{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1588.0", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Then why bother?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "1965 basis, namely those on supplementary benefits, those with the standard of living broadly at or below supplementary benefit levels and war pensioners in respect of disabilities. This will be immediately. The scheme as initially introduced would save about £50 million in a full year. But the further exemptions, which we regard as fair and necessary, would reduce this saving to about £25 million", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1597.0", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "als in their present state than that we should have an immediate General Election. The right hon. Gentleman's question about prescription charges enables me to deal with a reference made in passing by the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition to what happened in 1951. That was not about prescription charges. Prescription charges were not at issue at that time. They were not introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1598.0", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he Leader of the Opposition—more difficult for me to answer—the Leader of the Opposition said that my statement was a negative statement. Statements of cuts in expenditure are bound to have a pretty negative aspect about them. When my right hon. Friend and the right hon. Gentleman say what is it that the people can do positively, everyone knows what needs to be done positively in terms of winning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1598.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1603.5", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "all kinds of long-term arrangements which were disastrous, costly, irrelevant and outmoded without consulting the House. We are still trying to unravel the ones in writing, and we keep being told about them from time to time. The cost of maintaining some of them has been one of the difficulties we are facing today. We have decided that in the national interest, in the interest of a strong Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1603.5", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", irrelevant and outmoded without consulting the House. We are still trying to unravel the ones in writing, and we keep being told about them from time to time. The cost of maintaining some of them has been one of the difficulties we are facing today. We have decided that in the national interest, in the interest of a strong Britain—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"]—in the interests of a strong Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, I accept what my hon. Friend says. It was a matter of deep disappointment to us to have had to take both these decisions, and that is the position of all my right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "While congratulating my right hon. Friend and his Administration on being the first Prime Minister in 20 years to bring our legions home from the East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1610.1", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "against that background. The hon. Gentleman will recognise that this is a matter we had to consider at great length. Very many issues were affected when we took our decision—not only finance and savings, but bigger issues than those. As to the statements which the hon. and gallant Gentleman has seen in the Press, I, too, have seen them. I regret them as much as he does, though I have noticed that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1631.4", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "SCOTLAND (STORM DAMAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "ublic services? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that from a tour which I made of Glasgow yesterday it seemed to me that much of the damage was due to old property which may not have been properly maintained? If he has not the facts at the moment, will he find out to what extent that property was subject to rent control and, therefore, may not have had the right amount spent on it in maintenance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "At the outset may I ask the hon. Gentleman to convey our regrets to the right hon. Lady about her illness and wish her a speedy recovery? May I say that I have never heard a worse explanation for spending £70 million of public money than that which has just been given by the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the liabilities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "nister of State told me—rather arrogantly, I thought—to go away and read the Transport Bill. I had already read it. I acknowledge that it is difficult for a mere layman to understand the intricacies of Parliamentary drafting. However, I have that Bill in front of me. Clause 17 says that the Minister must by Order transfer to the Executive all municipal passenger transport undertakings in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1702.5", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"More than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "general I think I am right. We have in Scotland a company called MacBrayne Limited. That company serves a sparsely populated area of Scotland and it is impossible to do this economically. MacBrayne, a Scottish Company owning steamships and buses, could not provide transport to the west and north-west of Scotland as a private profit-making company. We pay an annual subsidy of about £300,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1702.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And Cunard.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "rovided from the Consolidated Fund. When the Conservative Party do it, that is all right. It is like the master of the house—if he goes off the rails it is all right, but if one of the servants does so it is not so good. It is, and always has been, the attitude of the party opposite. It is all right when they introduce the Highlands and Islands Shipping Services Bill and nationalise MacBrayne Ltd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1708.2", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "es a day because the services do not pay. The Tory Member for the area is protesting about closing the railways, but they do not pay either. Hon. Members opposite must make up their minds whether to think in terms of what sort of measures will lead to greater economies and efficiency, and to oppose measures which they think do not do so, or to oppose things just for the sake of being in Opposition", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1708.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "may declare an interest, for a period before I came here I was on the engineering side of road transport, and served my apprenticeship within that firm. I do not see that there is any possibility of that at all. On the general philosophy of it, it seems that, as was pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Dunbartonshire, East (Mr. Bence) it is necessary to be highly selective about subsidies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-16", "file": "debates1968-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "afaf92588c77f596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1730.1", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "TRANSPORT HOLDING COMPANY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the £100 million?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "s the cost of the ordinary shares held by British Electric Traction. The cost of buying outside shareholdings is additional, and I dealt with this on the question of the figure of £17 million to which reference has been made. It is important to remember that it is an upper limit. It does not necessarily follow that the Transport Holding Company will borrow all the £100 million within its lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-16a.1730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1761.5", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree with the hon. Member. There has been general agreement about certain parts of the Bill. The quality licensing, for example, has been very much welcomed by most of the industry, together with the exclusion of the light goods vehicles. There will be no extra penalties on Scottish transport organisations because of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1761.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1762.5", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": " will be adversely affected as against any other firm in the country. Scottish transport firms will be treated no differently from transport firms in any other part of the country. As to the question of numbers, there was a large number of representations from all over the country. The Questions asked for the representations from the Scottish organisations and this is a figure that we do not have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1762.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1776.5", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"After two years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The shame should be upon the Opposition. My right hon. Friend was trying every possible means to open these terminals, and eventually succeeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1776.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1783.0", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "RAILWAYS (ACCIDENT, HIXON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Transport (Mr. Stephen Swingler)", "preceding_text": "evel crossings. Mr. Gibbens will be assisted by two expert assessors, Mr. Granvil Berry and Brigadier Richard Gardiner. It would be wrong for me to make any statement until the inquiry has been held and Mr. Gibbens has made his report, but I know that the House will wish to join with me in expressing the deepest sympathy with the relatives of those who died and with those injured in this accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1782.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "pproaches, which have been canvassed in various quarters, would offer us no adequate Solution; third, the reasons for the particular cuts that we have proposed; and, fourth, the prospect ahead. First, the economic framework. The essence of devaluation is that, having failed, as we did, to get over the obstacle at the old parity, it enables us to go back and take a run at it. But, at the same time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1787.3", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "and new opportunities which it offers. Others have welcomed it too enthusiastically as a panacea which would make possible a retreat from the harsh realities of the world. The latter it most certainly is not. On the contrary, it leaves us with a most formidable task ahead. And if we fail this time to match up to this task, I see nothing but the most dismal and debilitating economic prospect ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1787.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. jenkins", "preceding_text": "I was referring—following the argument which is sometimes put —principally to private portfolio investments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1798.3", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Or for the year after that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "t reason why the level of public expenditure next year will still show an appreciable increase over this year. It is also a reason why no one who looks at the position rationally can believe that we could possibly have avoided civil cuts by making bigger defence cuts. Even if it had been right to attempt more, which I do not believe, it would have had no effect at all on the outlook for next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1798.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1799.6", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend leaves the question of defence cuts, which I applaud, along with very many hon. Members, at least on this side of the House, may I ask what plans the Government have for alternative forms of work for the defence workers who will be unemployed as a result.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1799.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " consumption. Even now, that cannot be seen with complete precision. It depends on how the economy develops in the next few weeks and on incomes policy. But that there will be a great deal to be done is certain. Whatever is necessary we propose to do. No one, contemplating our present very serious economic situation and looking over the vicissitudes of the British economy during the past 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1802.1", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "des of the British economy during the past 20 years—[HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There really are some hon. Gentlemen who seem completely incapable in any circumstances of rising above Ate most petty party politics. If anyone believes that we have not seen a series of economic crises extending back for several decades, a long period in which the fundamental weakness in our economy has not been dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "he House in the same vein as the Chancellor did. I had some argument at the time of the devaluation debate with the present Home Secretary about whether devaluation was or was not well prepared. I think that it is now clear, from the evidence that it has taken two months to produce this package, that it was ill-prepared. The package announced yesterday sent the £ down and equity shares roaring up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1805.3", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "here I agree, I will say so. Where I think the Government are wrong on balance, in a desperately difficult position—and I instance the school-leaving age, on which I know there are arguments on both sides, where I think the decision the Government have taken is wrong—I will say so. Where I think they are utterly and shamefully wrong, as in the 1971 withdrawal from Suez and the Gulf, I will say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1805.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ng entirely incomprehensible. I cannot trace, and nor in the limited time available to me have I been able to trace, and the Government Department concerned could not help me, any announcement of the Government's intention to accelerate. In fact, the £80 million saving is notional. It is an estimate of the amount which would have been saved if an announcement which has not been made had been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "50 million in the Gulf, but because their minds have been made up for them by the force of economic events which they were unable to control. So it is not out of political realism, but out of economic necessity that this change has come about. To call that courageous is like saying that a man who is pushed into a swimming pool and cannot swim is courageous if he fights to get out at the other end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "has to go to Whitehall, there is then a delay of six months before it can come on, and a further three months' delay before a Ministerial reply is received. Again, the most incredibly detailed expenditure on education has to go to Curzon Street and go through the mesh of the Department of Education and Science. If ever there was a case for devolution, I should have thought that it was now proved.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "e job of thinning out and reallocating duties should start straight away. I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this figure, but I know that the general point it makes is correct. If, in the Government service, we had saved on forms in the past three years as much as the industries of this country saved, we would have had 500 million fewer forms, used 4,000 tons less of paper, and saved £100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I know that the general point it makes is correct. If, in the Government service, we had saved on forms in the past three years as much as the industries of this country saved, we would have had 500 million fewer forms, used 4,000 tons less of paper, and saved £100 million. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite must keep their fire for their own side. I am sure that it will be better received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": " had 500 million fewer forms, used 4,000 tons less of paper, and saved £100 million. [ Interruption .] Hon. Gentlemen opposite must keep their fire for their own side. I am sure that it will be better received. [ Interruption .] The hon. Member for Lewisham West (Mr. Dickens) was not listening. I suggested that cuts should be made in the Phantom, and in the £600 million bill for the Civil Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1837.3", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would the Liberals have done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " and time again they have seen the helplessness of the Government to overcome events which were largely of their own economic creation. Nor do I think that they will get very much assistance from the Opposition. We do not know when the Opposition would have pulled out east of Suez. We are told that they would have honoured the 1975 commitment. We do not know how much longer they would have stayed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1842.1", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "elieve that we in this House can go item by item through the agonising examination of the cuts which the Cabinet has had to go through in its examination of each of the details of the reductions in the growth in public expenditure. Nor can we assess whether the total amount is right or wrong, though we may make our own judgments. We must assume that the Government have done their arithmetic right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": " cannot see any conclusion but that one to be drawn from what my hon. Friend said. This is a serious matter. There is not a shadow of doubt that among the electors the policies which are now to be implemented—not only amongst members of the Labour Party, but amongst the electors, including the electors in constituencies like mine—will, I do not say be welcomed, but they will certainly be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1845.3", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ance of payments, not to mention the large sterling balances which those countries keep in London. It is sometimes asked why we need soldiers to protect our commercial interests. Other countries, it is said, manage quite well to carry on trade without any bases. There are two explanations. The first is that, in the process of protecting our interests, we indirectly protect the interests of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1845.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1892.0", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The policy has changed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "of these aircraft will be based in Singapore. … We shall also keep some F111 s in Britain, partly for training, and partly in order to be able to rotate their air crews properly.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th March, 1966; Vol. 725, c. 1958 and 2041.] So it was an essential purchase, essential to enable Britain to fulfil the rôle upon which the party opposite had decided for the years ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1892.1", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Kipling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " it cannot buy that either. We are getting to a point where cancellation charges are forming a rising proportion of the defence expenditure of this country. In the light of this behaviour what sort of people are the other nations going to think we are? What sort of people are they going to think we are in the whole of that great area where once the power of Britain and India combined predominated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1896.0", "colnum": "1896", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1896.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1897.8", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "Mr. Sandys rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1897.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1897.10", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "owed his statement. When someone from behind him was talking about prescription charges, he retorted: We cannot get all that we need from defence savings.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th January, 1968; Vol. 756, c. 1605.] There speaks the authentic voice of the Labour Party: \"Let us get the whole of it from defence if possible\"—let us get the whole of it from the most essential part of public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1897.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-17", "file": "debates1968-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "11a428b4be2add3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1897.10", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "l, provided that defence is cut drastically and permanently.\" That is the spirit of the party opposite, as it has always been. The angry shade which haunts the party opposite can be placated If there are sufficient cuts in the country's defence capability. Now, as in the past, as in the inter-war years, the gods of the Labour Party are gods to be propitiated with the blood of the next generat ion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-17a.1897.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1924.6", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there are many in the House, and many more outside it, for whom the best exercise in public relations that his Department could conduct would be to reduce this and other expenditure drastically?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1924.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1930.2", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "In view of the very heavy burden the British people are being asked to bear as a result of the quite incredible incompetence and arrogance of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1940.7", "colnum": "1940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AEFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I cannot go back on a firm pledge given by the I.R.C. to the firms concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1940.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1941.6", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AEFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I think that this is probably one of the most difficult things that it has to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1948.3", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was co-ordinated yesterday by my right hon. Friend's statement. As far as the latter part of the right hon. Gentleman's question is concerned, obviously when we have got the country in a position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1949.4", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We announced to the House that we were going to evacuate Aden by the time that we did. It was our task to try to find somebody with whom we could negotiate, and who claimed to represent, and had the right to represent, far more of the people of Aden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1950.6", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "By carrying out the steps we did following U.D.I., we followed out not only the word of this Government but of the previous Government that we would not recognise U.D.I.; that we would have no dealings with them until they ended it, and fulfilled the six principles as a basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1950.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1952.5", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Smith has been buoyed up many times from doing what he knows to be the right thing, and even in going back on the right thing, by remarks made by hon. Members opposite, suggesting that there would be either a coalition or a change of Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1952.5", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Smith has been buoyed up many times from doing what he knows to be the right thing, and even in going back on the right thing, by remarks made by hon. Members opposite, suggesting that there would be either a coalition or a change of Government—[ Interruption .]—they always give him this idea. The hon. Gentleman is once again devoting himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1952.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1952.5", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " or a change of Government—[ Interruption .]—they always give him this idea. The hon. Gentleman is once again devoting himself—[ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman can wait just as we can wait so far as the political situation in this country is concerned. This House, which is democratically elected, can look after itself and so can the next Parliament. What we will not do, as I say, is negotiate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1952.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1955.6", "colnum": "1955", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call the Leader of the Opposition, may I make one serious observation? Some of yesterday's speeches were rather long. Today, apart from the Front Benches, there are still 65 right hon. and hon. Members wishing to speak, including many who sat all through yesterday's debate and including seven Privy Councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1955.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1956.1", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": ", but what was the first thing which the last Chancellor of the Exchequer did? He taxed the additional profitability, apart from having removed the export incentive and the premium. Immediately, therefore, the whole question of profitability is brought into account, and industrialists get the impression that, in fact, the Government do not want to encourage them to take part in an export-led boom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It was the present Government who were responsible in 1966. This is a legitimate field for Government intervention. The Government ought to do more, for example, about training centres. They ought to look at the whole of the organisation for training people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "l advantage of devaluation. I suggest that if he wants to get quick results he may need a temporary change in the development policy in the development districts, and allow a degree of expansion in those firms which can expand quickly and export, wherever they are in the country, and the necessary arrangements must go with that change. No one has fought harder for regional development than I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1962.1", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e had been more experienced, have taken more than he required in the reductions in Government spending and in the other ways so that he would have had a margin to give at the earliest possible moment the incentives which are essential. What the people fear from the right hon. Gentleman's speech yesterday is that, as far as they can see, there is no possibility of incentives for them in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.1", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I marvel at the way in which hon. Members opposite can so deceive themselves that the hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) can utter the phrase \"just for the rich\". Has he never talked to skilled craftsmen from the bench who are emigrating?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It means that he has hope for the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ht. If organisations are involved it can be handled only through management and trade unions. This is where the positive part of the Government's package is lacking. It has to be in training and incentives and examples by Government for management. It has to be by incentives and the fresh framework of industrial relations for the trade unions. I need not go into the details, but this is essential.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the right hon. Gentleman's party do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " taken the people cannot respond. The Chancellor himself said, and I emphasise, that a fresh framework was required. This is true. My criticism of him and of the Prime Minister is that they are doing nothing to provide that framework. The Government can set an example. Cutting Government expenditure is not the only part of the example. No one believes that central or local government is efficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "more effective work in what they are doing. There are very few examples which hon. Members can set in their own work. They can do it in their organisation. One of the few ways is in their own salaries. I have had many letters from up and down the country about this. I am sure that the Prime Minister must have had many since devaluation. They are deeply moving. I have had one which I want to quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "t in their own work. They can do it in their organisation. One of the few ways is in their own salaries. I have had many letters from up and down the country about this. I am sure that the Prime Minister must have had many since devaluation. They are deeply moving. I have had one which I want to quote—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, because it expresses the spirit of the people. It is from an old lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1968.0", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " of the few ways is in their own salaries. I have had many letters from up and down the country about this. I am sure that the Prime Minister must have had many since devaluation. They are deeply moving. I have had one which I want to quote—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, because it expresses the spirit of the people. It is from an old lady. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes. She says: I got this gold …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1969.0", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I do not see why hon. Members opposite should jeer. She says: I got this gold half sovereign as a keepsake many years ago from a dear friend, so as I have no near relations I am sending it to you, … I would like it to be used for the benefit of the country, as there has been \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1969.1", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is highly objectionable that hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1969.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1969.5", "colnum": "1969", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "by a wave of national restrictionism—a point which was made by the right hon. Gentleman. We need it also to be able to play a still fuller part not only in sustaining for this purpose existing international monetary agreements and institutions but also to develop new ones. Therefore, I think that there cannot be anywhere in the House any doubt or disagreement about the need for an assured surplus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o much direct investment cannot be afforded. Our restraints on domestic consumption, both public and private, are required to make room for industrial expansion and modernisation, for the full working out of the measures we have taken over the past three years to reorganise and restructure British industry, and speed the process of technical change. But I repeat that the restraints we are making —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n choosing between priorities. They have not been easy. The whole House will recognise the difficulties which I and all my colleagues feel about the decision to reimpose prescription charges, even with the full list of exemptions I gave in Tuesday's statement. What we decided—and this was the clear choice of priorities with which not all my hon. Friends agreed—was that it was still more important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n Tuesday's statement. What we decided—and this was the clear choice of priorities with which not all my hon. Friends agreed—was that it was still more important—[ Interruption .] At least, my hon. Friends in their resistance to this take much more seriously than hon. Gentlemen opposite, who are giggling about prescription charges, the real effect of these, which I do not for one moment underrate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "st—distressing to many of us in this House—in terms of the prescription charges scheme. Similarly, many right hon. and hon. Members on both sides have condemned the decision to postpone for two years the rise in the school-leaving age. Here again, this was a very difficult decision —indeed, as my right hon. Friends have made clear, a very repugnant decision. It was based on a choice of priorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "in present circumstances than the highly desirable new reform of raising the school-leaving age at the date previously fixed, is the maintenance of the fabric of the education programme, including the school building and other priority programmes. To suggest that education, through the contribution it is making to the restrictions in expenditure, is being cut back cannot be justified on the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hool-leaving age at the date previously fixed, is the maintenance of the fabric of the education programme, including the school building and other priority programmes. To suggest that education, through the contribution it is making to the restrictions in expenditure, is being cut back cannot be justified on the facts. [ Interruption .] I will give the House the facts. Between this year and next—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1975.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "man has just made. But, as I have said, let us not argue about it in the absence of all the figures that the experts can produce. I have suggested that he and his right hon. Friend should discuss the figures with my right hon. Friend. They have been checked and checked again. It is a waste of time to argue the matter now. I have given the invitation to discuss the matter with my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1979.1", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend. They have been checked and checked again. It is a waste of time to argue the matter now. I have given the invitation to discuss the matter with my right hon. Friend. [ Interruption .] Yesterday we asked the Opposition, if they disagreed with our cuts, to sug- gest theirs. This was the most concrete of what they suggested and we are telling them that their calculations were wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "w materials, the loss of the S.E.T. refund and export rebate, so that they could not seize the full opportunities and increase exports, and the full opportunities, which hon. Members opposite are missing in their arguments, of increased profits which are now possible because of the 14 per cent, change in exchange rates. Some of our manufacturers got down to the job the very weekend of devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Still only 6 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "re, particularly custom-built goods many of which require months of negotiations about design and specification and a much longer period of production, the effect on our exports will come a good deal later. But I have been encouraged, as I suspect many hon. Members and right hon. Members have been, by industrialists who have talked to me about new inquiries which they are getting post-devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " that all these are additions to cost and that there is nothing on the other side, but many firms now, having calculated that they are able to work at a higher level of capacity will have that as an offset on the other side of the calculation. Even at 6 per cent, there is a very valuable incentive with a chance of very much higher profits for those who take advantage of it. I have been encouraged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And more civil servants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ew years, could sell abroad. The Board of Trade with a series of services for exporters unparalleled at any time, including Export Intelligence, regional export offices and the services of B.N.E.C, highlighted now with the Action '68 Campaign, the help of the banks and other commercial institutions, and the chambers of commerce and all these supported by E.C.G.D. and our commercial offices abroad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "p, in the hope of easy and unearned profit due to what they regard as a sheltered home market, and in this situation there is nothing more damaging to the national interest. But the condition of remaining competitive in export markets and in the home market, the condition of not dissipating the opportunity given by devaluation, is a continued and indeed intensified restraint in prices and incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not say so in opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "any people are very concerned and it is the whole issue under any Government. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite failed to get a prices and incomes policy, and heaven knows that we have had enough difficulty with it, but the success of any Government in balancing our accounts overseas depends on getting a satisfactory prices and incomes policy and at least some hon. Members opposite might realise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1989.0", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a little more reassuring, if the right hon. Gentleman was talking about very small expansion programmes. If he is suggesting a major change in I.D.C. policy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1989.0", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West, to whom I listened entranced last night, as I am sure the House did. He did not say anything on policy, but I sympathise with his difficulties, as I admire his ingenuity, in covering up the embarrassment which he and his party face on defence matters by a speech consisting largely of quotations from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1991.2", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ases. There was the decision of the party opposite on the tripartite agreement. It has never been de-negotiated, but they said that it was no longer binding. As to Europe— I do not complain about this concerning the position in Europe—their solemn pledge was to keep 90,000-odd troops in Germany to the end of the century. They then negotiated it down to 55,000 and did not fulfil that. So it is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1991.2", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " yesterday tried to add up some kind of package of his own. I have dealt with part of it. We have had it costed as fully as possible. I hope that we shall get more details from the right hon. Gentleman, because, again, we re peat our invitation from the last General Election, when right hon. Members opposite promised to cut £800 million or something, to come and work out their proposals with ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1991.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that the Leader of the Liberal Party was pressing us in July to do what we are doing now and would feel in those circumstances that we were justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that the Leader of the Liberal Party was pressing us in July to do what we are doing now and would feel in those circumstances that we were justified. [ Interruption .] I said that I was not taking that kind of stuff from those kinds of hon. Members. Finally, I want to say a few more words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1995.0", "colnum": "1995", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " we are doing now and would feel in those circumstances that we were justified. [ Interruption .] I said that I was not taking that kind of stuff from those kinds of hon. Members. Finally, I want to say a few more words. [ Interruption .] I have given way a great deal. I have dealt with a large number of interruptions, otherwise I could have sat down a good deal earlier. I conclude by saying this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.1995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Asylums.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "e, he is diabolically clever. That is a very useful qualification in this Assembly. He is a politician who is gradually building up a reputation for himself. I contrast him with his right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West, who is a great authority on defence. He has been perambulating over a period of time, pandering to the squalid tastes of ultra-Tories in various institutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2021.1", "colnum": "2021", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "llion, 2,000 highly qualified staff and the expenditure of a capital sum of up to £75 million. That is well worth considering. Second, I suggest deferment of expenditure designed to facilitate the advance of comprehensive secondary education. That is a controversial subject into which I do not desire to enter, save to say that it is one on which opinion in the country as a whole is deeply divided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "much smaller than those of the Americans, as the Foreign Secretary knows very well the Americans welcome very much indeed our political presence there, because our political presence east of Suez has added considerably to the prospects of stability in that area. I remember so well the Prime Minister's much-publicised and much-quoted speech about confrontation eyeball to eyeball. He was dead right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2071.0", "colnum": "2071", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ss there is a massive restriction of home demand. I have pointed out that the holding back of the financial proposals will do great harm. I have tried to get some understanding about the damage done to Britain and Britain's reputation by this welshing on our commitments to so many parts of the world. The Prime Minister this afternoon was a man who obviously had realised that he has been found out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And will be again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "licies. Painful though those measures are, the fact is that we in Britain cannot continue to spend more than we are earning or can afford. To attempt to do so is to court disaster, not only for ourselves but also for our friends. Indeed, I would go further, because that path is the path of illusion for others and the path to bankruptcy for us. We have been freely charged today with breaking faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2076.0", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. George Brown)", "preceding_text": "lt to make and accept in a Government who believe in the right to education regardless of individual means and who believe that the healthy should take care of the sick. However, for reasons which my right hon. Friends have given, the cuts literally are unavoidable at the moment. Since 1964, we have tried every possible way of avoiding them. The position now is that we must face the facts of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " our own people. We simply must concentrate on those things which are of prime importance to us, remembering that our resources are limited. Ever since the war we have grappled with the problem of our balance of payments, and during the last six months other elements, such as the closure of the Suez Canal and the consequences of the Arab-Israel War, have presented us with a new economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2076.1", "colnum": "2076", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ve that it is also the wish of others of our prospective partners in Europe. There is a common interest, therefore, in Britain joining other countries of Western Europe to form a cohesive and influential Europe which can maintain a harmonious relationship with the United States, and which can play an important and constructive part in helping with the problems of world stability and world poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2076.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2078.4", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2079.0", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "eans that we could help in peace-keeping operations under United Nations auspices, and it would enable us to assist our remaining dependencies, our allies and our friends abroad. I would remind the House and the country, in the light of some exaggerations which have come from the other side of the House, that when these cuts become effective we shall still have a powerful Navy, Army and Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ime, I assure him. Since my right hon. Friend will be speaking next week I did not want to lose time in presenting the case that I want to deploy, which the House ought to hear in respect of this matter. I want to turn now to the Persian Gulf. Having thought about this as carefully as I can, I have come to the conclusion that the sooner the States in the area can look after themselves the better —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e commitments which we have here to our own people who look to us to create the conditions which lift life from mere existence, which can be grim and comfortless, to something with dignity and hope. We on this side believe that this is what politics is about. It is a question of priorities. The Labour Government of 1945 and 1951, and this Government since 1964, have scored tremendous achievements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "tremendous achievements—[ Interruption .]—in health, education, housing and social welfare. It is only because of compelling economic necessity that we have made the cuts we have. It is only because of grim economic facts that we are now postponing some cherished reforms. The overwhelming basic priority now is to ensure the economic health of the country. Once we have done that, we can go forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at we are now postponing some cherished reforms. The overwhelming basic priority now is to ensure the economic health of the country. Once we have done that, we can go forward—[ Interruption .]—and unless we do that we shall place in jeopardy all that we, as a movement, have fought for and achieved. The decisions embodied in the Prime Minister's statement of Tuesday were hard and painful to reach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2080.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I understand the views of both sides of the House. I understand those who have argued for this and for that. Today, the special pleading has to stop. Britain has to become strong by itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-18", "file": "debates1968-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "b6893e319332b736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2084.1", "colnum": "2084", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I understand the views of both sides of the House. I understand those who have argued for this and for that. Today, the special pleading has to stop. Britain has to become strong by itself—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"]—and hon. Gentlemen opposite must accept their responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-18a.2084.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-19", "file": "debates1968-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b3240a6b44cb803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-19a.2153.2", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "That can be done, with the consent of the Committee. Is it your pleasure that the two Schedules be considered together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-19a.2153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-19", "file": "debates1968-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "b3240a6b44cb803f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-19a.2171.1", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": " cannot believe that somebody has just thought up a new principle on which to expand that Schedule. What sort of precedents are we laying down here? In the future, on the basis of this Motion, are all Government-nominated directors of ordinary trading concerns, whether paid or not, to be disqualified from membership of this House? This is the proposition which the hon. Gentleman has put before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-19a.2171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-22", "file": "debates1968-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c52fee996f662b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-22a.45.4", "colnum": "45", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1967–68", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am very sorry to have to pursue the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-22a.45.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-22", "file": "debates1968-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "6c52fee996f662b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-22a.58.5", "colnum": "58", "heading": "CIVIL ESTIMATES, SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES 1967–68", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "al production, and the Board attributes the shortfall to the continued low level of industrial production compared to what it had estimated in its forward Estimates, which were, of course, made some considerable time ago when it seemed likely that there could be some upturn in the level of economic activity before the end of 1967. The House is well aware of the reasons why this has not come about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-22a.58.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.196.3", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I understood the hon. Gentleman to ask whether I would state them in answer to a supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.196.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.210.4", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S.S.R. (FINANCIAL AND PROPERTY CLAIMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The Agreement will be subject in due course to Parliamentary approval. If Parliament turns it down, that will be that. Our own judgment— and we are for the moment the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.210.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.210.6", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S.S.R. (FINANCIAL AND PROPERTY CLAIMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been much longer in my job than I have. He is therefore much better able to assess possible eventualities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In my right hon. Friend's original Answer to the Question, he informed the House that he had nothing more to say. Could he not have contented himself with that observation? In view of the economic plight in which we find ourselves and as there is a great deal of muddle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what my right hon. Friend says about muddle. I do not accept that he or I or any of us in the House can ignore what will happen in the next decade, much less ignore what will happen over the next two decades. This will certainly require that we develop a more integrated Europe. I believe that my right hon. Friend and I owe it to those to whom we are to hand over affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.218.7", "colnum": "218", "heading": "MAURITIUS (STATE OF EMERGENCY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Is the Commonwealth Secretary aware that those who have been critical of our east of Suez presence have always made it clear that some provision should be made in the way of a small residual presence, in Australia perhaps, for maintaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.218.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "But they will meet the more expensive crooks in the more expensive restaurants. I think that the intention is that they should meet together in a restaurant or hotel where, in the course of time, some arrangements of privacy can be laid on. I think that most restaurant owners near magistrates' courts are willing to undertake that sort of arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.299.2", "colnum": "299", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "rd a good deal, and, in a sense, I am glad that we have. During the Minister's speech, I collected one delightful phrase, which was that there would be a 20 per cent, advantage in business contact hours brought about by the Bill. That is a delightful expression which I should like to unbutton. I wonder what it means. Am I right in thinking that it means nothing other than advantage in telephoning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not telling me anything about agriculture or about Scotland. He is apparently very ignorant of Scotland. As his hon. Friend said, such work is already done in the dark in the north of Scotland, where darkness extends in the middle of winter from about ten in the morning to three in the afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "presentation from any organisation about the Bill. I do not think that many people in Scotland know that we are discussing it tonight. But I should like to know from the Government more definitely—I understand that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State said something about this—the opinions of the representative organisations in Scotland. Are they in favour of it? Are they clamouring for it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter (The Hartle-pools)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter (The Hartle-pools)", "preceding_text": "emporary experiment. There could be a suggestion of a three-year base, but, whatever base might have been useful as an experiment to enable us to make a proper assessment of the habits of people following the propositions in this Bill, I think that it might have been wiser to have done that. Having said that, I must tell the House that it is my intention to support the Second Reading of the Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": "nion in different quarters, one can say that, generally speaking, commerce and industry are in favour of the change. This certainly applies in Scotland as well as elsewhere. For example, the S.T.U.C. on the workers' side has expressed its support. So has the Scottish Council for Development and Industry and the Scottish division of the C.B.I. Thus, the balance is certainly in favour of the change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ve British Standard Time, Labour time or Greenwich Mean Time. There is no reason why it should be settled on a party basis. This is surely one of those occasions when the matter ought to be settled by the weight of the argument in the House. There is no doubt that so far there have been no really powerful speeches from the other side of the House, and certainly not from the Government Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "nal telephone calls. We are talking about firms which are in constant touch with Europe. This change would at once give them three hours of additional communication time. Before we vote on the Bill, it should be emphasised that industry, on the whole, is in favour of it. The Trades Union Congress has asked for it. The National Farmers' Union is in favour of it, whatever individual farmers may say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "time. Before we vote on the Bill, it should be emphasised that industry, on the whole, is in favour of it. The Trades Union Congress has asked for it. The National Farmers' Union is in favour of it, whatever individual farmers may say. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Yes; it has expressed that view not once but over and over again. The N.F.U. has said that there are disadvantages, but it is in favour of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": " is in favour of it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] I have correspondence which suggests that, while the National Farmers' Union does not like it, it feels that it would be preferable to the present system under which there is a biannual disruption of agricultural routine. I accept that there are many farmers who do not like the proposed change, but that is the official view of the National Fanners' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-23", "file": "debates1968-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "6a7bab1bcb658e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.363.3", "colnum": "363", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Yes, this applies to their wives as well. We must also accept that there is a substantial difference of opinion about agricultural workers and that, although the National Farmers' Union is not in favour of this proposal, and I must make that clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-23a.363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that there will be an extension of the ban only if the emergency is not over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.384.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.384.3", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "Is not the object of the ban to ensure in the long run that we do not get foot-and-mouth disease from imported meat again, if that circumstantial evidence is correct? In view of the very strong circumstantial evidence which exists in regard to Ireland and America, is three months the slightest use for this? Ought it not to be three years at least?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.384.4", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "That was a rhetorical question. My right hon. Friend decided at the time that the ban should be for three months. If it turns out that, because of emergencies, a longer ban is required, the decision will be reviewed. In the years before we took office there were many outbreaks and many opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.384.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.395.1", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "With due respect to politicians, can my hon. Friend tell us whether the farmers have requested that this Price Review should be published earlier than February?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.398.5", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "Obviously, transport charges are always important in this and every other industry and must be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.398.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is mistaken. I did not say that the inshore fleet had a good year. It was my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, West (Mr. James Johnson) who said that. But on the whole the inshore fleet has had a fairly good year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.400.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the Transport Bill, in spite of what he says, will cause quite unnecessary increases in the price of food? Will he also bear in mind that in my opinion this is the most ridiculous piece of legislation that has ever come before the House, and will he ask the Minister of Transport to withdraw it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.405.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ly important, and the Simonstown Agreement has now become an essential extension of the European security system in the N.A.T.O. Alliance. That means, and let us face it, co-ordination between the navies and the air forces of Portugal, which is a N.A.T.O. ally, and South Africa. I know the strong feelings and prejudices about South Africa, but I prefer the security of Britain to those prejudices.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I thought that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Vulgar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That sort of vulgar talk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "end of 1971 must be seen as part of the process of military withdrawal which has been going on for decades. As I said last Thursday, this is not a decision of principle but essentially one of timing. I say quite categorically that my right hon. Friend the Minister of State did not mislead the Gulf Rulers in November. He made it absolutely clear to them that we should not stay in the Gulf for ever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Exactly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman well knows, between the two dates we had decided to speed up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman well knows, between the two dates we had decided to speed up—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Exactly.\"]—to change the timing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "We did not reverse it. If we say that we have decided to revise the timetable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.439.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There is a good deal in what my hon. Friend says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "that Ernest Bevin used to speak for Britain. So long as the Foreign Secretary stuck to his brief it was all right, but his forays in the first quarter of an hour were disastrous. To adapt the words of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) on another occasion, I wish that more often the Foreign Secretary would try to behave like a Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman did not say it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "r of the Cabinet was the only one who, in honour, resigned. Not a single one of the other Ministers who have been in office for three years, pulling the country down, had the nerve to do such a thing. Those dreary men have betrayed the post-war ideals of the Commonwealth, of practical international co-operation with which Lord Attlee, Mr. Bevin and others gave us a lead in the years after the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.477.2", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Janner", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman say who first annexed any part of Jerusalem?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-24", "file": "debates1968-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "da8462330561af07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "preceding_text": "he dangers adumbrated—although I do not accept all the implications behind the remarks of the hon. Member for Leicester, North-West (Sir B. Janner)—would no longer exist. An agreement was possible, because the fact that both President Nasser and King Hussein had indicated a willingness to compromise and negotiate presented Israel with the best chance of reaching a settlement that she has ever had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-24a.487.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND INCOMES ACT, 1966", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rse, there is no Rhodesian Prime Minister. The right hon. Gentleman has lived on this legend long enough—[ Interruption. ] I have checked again what I said on that occasion. I said that I had published a Blue Book setting out everything that I said to the Rhodesian Prime Minister. I said that because he was Prime Minister until U.D.I. The right hon. Gentleman spent a lot of time explaining to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.580.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.608.10", "colnum": "608", "heading": "SCOTLAND (STORM DAMAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Are you aware that the statement of the Secretary of State for Scotland consumes nearly five pages and more than 1,000 words? Is it appropriate at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.608.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about our reserves?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "opean allies. In the Chieftain, our armoured regiments will have the most Powerful tank in the world. Our Army, though smaller than some other European armies, will be the only full-time professional army in the West, with a range of fighting experience gained World-wide without equal among our European allies. In the Chieftain, our armoured regiments will have the most powerful tank in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.624.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "them, not after renegotiation, but after the imposition of this decision, willy-nilly, whether they like it or not. Is that keeping faith with our allies? Profoundly it is not. After these statements, after these falsifications, the Secretary of State can no longer properly hold his office, because there is no reason why anyone, at home or abroad, should ever again believe one single word he says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.660.3", "colnum": "660", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ne say shout the Conservative alternative? I ask, because I suppose that one has to make a choice in tonight's vote. I have studied the speech made yesterday by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) and although it was, as all his speeches are, an excellent aid an honest speech, I could not find a vestige of an alternative foreign policy in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "preceding_text": "n of the whole of this area. We can argue about whether the Americans should bomb here or bomb there, or not this day or not until next month, or not at all. But the Americans drifted into this commitment for wholly honourable reasons after the 1954 Geneva settlement. They are not there for predatory, colonial purposes. They are there because they do not know what they can do as to how to get out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "There can be all sorts of arguments, and I do not wish to be drawn into them, about how the situation can be handled. I am not arguing that. The point I am making is that the American position is fundamentally honourable. It is time someone said so in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Sinclair", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They could go home.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Sinclair", "preceding_text": "y have said so publicly. Nor could the United States. It is already fully stretched, and would not be acceptable at present. Nor would Japan. No one need have any doubts about the sadness and anger against us and the distrust of us felt in Malaysia and Singapore as well as in Australia and New Zealand, which are both now fighting in Vietnam to prevent the progressive subversion of South-East Asia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.675.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "did not really mean it. The right hon. Gentleman, who so glibly and happily goes on television and refers to sheikhs in the Gulf who are prepared to offer us £25 million, then uses expressions like \"white slavers\" and \"mercenaries\". We are accustomed to his natural and apparently unconscious impoliteness and incivility, but people abroad expect something better, and they are entitled to expect it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.701.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is not worth more than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.721.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "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": " hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) and the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire can take part in the same debate and purport to put forward the same argument I do not understand. They know they are being dishonest, I know, and the country knows. As between the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire and myself, there is a deep difference, sincerely held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.722.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.726.7", "colnum": "726", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is simply not worthy of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.726.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-25", "file": "debates1968-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "78293f83f972334e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.726.7", "colnum": "726", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is simply not worthy of the right hon. Gentleman.[ Interruption .] I assure hon. Gentlemen opposite that I heard the right hon. Gentleman's speech the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-25a.726.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.758.3", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS REVIEW BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "nreasonable to recognise that there is a problem and to applaud the hon. Member for drawing attention to that problem, but to disagree with the methods he proposes because I do not believe that they go far enough, but he is absolutely right to draw attention to the problem. The more of us who can bring pressure on the Government to bring forward permanent legislation the better I shall be pleased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.758.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.771.0", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS REVIEW BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is now about 10 minutes since we have had a Treasury spokesman present. It seems both discourteous to the House and yourself, Mr. Speaker, and particularly the hon. Gentleman who is addressing the House, that his voice should not be heard by the Minister who is intended to be here to hear the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS REVIEW BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "the Government are not ready. In addition, because of the country's economic difficulties, there may well be problems of resources. I do not know, but I suppose that that may be used as an explanation. In that case, and more especially in the light of devaluation and its effect on living costs, the case for having a interim Pensions (Increase) Bill fairly soon is surely strong. May I say, finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS REVIEW BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "or Worthing (Mr. Higgins) pointed out, a body with power to do anything, not a body which would provide any automatic increase, even if it recommended it; that would still be left to the Government and the House. However well intentioned, the hon. Gentleman's proposal is to reproduce in public activity a body which already exists in government and which constantly keep this situation under review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.793.2", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS REVIEW BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "It depends which area we are dealing with. I am not saying that a Government should not, in certain circumstances, attempt to get facts which are not known. I am speaking of this particular Bill. Its effect would be to gather facts already known and express opinions that we have heard from many quarters and are hearing from many quarters all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.793.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.837.5", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS REVIEW BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is a half moral?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "That partly meets the point made by the Opposition themselves. If pensions have been submitted to the Prices and Incomes Board, the Government will be half morally bound to honour the recommendations of the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.837.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.843.8", "colnum": "843", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (GOODS AND SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [15th December].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.843.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-26", "file": "debates1968-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "a81804fae54de08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.843.12", "colnum": "843", "heading": "GAMING ESTABLISHMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-26a.843.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "But does that Answer mean that as a matter of policy there will be no wines from South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From Cyprus?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "But does that Answer mean that as a matter of policy there will be no wines from South Africa—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—and does it really mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russian vodka?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "But does that Answer mean that as a matter of policy there will be no wines from South Africa—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—and does it really mean—[HON. MEMBERS: \"From Cyprus?