import surcharges with all the difficulties that it created we were glad to have the sup- port immediately of the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling), who said that this was a choice that he would have made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e survival, and then to ensure the increasing strength, of such growth industries as computers and electronics. That is not all that we set out to do in 1964. We set out to make two nations one by bringing the depressed areas of the country into one economic community with the prosperous regions on the basis of full employment. We carried through far-reaching reforms in taxation aimed at ensuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the F111?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. Friend will give fuller details later. What it means for the Navy is a reduction in the numbers of Buccaneer aircraft now on order. We are advancing the phasing-out of H.M.S. \"Victorious\". There will be a reduction in orders of equipment for the Army, including ammunition, vehicles and instruments. For the Royal Air Force, the order placed in America for Chinook helicopters is to be cancelled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e advancing the phasing-out of H.M.S. \"Victorious\". There will be a reduction in orders of equipment for the Army, including ammunition, vehicles and instruments. For the Royal Air Force, the order placed in America for Chinook helicopters is to be cancelled—[An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the F111?\"] We are not changing that. In overseas terms, we have decided not to proceed with the Aldabra project", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " great opportunities for our exports, and a break with the vicious circle of these past years, there are severe costs to our people. I made this clear in my broadcast on Sunday when I said that … imports will cost more, and this means higher prices over a period for some of our imports, including some of our basic foods. There is a grave danger—a lot of people do not understand devaluation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "oadcast on Sunday when I said that … imports will cost more, and this means higher prices over a period for some of our imports, including some of our basic foods. There is a grave danger—a lot of people do not understand devaluation—[ Interruption .] Remembering the tendency of the party opposite, who have not repudiated either the Post Office scare or the Zinoviev scare of some years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "riod for some of our imports, including some of our basic foods. There is a grave danger—a lot of people do not understand devaluation—[ Interruption .] Remembering the tendency of the party opposite, who have not repudiated either the Post Office scare or the Zinoviev scare of some years ago—[ Interruption ]—and now we have the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is for the Government to say.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and wage settlements which would have the effect of dissipating the advantage in export markets which devaluation has secured. On the question of prices and incomes policy, above all while there have been disagreements between the two sides in the House, and within individual sides, there has not been any suggestion in this debate from any hon. Member about how this situation should be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n break free from a situation where we could not under any Government—theirs or ours—move forward to sustained expansion without relapsing into crisis. This is the challenge to this House and the nation. The right hon. Gentlemen opposite have made it clear that they are not prepared to rise above a partisan rejection of the action we have taken. Do they accept that we were right to devalue or not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1346.1", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "it means that their policy is either deflation, which on occasion they have advocated, or a dependence on borrowing, which would involve turning our backs on economic advance and would mean, equally, imperilling the rights of this House to determine this country's policy. Nothing we did in last Saturday's operation involves any of that. We should be told by tonight whether they reject devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "casionally produces men of greatness and genius. I wish that at the moment it had such a man who could tell us with certainty what the effect of devaluation will be in the next 10 years. I am afraid that there is none available, and I say in all humility that I do not know. But I do know that fortunes are made and will continue to be made. If I could make one I probably would not be standing here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " nationalised industries. How much is to be from investment by nationalised industries and how much from current expenditure? What items of current expenditure are to be affected? I do not think that those are unreasonable questions. We have been given a precise figure of £100 million and Ministers do not give those figures unless they are the sum total of items which they have definitely decided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "they will not accept the need for proper incentives to those on whose successful efforts the economy depends, and the Government's action in deliberately making exporting more unprofitable than it need be will merely negative much of what they are trying to do by this change. The other point is the quite extraordinary one of referring certain local authority rents to the Prices and Incomes. Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1369.4", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The same as the United States.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "sults —the average wage at the moment is 9s. 7d. an hour. It is true that in London and Coventry average earnings are about 2s. an hour above that figure. However, the curious thing, which does not seem to be noted by the Government in their argument, is that it is in those areas where the earnings are far higher than the average that the greatest productivity occurs and our unit costs are lowest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1369.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Fletcher", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that this country had lost in excess of £400 million, which was the figure mentioned by his right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have done it all our lives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "preceding_text": "s far as they think this issue affects them. Hon. Members know that the issue does not even start then; it is much deeper than that. We are told that this devaluation is a lifeboat that will save us. As I look round I feel that we had a motley crew for the lifeboat. I tell my hon. Friends here that it is no good being in the lifeboat and just coming up for rations—one is expected to row this boat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "preceding_text": "l prices and incomes policy, because if we allow prices to increase, if we allow wages to run away, our present difficulties will be small in comparison with those in which we shall find ourselves. It is all right my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) saying that one just needs a few people going around telling others that if they want to put prices up they have to ask permission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Address the Chair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawshaw", "preceding_text": "oductivity, I am talking about the workers in those industries, and whether they feel that they have any participation in them, whether they get any of the benefits which they have put into them. I believe that if we really nationalised them so that the people felt that they were part and parcel of them we would not have to sell nationalisation—it would sell itself. Now I come to the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "£500 million is cut. Is that what the Government mean? Nobody has answered that question, although I should have thought it very elementary. We have had no indication whatever about the effect on home expenditure. I suggest very seriously to the Government, and I follow the remarks made by the hon. Member for Toxteth about the growth of the bureaucracy, that they seriously consider the Geddes Axe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": " me this afternoon something of greater significance. On the very day on which the Cabinet took the unanimous decision to devalue, the Prime Minister told the House—that afternoon, a few hours after the decision had been taken by the Cabinet—in answer to one of his own hon. Friends: My hon. Friend will be aware, of course, that the economy is on the turn and showing strong signs of moving upwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "that it has been announced that the Index of Industrial Production has fallen yet again, and now is actually lower than it was in January, 1965. So much for the Prime Minister's boast this afternoon, as he put it, \"We set out in 1964 to restructure industry.\" The Prime Minister wasted a great deal of time talking about the Zinoviev letter, talking about the Post Office scandal, talking about Suez—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "House one paragraph from that report on the tape: I do not under-estimate the shock and disappointment for all three Services', said Mr. Healey. 'In many areas our forces will have to operate on narrow margins'. He went on to say: 'We would regard the risk involved as unacceptable in normal circumstances'. Why, instead of all the poppycock we heard from the Prime Minister, did he not tell US that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "n many areas our forces will have to operate on narrow margins'. He went on to say: 'We would regard the risk involved as unacceptable in normal circumstances'. Why, instead of all the poppycock we heard from the Prime Minister, did he not tell US that? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] I can only say to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that that statement, made by the Secretary of State for Defence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Mr. Manuel rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but the facts are that we have had this year the highest summer unemployment and the highest autumn unemployment since the 1930s. It is also the case—perhaps I may quote this in the Prime Minister's absence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "tances, these are the consequences of devaluation\". When the Chancellor used those words he was not speaking off the cuff. He was not speaking in answer to a Question. He was making a considered statement. He opened that considered statement with the consequences for our people of devaluation. I will not read again the words read by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "swer to a Question. He was making a considered statement. He opened that considered statement with the consequences for our people of devaluation. I will not read again the words read by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition this afternoon. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Do.\"] Well, perhaps I might just remind the House of one sentence which my right hon. Friend did not quote, because the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "While the right hon. Gentleman is on about dodging, would he now give an answer to the question which I put to his Leader this afternoon and to which I have had no answer? Are the Tories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Are the Conservatives in favour of devaluation—\"yas\" or \"No\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.7", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "d him that we are not in favour of devaluation. Now I should like to put a question to the Prime Minister, and I hope that he will do me the courtesy of answering my question. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer said on 24th July: The logical purpose of devaluation is a reduction in the standard of life at home.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th July, 1967; Vol. 751, c. 100.] does the Prime Minister agree?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.9", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I answered it this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.13", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "That confirms the suspicions not only of ourselves but of the whole country, that the right hon. Gentleman is a twister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1427.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1428.4", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I heard the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber) use the word \"twister\" in referring to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1428.6", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, of course I always bow to your Ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1428.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1428.6", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw first.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, of course I always bow to your Ruling—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Of course I withdraw if I am asked to do so by Mr. Speaker, but I must say this to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1428.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1429.4", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "condly—and we have seen this again and again and again—to slide over the immediate problems without heed for the long-term consequences for the nation; and, thirdly, to pretend that one can tell one story for home consumption and another for the overseas creditors. We had it even in the midst of the crisis—the most dire crisis which this country has faced since 1949—over the level of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1429.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1429.9", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "e of deflationary gloom the like of which we had not experienced for many years, and yet in the midst of it all, in July—it is incredible, looking back—in the very same month, the Prime Minister arranged for the Second Reading of the steel nationalisation Bill. Now, once again, in the midst of this crisis, he requests his right hon. Friends to bring forward a Measure to nationalise road transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1429.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1429.9", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " the words he spoke to the nation. He said: It\"— he was referring to devaluation— does not mean, of course, that the £ here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued. The right hon. Gentleman is still nodding, but he must be living in a private world of fantasy. Does he not know the prices of bread, butter, fruit, canned food, tea and petrol are going up? He will live—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1429.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I will tell the Prime Minister this. He will live to rue the day he ever uttered those words, for over the coming months every man and woman in Britain will come to realise that, once again, they have been deceived. The Prime Minister told us this afternoon that the only alternative to devaluation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1432.5", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ho has done it twice and ought really to know how to do it. It is a monument to folly and to blindness unequalled since the post-war Labour Government. The same old, stale and corny phrases from the Prime Minister may rally the party faithful, but they will cut no ice with the nation. He may still command the loyalty of his colleagues, as he will tonight, but he has lost the respect of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1432.7", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I can assure you, Mr. Speaker, that if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen had been prepared to listen a little earlier there would have been very much more I wished to say to the House, because the truth is that people marvel at the Prime Minister's sleight of hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1432.