\"]—that whether we can buy Cyprus or South African or other Commonwealth wines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "t of Whitehall despots—Ministers or officials, expert, scientific and commercial—who can run the country like a business. That is a very dangerous line of thought. I do not want a streamlined machinery of government which will be an instrument for the exercise of power by—admittedly—a new Prime Minister with perhaps the Leader of the House, Sir Paul Chambers, Lord Robens and Sir William Armstrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "I welcome the prospect of this debate because, not being a violently party partisan personality myself, I had hoped that we would be enriched by some carefully thought out and well considered criticisms by the Opposition on the rôle and structure of the Civil Service and Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "ce—I am disappointed that I have not heard any well thought out criticisms of the structure of Government. I have heard a great many meaningless and empty generalisations, and a great many undocumented thoughts well tailored to general prejudice but bearing little relation to the current need for a thoughtful appraisal of the structure and rôle of modern Government and of the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "constantly evolving technical improvements in the administration of the work allotted to it. The Government take full responsibility for assigning policies to the Civil Service, and it is clear that the more policies we assign the more civil servants will be required. But any talk of cost efficiency and the like is not the task of the Government. It is undertaken continuously in the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "n done but through simple inference from the numbers that we have in the Civil Service to-day and the volume of work that has been cast upon them not only by the present Government but by successive Governments. The fact that today we have a smaller proportion of the working population engaged in the Civil Service than we had in 1951 is testimony to the increased productivity of the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ny Government in those circumstances there was from 1959 onwards a steady and sustained increase in the Civil Service occurring under the Conservative Government during the period in which we never had it so good. This is not surprising because standards were rising between 1959 and 1964. One of the aspects of rising standards, as I pointed out, is a rise in the public services which are provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.916.0", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "of spending 50 per cent, of his time in filling in forms, must spend 55 per cent, of his time in doing it. No one has ever thought of considering what is necessary. I should not like to set myself up as an expert on what is and what is not necessary, but I am sure that it cannot be right for the accident prevention officer to spend more than half his time in filling up forms. On investment grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.916.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.918.1", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "ndreds of miles from the place in which the investment grant is claimed, why should a director have to sign the claim? Surely all that is necessary is that the man on the spot who put the claim in hand should sign it. The chairman of an eminent company has said that he signed a claim for 13s. 4d. He reckoned that the overhead expenses involved in making the claim must have run into several pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.923.4", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I hope the House will understand that that point of order has meant that the Official Reporters have had to occupy time taking a note of what has been said by the hon. Gentleman. All this wastes time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.923.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And generals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " abandon our defence. I understand the genuine and basic principles of many of my hon. Friends and, of course, I do not doubt their integrity and sincerity, but I have never taken the view that we should abandon the Navy. But what does it mean if we do not reduce the numbers? It will mean more naval men and more admirals—and I almost forgot to ask why we should not get rid of some of the admirals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.926.4", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ng about too many statistics, too many forms. No doubt there are forms which emerge from the Inland Revenue, and I get too many of them, I know, but what should we do without them? There may be a case—I concede this—for some reduction in the Civil Service. Let us have more computers and fewer civil servants, more mechanism, more mechanical aids. That might help, but why condemn the civil servants?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.926.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": ". In effect the number of civil servants depends on policy. We have been attacked by hon. Members opposite who have suggested that the activities of the Parliamentary Commissioner have not been wide-ranging enough. That appointment has involved the employment of hundreds of civil servants, but their proposals for his appointment would increase the number to thousands. There is no question of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.945.3", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coe", "preceding_text": "power. For this reason I am glad that we have had an increase in the number of civil servants. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that he was afraid there was a growing gap between the electorate and the Government. Hon. Members opposite have asked why public relations officers should be appointed to various Ministries. I believe this is one of the sensible things this Government should do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.945.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.953.4", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "stance we could give them. I find that there is a constant complaint, and one that I think is very fair, from leading exporters, many of whom have to spend more than three months a year in other countries, and that is that they are not allowed to take their wives with them—unless entirely at their own expense. Yet they read not once but many times that the Foreign Secretary's wife accompanies him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.953.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "ve already said that we have the finest civil servants in the world, particularly at the highest levels. Why, then, did we have to co-opt foreigners to reorganise our most important economic systems? It must have been most galling for our senior civil servants to work under Messrs. Balogh and Kaldor, whose previous work in other parts of the world had proved so disastrous, and who here in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " is also a good system in each Department, at least in the Scottish Office, for checking staff. Perhaps the whole thing should be looked at again, however. I think that all would agree that that should be done and I think that the Treasury would accept it. But the Motion is nonsense, as are the speeches today from the benches opposite. They are simply a Tory effort to cash in on something popular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.959.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cross over.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary referred to \"phoney liberalism\". I hope that I shall be able to prove to him that I am not in that company, although I apologise to him for the company that one has to keep sometimes, speaking from this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"8 per cent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " is the sort of unproductive work which generates frustration and disillusion. These distinctions are utterly without reason. They make no economic sense let alone complying with any discernible principle. It is bureaucracy gone mad. Because the Selective Employment Tax requires payment and repayment, any delay in granting repayment, especially with a 10 per cent. Bank Rate, causes great hardship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "icy is only tolerable, if it is accompanied by elaborate reliefs, exclusion and exceptions, with complicated appeals procedures and so on, then that is a powerful reason for not accepting the policy at all. However effective the methods may be and however wise the measures, in the end they are of little avail if the men in power do not recognise the need for reducing bureaucracy. The men in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "preceding_text": "by both the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) and the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Patrick Jenkin). They boasted, \"Why, during the 13 years when we were in power we actually reduced the Civil Service by 11,000.\" So they did. But if these are to be the tests, the palm must be given to the post-war Labour Government, because they reduced the Civil Service by 70,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "preceding_text": "d and Woodford (Mr. Patrick Jenkin). They boasted, \"Why, during the 13 years when we were in power we actually reduced the Civil Service by 11,000.\" So they did. But if these are to be the tests, the palm must be given to the post-war Labour Government, because they reduced the Civil Service by 70,000—[ Interruption. ]—the reduction was from 496,000 to 426,000. But, of course, it is a false point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Land Commission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "preceding_text": " ]—the reduction was from 496,000 to 426,000. But, of course, it is a false point—[ Interruption. ]—and so is the argument that has been advanced this evening, as I shall show. It is a false point because, during that period, what was happening was that the system of wartime controls was being dismantled, and the civil servants who had been required to carry out those controls were being released—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Parkinson's Law.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Niall MacDennot)", "preceding_text": "hon. Members opposite fell from power. What is interesting when one analyses the figures to see how they came about is that relatively little of those increases was due to the introduction of new policies. The great majority of them were what I could call natural growth, the natural growth of the Civil Service which results from an increase in the work load in order to implement existing policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the S.E.T.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "on to making the level of the levy contemptibly small, do the Opposition intend to abolish all the powers of land acquisition which can make it effective? We all know that one of the reasons for the failure of the old development charge system was that the land acquisition powers of the Central Land Board were wholly inadequate, a deficiency which we have now rectified through the Land Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GROWTH OF BUREAUCRACY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the machinery of Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": " development charge system was that the land acquisition powers of the Central Land Board were wholly inadequate, a deficiency which we have now rectified through the Land Commission. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the S.E.T.?\"] I thought that hon. Members opposite would want to get off this subject. I have five minutes left. If they want me to talk about the S.E.T., very well. Let us switch to taxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Clause 97.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "preceding_text": "ve any formal training. In the agriculture industry, therefore, we recognise that training is essential. Moreover, as the future pattern will see—as it has in recent years—a diminishing labour force in the industry, it is more than ever essential that those who are retained are highly skilled personnel. The Board was not foisted on the industry. It was amply discussed at county and national level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Clause 97.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hazell", "preceding_text": "n a ballot taken by the National Farmers' Union and the further suggestion that when a farmer receives his demand for the levy of £6 a worker he should post it to the secretary of his N.F.U. branch, stating that he never associated himself with the scheme the N.F.U. is reported as stating: The Union received an overwhelming man date from county branches for the principle of establishing a board\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-29", "file": "debates1968-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "7744e5f2540b683e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Clause 97.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ficult to organise training. The hon. Gentleman knows better than I do that there are in the industry 330,000 employees, 140,000 establishments, 46,000 establishments with only one employee and 130,000 establishments with less than five workers. It was inconceivable that the Board could operate were it to exclude from its provisions the small farmers. If they were not in, virtually no one was in——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-29a.1048.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1076.5", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "This is the formula which the Government used about Gibraltar in the early stages. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that it is unsatisfactory? Will he give a categorical assurance that the people of this Colony will not be transferred to alien sovereignty against their will?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1076.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "not, is he satisfied that no further troops will he required? Secondly, as he is engaged in constitutional talks with the Mauritius Government—and, therefore, I would not ask him to give a categorical answer now—will he bear in mind the dangers of the island going into independence with a state of emergency and with communal disorders still continuing? Will he, therefore, consider the possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that a very reprehensible comment to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that a very reprehensible comment to make. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I hope that no one in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1089.2", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aden?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer is that we are responsible for the situation in Rhodesia and no Government in this country since the very beginning of this century has conferred self-government except on the basis of majority rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1089.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WINTER SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "e by another £600 million to £6,000 million, and this year they rose by no less than £1,700 million compared with last year. In addition, look at the history of the Winter Supplementary Estimates. In 1964–65 they were £60 million, and in 1965–66 they were £149 million. Last year they were £159 million, and now they have risen to £351 million, the highest Supplementary Estimates ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WINTER SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, East (Mr. Bence), of whom I am very fond—he is one of my best friends in the House—is rather like the Government's expenditure. When he gets up to make a speech it rolls on and on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "e was a new fresh primary outbreak anywhere else in the country. This could happen if the right hon. Gentleman relaxed the ban too soon. The right hon. Gentleman has said that he will keep the ban on for three months from the time that he made the announcement, and that would be until 4th March. I am pressing as hard as I can to keep this ban in being until the results of the inquiry are received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": "ch was so high and which was so concentrated on the points at issue. Every hon. Member who has participated in the debate has sought to be constructive and to waste as little time as possible. I shall endeavour to follow suit. On behalf of myself and of my right hon. and hon. Friends, I want to say how much we appreciate the fact that the Minister has made the effort to be present with us tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1188.5", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shoddy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": " Minister says that no other Governments have done this before, but he will realise that no other Governments have been faced with such a virulent epidemic before. The right hon. Gentleman makes a point about his pledge. In hearing him, I cannot help feeling that he has been away from the House for a week or two, because during that time we have heard from the Government of various broken pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-30", "file": "debates1968-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "83a61404e54a3277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "essing me at all, but of the policy I announced to the House. I announced this temporary ban—and it was a temporary ban—and I said that it could be reviewed again. I mentioned a period of three months. It was announced as a temporary ban, and it was accepted. This is known outside the House—there is no question of hiding anything. But hon. Members now say that they want me to have a permanent ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-30a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1321.0", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Ministerial responsibility here is. not mine, but special arrangements have been made to bring into close consultation for advice the Economic Planning Council and, through me, the Minister of Power. This is being done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1321.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Is the Under-Secretary aware, subject to his answer, that there may be differences of opinion in Scottish education circles about the school leaving age but that there is no difference of opinion about comprehensive education?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1355.0", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "TRADE UNION COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It was not yesterday.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "nts to pay for that little lot. This permanent commission is an unnecessary growth of bureaucracy. The Opposition complained ferociously yesterday, and the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) at 10 o'clock led his battered and bleeding troops—and my hon. Friends can be selective about the adjectives—through the Division Lobby to complain about the continued growth of bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it not in the first Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "s Ways and Means Resolution, approved, if I recall aright, without discussion by the House. The new Bill, if the House is so minded. will re-enact every provision in the old Bill. The only difference will be that one Clause will be added, namely, a Clause permitting the Government, by Treasury Order under the affirmative Resolution procedure, to bring back the rebate if they think it is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it not thought possible then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "l be added, namely, a Clause permitting the Government, by Treasury Order under the affirmative Resolution procedure, to bring back the rebate if they think it is necessary. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it not in the first Bill?\"] The position is perfectly clear. When the first Bill was proposed, no one envisaged any possibility that it would be in our interest to bring back the export rebate scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1499.3", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Kimball", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Kimball", "preceding_text": " we shall vote against this Prayer tonight. I welcome the opportunity to vote against it for the reasons that it is too elaborate a scheme and it is too expensive for an industry which is being depressed by the complete failure of the present Minister of Agriculture to re-think policies and support price policies in line with the changed economic Position in which the industry finds itself today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1499.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-01-31", "file": "debates1968-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "d44d3975c0123d6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1504.1", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": " and proud of it for a long time, but on this issue they have made a mistake and have failed to consult county branches and their members adequately. In these consultations, other matters like foot-and-mouth disease may have engaged their attention, but the advice which they have given the Government on this occasion has been bad advice, which is one reason why the Minister has been here tonight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-01-31a.1504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1539.6", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend think that there would have been any complaint from the Opposition if this had been a Conservative headmaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1539.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If, as I believe, this matter must be settled by negotiation, surely the job of the Commonwealth Secretary is to see how the points raised by Mr. Smith can be negotiated in the context of the five principles, and that as the British Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1550.4", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that if Chief Superintendent Butler had shown a spirit of defeatism in condoning illegality similar to that evinced by hon. Members opposite —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1551.5", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "is the Prime Minister aware, as I am sure he is, that many British exporters have had to raise their prices very substantially since devaluation due to the increase in Corporation Tax, Selective Employment Tax, freight rates, Bank Rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1566.3", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I agree that on important issues a statement to the House, followed by questions and answers, is preferable to dealing with them by Written Answers, but there are times when replies are so technical that the House would become impatient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " limits and under more direct Parliamentary control than has been the case hitherto. So much for the machinery and Parliamentary aspects of the Measure. I will now briefly set the Bill in its wider economic context. Some hon. Members may sincerely believe that the best thing that Government can do is to minimise their relations with industry and allow market forces to operate as freely as possible", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the money going?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e debate I was amazed to find that retained earnings of industry between 1965 and 1966 were halved as a result of the 1965 Finance Act, a reduction of several hundreds of millions of pounds. The 1967 comparison may show an improvement, but this example shows the damage which the Government are doing through their general fiscal policies, damage which in part they are seeking to repair by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1599.1", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "any Government to give or lend taxpayers' money, without proper Parliamentary scrutiny, to any projects for reasons that may be no more than the whim or worse of a Minister or the Government. By worse I mean anything from the most sincere belief of Ministers to the merest Parliamentary or political gerrymandering and lobbying. This is a Bill which opens the door to the possibilities of corruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1599.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1600.1", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "supply money for the aircraft industry? Why, because it is beyond the aircraft industry, does corruption enter in, or is he suggesting that the possibility of corruption has already existed in the aircraft industry? Would he explain why corruption could not equally enter in with large sums of research and development money? Is this really the right way to develop a political objection to the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I will come to that in a moment. This Bill could mean the green light for another Groundnuts scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " a number of calls on that borrowing requirement now. Would the Secretary of State tell us how the money to be spent under the Bill fits into, as we hope it does, the assurance of £1,000 million as the ceiling given to M. Schweitzer in the Letter of Intent? Apart from the individual projects—Cunard, Concorde, N.R.D.C., Beagle and shipbuilding on which I am not pretending to make detailed comments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "we hope it does, the assurance of £1,000 million as the ceiling given to M. Schweitzer in the Letter of Intent? Apart from the individual projects—Cunard, Concorde, N.R.D.C., Beagle and shipbuilding on which I am not pretending to make detailed comments—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]This is not the Committee stage. We are discussing the principles of the Bill. The Bill will probably do some good somewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1618.2", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "ve way to suit the needs of a particular industry. Who will get the rewards? To my mind this is the key to the Bill. Paradoxically, this Measure will protect the small man, and the medium-sized firm. I shall develop this theme in a moment. Perhaps I might paraphrase Shaw's well-known expression and apply it to industry and technology: Those who can, do. Those who cannot, become financial advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1618.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1654.1", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I am not acquainted with the details of the dry dock that the Minister mentions and I may in that particular instance be in the wrong. I do not know. However, I should like to quote one example from this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1654.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And Concorde.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": " give. So we are left with the profitable aspect. Although it has been suggested that the Bill has specialised objectives— the hon. Member for Govan suggested that it had a strong bearing on aerospace —this is nonsense. There is no necessity for the Bill if the only considerations are aerospace or defence objectives. The Minister particularly referred, for instance, to the machine tool industry ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "t to ignore this aspect. While it is true that public money successfully invested in projects to the national advantage will benefit the whole community it is also true that as a consequence in these cases substantial rewards will accrue to equity owners. It would be wrong for the Government, depending of course on the particular circumstances, not to get the best possible return for the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1689.1", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "from my earlier remarks. I envisage a situation in which an industry board would be the agency through which Government assistance should be given. It is very difficult indeed to see how the I.R.C. could be adapted to this purpose. I turn now to what I consider to be in many ways the most important of the many objections that have been raised to the Bill. This is the fear of unfair discrimination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-01", "file": "debates1968-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "f9c508a581901a4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1700.2", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By leave of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "This is really a matter involving the business of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-01a.1700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ccountable to Parliament and it would be singularly dangerous to extract funds for medical, welfare and charitable purposes from any State lottery by this means. Every one of the 630 Members of the House could, I presume, go to the National Lottery Board and say, \"I have a medical research unit in my constituency which urgently needs funds. Please may I have some money from the National Lottery?\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "\"—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"] Because there are tens of thousands of worthy causes in this country and this cabal will sit in judgment to decide who should have the money, why they should and how much they should have. And they will be entirely bereft of Parliamentary accountability. Whenever I write to a member of a nationalised board about a public matter he may tell me to mind my own business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e, because there are as many Socialists—the hon. Gentleman, who has only been here a year or two, may not yet have ascertained this—who feel far more strongly than I about the inaccessibility of nationalised boards, and about the fact that they are laws unto themselves and will not account to Members of Parliament for what they do, and that we have no Parliamentary time to debate their activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rtained this—who feel far more strongly than I about the inaccessibility of nationalised boards, and about the fact that they are laws unto themselves and will not account to Members of Parliament for what they do, and that we have no Parliamentary time to debate their activities—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member may jibe at me, but I note that many of his colleagues are warmly supporting my view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1728.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1741.7", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must listen to what I have said. He is in order in arguing that the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) is taking an inconsistent position if he objects to national lotteries when company promotion has something of the same nature, but he must withdraw the personally offensive argument that has nothing to do with the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1741.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL LOTTERY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And Conservative clubs——", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "f about £200 million a year gross. Nevertheless, the amount that could be raised in this way could be a useful contribution. It might be thought that, in a country which spends between £1,500 million and £2,000 million a year on gambling—exact figures are difficult to obtain—on horse racing, dog racing, pools, bingo and one-armed bandits—the latter being the salvation of most working men's clubs——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1769.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-02", "file": "debates1968-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "e349b83e42a0b11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1809.22", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMING ESTABLISHMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-02a.1809.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-05", "file": "debates1968-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "666d1a5b95f6640a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "G.E.C./A.E.I. MERGER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "nounce its plans to the trade unions concerned at the same time as it announces them to the Government. Whether that is the right policy is a matter which we are discussing with them. As for referring closures of this kind to the Regional Economic Planning Council, we certainly could not refer what are commercial decisions to the Council for it to decide whether they were in the regional interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-05", "file": "debates1968-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "666d1a5b95f6640a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.107.3", "colnum": "107", "heading": "SACHSENHAUSEN", "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": " does not have it, that is a very severe mark against him. If, having got it, he does not take it aboard, that is an even severer mark against him, and I reject completely the Parliamentary Commissioner's allegation that officials did not submit the evidence that Ministers right up to and including me should have had. I want to say something else, and I think that the House had better accept this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-05", "file": "debates1968-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "666d1a5b95f6640a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "SACHSENHAUSEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why establish the office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. The hon. Gentleman must read the Report. This is one thing I am trying to get at, and one of the things I want the House to consider is that the Parliamentary Commissioner was set up as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration. He cannot, therefore, deal with Ministers; he can deal only with officials. I think that this is bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-05", "file": "debates1968-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "666d1a5b95f6640a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.113.2", "colnum": "113", "heading": "SACHSENHAUSEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Those were his terms of reference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " has been in any of these discussions knows that I have made it absolutely plain that the gallantry of these men has never been at issue. What the Parliamentary Commissioner has not found is that the conditions of these men, bad as they were, were as bad as those suffered by many other gallant men in many other German camps. The Parliamentary Commissioner concentrated exclusively on Sachsenhausen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-05", "file": "debates1968-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "666d1a5b95f6640a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.115.8", "colnum": "115", "heading": "SACHSENHAUSEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why appoint him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "hall be surprised. However, all the Ministers who have looked at this quite separately have come to one conclusion and the Parliamentary Commissioner has come to another. I repeat that no one has ever disputed that this was a borderline case. I am bound to say that I do not see any reason for thinking that the judgment of the Parliamentary Commissioner is necessarily better than that of all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.115.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-05", "file": "debates1968-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "666d1a5b95f6640a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "SACHSENHAUSEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I thought that that was what the hon. Member meant. There is no difficulty about this. I made it plain and gave my own judgment that I thought that the Parliamentary Commissioner was wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-05a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-06", "file": "debates1968-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "dc3701ec9188adca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-06a.231.8", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "As I am sure the Prime Minister would agree, no Government lasts for ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-06a.231.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-06", "file": "debates1968-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "dc3701ec9188adca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-06a.232.5", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The first point is that I have had no communication at all from the Prime Minister of South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-06a.232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-06", "file": "debates1968-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "dc3701ec9188adca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-06a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is not the Prime Minister aware that our good friends in South Africa —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-06a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman recollect what I said in Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.378.4", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "The intention was not to drive anyone out of anywhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.380.3", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "We are determined that when the upturn in the economy comes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.380.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Whose fault is that?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that Hawker Siddeley, which is soon to cease making Buccaneers at its plant near Hull—which means that 1,000 men will be unemployed there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.430.3", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STORM DAMAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being a little simple. We know that the gale was the basic cause, but was it the gale plus lack of maintenance or the gale plus the method of construction, or was it that, in some parts of the city, the wind blew harder than in others—in other words, a meteorological problem? I do not want to inject into the debate a party political note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.430.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STORM DAMAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " maintained. The Secretary of State made a very interesting remark, that there was no discrimination in favour or against the rich or the poor in the way that the damage was caused. All I can say, as a layman going around my constituency, is that this did not seem to be so. There seemed to be a prima facie relationship between dangerous damage and the rent restrictions, because in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STORM DAMAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "I am not certain how it is entirely different. I am talking about the expense faced by local authorities as a result of disaster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "LABELLING OF FOOD REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Design, whose members told me that they have written to the Minister expressing their views that this part of the Regulations will be difficult to operate and will inhibit design. They asked the Minister to reconsider it. The Society of Industrial Artists and Designers told me that at no time in the consideration of the Regulations was the Society asked to give its views. I think that regrettable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "LABELLING OF FOOD REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "ge, part of what is provided for in the Regulations having come into operation already, to expect the Minister to withdraw the Regulations. That might be a good point for the Opposition to make, but it is not a responsible point of view to take at this moment. It would be helpful, however, if the Minister would as an interim measure decide to drop out Regulation No. 17(2, b ), if this is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "LABELLING OF FOOD REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": " name. People still hardly know what is inside. They only know there is no cascara in it. I suppose there could be some element of doubt about it. I am intrigued by paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 4, on page 32: Any declaration required or permitted by regulation 11(4) or (5) shall appear in dark coloured characters upon a light coloured ground or light coloured characters upon a dark coloured ground\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "LABELLING OF FOOD REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The whole thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "in any word of more than one letter appearing on any label on the container. That is very involved, but I think that the meaning is understood. The people affected feel that this puts an unreasonable and unnecessary restriction on those providing and designing labels. We must consider the effect of this Regulation on manufacturers and the attitude of consumers, as hon. Members opposite have done.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "LABELLING OF FOOD REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Open it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ember for Wood Green, although I was surprised that she said that the effect of this change would not be as great as had been estimated. She is entitled to her view, but I would have thought—considering the extent and variety of these proposals—that this estimate is reasonable. I will give only one small example of the effect this change is likely to have. I hold a package of a well-known product—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "LABELLING OF FOOD REGULATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Hoy)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Hoy)", "preceding_text": " Regulations. In deciding that we have to strike a balance between what is desirable and what is practicable. It is clearly impossible to make labelling Regulations of this kind without involving changes in existing labels. I do not dissent from what the right hon. Gentleman said about that, although I think the amount of label changing these Regulations will involve has been severely exaggerated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-07", "file": "debates1968-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "cffee32d56a20341", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is a question not of the substantive Act not being passed but of the date on which this must apply to a category of institutions. The difficulty is that if a date is set, as it can only be set, when all the negotiations are completed for all institutions in that category, one would be holding up all the earlier institutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-07a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That is a rather different question. As the hon. Gentleman knows, I am very anxious to get the ships out of the Canal and am active in my efforts to do so. But I do not think a visit by my right hon. Friend, as suggested by the hon. Member, is necessarily the way to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.657.8", "colnum": "657", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "I notice that my right hon. Friend has not allocated an additional day for the Estimates Committee Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.657.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "As the Leader of the Opposition no longer wishes to press his Motion on Vietnam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "nd the Chief Secretary said that the premium would be acceptable to manufacturers. I should think it would. I cannot think of many people who would not find it acceptable to be given 7s. 6d. a head per employee each week. I should be delighted if he would offer it to me in respect of the employees in my concern. He has not made that suggestion, but I can assure him that I would find it acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Richard Wainwright) said that eight speakers had been opposed to the Bill. I gather that he was the ninth. I wish to dissociate myself from the other nine, to support the Bill and say that I intend to vote for the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman made an eloquent defence. If I possessed the Prime Minister's elephantine memory for columns and dates, I could have used his speech in defence of the Government's policy. At all events, he has now come to the point of view which I then propounded. If I might again try my hand at a quotation, there is more \"joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth\" than ten righteous men.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ninety-nine.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "ed his speech in defence of the Government's policy. At all events, he has now come to the point of view which I then propounded. If I might again try my hand at a quotation, there is more \"joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth\" than ten righteous men.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I have got it wrong, have I? I understood the quotation was a proportion of one repentant sinner to ten righteous men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "rst answer is that it is not possible to debate hypothetically whether an Order we have not yet laid before the House is lawful or not. This cannot be a very profitable debate. The second answer, which may satisfy the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Gentleman more than the first, is that it is entirely lawful under this provision. It is possible, of course, that it could be unlawfully exercised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-08", "file": "debates1968-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "c628b01101fdfa0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " M6 into the heart of Liverpool, for instance. The answer is that the Government are endeavouring to assist the regions and to improve employment in the regions. I have great sympathy with those of my hon. Friends—there were many of them—who complained about the grey areas. I beg them to believe that the difficulties of the grey areas do not and cannot spring from the Government's regional policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-08a.782.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I ask the hon. Gentleman to await the publication of the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ction leaves a balance in this £70 million, and before we accept vague assurances that the Government have their eyes on the buses of Glasgow Corporation or anyone else, we want to hear more specific proposals. Again and again, Ministers get bored with these protests, but I believe that the Committee would be totally wrong to allow Governments to go forward with proposals made in this sloppy way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "ANHON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member says that he would not be bothered about buying up bus companies, I do not know whether he knows the geography of Scotland and where the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which market?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "This is the same point. We obviously disagree on the question of physical assets. I do not see us getting agreement on it tonight. We believe that physical assets are not involved. The money is coming from the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " has given us many headaches because it is losing a great deal of public money. The hon. Member for Tavistock has naively put forward the suggestion that we should sit silent, unconscious of our responsibility to the public interest, while hon. Gentlemen opposite get away with denationalising the profitable section. They are always challenging us on this issue. Nevertheless, we are good democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1012.2", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "That confirms what I am saying. I quite prepared for hon. Members to draw their own conclusions. I am not trying to ram anything down their throats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "g. Anyone setting up here as a politician and making polemical speeches must take a knock on matters of principle. The principle here is that in Britain, as in almost every other advanced country with a mixed economy, partly private sector and partly Government controlled, the two halves are gradually being dovetailed as industry becomes more and more rationalised. I believe that to be inevitable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "llectivist State, often quite unconsciously. This evening we have the chance to do something we were unable to do in the past. The hon. Member for Westhoughton referred to a Standing Committee which was the very first on which I sat. I had only just come to the House. On that Committee I learned to be a very good listener. I sat throughout the entire Committee stage and never once opened my mouth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1017.0", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": "s Bill and in its later stages my right hon. Friend will look not only at the question of retaining the company in public ownership, but also of examining its activities so that it becomes even more profitable. When we look at the question of the operation of the public sector in this regard we see that it has a record of achievement which has eclipsed many of its supposedly more efficient rivals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1017.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1021.4", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "iffen), who was kind enough to refer to my views. The Ministry of Transport is one of the few Departrnents of the Government on whose proposals the lines of cleavage go down the middle of the Floor of the House. One of the reasons why I take an interest in transport is that the Ministry is one of the few Departments from which one can be sure that some kind of a Socialist case will be put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1021.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "The Deputy Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is well aware, of course, that that statement is vastly inaccurate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The Whips are here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "Gentlemen opposite. When one talks about finance, particularly in relation to this Measure, one receives from the benches opposite only vague looks and embarrassed sniggers, and a complete absence of Treasury Ministers. It is deplorable that at half-past eight at night there has not been, throughout the debate, one representative from the Treasury on the Front Bench opposite, and not even a Whip.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "nt through the fantasy of consultation up and down the land. Embodied in the Bill we have this expensive doctrinaire attitude. I could forgive that if there were a shred of evidence that it would work in practice or any factual basis for the proposals. I move with some conviction that we should not continue the acquisition of further interests because I know that it is not a party political point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": ". I move with some conviction that we should not continue the acquisition of further interests because I know that it is not a party political point. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members opposite are so mesmerised by their doctrinaire infallibility that they believe that there is a great army of professional evidence on their side. Can they tell me why I have been on my feet for a quarter of an hour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "posite will agree that there was a vast improvement compared with the charity boxes which were shaken round our cities two or three times a year to provide the finance to run the hospitals. While the hon. Member for Tavistock may call in aid various professional bodies, we accept that he and some of his hon. Friends are tied to road haulage undertakings, as they are to other people in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "asic proposition is sound that no municipal undertaking contributes anything to the rates. In Scotland they are trading departments which have to wash their faces year by year in financial terms. They have no assistance from the rates and are no burden on ratepayers; but they contribute nothing to the ratepayers. I welcome this part of the Bill for its effect in Scotland. It is an excellent thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-12", "file": "debates1968-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "2fb75aa171b6de06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1078.9", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not presume to talk about Glasgow, because this is the first time that I have heard that it will receive any compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-12a.1078.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1139.8", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET MINISTERS (TELEVISION APPEARANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "If Ministers are prepared to be cross-examined on television, which could make for serious political discussion, would it not be more useful and more seemly if they were to be matched by their Parliamentary opponents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1139.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is very close to what I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "talking about. The right hon. Gentleman's statement was very close. I said, subject to increases in productivity, for example, by changes in working practices—that is one point —and subject to the increased possibility of overtime earnings—I stress, earnings—which will accrue as a result of greater orders abroad and greater export possibilities and subject to the increases in earnings which occur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course I am all in favour of that. I said in Burnley that, rather than people working an extra half-hour for nothing, to get increased productivity in normal working hours is of great benefit to the nation. I still think it wrong to discipline, by however a democratic procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "an people working an extra half-hour for nothing, to get increased productivity in normal working hours is of great benefit to the nation. I still think it wrong to discipline, by however a democratic procedure—[ Interruption .] I still think it wrong to discipline, by whatever democratic procedure. those who are aiming in their own way to increase productivity. It may or may not be the wrong way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We shall be making a fuller statement to the House in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ruption .] Hon. Members who interrupt in this way are obviously totally unaware of the way in which wages are fixed in British industry. We shall be making a full statement to the House in due course. These matters are being considered. We shall want to consider particularly the outcome of the meeting of trade union executives at the end of this month, but basically the position is that we regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dodgy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "with chatting among themselves, and some of them will not understand it when they have read it. I said on that occasion that 3½per cent. must be the ceiling for all the settlements. We have to consider how that affects wage rates—in some cases it will mean a lower wage rate increase—and how it affects fringe benefits is a matter which has to be decided on the merits of each particular case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1145.4", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "is is a painful experience which is not unknown to other hon. Members. I cannot, however, accept the suggestion that the reason why we do not get enough Answers to Questions during the Prime Minister's quarter of an hour is entirely the fault of the Prime Minister or that of any other individual. The House must endeavour to put its questions snappily and as far as possible to get answers snappily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1145.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "NORTH AMERICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "That was a very brief statement about the Prime Minister's talks with the President and the Prime Minister of Canada.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "NORTH AMERICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nterpret the views of the American Administration about that. In regard to the east of Suez situation, with which the right hon. Gentleman is so concerned, he will be happy to know that the only reference made to it while I was in Washington was in the second verse of the contribution made by the Metropolitan Opera House tenor, who sang \"The Road to Mandalay \", from which we withdrew 20 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1152.4", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "NORTH AMERICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I was well aware of the Amendment on the Order Paper before I went. I know that it was designed to be helpful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "BREATH TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "ple from going out at night, but on preventing people from driving dangerously and badly. On the analogy of the thief, the thief can be apprehended only if the police have good cause to believe that he is a thief. They do not stop people in the street and search them to see if they are thieves. Before premises can be searched the police must have a search warrant. Therefore, I believe it is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "BREATH TESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten p.m. surely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "r likely to be. It is headed: Living with the B-Test. The editorial says: After today few people will ever argue confidently against the breath test for motorists. Its potentiality as a life-saver is dramatically indicated by the impressive drop in road casualty figures for November…Most telling of all is the 49 per cent. drop in fatal and serious casualties between \"— 10 a.m. and midnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As I understand it. winnings may not exceed stakes, and I cannot think that Mrs. Jones in Eyre Street, Splott, will really be betting in pounds at the end of the evening. The average stake in an evening is something like 4s. to 6s., and that I assume will be the way in which this will continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "They ought not to, ever; I agree that the hon. Member has a debating point. But I will not debate it at any length, because I think that I made myself plain and I do not propose to develop it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "preceding_text": " plays these games. I am certain that this would be unusual, but it would be useful if we could see what we are talking about. I am on the Countryside Bill at the moment and we cannot have trees and hedgerows in there. In the last few weeks, since the recent judgment, the difficulties of ordinary people understanding gambling have been illustrated. I consider that most Members are ordinary people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1259.2", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, delighted about this. What worries me is the position after this year and the alteration that there has been in police recruitment planned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-13", "file": "debates1968-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "7b58edccd165934c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HUMBER HARBOUR REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "h my speech in my own way and in the sequence in which these points arise in the petitions, he will find that I will deal with that point adequately. As the Scheme is one of Government policy, it is eminently suited for public debate in this House and report in HANSARD, rather than that lawyers should go on wasting time and money before a Joint Committee, when the result is a foregone conclusion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-13a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1325.0", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "There was no shambles in Aden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Without wishing to give a detailed answer without notice of that question, I can say that ships in this part of the world sometimes put into South African ports for rest and recreation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1340.8", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I have already given that assurance. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not disputing my good faith in giving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1340.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1347.5", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about white slaving? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I made quite clear that we do not believe that even with financial contributions from the Rulers the enormous cost of maintaining a presence in the Gulf after we have withdrawn from the Far East would be justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1347.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- TURAL AND FORESTRY INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and that of the House, I will answer Written Question No. 106", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1350.6", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL, HORTICUL- TURAL AND FORESTRY INDUSTRY TRAINING BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I certainly am not aware of that. As I told the House a fortnight ago, the Board was set up at the express wish of the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1350.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I thought I made it plain. I mentioned a series of figures which the right hon. Gentleman produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "We allocated millions of pounds to improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the right hon. Gentleman who is sneering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "We allocated millions of pounds to improvements—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] As hon. Members know, and let me repeat to the House, since the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Hooley) chooses to sneer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "would have been lasting. Our experience is—and there is now experience of several rises in price since the war—that although following a rise in price there is a diminution in uptake, which no one could regret more than I do, it is of very short duration indeed. Then, of course, we were told at the time of the Prime Minister's promise that there would be no sacred cow, or no kine that were sacred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-14", "file": "debates1968-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "f4de33f22bded85b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "us, therefore, look at one old \"Buttercup\" in the meadow. We were told that the basic school building programme would be increased by extra sums of £8 million for 1968–69 \"to ensure that the comprehensive reorganisation was not held up \". We know that comprehensive re-organisation is a \"Buttercup \", a sacred cow, and here she is making enough noise for a whole field full of bulling heifers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-14a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1551.0", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Advanced years? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Although there are difficulties in handling unruly boys of advanced years, that is to say, of 14 or 15—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1576.5", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, I remember the letter, which arose from the hon. Gentleman's very well-meaning efforts as a mediator between the chargé d'affaires of one of the States concerned, whom he met at a cocktail party or something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1576.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may or may not be aware that my predecessors used to charter an American aircraft for their visits to the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may or may not be aware that my predecessors used to charter an American aircraft for their visits to the United States— [ Interruption. ]—a B.O.A.C.— owned Boeing aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.2", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Boeing happens to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.2", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Boeing happens to be—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen will put—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1583.5", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend to let us have a statement on certain experiments that have been taking place in the past few days in another place? I recognise that their Lordships have a certain local autonomy so far as their own administration is concerned, but is he aware that there is very strong opposition to television in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1583.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "r to great satisfaction, can he say whether this Committee will have within its terms of reference consideration of the effect of the indefinite prolongation of this ban on our international trade? Can he further say whether it is true, as has been reported, that an extremely important order for the sale of a nuclear reactor, worth £30 million to this country, has been lost as a result of the ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-15", "file": "debates1968-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "58f812195bc79339", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ford", "preceding_text": "Could I impress upon my right hon. Friend the grave concern felt by the Latin-American Export Council at the prospect of an indefinite prolongation of the ban on meat imports? Is he aware that there is about £180 million-worth of trade concerned with the Argentine alone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-15a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "preceding_text": "What has been said in the debate so far has fortified my belief that the attitude which, I think, will be taken by my right hon. Friend the Minister and by the Government is the correct one. When first looking at the problem, and having regard to the entreaty put upon us as backbench Members on this side to be here today to vote against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "s of pounds in earnings. I hope that my right hon. Friend will bear this in mind when the overall examination is completed and we discuss what we ought to do for those who have suffered. There are so many factors involved here, and as a Government we still have a lot to do. I feel that this is an attempt to embarrass the Government and play politics. It is not good for the standards of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": " attempt to apply Beveridge principles as though they were the gospel for 1968. We need a new Beveridge Report, and I am sorry that the Government have obscured this by setting up what they call a review of the social service. I do not think that we shall get anything like a Beveridge Report, and I would be quite happy to put up the names of several eminent Liberals today to produce such a report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to confuse the issue. We are getting a little confused about the word \"fund\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1785.2", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " only do that when they are absolutely desperate. Indeed, I am pretty certain that there are some living below supplementary benefit standards today, and that nothing on earth is going to persuade them to accept supplementary benefit. Here I think there is a rather added bitterness, because the Labour Party promised that this would not be necessary. I am not being in any sense partisan about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1785.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1802.3", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "We are already providing for them. Let me make this quite clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1805.5", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Lady will forgive me for repeating the figures which I gave in the debate, but am I right in saying that, at present, the maximum amount which could have been paid for by a man and his employer in retirement pension is £1 16s. weekly pension, and that the rest is paid for by the taxpayer? Surely that is absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1805.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1828.3", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Whips?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I will not say that my hon. Friend looks as though he was! I turn to one other argument mentioned by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) who said that it is wrong for the Government to interfere in Private Members' Bills. Looking at the attendance on the Conservative Party benches I wonder how it corresponds with the usual attendance on Private Members' Bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1828.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-16", "file": "debates1968-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "1576efa5b9041122", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1828.3", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "that it is wrong for the Government to interfere in Private Members' Bills. Looking at the attendance on the Conservative Party benches I wonder how it corresponds with the usual attendance on Private Members' Bills. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Whips?\"] Everybody knows that Governments have interfered in Private Members' Bills before today. The Conservative Party did it when they were in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-16a.1828.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-19", "file": "debates1968-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9255f8803dcfc3d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-19a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ALGERIA (DETAINED BRITISH AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "As I have just said, and as the House will know, the Algerian Government at the time the aircraft landed had certain grave suspicions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-19a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-19", "file": "debates1968-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "9255f8803dcfc3d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-19a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REVENUE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": "h, there is no demand on resources and vice versa. If money is poured into an area but does not result in a switch from another area, there is an increased demand on resources in the country as a whole. If there is a switch, the demand on the country's resources is not affected. That was made clear when regional employment premium was introduced. I do not say that everyone accepts this philosophy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-19a.45.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGICAL COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The only one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Since this has proved one of the happier of the Prime Minister's initiatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.229.4", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGICAL COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o such proposals as the European institute of technology. On the second question, there is, I think, nothing in the proposed terms of the non-proliferation treaty which would prevent our having the fullest co-operation with European partners on the production of enriched uranium 235 or other nuclear products for the purposes of the civil development of nuclear energy. The non-proliferation treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.229.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "MR. GUPTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Although the Home Secretary has withdrawn his remark, in which he sought to suggest that certain persons, who may be suspected, have already been convicted of a capital offence—[HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"] Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.241.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "MR. GUPTA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will it not be accepted that the Home Secretary simply made a slip of the tongue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ional Health Service contributions at different dates. In view of the facts brought to light by the Government Actuary's Report, it is most important that the National Insurance Fund should secure the increased income from the higher contributions as soon as possible. Clause 3 provides for the ending of free milk for secondary schools, a decision which I know is regarded with considerable anxiety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.254.8", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Not all of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I know that this is a painful matter for my hon. Friend the Member for Pontypool (Mr. Abse), because he and I have discussed it. We are all human beings and we are all fathers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.254.