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1433.3", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " effect of abolishing the rebate and the Selective Employment Premium will be to lessen the effect of the devaluation—I put the word in quotation marks—\"bonus\" by about 2·8 per cent., bringing it down to a \"bonus\" of 11·5 per cent. I was asked why we should get rid of this. The answer is, as I said on Monday, that it is causing increasing irritation among a number of other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ntinent that will be given prominence equal to that given to some of the rumours which are being spread. The other part of the standby—and I do not wish to take up many of the points made by the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber), but is significant when he talks about lack of confidence that in fact 3 billion dollars are being made available in order to sustain the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "l to that given to some of the rumours which are being spread. The other part of the standby—and I do not wish to take up many of the points made by the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber), but is significant when he talks about lack of confidence that in fact 3 billion dollars are being made available in order to sustain the Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—sustain the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1434.3", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ". I have no doubt that hon. Members will want to do so. If they wish to pit their authority against that of others, I can only tell them that I have discussed this matter with the Governor of the Bank of England again this evening—of course we have discussed it on a number of occasions—and in his view for us to have changed the rate while the markets were open on Friday would have been a disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "fferent plus every month instead of a minus, I have no doubt that we should not have devalued today. But it was the continuation of the minus in those monthly trade figures, closely watched and scrutinized—we can argue about the effect of invisibles and all the rest of it —which eventually sapped confidence in the competitive position of this country. I also had to consider, perhaps rather longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " the man who reads the Financial Times who regards all this as a lot of political claptrap. There is no moralising about this, but nor do I like the cheap cynicism that extends to almost every line and vein of our country at the present time. I believe that that has had a very great and serious effect on the standing with which our Parliamentary and other institutions are held, and this I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-22", "file": "debates1967-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "169fd55be84959b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "and one that is fostered in some quarters, that democracy cannot solve our problems. I regard as potentially sinister this new big business organisation which has been set up, with some rather dubious people heading it, who are claiming that it is impossible for this House of Commons and for the country to solve the economic problems with which we are confronted. It is true, and this is something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-22a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-23", "file": "debates1967-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5017293066be6e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHAIRMEN OF NATIONALISED BOARDS (RESIGNATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "In the interests of the nationalised industries, and following the forthright speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer last evening, would it not help the nationalised industries if the Prime Minister were to offer himself his own resignation?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1488.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-23", "file": "debates1967-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5017293066be6e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHAIRMEN OF NATIONALISED BOARDS (RESIGNATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "In the interests of the nationalised industries, and following the forthright speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer last evening, would it not help the nationalised industries if the Prime Minister were to offer himself his own resignation?—[ Interruption ]—May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-23", "file": "debates1967-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5017293066be6e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHAIRMEN OF NATIONALISED BOARDS (RESIGNATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I have no statement to make to the House about this. As the hon. Gentleman knows very well, because he takes a very deep interest in these transport questions, these are questions which should be put to my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport who, of course, will be informing the House at the earliest opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-23", "file": "debates1967-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "5017293066be6e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1589.3", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRUSTEE SAVINGS BANKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "I should have said 2½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-23a.1589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-24", "file": "debates1967-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "6bea4fc4874c9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-24a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "MINIMUM INCOME", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "tleman says that it is misdirected, but it depends what one means by redistribution. I am in favour of taking more from those who need it least and giving it to those who need it most by having some form of wealth tax. That is one way in which I would redistribute the wealth of the country. Others would have different methods. Others would want to concen- trate on giving benefits to those in need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-24a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (FOOT-AND- MOUTH DISEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "d with the right hon. Gentleman on Wednesday that my Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer, and one of my civil servants, should meet him in his room to discuss the subject, to give him all the information and to ask him for anything constructive, which I thought he could have offered in view of his experience in the farming community. I went further. When I arranged my visit to Oswestry and to Chester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (FOOT-AND- MOUTH DISEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ve offered in view of his experience in the farming community. I went further. When I arranged my visit to Oswestry and to Chester—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the questions.\"]—I invited both local hon. Members, and they discussed with me ways and means of dealing with the situation locally. I thought it right to bring in the local Members, and I resent any attempt to make political capital out of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (FOOT-AND- MOUTH DISEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I said that I am considering this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.37.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "we have as yet been given no real clue. The first is the gravity which the Secretary of State himself clearly attaches to the consequences. He is reported to have said at a Press conference which he gave last Wednesday that as a result of the reduction—I quote from the report in The Guardian — The forces are now to be working to closer margins, involving a risk that would normally be unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.43.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rces of 64,000 in the two years ending April, 1969. These reductions are real cuts. I hope that the House will recall that they have brought aircraft workers out into the streets to demonstrate against the Government, have caused the resignation of a Minister and a Chief of Staff and nearly brought about the defeat of the Government in this House. Now I have been asked to add another £100 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "would have been secured under the previous Government's plans, because so much of their budget next year would have been in terms of R and D, the cuts and deferments we have to make, although painful, cannot remotely be regarded as disastrous. The cuts will fall into three main groups. About £10 million of the total £100 million odd will flow from unexpected delays in the development of equipment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If I had not been under this additional financial stringency, as the right hon. Gentleman, who served in the Ministry of Defence, will know, any savings I made through unforeseen delays in one area I would have taken advantage of by additional expenditure in others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "With respect, I do not think that that would make sense, because if we were to put \"Victorious\" into reserve, and ready to fill a gap that might arise, we would have to spend a good deal of money, up to £1½ million, within a four months' period to complete the existing refit and repair the fire damage. I do not believe it would be worth doing so to meet this contingency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "he future Fleet announced in the July White Paper, or on our plans for the modernisation of the two largest aircraft carriers, the \"Eagle\" and the \"Ark Royal\", on which we will be relying until the middle 1970s. F.A.A. aircrew from \"Victorious\" will join these carriers earlier than originally intended. We shall still have never less than one carrier operationally available till 1975—and often two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"About £5 million or £6 million?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " cancellation is, I know, deeply disappointing to the R.A.F. as well, since the R.A.F. would have flown them. However, these helicopters were designed to provide a capability which we have been able to do without until now. We will, therefore, have to do without it for a little longer, remembering that this cancellation will save about £6 million next year and a further sum in the following years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is that all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ut a great deal more in later years. Thus, there will be much bigger savings later from this cancellation. On the research and development side, we will still be spending well over £200 million next year, but we are cutting about £8 million off that bill. The biggest item in these cuts, some of my hon. Friends will be glad to know, is a cut of over £2 million on the development of nuclear weapons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And built in Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "I give the right hon. Gentleman one-third marks for that increased capacity, but he knows that the more modern machine we planned would have gone forward into the next decade as a reliable aircraft. He has gone out of his way to buy a semi-obsolescent machine rather than go the whole way and buy something which would be useful for many more years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Nazi.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander Maydon", "preceding_text": "what Sir Winston Churchill once called the soft under-belly of Europe. We know what the present troubles between Greece and Turkey may lead to and we know very well that much of them can be attributed to Russian meddling in troubled waters. I should like to quote to the right hon. Gentleman a passage from a speech by General Heussinger, a man of whom he no doubt knows and whom he has probably met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "arrangement. It may be that it will take its main toll on equipment, although I think we are told that there might be an accelerated rundown in certain areas east of Suez. All that must sow uncertainty in the minds of our Service men and women. We are again told that there is over-stretch. One has reluctantly to come to the conclusion that the Labour Party simply loathes spending money on defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.101.2", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"America?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "is usual good nature, but I would remind him that the prophecies made by hon. Members opposite at the time of the cutting of the TSR2 was that it would result in a very serious un employment problem in Preston and other towns where these machines were being manufactured. The fact is that nothing of the kind has taken place. All the men displaced from that operation have been re-employed elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.101.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.102.0", "colnum": "102", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is all over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "f Europe. Fortunately, the Foreign Secretary was a little more robust. He was the opening speaker in the debate next day, and, to my surprise, he took exactly the opposite view. He said that we are not to shift one man out of Europe. Our position today is much more difficult than it was then. We are still applying to get into the Common Market and General de Gaulle is getting more and more touchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": " have not the same access to figures as members of the Government have—but I make the approximate gross savings arising from my proposals £334 million per annum, with a capital saving of about £230 million. I know that these are gross savings, and that the net savings will be considerably less—perhaps less than half—but they are still rather more than the figure at which the Government are aiming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Sinclair", "preceding_text": "ur responsibilities. This is what confidence means—believing in people's will as well as in their resources. The new and sudden cuts in our defence budget and the further reduction of our forces show how low a priority this Government give to defence—the basic responsibility of any Government. The Secretary of State was at pains to show the Left-wing critics on his own side—there is none here now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-27", "file": "debates1967-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "74c39354bc6bfd83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Administration (Mr. G. W. Reynolds)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Administration (Mr. G. W. Reynolds)", "preceding_text": "on also. The same position can be said to exist on the other side of the House. We are debating what I was led to believe by the newspapers over the weekend and by statements of hon. Members would be a very important subject on which the safety of this country depended. We are debating it on a Motion for the Adjournment. For most of the time, there have been only six hon. Members opposite present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-27a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sour grapes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "Is not this very small increase over 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.217.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To a duel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister accept that his conduct of our application could not have been better, but would he now consider challenging General de Gaulle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.247.3", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "he meeting by the community of the social consequences of the rundown in the coal-mining industry, and neither my hon. Friend nor the National Union of Mineworkers—nor any other section of the industry—would disagree that the pits which are being closed are, in many cases, the sort of pits which no Member in the House would send his children down if he had a choice. There is no dispute between us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.247.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I want to get this point clear. We are putting to the House a bill for £130 million, a large proportion of which will be devoted precisely to the measures to which I am referring. We cannot justify the £130 million unless we are able to demonstrate what it is being spent on, and it is this which we are debating—the bill for this pattern of events. What options are open to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "production of coal up to the amount of 155 million tons. To allow it to take the market trend and to allow coal stocks to be mopped up in that way would produce a situation which, in my view, would be socially unacceptable and would provide the country with a serious coal crisis in the bargain. The remaining provision, Clause 7, will enable me to appoint additional full-time members to the N.C.B.