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.257.2", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "HON. MEMBERS", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "No. I would rather continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "That is a question which the hon. Gentleman ought to address to the Government, because that would eliminate virtually all of the revenue-raising propensity of the prescription charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "sts? It is right that the N.H.S. should aim to provide a varied consumer service. What is wrong is to allow somebody to buy specialist skills and equipment at the expense of others whose medical need is greater. But privacy means a great deal to a businessman or a professional man, and if he is prepared to pay for it I cannot see why the N.H.S. should not start to make money from the amenity beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That does not make them friends of the Bill. Nor is the hon. Member for Poplar going to vote against it. It is fair to say that this is a miserable little Bill with few friends in the House. If there were a free vote tonight and no electoral consequences, the Bill would be thrown out neck and crop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "t week if Members of this House could have the same facts given to them as the international bankers were to receive, he said \"No\". I would like to know whether the right hon. Gentleman the First Secretary can justify the economic facts of our nation being given to foreign bankers but denied to Members of this House. Is this the sort of democratic Government of which the Labour Party are so proud?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What would you do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "s that milk shall no longer be provided to pupils of secondary schools. If the Labour Party over the years, for as long as I can remember, have thumped one cause harder than any other, it has been that children at school should be reasonably well fed and that one of the best ways to help that was by free milk. This has been a cardinal feature of the Labour Party. Now they are running away from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I am trying to pin my remarks to Clause 6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I am trying to pin my remarks to Clause 6—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and the provisions for relieving the Board of Trade of the need to examine building grants in the development areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.351.3", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " around, Mr. Speaker. The point about this is that this is going in precisely the wrong direction. Surely the present outlays of Government money in the development areas is the most irrational of their policies at the present time that we could conceive. Huge outlays are going to keep men in the same jobs very often. It is a fact that these areas are not notable for their contribution to exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.351.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The proposition of secondary school milk is very different from any proposal about primary school milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t I had to give way to the hon. Gentleman, I would not have referred to him. The shift to exports must mean that both private and public consumption cannot expand as fast as we had planned or hoped. I want to emphasise what I said in an earlier debate, that it is not proposed actually to cut down either social expenditure or private consumption, but the rate at which they increase must be limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "age comes. I use the word \"package\" deliberately because it was constructed not, as my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton feared, without any philosophy but with regard to the fact that one cannot put the whole of the cut on any one service. The whole cannot go on defence, though there is some cut of defence. There is some cut in aid to industry, and there is a cut in private consumption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-20", "file": "debates1968-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "46c08d9c12133e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.361.6", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "st deeply throughout all this business, is how this affects some of the poorest people in the country. I listened to the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer). I beg him to realise that those of us in the Labour Party who disagree with him on this matter feel quite as deeply as he does about the needs of working people and have as wide an experience of those needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-20a.361.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that his Answer will give great satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Is the Joint Parliamentary Secretary aware that this line is vitally economically necessary to a substantial part of South-West Wales and that its closure would further depress an area which suffers more than most—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pity the hon. Gentleman is not one of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that today it was announced that there are more men unemployed in Birmingham than at any time for 20 years?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "that people are powerless to influence events. Indeed, power today is increasingly concentrated in Whitehall, which is in turn increasingly remote from argument and control. We need to change the power structure in Britain, and this Bill will attempt to take a first step in that direction. The Bill has two objectives—first, to involve the maximum number of people in the country in decision-taking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Clause 2.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I understood that the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, West (Mr. James Davidson) was withdrawing his Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Clause 18.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " certain parts of Scotland. In one part of the Highlands a landlord acted, and notice to quit was given to a farmer. The right hon. Gentleman's memory is right concerning one case. There have been others. I know of some in Ayrshire. But I equally know of the effect of the existence of this. I know of cases in which the factor called on a widow shortly after the funeral. This kind of thing happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Clause 18.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will look at the 1949 Act he will find that an unsatisfactory person as a tenant can beevicted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.507.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Clause 18.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not necessarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " and the state of the land is better and that more farms come on to the market for tenants. Some farms are coming up, but are not necessarily taken by tenant farmers. Representatives of the N.F.U. have several times complained to me that farms are sometimes taken over by the owners because it is profitable and in other cases are being sold. Once they are sold, they are not taken by tenant farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.516.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Clause 18.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "That is not the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Clause 19.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ased to be able to support the Amendment which, if accepted, would have the effect of conferring the same security of tenure for near relatives to which we have agreed in principle on those who at present are under notice to quit. The only argument which could even be laid against this in equity is that it involves some aspect of retrospective legislation. I have a clear conscience on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.562.4", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Clause 19.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I want to support the arguments which have been made for the Amendment. I enter the debate to make my few remarks as a layman. I am not a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-21", "file": "debates1968-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "69e7a84d12b64c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Clause 19.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Therefore, with full appreciation of the seriousness of the measure, at this point I ask the Under Secretary not to stand on what he has said, but to consider this matter further. In this situation I will seek to withdraw the Amendment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-21a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.625.6", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": " was not asking about establishment. Is my right hon. Friend not aware that the way to make his Department the spearhead of Socialist advance that it was intended to be, would be to free it of the Establishment anti-Socialist domination of the Treasury, which is continually giving Ministers outdated economic information on which they are basing their wrong policies? Is he aware that he would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.625.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. and learned Member is having fun with a debating point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend look again at the possibility of a debate on Vietnam? Has he noticed that when there is an accusation that the Americans are escalating the war there are immediate demands for emergency or Adjournment debates, but in the last three weeks, when the escalation has been mainly from North Vietnam requests have not been made from this side for such an urgent debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that I was personally attacked by the hon. Lady the Member for Eton and Slough (Miss Lestor)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "I will, with permission, make a statement on the Government's proposals for a third London airport. As the House knows, my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government has consulted local authorities and other bodies about a realignment of the runways of Stansted, and we have now studied all the replies. These raise certain new considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": " constitute virtually a new project. In the light of these considerations, and the continued public concern about the Stansted decision, and the general wel- come given to the proposals in the Town and Country Planning Bill for dealing with cases of this type, the Government have decided to refer to an inquiry which will take place in public, the question of the siting of the third London airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.667.6", "colnum": "667", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Anthony Crosland)", "preceding_text": "n the report by the Council on Tribunals. It might take the form of a Planning Inquiry Commission, duly constituted after the Bill has become law, or it might take some other form. We would wish to discuss the exact form of the inquiry with the Opposition, bearing in mind the need to proceed with all reasonable speed. Meanwhile, we shall not proceed with the Special Development Order for Stansted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.667.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "THIRD LONDON AIRPORT (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hertford?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "May I thank my right hon. Friend very sincerely, particularly on behalf of the county of Hertford, which will be very grateful to him for taking this decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.670.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DESCRIPTIONS (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": " sort of dentist's surgery, but it has certainly done some dentistry on the Bill, which is the worse for its actions. The Association also says: Clause 11 (dealing with comparative prices) has been so re-drafted as to horrify those with practical experience of the problems involved. At the same time provisions for defence have been so widened as to provide great encouragement to potential sinners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DESCRIPTIONS (No. 2) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jumbo.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "ht without any of us being aware that this had happened. The honourable thing for the industry to do is to acknowledge that there has been a reduction. The second realm of advertising about which I have grave misgivings is the type which seeks to sell by the use of a descriptive word, descriptive in the sense that it is comparative and superlative, the medium, the large, the giant, and the family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.777.5", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "cause he has been working hard all week on the Transport Bill and was up all last night. He would have liked to be here to underline my point of view. Then there is the Chairman of the Scottish Labour Group. He also was up late last night. I have been approached by other right hon. Members. For example, the hon. Lady the Member for Hamilton (Mrs. Ewing) was very anxious to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.777.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-22", "file": "debates1968-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "385071a2be57d784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " this in reference to the importance of the movement which is arising. Although I am not a nationalist, I want good government. I want modernised government. I want the affairs of Scotland, of Wales and of England to be conducted in such a way that they are conducted for the benefit of the people of all countries. I may have to talk at some considerable length, but this is a very important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-22a.778.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — \" BRITAIN IN EUROPE \" (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That question seemed to get a lot of miss-shots into one barrel, if I may put it that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.930.6", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Jackson", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend give an assurance that the United Nations mission is itself in touch with the Israelis and the U.A.R., bearing in mind that the original incident may have been caused by a misunderstanding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.930.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is a damn lie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.964.7", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " of one set of jobs than to put them into another set. It is much easier to create unemployment than to find new jobs. This is what the Government have set themselves to do: create more unemployment, impose a wage freeze, and then put added burdens on the poorest workers and tell them not to squeal. I wish hon. Gentlemen opposite were sitting on this side and attacking the Government for so doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.964.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.964.7", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It is much easier to create unemployment than to find new jobs. This is what the Government have set themselves to do: create more unemployment, impose a wage freeze, and then put added burdens on the poorest workers and tell them not to squeal. I wish hon. Gentlemen opposite were sitting on this side and attacking the Government for so doing—[ Interruption. ] Come over to this side and do it now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.964.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.968.4", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We have had 13 years of Tory misrule.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ial security, holidays, pension, sickness aid and bonus and is not even particularly well paid. This is the British worker, on whom the right hon. Lady intends to impose an extra burden. In the early 1950s British workers were the best paid in Europe, Switzerland and Sweden excepted. Today we are at the bottom of the league, and yet the right hon. Lady proposes to impose this extra burden on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.977.3", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And whom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e to introduce the Labour Party's own pension scheme, with the abolition of the poll tax\", she would immediately reply, \"Done.\", and it would be introduced immediately and would be law within a matter of weeks. This being so, we are faced with the situation—that is, if my argument is correct—that some other Members of the Cabinet are trying to stop this from being introduced. We must discover why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.977.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "tween the employer's and the employee's extra contribution was only 3d. out of a 4s. 1d. increase under the main National Insurance Scheme. If one takes 3d. out of 4s. 1d., one can see how infinitesimal would have been the difference in pence if one tried to relate that same proportion to this increase. In fact, what my hon. Friends are arguing about is a penny, on the basis of the 1967 up-rating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": " are not talking just about poverty programmes but about programmes for equality. Those hon. Members opposite who lured my hon. Friends with siren voices to vote against the Government this evening would not agree with my hon. Friends or with me about the extent to which a programme for the redistribution of wealth is necessary before we can solve the problems of the lower-paid worker. But let me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer)—I could be wrong—indicated that on prescription charges we were doing nothing to protect the lower-paid workers. In fact, as my hon. Friends know, people in full-time work living below supplementary benefit level are one of the groups we will protect from prescription charges whether by refund or, as I hope, by exemption. This was mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Clause 1.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "it level are one of the groups we will protect from prescription charges whether by refund or, as I hope, by exemption. This was mentioned—[ Interruption. ] I am surely entitled to answer the points which have been put to me by my hon. Friends. If the hon. Gentleman the Member for Shipley (Mr. Hirst) was not in the Committee to hear them he should at least not interrupt when I seek to answer them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1010.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1067.8", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Newens) has made a most powerful case against this proposal from his experience as an expert teacher. May I ask him if he is going to vote against it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1067.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1067.8", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Newens) has made a most powerful case against this proposal from his experience as an expert teacher. May I ask him if he is going to vote against it—[ Interruption. ] I am entitled to ask that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1067.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "t milk may not, in the Minister's words, be medically necessary, surely it would have been more credible if the doctrine had been adduced separately in an education context and not read out in that lugubrious list of economic sacrifices, of cows which had to be killed. It seems most extraordinarily irrelevant. As an old civil servant, I know that Ministers can always get the advice that they want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Stansted.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "the point that I was making. My right hon. Friend was wise and much shrewder than I thought in shaking his head when I said that he turned round in relief. He had no reason to turn round. The point is that the Government ought to take note of the feeling in the Committee and among their supporters. Governments have occasionally done this, though not very often, and it has stood them in good stead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "It is extremely important that the Minister directly responsible should be here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite may be interested to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "The Minister has handled this problem tonight in a way which disappoints even his keen supporters. He must accept the Amendment, and I have sat here since four o'clock waiting to hear him say that he would do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "hich deals not only with milk but with all sorts of food problems. The procedure suggested of affirmative Orders and so on would be extremely dilatory, and we cannot afford the delay. There has been some mockery of the amount of the saving—£5 million. It has been called miserable and so on. But it will help devaluation to work, and there has been singularly little reference to that in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1101.3", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "cational and medical organisations, as is held in some quarters, I would unquestionably have had representations. There has been relatively little concern about something that is very worrying, namely the short take-up of free school meals in our schools. This is something of extreme importance. The schools meals provide a very large proportion of the necessary calory and other intake of children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1101.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1106.4", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Clause 3.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-26", "file": "debates1968-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "6598c350931cdf50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Clause 5.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "cences to help local authorities close this gap. In other words, is the Minister taking powers to increase rather than diminish these charges? Under this heading, for central Government income, substantial sums are obtained by way of road accident payments by those treated in hospital after accidents. I understand that in 1965–66 such payments totalled between £600 million and £700 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-26a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1142.3", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"The majority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "We can all, perhaps, claim for our various parts of the country that the workers' wages are low. I am sure that my hon. Friend is right. One need only go to the Merseyside to find very low-paid workers from time to time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "id. He then went on, being pressed by hon. Members, to say that we did not only have that advice, but we had further advice. The only further advice which he quoted was a letter from a permanent official in his Department. I was not quite clear whether it was a letter from one permanent official to another permanent official, or whether he said it was a letter from a permanent official to himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "to be applying a crazy kind of logic. In health matters we say, \"You can cut school milk, you can cut other charges elsewhere, but the one thing that you must not do is touch hospitals; we must keep them filled\". Perhaps Clause 3 will help to make sure that the beds in the new hospitals that we are going to build will be fully occupied by children who have not had the proper prophylactic measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many tellers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt) touched on a key point in the last phrase of his speech—a point which no other hon. Member has yet mentioned. I refer to how hon. Members intend to vote. It would help If I stated quite clearly that I intend to vote against the Third Reading of the Bill and against the Closure, should it be moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I realise that Labour Members are very good at laughing out of the back of their heads, but I happened to see the face of the Secretary of State for Education. This is a miserable measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1170.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We tore ourselves to pieces for it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "members of the then Government, including the present Prime Minister, were forced to resign by the insistence of the Treasury at that time. One of the predecessors of my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said that the Government could not balance the Budget unless they saved £ 13 million by imposing some charges on the Health Service. In the outcome that year we had a surplus of £ 232 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " or had been jointly agreed upon, we turned our attention to the question of school milk in secondary schools. I want, therefore, to deal with this for a moment. It was in a sense a natural place to start because this is the one area of the service where people were opting out of their own volition. The demand for or take up of free school milk in the secondary schools was going down considerably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have no teeth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " this issue, in the first place, to the Committee on Nutritional Standards, because all sorts of conferences, to which I know the House would pay proper respect, had been declaring themselves on the subject of secondary school milk. The B.M.A., for example, had decided the question by an overwhelming majority. The National Association of Head Teachers and the National Association of Schoolmasters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1228.4", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In order to satisfy the sensitivity of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool. Walton (Mr. Heffer)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1228.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1228.4", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " the Member for Liverpool. Walton (Mr. Heffer)—[ Interruption ] I do not interrupt the Left-wing; I do not see why they should interrupt me—may I say that I had experience of Bermuda a few years ago while attending a similar conference which was quite fruitless. I withdraw the reference to a holiday and hope that my right hon. Friend the Lord President will prolong his holiday as long as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1228.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL (CONCORDE PRODUCTION FINANCING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had explained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.2", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL (CONCORDE PRODUCTION FINANCING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had explained. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If I did not, the House misunderstood me. It will be the appropriate rate of interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.6", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL (CONCORDE PRODUCTION FINANCING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member should await the passage of the Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.6", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL (CONCORDE PRODUCTION FINANCING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Member should await the passage of the Clause—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—through Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1237.2", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "HIGHWAYS (STRAYING ANIMALS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for the payment of compensation for injury or damage caused by animals straying on the highway. I have endeavoured from time to time, in my humble way, to remove some strange anomalies in the law. I have referred to these under the heading, \"Believe it or not\". Today, I am asking leave to reintroduce a Bill of that nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " and this very much larger number of citizens totalling 1 million or more. I come to the argument put many times that we are legislating too hastily, in a panic. I believe that it would be irresponsible not to legislate on this vast issue of whether this country could afford in any circumstances to envisage the prospect of an invasion of a size which I have indicated, even though it is not likely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "lion or more. I come to the argument put many times that we are legislating too hastily, in a panic. I believe that it would be irresponsible not to legislate on this vast issue of whether this country could afford in any circumstances to envisage the prospect of an invasion of a size which I have indicated, even though it is not likely. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I believe that we must face the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way for the moment. I am making a difficult case and I should like to make it in my own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1271.1", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duncan Sandys", "preceding_text": " not to take up too much of the time of the House, I shall confine my remarks to the main issue, namely, the proposal to restrict the right of entry into the United Kingdom of Asians from East Africa. All of us in all parts of the House, I am sure, feel sincere sympathy for the Asian community in Kenya, who are undoubtedly deeply worried about their future. We all regret the need for this Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1271.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1275.4", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I have here the reference to which the right hon. Gentleman refers, and if he will look at it he will sec that I was referring to quite another matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "I consider that, if they wish to leave Kenya, they should return to their countries of origin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "bers of people outside Africa who are citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies and who hold, or are entitled to obtain, passports which. would give them a right of entry into Britain. These people include about 1 million Chinese in Malaysia and about 40,000 people in the West Indies. As the Home Secretary knows, I have been aware of these figures for some time. In order not to cause excitement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What do you contemplate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "t would, I suggest, be very difficult to refuse similar rights of entry to racial minorities in, say, Mauritius or Fiji. What would we do when our lease of the mainland territories in Hong Kong expires, or when Hong Kong as a whole becomes independent? This could easily lead to a massive exodus of Chinese refugees from that area. It is obvious that we could not contemplate receiving them all here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are tearing up ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ss of dismantling an empire—that once we have granted independence to a Colony we are no longer in a position to look after the interests of its inhabitants as we did before. It is just a fact. Having given liberal constitutions to the new nations, we have to trust the successor Government to fulfil their obligations. All too many Commonwealth countries have torn up the constitutions we gave them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "o fulfil their obligations. All too many Commonwealth countries have torn up the constitutions we gave them. [An HON. MEMBER: \"You are tearing up ours.\"] But Kenya is not one of these. Her Government have shown a sense of responsibility and moderation. There is, therefore, every reason to hope that now that this problem has arisen in an acute form they will do their utmost to find a just solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with the Queen's English—that the Act does not apply to a person who holds a United Kingdom passport and is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies\". I produce my passport to prove that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1289.3", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1294.5", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They should be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "s to open shops, and, worse still, to attend school. That illiberalism of the Kenya Government grieves me no less than ours. That is a comment that needs to be made, and since I am known for my sympathy for Africans, for Africa, and most African Governments, I think that I am entitled to make it. The other culpable factor—and I am sorry that the two Members to whom I wish to refer are not present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1294.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "ugoslavs settled in High Wycombe. They created similar tensions, but these tensions have now gone and the people have been assimilated, because the immigration did not continue. After two or three years, no more came in. They could be integrated very easily with the population, they intermarried, and people got used to them. Also, the numbers were very small by comparison with those coming in now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is not surprising.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Commander S. L. C. Maydon", "preceding_text": "to nationalism in minorities. In past history the greatest manifestation of this flaw in the human character was religious discrimination. Today it is racial discrimination, particularly as regards colour. In recent years we in this House have welcomed—and I sincerely mean welcomed in a personal sense—a Welsh National hon. Member and a Scottish National hon. Lady—I fear I see neither of them here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "No. wonder !", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1332.4", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including the Kenyan Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": ". We have not enough of this exchange of information and experience. We need to do very much more. We need to have a Commonwealth conference so that other countries of the Commonwealth may accept their share of responsibility for dealing with what fundamentally is a Commonwealth problem. It is not only our problem; other countries of the Commonwealth should find it possible to make a contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "speaks on his subject, in precisely the same way as a member of the Government speaks on his or her subject from his or her Front Bench. When it comes to learning something about conditions in Wolverhampton, I only say that the hon. Lady has taken the precaution of living in Hertfordshire while my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) has a house in Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "his or her Front Bench. When it comes to learning something about conditions in Wolverhampton, I only say that the hon. Lady has taken the precaution of living in Hertfordshire while my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) has a house in Wolverhampton. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"] She does not appear to be in the best possible position to make that criticism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-27", "file": "debates1968-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "5d8fa20425d8a6c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I want to answer the question about the appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-27a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1396.2", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Return?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I said in reply to a previous Question that the price they were receiving this year was the highest on record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1396.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the £5 million cut affects milk to be given to children in school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "He has the advantage of the House, since we have not seen the Report. I have just been to the Vote Office to try to get a copy of the Report. Not only is it not available, but I am told there is no indication as to when it will be available,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1418.2", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Whatever the facts in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1418.3", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LTD. (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "In the light of the findings of the tribunal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1418.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1426.4", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "te the Committee to draw the inference—which is not conclusive to the argument—that in most cases where someone in this way is himself holding a United Kingdom passport or a passport for a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies it is a reasonable inference—I do not put it higher than that—that in most cases the connection with this country will be through the paternal line, through the father.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1427.3", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I have pursued that matter sufficiently. In saying that, what I put to the Committee is that in our belief, in most cases, a person who is possessed of a United Kingdom passport will have his connection with this country through the father. If it is contested, that is the matter in issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "the sponsors of the Amendment, to thank the Solicitor-General and, secondly, to say that it does not carry the implications that the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Hooley) suggested. It is a genuine multi-racial Amendment which will have multi-racial beneficiaries. Thirdly, I should like to add a postscript in support of what was said by my right hon. Friend who sits on the bench below me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the hon. and learned Gentleman's intervention and I take his point, because \"subjects\" implies a loyalty to the Crown and not necessarily citizenship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I have sought to deal with precisely that point. The Government are fully aware of notices which were issued yesterday. I do not know how many such notices were issued. It was only 24 hours ago that they were issued. I know that a certain date was set upon that notice and that there was also a clause which implied that a person could apply for an extension. I do not want to go into the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1447.0", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "the ground which would be covered by Amendments Nos. 14, 15—page 1, line 5. leave out Clause 1—and Amendment No. 24—Clause 2, page 3, line 5, at end insert: ( c ) any person who being a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies has no right of re-entry to his country of domicile. I am in the Committee's hands. If that is the Committee's desire, so be it. But if objection is taken, I cannot do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1474.2", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": " they said about their principles concerning immigration. They can help in this situation far more than we can. One wonders what will be the feelings of the people in Kenya when they realise that they are being thrown out and, as some hon. Members have said, are being made stateless persons. If any responsibility rests on any country for that I should have thought it is on such countries as India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gurden", "preceding_text": "Of course. That is why it is a lot of nonsense. It is wasting the time of the Committee. That was the point I made. This is yesterday's debate all over again. The right hon. Gentleman admitted that it was a wrecking Amendment. I am pointing out that by six to one the House has already given a decision on this question. Therefore, there is no point in taking up the time of the Committee on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "is developing in Kenya. But when the Kenya Government suddenly take steps against my community, the United Kingdom Government react in this way and I am naked before the cold east wind. This is exactly what has happened to the Asian community. If they had not been given those assurances in 1963, there would not be nearly as many holding United Kingdom passports today. They would be Kenya citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "forced when one does not like the bargain. One does not need a law of contract when both people are in agreement; that can be done on the \"old boy\" net. It is when one does not like it, when it is to one's disadvantage, when it embarrasses one, when it causes one financial loss, that one needs the law of contract. Let us make no bones about it. The right hon. Gentleman is welshing on his contract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " were perfectly right in 1963 to give these particular assurances. There was a promise. There had been an area of land in Africa, torn with civil war and atrocities, with great fear and unease, and I very much doubt if the Kenya nation would have got off the ground in the way that it has done if it had not been for the assurances given by my right hon. Friend and the then Conservative Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1487.0", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Racialism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": " will give the country no aid unless it changes its policy. I disown that immediately. As to my hon. Friend's speech, he underestimates the depth of African nationalism. I have worked in Kenya with many men who are now Ministers. I have been down the line, organising black workers in trade unions. There is no doubt that this wave of African nationalism is the prominent motive in all their actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": "Personally I do not think the comparison with France or Germany is right—for a number of reasons which it would be out of order to go into in this case; but both those countries are physically much larger than ours. Moreover, to the best of my knowledge we have already taken over 1 million immigrants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With dependants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Kenya's is a variable figure, depending on the number of people either included or excluded. If one breaks down these figures, one faces substantial difficulties. But I ask the Committee to accept that the figure for East Africa as a whole is about—probably more than—200,000 and that is what we are dealing with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where would you send him?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "icy, for example as an entitled dependant, a visitor or a student. If he could not bring himself within any of those heads for admission, admission would be refused. This is the situation which I and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have to deal with almost every day, I regret to say. It is one of the most distasteful jobs which I have to do, to turn away people who do not fulfil the conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "EMBER: \"Where would you send him?\"] As to where he would go, the aircraft or shipping line which brought him would be required legally to take him back whence he came and what happened to him thereafter would depend on his position under the law of the country to which he went and the attitude which might be adopted by any country to which he might seek admission. I have stated the legal position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " to do. I hope that it is an accurate statement of the law: if not, someone will get into trouble. If it is, then I only want to say that I would expect to use the discretion with which I have been vested in this matter. I beg the Committee to believe me when I say, on this question of appeals, that I am setting up a body and that later we will introduce Wilson to stand between the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " raised the critical question of trying to get clarification of the statement we had earlier from the Home Department and I hope that the Solicitor-General will respond to that later. My final point is simply to ask the Home Secretary about the people who come to this country without entry permits. He said that the airline is legally responsible—if I understood him correctly—to return the citizen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1532.1", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This is fact.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "On these points of nationality, there is obviously room for different points of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Clause 1. (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 1 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "w and anti-alien campaign at that time. Of course, Members did not say that they were anti-Jew. They said, \"We do not think like that. We are not racialist at all. We do not hate the Jews. But economic conditions in the East End of London do not permit us to have any more immigrants coming to this country.\" The House of Commons at that time was very enlightened. It allowed these people to come in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "Members who said that if we are confronted with this problem we must give an alternative. I reluctantly accept the alternative. If there are 60,000 people coming in under the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, I would rather see all of them stopped, other than the dependants of those already here, but that is a declining problem. The number of dependants is declining every year, as has been pointed out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1547.2", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the number of dependants? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "he whole basis of the law of contract. What is happening here is that one side does not like the contract, and so it is ratting on its obligations. I regard this as deeply offensive, and I do not think that the British nation will live this down. I have stated my alternative. Reluctant though I would be to do so I would cut down the number of vouchers issued under the Commonwealth Immigrants Act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "d Reading. I did so with a heavy heart, however, because although I recognise that the subsequent Clauses eliminate certain anomalies which have crept in, and which certainly should have been dealt with long before, I felt that Clause 1 inevitably involved the breaking of a pledge. I am sorry that my right hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr. Sandys) has left the Chamber—oh, I beg his pardon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1564.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-28", "file": "debates1968-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "cd366a828f5e29d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1603.5", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Clause 2. (REFUSAL OF ADMISSION AND CONDITIONAL ADMISSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "ituency which has had a great deal of experience of the problem, I have been aghast at some of the irresponsible speeches which have been made, notably by the leader of the Liberal Party and by my hon. Friend the Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Mackintosh), both of whom are in a position to receive entrants into this country in their constituencies but who, I gather, do not wish to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-28a.1603.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1737.6", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Government aid is entirely to South Vietnam.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1737.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Is there not some discussion proceeding now between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of the U.A.R. about a £20 million loan for Egypt? Will my right hon. Friend understand that there will be no question of provision of this kind to Egypt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that Answer. As the British Virgins use dollars—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1752.3", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TOURIST INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can, no doubt, speak for his own period when he was in charge of this at the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1757.7", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is it not significant that there is no urge to emigrate to the United Kingdom on the part of the Asian community of Rhodesia, but that on the other hand sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1757.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1764.5", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE?", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bristol Siddeley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "As the Hawker Siddeley affair made the Great Train Robbery look like chicken feed, if my right hon. Friend cannot give us a debate on Hawker Siddeley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1764.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1764.6", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE?", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is not Hawker Siddeley at all.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "As the Hawker Siddeley affair made the Great Train Robbery look like chicken feed, if my right hon. Friend cannot give us a debate on Hawker Siddeley—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bristol Siddeley.\"]—Bristol Siddeley—could he give us something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1764.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "It is the Mauritius Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1782.3", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Everyone in the House, except the Leader of the House, knows that to be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I was proposing to deal with that a little later, but I will gladly deal with it now. Cuba blew up very quickly. It is possible to form a judgment that future crises are likely to be longer in developing than that was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ll gladly deal with it now. Cuba blew up very quickly. It is possible to form a judgment that future crises are likely to be longer in developing than that was. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] For the reasons I have given. I shall not traverse that part of my speech again. I believe that there has been a growing understanding of the consequences of nuclear attack by both the U.S.S.R. and the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1870.1", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "intend to abolish their responsibilities. As for the Government Amendment—well, that really is something. The Government express their appreciation on paper to the volunteers for what they have done, but they express it in practice by disbanding the Civil Defence Corps and the Auxiliary Fire Service and by declining their offer to continue their training and service on the cheapest possible basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "nger to come to a head than they have in the past, the House of Commons should have been told in the statement on Defence Estimates, but of course there was not a single word of that there. It is a fantastic assumption as a basis for defence planning. I ask the Under-Secretary to tell us definitely when winding up the debate whether this is an assumption which the Minister of Defence makes or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1879.2", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1879.6", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Many questions have been put, and I shall try to deal with them. My first point concerns some of the responsibilities that fall on local government, because clearly there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1879.6", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "r for Blackpool, South (Mr. Blaker). We have been unusual among our N.A.T.O. allies and most other countries in having a volunteer civil defence force. Only in Belgium, Portugal, and Luxembourg do the civil defence authorities have any volunteers, and those are only in very small numbers. To support their regular peace-time services, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway rely on conscription. Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1879.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "that the network of control and communication will exist. As my right hon. Friend said, we shall continue to maintain some central training facilities at Easingwold. It shows the extent of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's knowledge, or his willingness, not intentionally to mislead the House, I am sure, but to exaggerate his case, that he said there were only 30 places. In fact, there are 60.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1881.1", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " could in one way or other, be kept going. I want to look at some of these proposals. My hon. Friend the Member for Toxteth proposed that somehow we should find a way to continue the volunteer forces without official support or financial help. My right hon. Friend and I have been very much impressed, as he said, by the spirit of service which has been shown in the representations we have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-02-29", "file": "debates1968-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "36fd6d8498e5db5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ations, which require local authorities to organise divisions of the Corps, the Civil Defence Act, 1948, under which these Regulations were made, is not to be repealed. Consequently it remains open to the Home Secretary to reconstitute the Corps at any time subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Regulations. I am not suggesting that it is the intention of my right hon. Friend to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-02-29a.1883.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.10.2", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will not expect me to go into the complex arguments that we had on the Bill three weeks ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.10.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If I may answer this off the cuff, there has been a reclassification of some 5,000 from headquarters to out-stations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " Soviet land forces, but in recent years the Soviet Navy has become a power in its own right. I believe that a start was made towards meeting the new situation in the creation of a N.A.T.O. Standing Naval Force for the North Atlantic, which was formed six months ago and accepted by the N.A.T.O. Council in December. It is not a large undertaking, and we contribute one of the five frigates involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "eech. I do not deny that the shift of our defence policy away from the world rôle has been unwelcome to some of our friends and allies outside Europe though not all our friends outside Europe, and the Opposition can make the most of that if they want to do so. But I believe that the reception of our decision among our friends and allies in Europe has been favourable and indeed enthusiastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"All two of them\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "opean allies. The new equipment for the Royal Navy, which we announced last July, will place our surface ships in the forefront of technological advance. The Royal Air Force will have more than 1,000 aircraft. It will be receiving some 400 modern combat jets over the next few years, emerging second to none in Europe. Its Phantoms will be the most advanced aircraft of their type for another decade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " was The Defence Review at that time, with the definite article. He boasted in March 1966 that \"the major decisions are now taken\". He boasted, on the day of the publication of his Defence White Paper, that it had been \"an exercise in political and military realism\". That was two years ago—the first of the five Defence Reviews we have had in two years, upon the right hon. Gentleman's own counting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman, there was published on 12th February a large press notice: The Defence Cuts: how they would affect you as a future Army Officer. The notice begins: You'll have read about the cuts in defence. It goes on: Here are the facts. First: as far as manpower is concerned, the new measures are only speeding up reductions announced in July. We are entitled to be told which is the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e was published on 12th February a large press notice: The Defence Cuts: how they would affect you as a future Army Officer. The notice begins: You'll have read about the cuts in defence. It goes on: Here are the facts. First: as far as manpower is concerned, the new measures are only speeding up reductions announced in July. We are entitled to be told which is the truth. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "reductions in manpower which the Government envisage will fall on the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. If that is so, let them say so. The second is that this prospectus is a false prospectus, and will mislead those who read it as to the intentions which the Government themselves have formed and declared. I hope that before we reach the end of the debate we shall be told which of the two it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Equipment (Mr. Roy Mason)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Equipment (Mr. Roy Mason)", "preceding_text": "At the start of the two-day defence debate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State dealt with major issues of policy. He will wind up the debate tomorrow and knit the ends together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, with a smirk on his face, says \"Hear, hear\". I hope that he realises that we are trying hard to avoid the many mistakes which his Administration made. It is necessary to look at that type of contracting in order to avoid them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-04", "file": "debates1968-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "0b0258bf8644d964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.166.4", "colnum": "166", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Australia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "the Far East obviously answers the question about the future of the aircraft carriers. I do not see any call for them once we have withdrawn from the Far East. As the hon. and gallant Gentleman knows, my right hon. Friend made a statement at the beginning of the debate that we are \"Phantomising\" the \"Ark Royal\", which will keep a modern aircraft carrier in being until our withdrawals are complete.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-04a.166.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.229.5", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister explain how even his devious mind—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—can reconcile a setback with a giant stride forward?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.229.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.229.9", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister now indicate—[ Interruption. ] May I have the Prime Minister's attention? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.229.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"—can reconcile a setback with a giant stride forward? [ Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister now indicate how even his devious mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "e genuine British interests and responsibilities. The second responsibility is to form an assessment of where they are threatened. The third responsibility is to show the House and the country how these interests will be respected and the responsibilities carried out. Judged by these three criteria, I suggest that the speech of the Secretary of State for Defence yesterday was lacking in substance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.235.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "olicy of withdrawal and that this is what a true European policy means. It is extraordinarily ironic that the Government's withdrawal should be taking place at precisely the moment when French policy is moving forward as it has not done at any time since 1945. That is my answer to the hon. Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew). Perhaps he and others had better study French policy in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "d that hand. Were the situation in the Far East to go wrong, I believe that the converse would be the result and that the Soviet Union would once again exert pressure on the pressure points. Those two main points would be the Middle East and Berlin. That therefore brings us back to the point at which we started—the importance of the N.A.T.O. organisation and seeing that it is effectively organised", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.250.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "l other considerations, this is what the public wants. When the Gallup Poll asked: Do you think that the Government is spending too much or too little on arms? five out of 100 said \"Too little\", while 58 out of 100 said, \"Too much.\" The others thought the spending about right. My view is, therefore, not only right but popular. When the benches opposite are filled, although they are not filled now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-05", "file": "debates1968-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "91e5af3d32b3da07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "n the 1970s. Ministers now talk loudly and proudly about the strength, efficiency and fine equipment of all three Services. That is true for the next few years, due more than anything else to the procurement decisions taken some years ago by the Conservative Government. Nearly every one of the main weapons or weapons systems so often repeated, Polaris, Chieftain, Harrier—Kestrel, as it was called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-05a.345.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-06", "file": "debates1968-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "049c6dae3be69711", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-06a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Apart from my helpful Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-06a.414.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-06", "file": "debates1968-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "049c6dae3be69711", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-06a.575.5", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1968–69, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Condensation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for the hon. Gentleman's condensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-06a.575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "On the subject of waste, would the right hon. Gentleman agree that the Bristol Siddeley affair showed up a quite astonishing incompetence in buying methods in some Government Departments? Is he absolutely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.647.6", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEVALUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No such figure has been accepted by the Government so far as prices are concerned. With regard to the earlier statement, my statement was true in the broadcast, that the action of that Saturday night had not devalued pounds in pockets, bank accounts or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.647.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.648.2", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEVALUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As a matter of accuracy, yes, but recognising the truth of Kipling's quotation, If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for tools perhaps not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would want to look again at that particular point because my right hon. Friend is, I understand, not quite sure to which statement the hon. Gentleman is referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.660.6", "colnum": "660", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": ": Vote on Account of the Civil Estimates and Defence Central Estimates, 1968–69. Debate on an Opposition Motion on the Government decision to lift the ban on imported beef. Motions on the Calf Subsidies (United Kingdom) Scheme and the (Supervision and Enforcement) Order. THURSDAY, 14TH MARCH—We shall ask the House to approve a Timetable Motion for the remaining stages of the Transport Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.660.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am putting forward immensely powerful arguments as to why there should be very much more time than the Leader of the House is prepared to agree. I remind the Leader of the House that he is responsible for time in Committee just as much as he is responsible for time on the Floor of the House. Therefore, the only reason which he can put forward is that he has put ten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I am asking the Leader of the House what possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman should hold himself in patience until I introduce the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.665.5", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that he is the Leader of the whole House on these occasions and, therefore, has an obligation to the House as a whole, not merely to one side?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.669.4", "colnum": "669", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I gathered from hearing the B.B.C. this morning that the accusation was the other way round. However, neither is true. I have been watching the progress of the Committee very carefully, as it is my job, and I came to the conclusion that we should have a timetable now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.669.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": ", however, maintain our interest in the stability of the Middle East and the Far East\". Of course we will, we have vast investments and interests in that part of the world, not least our raw materials. Over half of our oil supplies come from the Middle East, and from Arab countries. Of course we will retain interest but where is our capability? The Secretary of State has temporarily fallen asleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Equipment (Mr. Roy Mason)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Equipment (Mr. Roy Mason)", "preceding_text": "orld Wars, it was the R.A.F. aircraft programme which led the way in industrial development and in improvements in aircraft performance. Yet at the end of that process, plus the industry's contribution—good industrial organisation and production methods—the unit production cost of each aircraft had not appreciably increased. A fighter aircraft at the start of World War I, built like a Rolls-Royce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.1", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "They have been spelt out many times by detailed inquiries, especially the Plowden Report. There has been a change from a purely national production programme to an interim programme based on a combination of United States procurement and national production and a long-term pattern of joint development and production combined with either foreign procurement or national production where appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Absolutely wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I cannot at this stage prejudge the studies which are taking place at Warton, but I warn the hon. Member that the sort of aircraft which might be required might prove to be very expensive and, therefore, collaboration may be the answer if it is to be fully de-developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "ity, that greater emphasis was in future to be placed on the tasks of the Royal Air Force in the conventional rôle and that in view of changes in capabilities the R.A.F. should take over from the carriers the maritime tasks in the later 1970s. In parallel with the defence review, there was a good deal of fundamental rethinking about the size and rôle of the British aircraft industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.3", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "even by 1971, whereas under our programme there are Hercules aircraft already in operation and the whole of the Hercules force should have been delivered by the end of the summer. In fact, as my right hon. Friend said when he opened the defence debate on Monday, the Royal Air Force will be receiving more than 400 modern combat jets over the coming years as good as if not better than any in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.693.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "he is depressed about the way in which we are tackling these affairs. He remarked on the remarkably fine speech, in depth and breadth, which my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition made during the defence debate. It certainly was a fine speech. It was well thought out, and I am certain that he wrote it himself. What must our friends and allies think of us? In my travels abroad I find it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": " look as though Sweden has done well. But if it had the same defence rôles as Great Britain it would have to depend to some extent on co-operation with others. I do not think that even the Conservatives genuinely think that it was worth tabling the Motion. Judging by the number of them who have been in the Chamber in the last couple of hours, they do not seem to have much enthusiasm for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-07", "file": "debates1968-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "e9b84293c20a5971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. V. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. V. Corfield", "preceding_text": "nedy Round tariff reductions are fully effective in 1972, in the absence of this agreement, there would be some pretty difficult if not insuperable barriers to the continuance of our exploitation of what is a very valuable market. At the moment, it is not even clear what is the fate of some of the contracts already won. Certainly it has never been clear to me and even less clear in retrospect why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-07a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-08", "file": "debates1968-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "c704f5ed16fe5375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-08a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "NORTHERN ECONOMIC PLANNING REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Watkins", "preceding_text": "f hon. Members, on both sides of the House, in doing so, I hope that when my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster replies to the debate, he can indicate, even if he cannot give a definite assurance today, that we can be given an early assurance regarding the future of the Tyne, particularly in relation to the importation of iron ore. I must be coming to the end of my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-08a.872.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "RHODESIA (EXECUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "You whited sepulchre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.983.3", "colnum": "983", "heading": "RHODESIA (EXECUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I am somewhat surprised that in these circumstances there are the number of hon. Members that there are on the other side of the House who seem to be anxious somehow or other to justify what this regime has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.983.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.992.6", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Before I move the Motion which appears on the Order Paper, it would, I think, be appropriate that I should refer to the tragic death of the Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces and give expression to the regret which, I am sure, will very widely be felt at the passing of this distinguished soldier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.992.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.992.7", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "well-nigh inconceivable. Anyone who studies the right hon. Gentleman's words as well as the official appreciation of our principal ally, will know that the right hon. Gentleman is simply playing for time when he puts up his hon. Friend the Minister of Defence for Administration, as he did last Wednesday, to say that the extension in question must be measured \"only in days\"—\"from one to five days\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.992.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "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": "of the facilities in South Africa hitherto enjoyed.