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should change slightly what I said and say that there have been no serious dislocations to date. Perhaps the right hon. Lady would agree with that. The younger people have been moving away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Neal", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Neal", "preceding_text": "ve always averred that no industry has been so bedevilled with White Papers, reports of Commissions, reports of Committees and butterfly statistics as the coal industry. Butterfly statistics are beautiful to look at, but very unenduring. The 155 million ton-target which the Government have fixed for 1970 may well be over-optimistic. It would not be unusual for calculations of this kind if it were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.285.1", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would allow me to reply to that as I deal with each of the four points which I have given, which are the crux of my arguments. The first of those desiderata was the maximum employment of indigenous fuels. Here I am in conflict with a number of my Conservative colleagues and certainly with a number of the members of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ovisions in the Bill and some of my hon. Friends have said that they are not good enough. My answer is that I am glad to have the relief of three years for men who are redundant, because in those three years a lot of things may happen. We may be able to bring pressure on the Government, on the assumption that it is the same Government after 1970, and if I get my way it will be the same Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Watch it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "for Fife, West even talked about an old mother turned out by her son to winter in the cold. The Minister is right. He tried hard to show a quarrel between him and us, and that we want a savage policy while he is supporting his hon. Friends. But this is not the case. He is pursuing a courageous policy of trying to run down this industry at at least approximately the sort of speed which we would do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-28", "file": "debates1967-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "beaab48ca77c6086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": " better Bill for having been dealt with. But I warn the Minister that he will not get the Bill by Christmas by bulldozing or dodging the issues that he dodged tonight. As the leader and chairman of the miners' group, I warn him that we shall fight like hell on the Floor of the Chamber to get Amendments to the Bill that we feel are necessary. This is about the longest speech made on the Bill today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-28a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am rather surprised at the hon. Member suggesting that I should adopt immediately a levy system because that would mean the end of the subsidy system as we know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Baxter", "preceding_text": "Would it not be helpful if the Opposition would make clear whether they are in support of import control or of bringing forward the Price Review?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.413.5", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And a bull.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "Yes, but does not the Minister realise that the farmers are very anxious to know exactly how this plan is going to work? Does the Minister realise, too, that if he wants calves he has got to have cows, and if he is to have cows he has got to have milk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.413.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member will not tie me to a date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.416.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member will not tie me to a date—[HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"]—for making an announcement. It could come sooner. I will decide and nobody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.416.7", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May I speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.416.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.424.10", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend answered the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.424.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.434.11", "colnum": "434", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ibute to the devotion and courage of all those officials and civilians who, over many years and in the face of increasing difficulties, have sought to prepare South Arabia for independence. The Armed Forces, under the distinguished leadership of Admiral Sir Michael Le Fanu, deserve special recognition for the skill and forebearance with which they have carried out their exceedingly difficult task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.434.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not understand the relevance of the latter point, but I will tell my hon. and learned Friend and his hon. Friends on the other side of the House that one straight principle that we bear in mind is the right of self-determination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that we on this side of the House, with one or two ludicrous exceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.438.4", "colnum": "438", "heading": "SOUTH ARABIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that we on this side of the House, with one or two ludicrous exceptions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—have great admiration for the skill and incisiveness with which he has managed the transfer of power in South Arabia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.438.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend to assure me that a special watch will be kept on the rise in the cost of living which is expected to occur as a result of devaluation. Hopes having been raised, and statements having been made by my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, old people, particularly those who are being exploited mercilessly at the moment by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"That is about 7½d.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederic Harris", "preceding_text": "the cost of living because of devaluation. What basis has she for such a figure? Does she not know that already the cost of imported goods is rising in excess of that amount and that Australian foods have already gone up? Even the Chancellor gave an estimate of about 6 per cent., or 7½d. in the £.Where does the right hon. Lady get the idea that it will be 2½ per cent. to 3 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.465.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.466.1", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " has no intention of telling the country when legislation will be introduced—and legislation will be necessary—to implement the Prime Minister's pledge. We will clearly have to seek an early opportunity to debate this thoroughly unsatisfactory statement. We are grateful to you, Sir Eric, for giving us the opportunity to elicit it and with your permission. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.466.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.480.3", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "scussing an Amendment which makes no sense. It is true that many Ministers and back bench hon. Members have constituency and other duties on Fridays, but the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) knows as well as I do that the degree of general interest in a subject by any of the parties in the House is fairly represented by the number of hon. Members who attend a debate on a Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.586.2", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman would not want to be unfair to my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth, Langstone (Mr. Ian Lloyd). What my hon. Friend was saying about organised mass stupidity, or whatever it was, was that the provisions of the Order and the nature of the scheme had to be explained to those whom it was intended to benefit, so that it would not be possible to organise mass stupidity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-29", "file": "debates1967-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ca94c4c17555b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCK WORKERS (REGULATION OF EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " to get the labour position right. I reiterate that there are difficulties. I reiterate that those difficulties can only be solved within the terms of the Government's promise of no redundancy and within the terms or our insistence that it must be organised in a compassionate as well as an efficient way. But the Government are seized of the problem and are negotiating about it at this very moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-29a.596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.612.2", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ceived by the National Convention at a meeting to be held shortly. I also emphasise that my right hon. Friend is interested as vice-president, which office he accepted in perfect good faith, and also in good faith he is expecting that all concerned will co-operate to achieve as quickly as possible what everyone wants, which is a national theatre and a worthy company. My right hon. Friend deplores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY (POVERTY PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have done that with the Bill at present going through the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY (POVERTY PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I was trying to say to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.641.7", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ECONOMIC AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The phrase \"economic overlord\", as the hon. Gen- tleman puts it, is one that I have never used. I announced that I was taking over responsibility for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.641.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ECONOMIC AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is not a constitutional doctrine. This was a personal decision on the part of my right hon. Friend. While I know that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition would like to apply the doctrine more widely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ECONOMIC AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman's hearing had not been affected by the roar behind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ECONOMIC AFFAIRS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman's hearing had not been affected by the roar behind him—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps he did not hear me say while he was labouring at working out that supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I am about to conclude. The sheer size of the development area creates new difficulties for the so-called grey areas, and people in these areas are less disposed to accept the present position. May I illustrate this from my own experience?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "I am about to conclude. The sheer size of the development area creates new difficulties for the so-called grey areas, and people in these areas are less disposed to accept the present position. May I illustrate this from my own experience? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Errington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Errington", "preceding_text": "I rise with some degree of timidity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-11-30", "file": "debates1967-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "70724db6ab6aabf8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.768.1", "colnum": "768", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "reatest competence, and I urge the right hon. Gentleman to safeguard the management of the port from falling into the hands of an outside port authority. Today, the Milford Haven oil terminal, as it is, makes a very considerable profit. Our debate has been rather more sombre than that of a year ago. We shall look forward to another debate in a year's time—or perhaps sooner, if that can be managed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-11-30a.768.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Well, that is something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.816.0", "colnum": "816", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "gly restricted. The most basic economic right is to spend or save one's money as one pleases, and that is a policy against which the Government have set themselves. Quite apart from the general incidence of penal taxation, we have restrictions placed on the transfer of funds, the whole exchange control system and a system of travel allowances reduced to £50 and now devalued by 17½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.816.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Foreign travel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "st freedom of all for the individual—the fact that a man stands on his feet as a man and not as a suppliant on his knees. If we measure the high spots in the 19 years between the wars when the Conservatives had unparalleled powers—apart from two minority Labour Governments—there were never fewer than 1,700,000 people out of work and 6 million people on the poverty line. What freedom did they have?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"On the wrong issues.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Office. And so we move on. Checks and balances are all over the place. The hon. Member for Chelmsford, in addressing the House in the way he did, tended to play down his own qualties. He is a man of resource and he knows where to go. I ask him not to sell himself as the Member for Chelmsford more cheaply than he need do. He is a pretty effective Member when he wants to be. He knows that full well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weatherill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weatherill", "preceding_text": "ntary question, that means that everyone in this country works one day a month to keep this non-productive body in work. Yet it appears that even this army of professional scrutineers is insufficient for the weight of paper which modern Governments seem to demand. I do not know how true it is, but I was told recently that the Inland Revenue is said to be about five weeks behind in opening letters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " noisy, are much in the minority. I think that the great majority of people prefer being told what to do and what not to do, and especially seeing other people being told what not to do. Frankly, I do not think that the division between the authoritarians and the libertarians runs clearly down the middle of this Floor. My side of the House prides itself on being libertarian in the present context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Class distinction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "choose this topic because I am in an ambivalent position and, therefore, do not suffer from the emotional inhibitions of arguing in favour of something that I greatly like. I admit frankly that I do not particularly like the English public schools. I believe that they are a manifestation of one of the least splendid of our national characteristics; namely, an inability to get on with our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " that. I have often said so. But, of course, if it gives freedom to a few of our fellow citizens it is not surprising that other people who are interested in and admire freedom want a little bit more of this valuable freedom, and this includes freedom to own property; and the general slant of this thinking is more popular on this side of the House, I would say, than on the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-01", "file": "debates1967-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "e609a0476a447bbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.904.3", "colnum": "904", "heading": "LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " few minutes left I am sure the hon. Gentleman would not want me to go into that in detail, but there is the question of management, the question of good, central management and organisation of houses in a situation of housing shortage. There is no absolute principle in this. We might just as well say, \"Why do not the Government sell off Big Ben to a demolition contractor—or a souvenir collector?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-01a.904.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How to win an Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "with what they said. George Brown is hard at work with Fred Peart and other Ministers to set the guide lines to save imports, not only by increasing production in industry, but on the farms as well. That was the story which at that time was built up in a very big way as a real pledge to the farmers. We have seen the results of the right hon. Gentleman's work and his co-operation with the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"A very good one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) has said, in his very long speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "ers some hopeful and some disturbing features. There is not the slightest reason for complacency and for relaxation, but neither is there any reason for despair. I emphasise this. I am glad to say that the work of those coping with the epidemic in the field has been widely and deservedly praised, but I and my Department have been accused of lack of leadership by the right hon. Member for Grantham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "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": " and asked him to co-operate, and said that, if there was anything constructive he had to offer, I would certainly take it up. But he chose to come to the House and say what he did before he had listened to the points which I had to make in reply to certain questions. I did resent it, and I think that the House and the nation resent any attempt to make political capital out of a national disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "d that he now says that there is no complacency on my part. I hope that we shall not debate this. We can argue about our policy in regard to the second part of his speech, but the matter which I am now describing is too serious for party political speeches. We should all be working together to stamp out this dreadful disease, instead of playing politics with it while the epidemic is at its height—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.986.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No, I hope that the hon. Member will be serious and I hope that all hon. Members will accept what I say sincerely. I believe that, if I had been leading for the Opposition, I would not in any way have sought to make political capital out of a disaster. I believe that the right hon. Gentleman is. That is all that I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.989.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.990.2", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.990.12", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. With the greatest respect to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, may I remind you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.990.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.991.7", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pearl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pearl", "preceding_text": "Why should I withdraw? What I have said is right. If I may now proceed to deal with the points, the right hon. Member can intervene later in my speech if he so wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.991.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have not those powers, but in view of what the hon. Member said I should certainly be prepared to come to the House and take them, and I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House would let me have them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that considerable dissatisfaction exists among the farmers of south-west Scotland about shooting parties coming from England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " with our overseas suppliers, we should see what improvements they can make in their control of the disease. That was a constructive suggestion, and we shall certainly consider that when the present outbreak is over, and it will be covered by the inquiry which was mentioned. My hon. Friend the Member for Berwick a id East Lothian (Mr. Mackintosh) made, if I may say so, a number of niggling points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "nister. Let him say so, and not be so mealy mouthed about it, even if he is going to be niggling. I can assure my hon. Friend, on his suggestion in relation to what would be the costs of the removing of standard quantities, and on the answer which he got, that it was not practical, that he got the right answer. There are so many variables—about the amounts, about the prices and all the rest of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": ". [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite know that what I am saying is true, and they must face it. Hon Gentlemen, I think on both sides of the House, mentioned the question, which was also raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Berwick and East Lothian, of the renegotiation of agreements, and more than one Member mentioned the bacon understanding. It is looked at every year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I have only a few minutes. I had only 17 minutes altogether. [HON. MEMBERS: \"And wasted them.\" I do not think that the farmers who are worried about compensation and the spread of this disease will think that what I have said has been a waste of time. The question was raised about the effects of devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "te of time. The question was raised about the effects of devaluation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, in facing the problem of devaluation we build, as my right hon. Friend has already said, upon a strong agriculture, and if hon. Gentlemen would like to have a look at our last White Paper, page 31, they will see the statistics, going right back to 1953, they will see the nine years of neglect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-04", "file": "debates1967-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1102276742606b4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " in facing the problem of devaluation we build, as my right hon. Friend has already said, upon a strong agriculture, and if hon. Gentlemen would like to have a look at our last White Paper, page 31, they will see the statistics, going right back to 1953, they will see the nine years of neglect—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—when output went down and down and down and down and never got to what it is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-04a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State recall telling the House when he came back from Salisbury that he was not seeking to slam the door but was interested in making progress and that both sides had agreed to reflect on the situation before taking further steps? Would he not agree that at a time when, if I may quote the Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that there is still countrywide concern at the present unemployment figures and the figures for the coming months, if not the next couple of years, which are so important to our movement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£400 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ess of which estimate and the measures necessary to ensure that it is achieved will be reviewed with the Managing Director in accordance with the timetable specified in paragraph 9. Some people, including Mr. Bareau, say that that paragraph and that figure involves an extra £300 million either in extra taxation or extra cuts in Government expenditure, over and above the one announced to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": "or the Evening Standard and other journals. But the bank manager does not say, \"Unless you do the following things, I shall not give you the loan.\" He would be well satisfied with my hon. Friend's good faith and intentions. That is the argument. What distresses me about my hon. Friend is that he is so sincere and so anxious for the Labour Government to succeed. I know him well and love him dearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Well, everybody with any sense knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " talking to workers. I even employ workers. What is more, we have to make a profit, which is more than my hon. Friend does. Everybody knows that the previous arrangement, by which those who needed it were able to get prescriptions free, worked perfectly adequately. One such act by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor, the abolition of free prescriptions, would instantly restore confidence in the £—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "s not think that his party would ever get elected if he said so. The whole country is bedevilled by this business of pitting ourselves against each other, always pretending that we will provide a mysterious extra very high standard of living without working for it. We must cut back. The new Chancellor of the Exchequer is our last chance; and this is not merely the last chance for the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1166.3", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "It is no good pretending that they do not believe this. They do not believe that the Government are tough enough to take the right measures. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer fails, I fear that the Labour Party will be out of office for 30 years. On the other hand, if the Chancellor does the unpopular but right things, then we can win the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": " in which the country has to go if its real cuts fall not on investment or on public expenditure but on consumption. I know that my next suggestion is, perhaps, totally unacceptable to some of my hon. Friends, but I ask the Chancellor to consider seriously whether this is the moment to move from increasing the burden of taxation on individuals and companies and to move it to the poor old consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "onts us with three issues about public spending. First, if I thought that the cuts which are now hinted at and proposed by the Chancellor would be panic cuts in our investment in electricity generating equipment and telephone exchange equipment, and major cuts in road programmes, I should be very dismayed. What use is a half-built piece of equipment, a half-built refinery, a half-constructed road?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "e should be debating, is not that the programmes should be cut but that the system of financing them should be totally changed. The hon. Member suggested that gas and electricity borrowing might be done on the capital market. We could examine that suggestion further; road investment could also well come from private resources. The roads are essential, but they could be paid for in a different way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "n't involve unacceptable conditions. The small print word there, of course, is \"unacceptable\". The Chancellor speaks last in this debate, as he usually does in debates when he can. It is a pity that in this as in some other debates he did not speak in the beginning and allow us to question him in the ordinary way. We have become used to it by now. It is always somebody else's fault; never his own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "me of that. Secondly, I note the strictly personal nature of each of his three contributions to the debate on these great issues. Not a word of constructive suggestion, not a single shaft of light on to the future. Therefore, if I may, I will turn from his speech, because I want to try and deal briefly with some of the wider issues. My right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1202.0", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "it comes, will be securely based—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1205.8", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Power (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I hope that we will be able to complete the Bill this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1205.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1206.10", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. If it would be for the convenience of the Committee to have a short debate on a Motion to report progress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1206.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1207.5", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I warned you, Sir Eric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Is it not a fact that the N.C.B. is charged with important responsibilities for safety in connection with spoil heaps and that a part of the money to be voted under the Bill will be devoted to this purpose? Is not any reference to Aberfan therefore completely in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the end of the year there will be, say, 30 million tons of undistributed stocks. That is worth £160 million at book value and it is locked up capital. The coal cannot be sold in this country, and it goes on increasing. We have nothing but pious hopes from the Ministry that at some future, indeterminate date he may reduce these coal stocks. In my Second Reading speech he pooh-poohed my peroration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Marvellous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e and it is locked up capital. The coal cannot be sold in this country, and it goes on increasing. We have nothing but pious hopes from the Ministry that at some future, indeterminate date he may reduce these coal stocks. In my Second Reading speech he pooh-poohed my peroration—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am sorry to be alliterative, but that is excellent alliteration. Repetition is to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1234.5", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ering borrowing powers, surely one thing which the House should do is to make sure that from time to time we have an opportunity to review the situation in the coal industry, to review investment policy, and see just how accurate are the estimates which have been made. Quite frankly, if we are to give what amounts to a blank cheque on borrowing powers up to 1971, even if this estimate is accurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The issues here are much wider than denoted by the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton), and I rise therefore to support him a little more powerfully than I have done on earlier occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1289.5", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "A series of non sequiturs is being put by the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1290.4", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might be allowed to answer the points put to me by the hon. Member for Yeovil. I was saying that in view of the difficulties facing the Board in the next few years, it is necessary to provide for a possible deficit of the kind to which I have referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1290.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am accusing no one of muddying the waters, but I would refer the hon. Member to the latest Report of the Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1295.2", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "hon. Friends. It has been suggested that I gave no reasons for the changing financial position of the industry. Not only was I not offhand in my remarks but if hon. Members did not hear some of the reasons I gave they should read HANSARD tomorrow, because they will see that I referred to the source of information that is available to all hon. Members who wish to take part in a debate of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1296.3", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": " this is about. That is the issue. Therefore, we have to accept that the industry is financially going to be out of balance during this transitional period. The hon. Lady herself said so. She said that even following the 1965 Act, before it was known about the increased prices, it was expected that there would be a £30 million deficit. We are expecting to move into a more transitional period soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1301.8", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "For the reasons given earlier, I would much prefer large sums of money not to be immediately voted without Parliament keeping control over them. I see that the Leader of the House is present and I hope that he is having second thoughts about this exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1301.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1301.8", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "For the reasons given earlier, I would much prefer large sums of money not to be immediately voted without Parliament keeping control over them. I see that the Leader of the House is present and I hope that he is having second thoughts about this exercise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I hope that he is having second thoughts about this exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1301.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1301.8", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " immediately voted without Parliament keeping control over them. I see that the Leader of the House is present and I hope that he is having second thoughts about this exercise. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I hope that he is having second thoughts about this exercise. [HON. MEMBERS: get on with it.\"] I hope that he is carrying on an effective conversation with the Government Deputy Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1301.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to you for your help, Mr. Grant-Ferris. I was endeavouring only to get a slight hearing as the peace of the Committee was being shattered by the loud conversation between the Leader of the House and the Deputy Chief Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman is going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "rant-Ferris. I was endeavouring only to get a slight hearing as the peace of the Committee was being shattered by the loud conversation between the Leader of the House and the Deputy Chief Whip. [ Interruption. ] I am perfectly prepared to stand here for a long time and indefinitely to repeat an accurate account of what happened. If hon. Members ask me to do it again, I am quite willing to do so.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1302.5", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for your protection, Mr. Grant-Ferris, but I fail to see why I should be called to order when I have to put up with rude and impertinent interventions from the Treasury Bench, from Ministers who should wish to get the business and have not the sense to keep their traps shut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1302.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1305.3", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " now and again we get a problem in an industry, such as the coal industry, where it is up to both sides to join together to see that we get a full and proper answer. All that my hon. Friend has done in the Amendment is to give one suggestion showing how we can accomplish that. If we do not grant the Board the money that it thinks it might want over a long period it means that it will have to keep—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-05", "file": "debates1967-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f03d4761395b3b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1376.9", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Clause 5.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": " and Amendment No. 21, leave out from £5,000,000 to end of line 37. This Amendment has attracted considerable interest and four of my hon. Friends have supported it although I am, unfortunately, the only one of our number left in the Committee. It is also unfortunate that we are discussing matters of such importance at this hour. My four hon. Friends were very anxious to talk about this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-05a.1376.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should give notice of his intention in the conventional way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1441.4", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about abortion\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I always admire the hon. Gentleman's courage and audacity, but it would be an enormous Bill and it would be a very difficult Bill for a private Member. Local authorities would not like a Bill to be introduced in that way because it would involve the complete machinery of government in supporting the Member concerned. The hon. Gentleman has a very fair point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "ans that it is not true to compare the Finance Bill with the Steel Bill or even the Prices and Incomes Bill, or with any other Bills, vastly important though they are. So much for the point about general taxation. Let us consider—and I pick out one illustration—one tax in the 1966 Finance Bill, the Selective Employment Tax—a tax which I described as the silliest speech since we had the window tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "gnore—Hon. Members know that that is true—but to do the concrete work of the scrutiny of legislation and to seek to induce the Government to make changes where, as in the case I quoted of the Selective Employment Tax on charities, an error has been made. The right hon. Gentleman said that in Committee upstairs the Finance Bill will get sedulous expert attention. Does it not get it in this Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "er with us, argued this matter passionately during the 13 years which I spent in opposition. We made full use then of our opportunities on every Finance Bill. In one such debate, in 1954 or 1955—I have not prepared these details in the Library—we were having an all-night sitting, which, like most sensible hon. Members, I deplore, but in which I have taken part on occasion and which I have enjoyed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Lobby?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "n talks of Lobby fodder, I would ask: who would ever accuse me of being Lobby fodder? This is not what I came here to be. I am, I hope, a loyal Member of my party, with a record which compares favourably with that of the Leader of the House. When a few of us with some experience of this place make it clear to him and to the House—not behind anyone's back, but within the full knowledge of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Running away.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "of being Lobby fodder? This is not what I came here to be. I am, I hope, a loyal Member of my party, with a record which compares favourably with that of the Leader of the House. When a few of us with some experience of this place make it clear to him and to the House—not behind anyone's back, but within the full knowledge of the House [HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Lobby?\"] I will decide that for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or lawyers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "e want to know that the constitutional position of back benchers will be sufficiently safeguarded so that we can express our constituents' feelings on important financial matters on the Floor of the House if need be. Second, if time is to be saved by truncating our procedure by means of a Standing Committee, however high powered, God forbid that it should be a Committee of high-powered economists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1511.5", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Committee of the whole House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ence to history because I think the history of this House shows that the steady growth from centuries back of the power of committees has gone on side by side with influencing the power of Parliament itself. Parliament moved from being a subordinate to a leading body during the reign of the first Elizabeth. It was no accident that during that time it began to use the Committee system increasingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1511.5", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " has gone on side by side with influencing the power of Parliament itself. Parliament moved from being a subordinate to a leading body during the reign of the first Elizabeth. It was no accident that during that time it began to use the Committee system increasingly—[An HON. MEMBER: \"A Committee of the whole House.\"]—not exclusively a Committee of the whole House—because it found that in that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "er for Salford, West, it will take at least three days to enable his hon. Friend to raise in Committee, if he were a member, the points that he would like to have raised on the Floor of the House. The right hon. Gentleman said that we should have four days on Report which, added to the time for recommittal, makes seven days. Under those conditions, how much time will the right hon. Gentleman save?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1554.3", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Then I make no reply", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "m the issue which was discussed earlier, in my view by far the most important issue during the major debate we had. I was struck by the fact that many other arguments against taking the Finance Bill upstairs which had loomed large in previous debates had dwindled away, and this was almost the only surviving argument which seemed to have power to move hon. Members. The others had all dwindled away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1596.0", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask him again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "That does not touch the point I was making at all. The Select Committee did not recommend that the whole of the Finance Bill should go to a Standing Committee. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that as a fair interpretation? Does he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1596.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No. The Motion begins Where, in respect of a public Bill\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-06", "file": "debates1967-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "9921f49a6e7112db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he Motion to the House. As to his first Amendment, the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames always argues persuasively, but I did not think that he was on a good wicket in this instance. It was not anything like as good a wicket as his second Amendment. The Minister will report that the agreement is working ineffectively. Whether an agreement is working effectively is a plain matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-06a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1649.0", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the taxpayers' money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "We cannot afford not to. We shall have lost all sense of survival if we begin to talk about the relatively small sum still spent on the arts as if they were one of the great spending Departments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that a number of anxieties have been expressed about Greater London schemes by bodies which cannot be regarded as party political, such as the Enfield Association for the Advancement of State Education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1662.7", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have felt it right—and this is in agreement with Salisbury—on my right hon. Friend's visit that we should not go into public discussion on the particular points at issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1662.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1664.4", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I think it is right that the House should know as soon as the House can fairly be told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1667.2", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no parallelism between the ending of political honours and the question covered in thes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1667.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1707.1", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including patients.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "al boards and hospital management committees do not represent all sections of the community affected by the service. I would like trade unions to have the right of representation, and also patients, who are after all, closely involved. I would also have liked a recognition that chairmen or members of hospital boards or management committees should be drawn from a much wider circle than at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-07", "file": "debates1967-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "3f6b7e1a4dcef677", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "rvice hospitals from 5,764 to 4,379. A Motion in my name, deploring this, was signed by 113 of my hon. Friends. The Minister gave as an excuse that he was cutting down the number of pay-beds commensurate with the demand. It is quite true that there are empty pay-beds because the malady or the complaint for which a particular pay-bed is designated is not one for which there is demand at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-07a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-08", "file": "debates1967-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "0d428bb8ae850cff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-08a.1931.4", "colnum": "1931", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-08a.1931.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-11", "file": "debates1967-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6d1be6e1e2544c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "orry to say, has now left and to whom I gave no notice. Seven of these Questions were concerned with the hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Maxwell) and our domestic affairs. It is not for me to make criticism of the list, but I know that there are hon. Members who could wish that some other channel be found for discussing in such detail matters of our housekeeping which really are not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.34.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-11", "file": "debates1967-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6d1be6e1e2544c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.101.3", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (SOUND BROADCASTING EXPERIMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "bling over itself to have our beautiful voices recorded on sound radio. It is perhaps a lesser risk inflicted on the public to have our voices rather than our faces recorded. Here I am speaking for myself. I am not speaking for any clique or cabal. What I say I say temperately, moderately and modestly. I hope, for myself and I am not stooging for any clique. We all know what goes on in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-11", "file": "debates1967-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6d1be6e1e2544c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (SOUND BROADCASTING EXPERIMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ous experiments that we should be considering whether to bring our proceedings to the majority of the electorate. I want people to know about the workings of Parliament. It is true that personally I have not received any request from constituents on this issue, but it is not a matter of receiving requests from the electorate. In the present state of politics I want to ' sell \"the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-11", "file": "debates1967-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "6d1be6e1e2544c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS PROCEEDINGS (SOUND BROADCASTING EXPERIMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"None of us did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "ant to televise their House, let them do it. But let them also pay for it. Let them pay for it if they want to televise their House. Then, for the Committees we shall need Channels 3, 4, 5, 6—perhaps up to 13 to include the Services Committee. Who is going to listen to all this? And what will be the cost? I am sorry I did not hear the figures which my right hon. Friend may or may not have given. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-11a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.191.7", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "We have had this Question often before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.191.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that pensioners and low wage earners are not able to afford the fixed minimum charges which the boards are now charging consumers? Is he further aware that one of my constituents has complained recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.198.11", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that out of the total revenue of £1,141·4 million, only £7·6 million is spent on research and that this compares with a business like I.C.I., which, out of total revenue of £496½2 million, spends £30 million on research? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.198.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.198.11", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "f £1,141·4 million, only £7·6 million is spent on research and that this compares with a business like I.C.I., which, out of total revenue of £496½2 million, spends £30 million on research? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—that this represents 0·66 per cent, spent on research compared with 6·0 per cent, respectively? Is he also aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.198.