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 8th February, 1967; Vol. 740, c. 1619.] It seems strange morality that we should fling responsibility to someone else for a vital maritime route and then deny him the means of defending that route. It is not our function in a debate of this sort to explain the Opposition's defence policy. Most hon. Members will agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "an by retaining the carrier force. The Government have spent £31½ million so far, about £13 million on reconditioning and modernising \"Ark Royal\", £4 million on \"Eagle\", £4 million on \"Victorious\" and £9½ million on \"Hermes\". We are now told that only \"Ark Royal\", which is not to be \"phantomised\", will continue, and I understand that it will be suitable for Buccaneers and Sea Vixens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "retary of State to give the House a reason why he was so adament in turning down what we called the Harrier carriers or the Healey carriers. I have heard from members of the naval staff that when they were producing the shape of the future force, he flicked through the pages of their document, saw the words \"aircraft carrier\" and threw the document back at them for them to do their homework again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "s, and, if they could not do so because of the time factor, they invariably wrote to hon. Gentlemen giving them the answers in writing. I want to summarise the more important parts of what I have been saying and conclude by asking the Minister of Defence for Administration four specific questions. First, how will convoys of British ships be protected in a conventional war? By what, and from where?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "ndly, is it cheaper to develop a long-range surface-to-surface missile or a flat-top on the lines I have been discussing? Will not some form of maritime strike and maritime air defence have to be provided in the future? Thirdly, how many fleet submarines are being planned every year? What are the total numbers required in the future? Is it to be 10 or 20 or, as one hon. Gentleman talked about, 30?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-11", "file": "debates1968-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "c8951934debb0429", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "n raised. Naturally we are prepared to consider offers for her—my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State has said so. But prospective buyers will know that she is more than 30 years old and that large amounts of money would have to be spent on her to prepare her a further period of use. The \"Victorious\" was to be the first of the carriers to be phased out under the plans announced some time ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-11a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-12", "file": "debates1968-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7aa1878368fcd9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1156.10", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "One comes back here to the original point. The bodies who have looked at this subject now include virtually everybody connected with nuclear costings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1156.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-12", "file": "debates1968-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7aa1878368fcd9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1186.6", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1968–69", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": " the handle is heavier than ever. The size of the Ministry of Defence does not seem to diminish in step with the diminishment in the size of our forces. Indeed, at a time when our forces are being cut, the headquarters organisation seems to get larger and larger. The basic figure in the yellow paper for headquarters and outstations is £41 million in 1967–68, and it is £54 million this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1186.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-12", "file": "debates1968-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7aa1878368fcd9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1968–69", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "culty in our debate today, not for the first time, in that we are returning to debate the same Service without the benefit of the HANSARD report of the previous night's debate on it. This happened last year in exactly the same way, when, in accordance with our normal rotational practice, the Air Votes were the first to which we came. This is the second time running we have been in this difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-12", "file": "debates1968-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "7aa1878368fcd9c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1968–69", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "embers of the Board, of which I took note, and I am doing my best to deal with the matter. In that sense, it can be removed from its constancy. The position of consultants in the R.A.M.C. is satisfactory and we get as many as we want. The reason for difficult recruitment in other Corps, like R.E.M.E. and the Signals is exactly the same—the Army is competing with many other people for these skills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-12a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1369.2", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "Yes, because there has been no change of policy from that pursued by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1369.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "ORDER OF BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. A grant of Supply of this magnitude is certainly important, particularly to back benchers, but if we are discussing this in the absence of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "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": "ised. Hon. Members opposite have chosen to devote their Supply Day to our decision on meat imports. I am not complaining about this, even though there was a difficulty earlier about what we should debate today. But this choice, in a week following the Annual Farm Price Review, clearly implies that they can find little to oppose in the Review award. I appreciate this compliment from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "n order to reduce, as far as possible,\"— I stress that— the risk of any new primary outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease while the present emergency is being brought under control.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 4th December, 1967; Vol. 755, c. 998.] Already the recollection of the severe strain on our veterinary service at that time may be fading. But, for me, it was a vital question at that time of emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1401.1", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "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": " on meat imports was a supporting measure in our effort to maintain the slaughter policy and to bring the major epidemic under control. I was not pressed by the right hon. Member for Grantham to make the changes in our meat import arrangements which I made in December. In no way did he ask me to do it. I can only assume that, if he had had responsibility, he would not have introduced that measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I believe that the right hon. Gentleman is now rationalising a remark he made at that time. He said this. He is now trying to put another gloss on it, trying to suggest that he would have said something different if he had had the information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too quickly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman appreciates that we have veterinary officers out there already and that we are in discussion. In the circumstances, we have acted very quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1408.3", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I had better continue", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1408.3", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "e urgency of the matter. Clearly it will want to produce a thorough report and the House will realise that it is difficult to fix a target date before it holds its first meeting tomorrow. Hon. Members and others have referred to the possibility of an interim report. I was asked about this by the Leader of the Opposition when I made my statement. I know that some hon. Members will press me on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1408.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking. Not for the first time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Idwal Jones", "preceding_text": " the outbreak began. The Reid Report is circumstantial; the Sunday Express is final and conclusive. \"So\", according to the Sunday Express, \"the outbreak began.\" Why was the Sunday Express so certain of these conclusions? Here I must refer to the action taken by the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr. Hooson) who, once again, encroached upon matters concerning another Member's constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1422.3", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I would like to know where he got his information from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "epens because the fact that these lamb carcases arrived in Wrexham on the evening of the 24th suggests that they might have come from the earlier importation. I mention this because there appear to be signs of a great administrative muddle having occurred between the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture. No doubt inadvertently, the Minister appears to have given me wrong information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "is a coincidence that for so many years the Republic of Southern Ireland has forbidden meat imports from areas where foot-and-mouth is endemic and has been utterly free of the disease. I have still not received an adequate answer to that Question. Although Southern Ireland is overrun with tourists from all over the world, and although the same birds that fly to England can be expected to fly there", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I gave the right hon. Gentleman credit for that, though I could not give it to some of his colleagues in the same way. But that is neither here nor there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "I gave the right hon. Gentleman credit for that, though I could not give it to some of his colleagues in the same way. But that is neither here nor there. [ Interruption. ] If one looks at the Foreign Office it is a very long list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": " hon. Member will not forget that we supplemented all this information with television broadcasts, to which he paid tribute. All that having been done, it was a little unfair of him to say that there was lack of instruction. The hon. Gentleman said that there was a lack of liaison with the river hoards. This just is not true. The river boards were in no doubt about the instructions to be followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "out of the Chamber, the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) suggested that the Minister had deliberately postponed his announcement on the meat import ban till 4th March. The farmers, he said, were threatening to break off the Annual Review discussions at that time if the Minister decided to lift the ban. All I can say is that there is absolutely no truth in what the hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was a long time ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "n. The risk of introducing foot-and-mouth disease into this country in meat and other animal products has long been recognised. It is not something which occurred in the last two or three years. Following the visit of the mission headed by Lord Bledisloe in 1928, South American countries introduced regulations designed to reduce the risk of importing the virus from South America into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "ies where the disease is endemic until we have considered the conclusions of the Northumberland Committee. Second, we are taking a searching look at the safeguards on meat imports. Third, we have commissioned a full and considered study of the animal health problem. These things have all been done in the past few weeks, and my right hon. Friend is to be commended for the speed with which he acted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "in which we worked both at the Ministry and with those outside. It would not be amiss, now that the matter is being debated, if I once more expressed our thanks to the veterinary surgeons who lent assistance, not only our own, but veterinary surgeons from all over the world. I also pay tribute to the women's voluntary services, who gave assistance, and to the Forces. I thank all who have assisted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "hat. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have been taunting me and time after time I have said that production finance would be available. Yet there has not been one word about that. Instead, the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) has talked about slippage and suggested that we are responsible for slippage from the French assembled 001. The hon. Member for Woking has continually been sniping at this project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1544.3", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " had better listen to me. Time and again at Question Time he has suggested that the British Government are in some way not supporting the Concorde project and that constituted a continual action designed to shake the confidence of the world's airlines in the likelihood of Concorde coming forward. I think he was trying to make political points and shaking confidence in the likelihood of its flying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-13", "file": "debates1968-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "fce04aeaf299de97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1544.3", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "sh Government are in some way not supporting the Concorde project and that constituted a continual action designed to shake the confidence of the world's airlines in the likelihood of Concorde coming forward. I think he was trying to make political points and shaking confidence in the likelihood of its flying. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] That is my interpretation of it. I now come to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-13a.1544.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1598.4", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether he is aware that many of us on these benches believe that university students have been fairly and adequately treated under present circumstances?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM (GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We will have to see how we go in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMAND PAPER No. 3515, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I explained to the hon. Gentleman in what was very long and complicated correspondence the exact details. I do not accept that there is anything in this to correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1616.4", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMAND PAPER No. 3515, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is not good enough for a matter like this to be dealt with by way of private correspondence, which is then placed in the Library—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1616.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1616.5", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMAND PAPER No. 3515, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman now seems to have a subject of the kind of level with which he likes dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1616.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1621.0", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that, quite contrary to the views of the Opposition as expressed in the House this afternoon, a wide cross-section of public opinion in Britain now wants to see the strongest possible action in dealing with Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1622.0", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that the demeanour of the opposition party last week at this time was very similar to the reaction of by far the majority of hon. Members on this side of the House, in their shock and horror at the hangings which had taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1623.1", "colnum": "1623", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ions from. I think that what my right hon. Friend has said about the use of force is extremely wise. I think very many hon. Members in all parts of the House, firmly believing in the rule of law, which has been broken consistently since 11th November, 1965, and most flagrantly in the past fortnight, would feel justified in taking almost any measures necessary to return Rhodesia to the rule of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1624.2", "colnum": "1624", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Whilst accepting the need to maintain the confidential nature of the discussions between the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) and the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1627.4", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will be aware that his answers made clear his view that no negotiated settlement is possible in the foreseeable future. In those circumstances, is not it of the utmost importance to be absolutely clear on the question of the use of force? Following my right hon. Friend's question, will he say absolutely clearly and categorically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1627.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1627.5", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have always said that we would not consider the use of force for the purpose of imposing a constitutional settlement. That is our position. We have always opposed the use of force by anybody else. That is still our position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1629.2", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pread international feeling about what has happened during this last fortnight. I said that any settlement must be with people we can trust to maintain the rule of law and the constitution that we draw up with them, and I would have thought that the House would feel that that would not include people such as Lardner Burke, who signed that affidavit to the courts. Whatever our view of the reaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1633.4", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "That this House has no confidence in the right hon. Member for Coventry, East, as Leader of the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Has the attention of the Leader of the House been drawn to Motion 193—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, when you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows very well that that question should have been directed to the Chair and not to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Eric Fletcher)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Eric Fletcher)", "preceding_text": "It is not for the Chair to rule whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1659.7", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, did you hear the right hon. Gentleman say that all this kerfuffle which has gone on the Order Paper had been through the usual channels? Did he not say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I would like to relieve the anxieties of the hon. Lady the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward), who I know would not like that kind of thing to happen. It did not happen. I said that I had, through the usual channels, asked whether it would be acceptable to put down a complete redraft of the Motion. When I had a clear indication that it would not, I took my own decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "usual channels, asked whether it would be acceptable to put down a complete redraft of the Motion. When I had a clear indication that it would not, I took my own decision. [ Interruption. ] We put down our Amendments so that they could be discussed side by side. If the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen wish to have a well-organised time-table, or to improve it, as they are seeking by their Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1660.5", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "and hon. Gentlemen wish to have a well-organised time-table, or to improve it, as they are seeking by their Amendments—[ Interruption. ] The Opposition, in a long series of Amendments, are not opposing in principle the guillotine, but seeking to improve the timetable. All I suggested was that it was reasonable to consider these two alternative methods of dealing with the Report stage when we come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1660.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " everything twice. I have been asked to explain why we have decided that the Bill should be reported back to the House on 15th May. Before coming to my positive case on the time-tabling of the Bill, I will deal with the arguments of the hon. Member for Worcester. They come down to three main points. First, he contends that this is not a single Bill. He does not regard it as a single Bill but as a—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ting my whole case. He knows full well, first, concerning the inland waterways section, which is seemingly so important to this policy, that that could have gone to another Committee this Session perfectly reasonably and sensibly and had its own Second Reading. Concerning quantity licensing, the right hon. Gentleman knows full well that my case was that the Minister herself is on record as saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quiet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, how long is the hon. Gentleman to be permitted to go on without exhausting his right to speak altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, how long is the hon. Gentleman to be permitted to go on without exhausting his right to speak altogether? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Quiet.\"] Is it not necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More White Papers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Two weeks earlier. The Labour Government managed to get the Steel Bill into Committee far earlier. The only reason given by the Minister for the Bill being so late was that she was anxious to publish White Papers in order to tell us more about the Bill. If that was the purpose, I should have thought there was more justification and need for more ammunition to debate its various concepts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "n voted to go on sitting. On one occasion the Government abstained and on the second the Government voted down the Opposition and stopped the sitting at 11 o'clock at night. I wonder if the Leader of the House can quote a precedent for that. Let us examine the progress made. The Leader of the House tried to give the impression that progress had gone rather slowly and that this was a justification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " which were taken up by adjournments, breaks for dinner, and so on. So the actual time until the guillotine was announced was 80½ hours. In that 80½ hours the Committee got through 37 Clauses, six Schedules and 488 Amendments. I defy the Leader of the House to name any controversial Bill in Parliamentary history where such progress has been made. Can the Leader of the House name one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "inner, and so on. So the actual time until the guillotine was announced was 80½ hours. In that 80½ hours the Committee got through 37 Clauses, six Schedules and 488 Amendments. I defy the Leader of the House to name any controversial Bill in Parliamentary history where such progress has been made. Can the Leader of the House name one? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer \"] Can the Minister do so?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1681.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "have not yet been reached. As with all guillotine Motions, the effect of this Motion will be to curtail or even to prevent discussion of the most important parts of the Bill. It is most essential that there should be discussion of the vital parts of Bills. Here I part company with the Government. It was quite wrong for the Committee stage of a Bill of this magnitude to begin at the end of January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "the House that there are 80 Members on the Government side who never take part in Committee work, and there are 90 such Members on the Opposition side. I hope that that will give hon. Members food for serious thought. During the past few weeks, I have met a number of transport workers and directors of companies who have put their views about the Bill to me. I have found them to be very reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1710.4", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "I must apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1710.6", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " half of it, because it was a remarkable performance. I think that most of us, at least on this side of the House, are becoming dimly conscious of the fact that it happens from time to time, and of course the hon. Gentleman never seeks to delve too deeply into the subject under discussion. It is rather like a Punch and Judy show, with the punch left out. The right hon. Gentleman will have to find—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1710.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "My point was that he was unassuming on the back benches. I want to close now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "n than the few remarks I was seeking to make. I am protesting about the curtailment of the debate because I do not believe that the very real and special interests of outlying areas will now have a proper hearing. It is in that connection that I want to make a short speech. I shall take just two industries as examples of those which will not now be able to have their interests properly ventilated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1725.5", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Bristol?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": " the subjects which will be adversely affected by the Bill and that is why I protest against the curtailment of the proceedings. We shall not be able fully to debate the question of drivers' hours. This is a vital matter for my part of the country because there are no mass metropolitan markets within 300 miles of the producers there. The only market within 100 miles of my constituency is Plymouth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the Bill in detail carefully and sensibly without filibustering. We are told that 40 or 50 hours a week is too long. Does the Leader of the House appreciate that within the Bill we are making provision for drivers to have a working week not of 40 or 50 hours, but of 60 hours? Is he seriously saying that on this vital Bill we should not be able to work the same working week in Committee as drivers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He cannot take it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": " morning. However, for sheer exuberant irresponsibility, his hon. Friends behind him have excelled because in Early Day Motion 197, which appeared before the right hon. Gentleman's Motion and which was signed by 111 hon. Gentlemen, it was stated: The House welcomes the decision of the Leader of the House \"— and I regret that the right hon. Gentleman has decided to leave the Chamber at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "he failure of the Opposition to consume the hours that they demanded. I suggest to hon. Gentlemen opposite that this is rather significant when we are trying to examine whether the attacks or criticisms that have been so vigorously levelled against us tonight are sincere. Our debates on Parts I, II and III of the Bill took up less time than the hon. Member for Worcester had demanded of me when he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1748.3", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "wanted to safeguard an allocation of time appropriate to their controversial nature. I admit that when I wrote to the hon. Gentleman on 29th February, I made this point clear. I said to him that I was anxious to provide enough time for discussion of all the substantial points arising in the Bill, and believed that we had achieved this on Part I, within the time which I had provisionally allocated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1748.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.11", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Noise does not help us to solve a problem for which the Chair was entirely in the wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.12", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. [ Interruption. ] It is for the Chair to interrupt the business. The responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.12", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " the Chair to interrupt the business. The responsibility—[ Interruption. ] Order. The responsibility is entirely the Chair's. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order. Mere shouting does not take away from what I have been saying. The responsibility for interrupting the business of the House is that of the Chair. The Chair made an error. I am asking the House to let me make good my error by putting the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.12", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " the House is that of the Chair. The Chair made an error. I am asking the House to let me make good my error by putting the Motion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—by allowing me to put the Motion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members might at least pay the respect to the Chair to listen to what I am saying—[ Interruption. ] Order—by allowing the Chair to put the Motion that he ought to have put at 10 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1759.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1760.5", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us be quite clear. I appreciate the efforts of hon. Members to absolve the Chair from the responsibility. I have said several times that the responsibility is entirely the Chair's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1760.5", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us be quite clear. I appreciate the efforts of hon. Members to absolve the Chair from the responsibility. I have said several times that the responsibility is entirely the Chair's. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order. The attempt to protect the Chair is moving, but the Chair was guilty; and the error was the Chair's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1760.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1761.4", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am aware that when faults are committed by either side of the House the other side has the right to punish it. In this case the fault is entirely Mr. Speaker's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1761.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1761.5", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "the greatest respect to you, Mr. Speaker, I think that all hon. Members will be aware that you were then engaged in conversation with another hon. Member and clearly had not noticed the passage of time. It is within my recollection, at any rate, that some of my right hon. Friends did their best at that time to attract your attention, since they recognised the significance of what was taking place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1761.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. What is making it the late hour of 12 minutes—or now 13 minutes—past 10 o'clock is the fact that I have been addressed on points of order ever since just after 10 o'clock. Therefore, I would still hope that as the responsibility is entirely mine the House would allow me to put the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, shut up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.1", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \" Hear, hear.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "t up.\"] In all humility, Mr. Speaker, may I ask you to tell us of any instances where the specific Motion which should have been moved by the Prime Minister or the Patronage Secretary at 10 o'clock has ever been put by the Chair more than a minute—perhaps I should say 15 minutes, but let me go back to the original time—after it should have been moved? Is it not the duty of the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.2", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the answer is this: It is the duty of Mr. Speaker to keep the House in order. It is Mr. Speaker who has violated the Orders of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.3", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the answer is this: It is the duty of Mr. Speaker to keep the House in order. It is Mr. Speaker who has violated the Orders of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]Order—by his error in not calling for the interruption of business at 10 o'clock. The error is mine and Mr. Speaker must take responsibility for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.4", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The House finds itself in a very difficult position. You have taken it upon yourself to say that it is entirely your responsibility to interrupt business, which you failed to do until two minutes after 10 o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1762.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1763.3", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand that, when I was putting the Question, I did not make clear that I was asking the leave of the House to do so. I thought that I had made that clear in my response to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition. It is with the leave of the House that I put it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1763.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1763.6", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the proceedings on the Motion relating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1763.6", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the proceedings on the Motion relating—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—to the Transport Bill (Allocation of Time), may be entered upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1763.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1764.5", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As many as are of the contrary opinion say \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1764.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1769.1", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "see that the Foreign Secretary has only just rolled up from wherever he has been, so he had better keep quiet for a start. Having got in a chaotic mess about this procedure and a chaotic mess about the guillotine procedure, with seven Amendments of their own put in at the last moment, I suppose the next thing that the Government will do, with the Minister's usual double talk—I do not see her here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1769.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": " swallow so much dirt by the Government that they are beginning to lose their sense of taste. This Bill is a case of tacking 10 Bills into one. Why should they not go further and have all the Bills of each Session in one Measure as the only way to get them through? What would hon. Gentlemen say if we were doing this tacking and guillotining? We obviously did not allow anything like so little time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1773.1", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Take your hands out of your pockets.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Gardner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. With great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1773.