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES, RENTS AND MORTGAGE INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is Government policy that where increased costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend has given the impression that there is nothing much more to do in the way of negotiations with the Government of Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.218.5", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Will not the right hon. Gentleman accept that everything in his statement merely indicates a growing gap between two political philosophies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": ", of lodging objections where there is a change in the sex composition of a school. Opinions vary a great deal about this. I think that it is usually a bad change from a single sex school to a mixed school, at least from the boys point of view, for public education, as distinct from the private education. This is because the main defect of the public sector is an inadequate element or monasticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "le with a free, varied and flexible society. Finally, we accept the Bill on Second Reading with gratitude to the parents of Enfield and acknowledge—it would be churlish not to acknowledge—the rôle, perhaps the rôle of Ganymede, which has been discharged by the Secretary of State. In Committee, we shall seek to improve it and clarify it, give it a little red blood and fighting spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "Yes, but may I just explain the reason for my concern about that to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "ever, there are times when an occasional morning sitting is preferable to an all-night sitting. As one who is usually here during late sittings, I take a dim view of a remark made in the debate last week when an hon. Gentleman opposite said, \"You cannot take it\". Is that really a sensible way of approaching our affairs in the House? I think that most hon. Gentlemen opposite are directors of firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Sittings of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member feels that he speaks with authority on this matter, certainly I shall give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodbum", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodbum", "preceding_text": "of days when the House sits. It can sit for only 24 hours in one day. Somehow or other the Government must fit their Parliamentary business into the time available. The House is becoming busier and busier in dealing with important matters. Many important matters are not discussed here. Delegates from the House go to the Council of Europe and other places, and nobody ever knows what they are doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Standing Order No. 2 (Exempted business)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. O. J. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. O. J. Robinson", "preceding_text": "aised and that the pressure of argument against an affirmative procedure Order may lead the Government to change their minds. In those circumstances, when all the arguments have been canvassed as they could succinctly be in an hour and a half, if hon. Members wanted to join in they could simply say, \"I support the objections to the Order and subscribe to all the arguments against it\", and no more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.345.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Mawby", "preceding_text": "r than the 40 required to be present in the Chamber. I am attracted by the Amendment. Discussions on the Consolidated Fund Bill give hon. Members an opportunity to raise matters that may concern their constituency and no other, and, therefore, I would support the Amendment if it were taken on its own. But I am completely against the Motion. When the House is making decisions in its solemn majesty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.372.2", "colnum": "372", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ounds, particularly on the Air Estimates, in which I take part nearly every year. Then we are voting perhaps £500 million on each of these debates, and yet one sees only half a dozen hon. Members in the Chamber. Under those circumstances it is right that the back bencher should draw attention to the absence of a quorum to make sure that others come in to play their part in these important matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-12", "file": "debates1967-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c48d7031d57e3703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "I am seduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-12a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Regular Army Officers (Commissions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "I visit the Army a great deal and I find that there is considerable confidence in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — s.s. \"Montgomery\" Wreck(Explosives)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend say with certainty that there would be very much greater risk involved in attempting either to salvage the wreck or remove the cargo than by leaving where it is? Can he also give any sort of indication how quickly the risk is decreasing? Would he also consider now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.426.8", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — South Africa (Supply of Arms)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No; traitor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman not aware that the most prudent regard for British national self-interest requires a resumption of this trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.426.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.426.9", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — South Africa (Supply of Arms)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but, as I say, we made a statement in November, 1964. The Prime Minister was responsible for the utterance of it in the House and we stand by that agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.426.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — South Africa (Supply of Arms)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister seriously telling the House that an adverse balance of payments of £260 million in October and November will make no difference to his policy of exporting British manufactured goods to all parts of the world without political discrimination? Why should we not supply our allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — South Africa (Supply of Arms)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "This is apparently due to speculation in the newspapers and I am not responsible for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.427.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "THE GAMBIA (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 its duties in the way expected of it. May I add my appreciation of those who serve the House of Commons abroad from time to time on delegations of this character. If the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. McCann) will bring the resolution to me, I will give directions for it to be entered in the Journal of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And cricket teams? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": ". It has 6¾ million people, a larger population than Scotland, much larger than that of Wales, and exceeded only by the size of the South-East Region. It contributes one-fifth of our exports. It has the great asset of the character of its people with their industrial skills, the prowess of its football clubs— the top three in the First Division, and sixth and Burnley coming along at tenth —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.434.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Pearson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Pearson", "preceding_text": "he one hand, by the Manchester/Yorkshire motorway, and the M6 and Preston, on the other. If the Government promised that this would be put through as a priority job, we could have some hope that we could hold our own and expand. Another matter is urban renewal and amenity. This area is crying out for renewal. There are old cotton mills, old slag heaps and dirty buildings which all want tidying up,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.465.1", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Pearson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Publicly owned.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Pearson", "preceding_text": "evelopment today. As my right hon. and learned Friend said, we have a magnificent area in North-East Lancashire, a wonderful hinterland, but we want money spent on getting rid of old cotton mills. I would rather see them pulled down than new industries going into them. We want new factories and a new policy which would encourage about eight science-based factories to come to North-East Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "ons we hoped that it would be a focus or a rallying point or a tower of strength in the North-West, but I must confess that I am deeply disappointed by the results. It has been more of an ivory tower than a tower of strength. There may be some significance in the fact that it meets in a building 16 storeys up in the centre of Manchester instead of some more important place elsewhere in the region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": " Trade said that the two-fold division of the country into development and non-development areas may no longer be acceptable to him. The whole House appreciated that that was an important thing for him to say. I hope we shall see action taken in the spirit of his statement as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford (Sir W. Bromley-Davenport) has left the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "use all the land they have before they look anywhere else. An hon. Member said \"Hear, hear.\" What constituency does he represent? There has been important evidence recently that condemning people to live in flats, particularly children, as we have had to do in large numbers in Manchester, especially in my constituency, reduces the quality of life. I say to the hon. and gallant Member for Knutsford", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.507.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.561.1", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC PROBLEMS(NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frank Pearson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden", "preceding_text": "indications point to. We should consider what has happened. When Grigg was last sent to Jones it was in a period of crisis for the prices and incomes policy. What happened? It was sent straight back to the Government and they were told to get on and implement it, crisis notwithstanding. Now, when conditions are comparatively normal, prices and incomes-wise anyway— we are not in a period of crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.575.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.584.1", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "I very much regretted that the hon. and gallant Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish), in the light of my past experience of him in many previous debates— and I have often followed him — refused to give way on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.584.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Harrogate (Mr. Ramsden) rightly said that this action is being taken under Section 3 of the 1966 Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Take it easy, Fred.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "osite wish to indict us merely because we are not trying to rob the forces of anything. But that was the effect of what the right hon. Gentleman did in 1964. Indeed, when the issue went in 1966 to this much despised Prices and Incomes Board, it was agreed that it should be paid in full, which was far more than the then Tory Government did two years earlier. The hypocrisy of all this is monumental.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.593.0", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "There will be no change in the Board's procedure on this matter. If it wishes to employ consultants, it will be open to it to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.593.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.593.7", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I ask the right hon. Member to await the report of the Board on pay. It would be quite wrong, would it not, for us to try to adduce what kind of pensionable employment we are engaging in if we do not know the conditions of pay engaged in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.593.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Lee", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-13", "file": "debates1967-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "d6534921daa223f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "s a far better method than they had before. In contradistinction to all the other Prayers we have had on this subject, therefore, neither of the issues raised here is opposed by the people concerned, and in one case they are positively in favour of it. Why any of my hon. Friends should have any hesitation in supporting the Government, on a matter of this kind, I cannot understand. I end as I began", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-13a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.603.5", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I should not like to make any comments on where the criminals are to be found.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.615.5", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that Lord Wigg is not here to deal with the hon. Member himself. I am sure that he would give a very good account of himself. All these questions of remuneration under the Government's prices and incomes policy are related to productivity and I have no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.615.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.622.2", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (TELEVISION BROADCAST)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is completely wrong when he says that all prices are bound to rise. Some will inevitably, as I made clear in the broadcast in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.622.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.624.6", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGICAL COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Talk it out again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there is a great fund of professional knowledge which could be of use to the Government in developing the idea of a European Technological Community? Would he agree that the roll-out of the Concorde this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.624.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.627.4", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. There was an agreement not to do it without consultation. There was consultation before the statement was made by my right hon. Friend. We informed Mr. Smith we were going to tell the House of Commons. I really think that the concern of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite for an illegal régime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.627.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"External defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a matter, as I have said, which the right hon. Gentleman did not take quite so seriously, of the United Nations resolution, and, as I have said, all major countries have signed that resolution. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is anxious that we should ourselves break away from that resolution and join the very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.631.6", "colnum": "631", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have carried out the United Nations resolution in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.631.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.647.4", "colnum": "647", "heading": "EARLY-DAY MOTIOKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ism are unable to reply in this assembly. The second Motion is No. 85, on page 1904, and is submitted by hon. Members opposite. It reads: That this House notes with interest the Minister of Technology's attempt to be spry about his latest humiliating defeat at the hands of General de Gaulle and the French aircraft industry. I cannot understand how this Motion was ever accepted by the Table Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.647.4", "colnum": "647", "heading": "EARLY-DAY MOTIOKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t his latest humiliating defeat at the hands of General de Gaulle and the French aircraft industry. I cannot understand how this Motion was ever accepted by the Table Office—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Frankly, I cannot. It makes no submission to the Government relating to legislation either past or future but is merely a frivolous submission critical of a Minister who obviously is unable to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.647.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.649.6", "colnum": "649", "heading": "EARLY-DAY MOTIOKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "May I deal with the point of order briefly. The question of what goes down on the Order Paper is primarily a matter for the Member himself. Members are adult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.649.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "EARLY-DAY MOTIOKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's judgment!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nd Adjournment Motions. What has happened this afternoon? Questions have been put to the Leader of the House about business and many arguments have been contained in the form of questions, as everyone will admit. There are opportunities for hon. Members to raise these matters without placing them on the Order Paper. They are derogatory in character, and, in my judgment, ought not to be permitted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-14", "file": "debates1967-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "984e88a4eaf0e22b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "MAURITIUS INDEPENDENCE BDLL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "on. They might be there for 20 years. Because they were born in Mauritius, why should they be entitled to have a passport to come to the United Kingdom? After all, entitlement to British citizenship is not a prize that we give away lightly. It is something to be valued. I hope to explain to the satisfaction of the House who will be entitled to British citizenship and who will not. Whilst the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-14a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-15", "file": "debates1967-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6616314530b7bd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-15a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (GOODS AND SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Hilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Hilton", "preceding_text": "welcomed by others, I hope that, even if there are reservations among hon. Members, they will allow it a Second reading. We can discuss in Committee any matters about which they have fears. What benefits do local authorities see arising out of this Bill? My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Maxwell) recently produced what I thought was an extremely good survey of public sector purchasing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-15a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-15", "file": "debates1967-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6616314530b7bd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-15a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (GOODS AND SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "preceding_text": "e Opposition benches is that hon. Members opposite are always saying how anxious they are to save public money. They are always anxious to reduce the burden on the ratepayer. My hon. Friend the Member for Ilford, South (Mr. Arnold Shaw) has had to fight candidates in his area who used the title \"Ratepayers' Association\". Yet, when we have a Bill which would give practical advantages to ratepayers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-15a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-15", "file": "debates1967-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "6616314530b7bd0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-15a.832.0", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (GOODS AND SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ider inter-authority co-operation, which is very important. It would allow for hospitals and universities to be designated by the Minister, and for any public factor to be designated. Does this go a stage too far? As I see the Bill the Minister can designate any one a public body. I am sure that this is not intended and that he would not designate Costain's a public authority but the powers exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-15a.832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "If the future of the British shipbuilding industry has to depend upon orders of that kind alone, then it has no future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "mic Statement, which the Leader of the House told us on Thursday would be made only in the event of an emergency, is very clear. It is to wrap up and disguise a Statement about South African arms in an attempt to preserve a spurious unity in the Cabinet. Seldom can the House have heard a general economic Statement so flatulent and platitudinous as this has been. It can only do more harm than good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.924.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—we expected more than general Statements of pious intent. I want to put two questions to the Prime Minister. Does his Statement mean that the South African Government's request for arms for self-defence has been turned down by Her Majesty's Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—we expected more than general Statements of pious intent. I want to put two questions to the Prime Minister. Does his Statement mean that the South African Government's request for arms for self-defence has been turned down by Her Majesty's Government? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Has it been turned down?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I will not compete with the right hon. Gentleman in such flights of Parliamentary oratory as \"blancmange\" and \"flatulent\", because we are concerned this afternoon with important issues of policy, and the right hon. Gentleman, as usual, failed to face up to it. First of all, on the economic Statement that I have made, the right hon. Gentleman could use his time better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Gentleman in such flights of Parliamentary oratory as \"blancmange\" and \"flatulent\", because we are concerned this afternoon with important issues of policy, and the right hon. Gentleman, as usual, failed to face up to it. First of all, on the economic Statement that I have made, the right hon. Gentleman could use his time better—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] He will get the answer, but I am going to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.5", "colnum": "925", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the examination on which we have begun, which will be reported to the House, will be the greatest possible help to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Since the right hon. Gentleman has repeatedly called for cuts in expenditure, I confidently expect his full support for every measure of Government economy which we will put to the House. With regard to South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.925.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think that very much interest will be taken in the line of right hon. Gentlemen opposite in these matters, but this was, as my hon. Friend mentioned, one big consideration. It is a very difficult decision: I do not pretend that it is not. I am not ashamed of the fact that on his side we have been divided on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think that very much interest will be taken in the line of right hon. Gentlemen opposite in these matters, but this was, as my hon. Friend mentioned, one big consideration. It is a very difficult decision: I do not pretend that it is not. I am not ashamed of the fact that on his side we have been divided on the matter—[HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh\"] I am not ashamed of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "will be taken in the line of right hon. Gentlemen opposite in these matters, but this was, as my hon. Friend mentioned, one big consideration. It is a very difficult decision: I do not pretend that it is not. I am not ashamed of the fact that on his side we have been divided on the matter—[HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh\"] I am not ashamed of that— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I said that I am not ashamed of the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s was, as my hon. Friend mentioned, one big consideration. It is a very difficult decision: I do not pretend that it is not. I am not ashamed of the fact that on his side we have been divided on the matter—[HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh\"] I am not ashamed of that— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I said that I am not ashamed of the fact—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I said that the whole Cabinet denies those particular stories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder (Ruislip-North-wood)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder (Ruislip-North-wood)", "preceding_text": "I should like to know why, at the moment, the Leader of the House should try to change the business at short notice without giving reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not do both?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "urning earlier after the Recess. I must say that I am disappointed by the inconsistency shown. An early day Motion has been put down by Conservative back-benchers, among them the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor). I am glad that the agreement now is that we should not stay a day longer this week, but should, instead, have the alternative of returning earlier after Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1006.0", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "LONDON CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ing my Amendment, rather than someone from the Home Office. His remarks indicate a lack of sympathy with the problems of taxi drivers in Greater London, which is all too evident in Government spokesmen these days. It is evident, too, in the Bill, which does not go nearly far enough to help London cab drivers to get over some of the problems which have been drawn to the attention of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "LONDON CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "State. I was watching the annunciator to ensure that I did not miss the chance of moving my Amendment. As soon as I saw the previous business appear on it, I obtained a copy of the Amendments to this Bill which I needed to make my case. However, I cannot wait any longer to say why this Amendment should be made, in spite of the fact that the Under-Secretary of State has not reappeared. I hope that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "LONDON CAB BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "This is an extraordinary Amendment. I am sorry to discover that this is a case of two Front Benches ganging up to do something which is quite ridiculous. This proposal is an attempt to delete the word \"minicab\" from the English language in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-18", "file": "debates1967-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d6eff881df5d2f88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1036.2", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "SCOTLAND (SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-18a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows the position on this very well. Most of the doubts which have been raised in recent months have been raised by the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was no clearance from No. 10 as far as Mr. Jay was concerned. This was discussed on Thursday night—I am surprised that hon. Gentlemen opposite want to pursue this sort of question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ussed on Thursday night—I am surprised that hon. Gentlemen opposite want to pursue this sort of question. [ Interruption. ] Right hon. Gentlemen opposite not only said who would be interviewing or would appear with them but, in one case affecting me, they vetoed my going on the air. The position, as I have said, is that No. 10 indicated that it should be a more representative group of journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, and three or four weeks ago we debated the events which occurred on 18th November. As I said yesterday, the right hon. Gentleman might now help by using such influence as he has with British industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedfordshire)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedfordshire)", "preceding_text": "e of it. The Prime Minister said so in his statement, but perhaps he will accept that some of us may be forgiven for remaining a little suspicious. The point I am making is that all this had to do with the South African arms deal. Then, on Thursday last, we had the Prime Minister's statement to the House of Commons. Incidentally, I am surprised that the Prime Minister is not present this afternoon", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1095.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, the matters which have been discussed in these last few days are matters of great interest, in the context of this debate, to all on this side of the House. I suggest that probably there cropped up the question of the school- leaving age and also the reimposition of Health Service charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.5", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Then certain right hon. Members opposite intervened to their credit; the Home Secretary and the Foreign Secretary, perhaps the Minister of Labour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.5", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "and said that these cuts and measures might not have to be so drastic if the balance of payments could be improved by a £200 million sale of equipment to South Africa. Was not that perhaps what happened? But the voice of Labour's moral conscience dictated otherwise. Now I want briefly to examine this moral issue. South Africa is seen by hon. Members opposite—I am sure quite sincerely—as a tyranny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.5", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why comment on it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": " million sale of equipment to South Africa. Was not that perhaps what happened? But the voice of Labour's moral conscience dictated otherwise. Now I want briefly to examine this moral issue. South Africa is seen by hon. Members opposite—I am sure quite sincerely—as a tyranny. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] In several respects I be- lieve that they are right. It cannot be denied that they are right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1097.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1100.4", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1101.6", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1101.8", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "My constituency lies in Sheffield. I have received a copy of the same telegram. I rise to ask whether the hon. Gentleman has read the whole text of the telegram, because the copy that I have received has a sentence which the hon. Gentleman has left out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1101.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1101.9", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "about it. Of course, they can go to the factory gates and read homilies on the moral justification and the moral duties of the Labour Party. I am not sure how well that will go down. They can explain how it is a moral duty for these people to lose their jobs. They can explain, perhaps, how it is a moral duty to jeopardise the raising of the school-leaving age in order to deny arms to South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1101.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I think that is a very fair point. Whether they realise it or not, hon. Members opposite who represent Sheffield and Glasgow constituencies will be laughing on the other side of their faces before long, I suspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have always depreciated the passing up to the Chair of words the Chair does not hear, but it is not in order for an hon. Member to call another Member a Judas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "nt to the purpose of internal repression, but the issue here is relevant nevertheless, as the hon. Gentleman hinted, to the question whether we desire South Africa to be in a position to defend herself against external aggression. Is it the view of hon. Members below the Gangway opposite, and, apparently, of the Government, that they would like to see South Africa weakened from that point of view?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " is unnecessary to look for export orders because we should not be able to fulfil them. It is not a serious way to deal with our difficulties. The other argument is that, if we take the trade of South Africa, we shall lose the trade of the black African States. Let us be realistic about this. Africa is divided by the Zambesi River. South of the Zambesi there is trade; north of it there is charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not give you a job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " has needed to do so before. I remember when he was the most reactionary Right-wing Minister in the Attlee Government, with a bonfire of controls which turned our destiny, and then Gaitskell was promoted over his head and there was a matter of principle concerning teeth and spectacles, and the Left was available. He became the leader of the party and the Prime Minister on the pressure of the Left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ben Whaitaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who? Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ben Whaitaker", "preceding_text": " and these are the issues. It is because we on this side of the House respect very sincerely those South Africans who are decent, of all races, who are making sacrifices enormously about anything that we are called upon to make, it is because we believe in the decency of these people, that we on this side, and I know some lion. Members opposite who have not yet spoken, feel strongly on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1126.3", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitaker", "preceding_text": "As I understand it, the debate is about arms for South Africa. I do not wish to get out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1135.1", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I was talking to those on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1135.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is exercising a selectivity which excludes the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not be so keen to demote himself to the Tory Front Bench. Let them get up and say something. They do not need the hon. Member to defend them. Let them get up if they want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1136.4", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " of the coin is that these semi-apologies, that they do not really agree with apartheid but they are all opposed to it, are phoney. They cannot have it both ways. They must search in their minds where they stand on this matter. I want to refer to the contribution from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) which I thought was a pretty vulgar attack on the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "gise to the hon. and gallant Gentleman. I did not gather what he was saying. The quintessence of the argument is the attiude to apartheid . It does not matter about the economic arguments which we have heard from one side of the House or the other. Millions of people all over the world who are coloured or partly coloured will judge the issue on that specific point, rather than on the economic one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1137.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "outes are to be maintained open. We have heard today of the position of France. France is, in many parts of the world, making a commercial, financial and cultural effort of the greatest magnitude. Naturally, France is perfectly entitled to do that; to exert influence in Europe, in the Common Market, in the Middle East following the Israeli-Arab war, in North America, Quebec and in Southern Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "as this Government who first established a major salesman of arms in this country. Then, is the principle that we should not sell arms to countries of whose internal affairs the Government disapprove? Let us examine that point. There is the case of Saudi Arabia, in which the sale of arms has been one of the brightest jewels—perhaps the only jewel—in the crown of the Secretary of State for Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnet", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1151.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "nd once again, throughout 1968, there will be this bloody war, without any pause. There is a danger that the Americans intend to invade North Vietnam and, again, I would like some assurance that Her Majesty's Government are in touch with the American Government, expressing great fears that exist in this country about further escalation. I recognise that it is not possible to debate the Vietnam war", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "e summer, he says, \"Off to the seaside. You ought to be there with your wife and children, on the sands.\" This time, no doubt, he is saying, \"You ought to be skiing\". Who can afford to ski? \"You ought to be going to the races\". There is no racing. \"You ought to be occupied in some beneficial way\". We want to be occupied here. This is what we are for, to serve the country in this House of Commons.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig (Lancaster)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Henig (Lancaster)", "preceding_text": "ncern over the future of this colony being discussed in secret negotiations between Britain, United States and Guatemala. The people in this Colony said that they wanted no power over their future given to Guatemala. They urged us to put forward their point of view when we returned to England. I said to them that although, not being a member of the Government, I was in no position to give pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "This is too serious a matter to indulge in this kind of frippery. This issue is important because British colonial subjects are directly subject to decisions made in this House, and if we do not debate British Honduras before it is too late it will be a great disgrace and scandal. I appeal to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, in his absence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-19", "file": "debates1967-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "62342f3f7010dbf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker. I was indicating what the Government might discover if they allowed a debate on these matters. In conclusion, I would say this to my absent right hon. Friend the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-19a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1259.8", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that this crushing figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1259.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PORTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that, in the working document issued for consultation, the Government made it clear that we intend to take into public ownership everything essential for port operation. We are now engaged in trying to identify which of these things are essential. We are in a considerable process of consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "FRENCH TANKER (INTERCEPTION OFF BEIRA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept the congratulations of this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1271.5", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES (UNITED KINGDOM APPLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that there is a sense of outrage in the country about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1271.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1273.3", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES (UNITED KINGDOM APPLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is you who have failed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend—as he well knows, we have felt this both together for a long times—is totally wrong on all these counts. There is nothing in the policy that I have outlined which will prevent us increasing our trade as we are doing in other areas. My right hon. Friend fails, as he has always failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1273.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES (UNITED KINGDOM APPLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Some parts of that question do not seem to be for me. I am glad that there is something for which I am not going to be blamed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1288.4", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I have put in my speech as much information as I possibly could in a time which, for the sake of the rest of the House, must be inevitably limited. If I give way to hon. Members, the House will get less information and not more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ing Group also recommends, however, that £a new type of Board is needed, somewhat smaller in size, whose members concentrate more on policy, particularly long-term policy, financial control and corporate planning, rather than on detailed executive matters. The Government are in process of implementing these ideas. The Leader of the Opposition has described the Bill as irrelevant and objectionable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "Opposition that we had not. It is remarkable that the Government should now consider that the Opposition should give some of its limited time for a Bill introduced by the Government. It is particularly unreasonable of the right hon. Lady when she knows full well that what she has done with this Bill is to put under one title eight Bills in an attempt to steamroller the whole lot through the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "e transport correspondent of the Economist was at the last election Labour candidate at Folkestone and at present is Chairman of the Soho Labour Party. I am told that the Soho Labour Party is one of the few remaining branches. The Minister was unable to quote any friend apart from that. Industry does not support the Authority. There is no vocal support for it from the National Union of Railwaymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "right hon. Lady to extend nationalisation still further. We have the other nationalisation proposal which the Minister has already achieved in the Transport Holding Company. It has already made a bid—we are told a successful one—for the bus companies of the B.E.T. It was a good way of making a bid. One publishes a White Paper saying that the bus companies will be taken over by compulsory purchase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "need at least a day in which to debate that issue. The £35 million to be paid for that exercise is all part of the P.T.A. concept, with the Minister saying that this is a shot in the arm for local government. I suggest that it is a shot at local government. The Minister knows—whatever references she might make to the G.L.C. —that Mr Desmond Plummer will be violently opposed to a P.T.A. for London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "r Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Galbraith). If I had not intervened, that would have been the subject of complaint. The fact is that the Minister of Transport made direct reference to the Group and promised that there would later be some elaboration of what she had said. The hon. Member for Bute and North Ayrshire (Sir F. Maclean) is very much interested in the activities of the Scottish Transport Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1371.2", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be able—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1405.4", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "power them to engage in a whole range of ancillary services, their own vehicle repair shops, refreshment rooms and bookstalls at bus stations, the provision of parcel services. I will empower them to run taxi services or to enter into agreements with taxi cab operators to provide a more flexible service than applies now. I shall give them the power to organise ferry services, hovercraft services\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In competition with private enterprise.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "etermination of the party opposite to drive private enterprise not only off the roads but out of a great deal besides, and this is one of the instruments chosen for that purpose. As I was saying, the right hon. Lady said: I shall give them the power to organise ferry services, hovercraft services, hire-car services, express bus services, tours and excursions in competition with private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Transport (Mr. Stephen Swingler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Transport (Mr. Stephen Swingler)", "preceding_text": " expressed strong support for the principles involved in it and of the way in which my right hon. Friend has applied the Measure. The right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West began by complaining of the time for this debate. My right hon. Friend has already dealt with this point. If the Opposition really felt so strongly about the time for the debate they could have done something about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1414.3", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "proposals of the Beeching Report with iron logic—but he would not have had the support of a substantial number of his hon. Friends. It is not surprising that it has been well represented in the debate that my hon. Friends are well aware that for the past three years many hon. Gentlemen opposite have been queueing up outside the Ministry of Transport to plead for unprofitable lines to be kept open—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-20", "file": "debates1967-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "090300207ebd0fed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1414.3", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "TRANSPORT BELL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "ort authorities are to be charged with the planning of the stage services of public transport. It is only in relation to those services that they will have to negotiate with the private operators and take decisions about them. And, of course, there is provision for compensation to be offered if they should decide that those services are not required. Let me return to the hon. Member for Worcester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-20a.1414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-21", "file": "debates1967-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "196e0dbeec6d471f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1488.5", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman has got to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I always consult my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-21", "file": "debates1967-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "196e0dbeec6d471f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garrett", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed a lack of encouragement coming from the Opposition benches this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-21", "file": "debates1967-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "196e0dbeec6d471f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1536.1", "colnum": "1536", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to intervene irregularly, before I call the next speaker, to say that I am sure the House would wish me to pay tribute, at the end of the year, to all the servants of the House, without whose devotion to their work the work of the House would be gravely handicapped. I know that every hon. and right hon. Member appreciates excellent service generously given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1967-12-21", "file": "debates1967-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "196e0dbeec6d471f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "MERCHANT NAVY (FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden (Liverpool, West Derby)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nelson.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden (Liverpool, West Derby)", "preceding_text": " service. As part of the Christmas spirit I notice that the Opposition Front Bench looks a little more formidable at the moment by the presence on it of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor). A \"former naval person\", the late Sir Winston Churchill, believed that it was upon the Navy, under the providence of God, that the safety and well-being of these islands chiefly depend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1967-12-21", "file": "debates1967-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "196e0dbeec6d471f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1545.2", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "MERCHANT NAVY (FLAGS OF CONVENIENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "sed, namely, our great appreciation of the staff of the House. We all appreciate the courtesy, consideration and patience shown by members of the staff, particularly in view of the late hours which we sometimes work and the difficulties which they encounter. We sometimes take them for granted, and perhaps at this time of the year it is appropriate to express our gratitude and appreciation to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1967-12-21a.1545.1"}