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "Although it would not take us much further, I support the Amendment. It would give us at least a little more time in which to discuss this vicious Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "t least a little more time in which to discuss this vicious Bill—[ Interruption. ] It is a vicious and vindictive Measure aimed to do as much damage as possible to the private sector. It has been presented by a Minister with an inborn hatred of private trading, and she is determined to rush the Bill through as fast as possible. Neither the right hon. Lady nor the Leader of the House has a mandate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1774.0", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "ader of the House has been demonstrated time and again. It occurs every Thursday when he makes his business statement. He must realise what is going on behind his back all the time. On many occasions the right hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) has flouted his own benches. Had the right hon. Lady—who, I am sorry to see, is leaving her place—and the Leader of the House taken the trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1775.1", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "n, they would realise the bitter hatred there is of this Bill, not only among employers but among employees. I wonder whether the Leader of the House realises what is being said about this Bill by car workers in Coventry, East. I can guess what they are saying. I wonder what transport drivers in Blackburn are saying about the right hon. Lady. I do not think she will be their favourite pin-up girl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1775.2", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "er. In view of the fact that the House is sitting only by the courtesy of hon. Members on this side, any one of whom could have shouted \"No\" and Mr. Speaker would have been unable to put the Question, does it not ill become any hon. Member on the Government benches to make any comment? They would have lost the Motion had it not been for the willingness and courtesy shown by this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And half-baked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "I know that hon. Members opposite do not like to hear the truth. The truth is that this Bill is unpopular in the country and it is more unpopular because the discussions on it are being curtailed. A few days ago an hon. Member—not the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale—suggested that the opposition to this Bill was half-hearted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": "riends from such organisations. For example, the Sheet Steel and Tinplate Stockholders, Merchants and Exporters say in reference to the proposed extra levy on all lorries over three tons unladen weight: With regard to the proposed extra levy on all lorries over 3 tons unladen, whatever the theoretical justification for a wear and tear on roads' tax, there is little doubt that the proposal …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1776.1", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dance", "preceding_text": " will have a monopoly, then what is left over can be taken by hauliers. In both instances road vehicles will be subject to an iniquitous wear and tear' tax in addition to the Road Fund Tax. These people want their viewpoint put forward. Under the Leader of the House's iniquitous proposal their viewpoint will not be put forward. A car dealer in my constituency brings out many points about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1776.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1779.0", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not Saturdays?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ond—that if the Committee were to meet on Mondays from 10.30 a.m. to 10.30 p.m., that would be 12 hours; on Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 12 midnight, that would be eight hours; on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 12 midnight, that would be 14 hours; on Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 12 midnight, that would be eight hours; and on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., that would be eight hours. That is a total of 50 hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"A great mistake.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "preceding_text": " team on the buses, and a team on road haulage. I am a member of the team on road haulage. We have been possessing ourselves in almost complete silence and patience throughout the debates on the early Clauses. It would have been very easy to join in a filibuster and obstruct, but because we knew that the Minister might threaten us with a guillotine at some stage we made a point of not obstructing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Daniel Awdry", "preceding_text": "try will judge. Those of us specialising in road haulage have been taking the trouble to go round the country meeting industrialists and delegations and reading memoranda from people who will be affected by the road haulage provisions. The Minister suggests that the outcry is synthetic. She is utterly wrong. If she had been up in Aberdeen the other night when I spoke at a meeting of road hauliers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1781.2", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "She goes against their advice.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Awdry", "preceding_text": "ructure of our transport system. One of the difficulties of hon. Members s that our procedures here are somewhat out of date. For example, if we had a Specialist Committee on transport, those of us who are interested in transport—and I am pleased to call myself one—might have an opportunity to meet the experts and civil servants who advise the Minister, and the economists who are called in by her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1781.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1783.0", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "duty to see that legislation is not put on the Statute Book without proper Parliamentary discussion. This has been a fundamental duty and responsibility of Parliament through the ages. It is one in regard to which the Government are in shameful dereliction in the course that they are commending to the House and for which they will, no doubt, rely on the slavish obedience of hon. Members opposite.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1783.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1787.0", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "She has. She is not here.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " that responsibility, one can foresee that the time might well come when we shall reach the point where a clerk, or some independent person who is capable of looking in a judicial way, is appointed so that claims for extended time, such as we make now, can be justified. I submit that the case has been duly made and we should have a time extension. The right hon. Lady, the Minister. has not budged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1796.2", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "Yes, and how right he was, since he well knows the Patronage Secretary because it was he who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1796.6", "colnum": "1796", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I wanted to finish that one sentence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1796.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "ed, in an attempt to find out the extent of the opposition to the Bill, that many members of the T. and G.W.U. oppose it. They are anxious that we should carefully discuss the Measure. Unfortunately the Minister has not yet returned to the Chamber. However, the right hon. Lady has many qualifications, although I am not certain what they are. Whatever they are, she does not have a licence to drive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1797.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1797.2", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief. A common theme has run through the speeches of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1797.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "when my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker) had been dealing with the guillotine provisions. The right hon. Lady had just returned to the Committee room and chided my hon. Friend with these words: The hon. Gentleman's reference to my absence on Ministerial duty come amiss from someone … Hon. Members can read it for themselves. I promised to be brief and it is irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " returned to the Committee room and chided my hon. Friend with these words: The hon. Gentleman's reference to my absence on Ministerial duty come amiss from someone … Hon. Members can read it for themselves. I promised to be brief and it is irrelevant. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member who will never be seen here again might remain silent. It is the rest of the quotation that is irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1799.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "eded by the Government. The right hon. Lady, to the surprise of those of us who are not accustomed to listening to her on Standing Committee, ended her speech with a notable peroration. She said: \"We are being generous\". Of course, anyone on the Standing Committee who has bitter experience of having had generosity squeezed out of her might take leave to doubt it. But, of course, we simple fellows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " into the habit of the Leader of the House and misquoting her, I am open to correction. Failing that correction she said: \"We want this Bill fully debated\". Does not the Amendment offer just that opportunity, or at least offer a partial debate and fuller debate than is now available? Why should the Minister not be as good as her word? She ended with this remarkable sentence. It was a fine trilogy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "od as her word? She ended with this remarkable sentence. It was a fine trilogy—[ Interruption. ] My hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir J. Eden) should really accept these pearls, which fell from the right hon. Lady's lips, and not from mine. She ended this trilogy: \"Because we are united behind it\". What a great relief it is to all of us to know that they are united behind anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1802.4", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ying that if when she uttered that great trilogy the right hon. Lady meant any one or all those three things she should accede to the Amendment. I hope now that by his silence, hard won though it is, the hon. Gentleman is beginning to show that he is creeping slowly up behind the argument. It had been my intention to draw to the attention of the House to one or two passages of this lamentable Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1802.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1802.6", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I was not trying to debate the substance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1802.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1802.8", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "owed to express with profound respect and even greater relief that your competitors are not successful. I am not trying to debate the merits. I am only mentioning a point concerning the Isles of Scilly. There are masses of points in the Schedules which should be fully discussed. Some of the language is fairly abominable. For instance, Schedule 15, picked at random, seems to me a fairly unpleasant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1802.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1803.3", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "only congratulate the Minister on her monumental patience with a team who—and I say this in all humility—obviously regard their oratory and wit as talented in the extreme. All I am going to do is deal with the smaller portions of the arguments which relate to the Amendment. I would like to mention the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Flint. West (Mr. Birch) who speaks only rarely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "When the Leader of the House says something, one must examine the small print very carefully. If one reads HANSARD carefully, it will be found that he did not say that we would be able to have more hours during the seven weeks. He suggested that we might consider one week in which we might have more hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1808.2", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "eader of the House says something, one must examine the small print very carefully. If one reads HANSARD carefully, it will be found that he did not say that we would be able to have more hours during the seven weeks. He suggested that we might consider one week in which we might have more hours. [ Interruption. ] Is he suggesting that we should do far more than 12 hours? I am willing to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1818.2", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "t to consider the second selected Amendment. I do not want to fight old battles, but it is only through the consideration of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition that we are in this position at all. In these circumstances, the Ministers should allow hon. Gentlemen to consider these important Amendments fully at an hour when they can exercise the degree of intelligence which they have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1818.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1819.3", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh. no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lubbock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1819.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.4", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is offside.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Maidstone (Mr. John Wells) is speaking from the Side Gallery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.6", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "My point of order, Mr. Speaker, concerns the paragraph on page 460 of Erskine May which states: Members are not to read books, newspapers or letters in their places … This rule, however, must now be understood with some limitation\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.12", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "The Minister, in a brief intervention, accused the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker) of not wishing to stay up late and of hoping to bring the debate to a conclusion. We on this bench do not mind how late we sit. I am sure that I speak for my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.12", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "nother day. The Leader of the House has invented a procedure whereby it could be discussed in the morning if necessary. We are not saying that the Motion can never be debated, but that an opportunity should be given to hon. Members to consider those Amendments which have been tabled and decide their attitude in the light of consultations they may care to have with their advisers outside the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1820.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1822.2", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1826.3", "colnum": "1826", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "I heard somebody say that I was glad, or that you, Mr. Speaker, were glad—although I am sure that it was meant for me—of the seriousness of the economic situation. That is a foul remark which ought to be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1826.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1841.3", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "nlike the right hon. Lady who will not give way to me, I am prepared to do so. I shall want to look at the help he has given to the Committee. One of the reasons why the Committee has been held up on so many occasions is that half the time we have had to explain to the Minister of State what the Bill is about. When he has understood that, we have had to explain why it was wrong in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1843.4", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "I withdraw it. In fact, the hon. Gentleman knows full well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1843.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1849.4", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I explain what I am trying to put to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1850.3", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "tter in Committee. The Amendment to the Bill was put down this morning because the Government have changed their minds half way through our proceedings in Committee. It will have the widest repercussions on the Passenger Transport Authorities, which have already been discussed in Committee, and on Report we shall want to examine the effects. What we tried to do at the beginning of our discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1850.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1854.4", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "ay that because he so convinced the House that it was not proper to have five days, but to have 12. It is surely not too much to ask for one day for Report on each of these 10 Bills. The right hon. Lady will recall what I am referring to, and I think she will also agree that one-tenth of a day is not too much for the Third Reading. Yet we are now asked to deal with that in a most exceptional way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1854.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1854.4", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "pt a Committee stage which is wholly inadequate. It is important to deal with the Bill properly, but that is quite impossible on a short Committee stage and to be cut down on Report stage as well will only mean that this Bill will be turned into a statute in a shockingly bad state. It is a bad Bill now, and we shall not have an opportunity to improve it. Had we succeeded on the earlier Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1854.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1856.0", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "LONDON GOLD MARKET (CLOSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "The Statement which the Chancellor has made is obviously one of considerable gravity as well as of great importance. The events which we have seen in the last few days are in fact some of the consequences of the devaluation of the pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1856.0", "colnum": "1856", "heading": "LONDON GOLD MARKET (CLOSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "one which is closing? Could I also ask him whether there is to be a similar operation of Bank holidays in other countries as well as in this country, or is this only the decision of the British Government? Could I ask him if he will give firm assurances to the general public, as I am sure he is able to do, that, of course, the stability of the domestic banking system remains absolutely unimpaired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1865.3", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van. Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van. Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend's point of order finds an echo on both sides of the House. Very few hon. Members are not aware of how utterly unrelated this sort of discussion is to the economic situation. I am obliged to speak to the Amendment, which I bitterly resent having to do against the background of the statement we have just had from the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1866.0", "colnum": "1866", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Wokingham (Mr. van Straubenzee) rightly said that this is a very important Amendment to a very important guillotine Motion on a very important Bill, but there is an air of unreality because we know that the Bill may not see the light of day and this Government may not see the summer out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1866.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1870.3", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "the House is sufficiently broad-minded when he has drastically curtailed discussion on the Committee stage, to allow more time on the Report stage. He seems to know very little, but is he aware that for several sittings of the Committee, because of the unfortunate indisposition of the Minister of State, Scottish Office, we have not had a Scottish Minister to deal with important Scottish questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-14", "file": "debates1968-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "52e9eddba243da04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "this Bill, but our hon. Friends who have just as many interests with special problems, want the same opportunity to say how the Bill affects the jobs of their constituents and the industries and passenger transport in their constituencies. The Minister said that we shall have plenty time, that we must not have the outrage of sitting for 50 hours a week, as we have suggested. The Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-14a.1871.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-15", "file": "debates1968-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "936768528ea43bb9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-15a.1996.2", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAMING ESTABLISHMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-15a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I understand that there was a misunderstanding of some figures given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "We are conducting talks with the Argentine about the long-term future of these islands in accordance with and in the spirit of the United Nations resolution, to which I should think both sides of the House would pay respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "GROSVENOR SQUARE (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the legal definition of a riot is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.37.3", "colnum": "37", "heading": "GROSVENOR SQUARE (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Home Secretary ought to know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the legal definition of a riot is. [HON. MEMBERS: \"oh.\"] I would not care to give my definition this afternoon without notice, because I believe that it has certain legal and technical qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.37.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "maintenance of full employment, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there will be relief at this agreement and appreciation for the part which representatives of this country played in arriving at the bargain? I have certain short-term questions to put to him. First, does he regard the American undertaking to maintain the price of 35 dollars an ounce as of a permanent or temporary significance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " the price of 35 dollars an ounce as of a permanent or temporary significance? [ Interruption. ] Since this is a question to which at least the Chancellor will have addressed his mind in the last three days, does he regard the undertaking as one of permanent duration or of temporary duration? What are the implications of the latest standby credit for our freedom of manoeuvre in thiscountry? Third—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.45.2", "colnum": "45", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e are advantages in being the most important market in the world, but there is also the disadvantage that when a situation like this arises it may be more necessary to take steps to allow a stabilisation to occur in that market than elsewhere. Although I attach importance to this, and it was certainly the unanimous desire of the Conference that the London Gold Market should be closed for a period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.45.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "There is certainly a possibility of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was she consulted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I think that it is clear from what happened on Friday that, with the London Gold Market closed, the amount of gold deals is very greatly reduced indeed. The London Gold Market has facilities which it will retain. I hope that it can open and retain its business in a fortnight's time. South Africa was not represented by her central bankers at Washington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.47.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.54.5", "colnum": "54", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE MOTION (THURSDAY, 14th MARCH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ve given in reply are that the proceedings at 10 o'clock last Thursday night were unfortunate and certainly should never be regarded either in the near or distant future as forming any sort of precedent. I hope that my directions in this unhappy matter will commend themselves to the House generally. May I again express my profound regret to the House, and my sincere appreciation of its generosity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.54.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "s, in a sense, because of it. It is in just such a situation that it is essential for Cabinet Government to be maintained if democracy is to be assured, and equally it is in just such a situation that temptation to depart from it is at its greatest. Power can very easily pass not merely from Cabinet to one or two Ministers, but effectively to sources quite outside the political control altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.58.5", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "considerable part of the country, and there are large numbers of hon. Members who would wish to speak, had we more time. Without any disrespect to the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who I see sitting on the Government Front Bench, I must start by expressing our amazement that, on this important subject, the Government have not chosen a Cabinet Minister to reply to the Debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.58.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "ce again. We must continue to realise—I think that the right hon. Gentleman admitted this—that unemployment in most of the development areas is still much higher than it is outside in the areas which he called grey areas. The real local employment problem in the next two years or so will be in the really seriously hit pit closure areas which are, in almost every case, inside the development areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "er count in the indictment which I direct at hon. Members opposite. The position was better in 1966, when our share became one-eighth. But that is not the end of the indictment. I was a Member from 1959 to 1964, and time and again from the Opposition benches I urged that something be done. So much so that I was called by hon. Members opposite and by some people in the constituency \"Dismal Daniel\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ince the Labour Government came to power we have had in North East Lancashire my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, the President of the Board of Trade, the Minister of Transport, the Minister of Health and the Minister of State, Board of Trade. I do not think that so many people in authority have visited the area in all its history. I do not pretend that the total effect has been satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "lone in Burnley we have over 300 research and development engineers, who have made a handsome contribution to aviation through their engines for quite a long period. Another firm has produced a most ingenious dough-making process for bread. The United Nations should be vitally concerned about products of this kind, with about two-thirds of the world's population living in a sub-standard condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " having Select Committees for these areas so that hon. Members could bring much more effective pressure to bear in their investigations and in their representations to Ministers. It is often difficult to get details about regional proposals. Select Committees which could bring forward and examine witnesses on regional developments are long overdue and should be urgently considered. One last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Beeching?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "epresentations to Ministers. It is often difficult to get details about regional proposals. Select Committees which could bring forward and examine witnesses on regional developments are long overdue and should be urgently considered. One last point—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—I have waited a long time to make it. I have great fears about some of the effects of the Transport Bill on rural areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Alan Williams)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Alan Williams)", "preceding_text": "all-Davis) on what I believe is his first appearance on the Opposition Front Bench? I hope this first appearance will be followed by many more. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) objected that there was no Cabinet Minister present. Quite frankly, having listened to most of the speeches from the Opposition, I do not think that a Cabinet Minister was necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND DEFENCE (CENTRAL) ESTIMATE, 1968–69 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will come to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND DEFENCE (CENTRAL) ESTIMATE, 1968–69 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "n will listen carefully. I will repeat what I said. I never said one word about the B.B.C. paying more. That is a separate issue. I said that the transaction here consists of increasing the licence fee. If the licence fee were not increased, the constant cost, whatever it is, of running the B.B.C. would have to be borne out of public expenditure. Assuming no increase in cost at all, the very fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND DEFENCE (CENTRAL) ESTIMATE, 1968–69 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "larity for supporting individual items. Then they realise, in relation to tomorrow's events, that that total has to be paid for, and it is the paying for it which hon. Gentlemen opposite, particularly the hon. Gentleman the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne), object to. What every sensible society has realised is that what an individual wants mostly is provided by the community. It is much cheaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-18", "file": "debates1968-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "23ca3feb79706f41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.174.2", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME TAX (NON-RESIDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "is all that the Order does. Much as I should like to, I am not able to engage in debate on the consequences of the Anglo-American Double Taxation Agreement, although I have debated with the hon. Member for Wan-stead and Woodford (Mr. Patrick Jenkin) on that subject. The simple object of this Order is to preserve in force the relief granted to taxpayers. This is the Revenue in its generous aspect.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-18a.174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.215.11", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cordle", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that there are 19 acres of land available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.215.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.218.9", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "Urgent cases are admitted without delay. We also have to take account of the fact that this type of operation for adenoids and tonsils is a matter of some controversy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.218.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. It has been guillotined.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that this matter has been and is being very fully debated in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the many communications received by hon. Members on this side in support of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT 1965 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "deration of this and the fact that the Chancellor is shortly to follow, I shall be extremely brief, but I believe that there is a case, before we consider short-term financial measures, for considering important matters which will remain long after the speculators and their activities are forgotten. The Bill is simple. It provides for the option of pensions at 60 instead of 65. This does not mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " would prefer to see it confirmed on a better attended day. I therefore propose to table an enabling Clause in the Finance Bill, which will no doubt be debated and voted upon at Report stage on the Floor of the House. The Clause, although presented in the Bill for convenience, will not be a normal Government Clause. There will be a completely free vote on this side of the House—even for Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " even thought up a few additional ones of my own. But I eventually decided that in a year when I was asking for many sacrifices from many people, one of the sacrifices which I should impose upon myself was the abandonment of a widespread search for novelty. I decided this for three reasons. First, the successful introduction of a new method of taxation requires a great deal of careful preparation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "r many sacrifices from many people, one of the sacrifices which I should impose upon myself was the abandonment of a widespread search for novelty. I decided this for three reasons. First, the successful introduction of a new method of taxation requires a great deal of careful preparation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] The broad economic consequences should be carefully and calmly thought through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ard, cold, Budget, which has increased the burdens upon the British people by £923 million—more than two and a half times the maximum which any Chancellor of the Exchequer has ever imposed in one Budget before, and this from a leading member of a Government whose Prime Minister and whose present Home Secretary promised the country in March, 1966 that there would be no general increase in taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "uer has ever imposed in one Budget before, and this from a leading member of a Government whose Prime Minister and whose present Home Secretary promised the country in March, 1966 that there would be no general increase in taxation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] Since the Labour Government came to power 3½ years ago, they have imposed £2,260 million-worth of extra taxation on the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " what can the Chancellor show, either by way of giving incentives and encouragement to help industry or to lift the burdens to help encourage exports or import saving? He can show nothing whatever in this Budget. The right hon. Gentleman said that the object is to make devaluation work. This is, in fact, only part of the object. The real object is to cover up the Government's failures in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "laries can be fixed freely and effectively without statutory interference by the Government. It is a cover for the fact that the Government's creditors insist on a stiff, tough statutory policy for wages. No doubt this is a condition of the additional standby. The Government have put Britain in pawn, and the Government must stomach it. I for one, and many others in this country, bitterly resent it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.304.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.306.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.306.6", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—and even more I despise the men on the Front Bench opposite who have brought us to this humiliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.306.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "tent throughout in opposing this policy of reliance on statutory controls. We are convinced that it is wrong in principle—that the Government are wrong in using such compulsion—and we now see its failure in practice. We have no confidence whatever in the undertakings which the Government give about the use of these powers and we will continue to oppose them, and to oppose the Government's demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "at it is wrong in principle—that the Government are wrong in using such compulsion—and we now see its failure in practice. We have no confidence whatever in the undertakings which the Government give about the use of these powers and we will continue to oppose them, and to oppose the Government's demands. [ Interruption. ] I tell the Chancellor that. I am quite prepared for a tough incomes policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.307.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.308.8", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.308.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-19", "file": "debates1968-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "789b98f96a4b0a14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "As hon. Gentlemen opposite below the Gangway know full well, in the process of operating this policy the friction created in industrial relations will be immense and the control of the trade unions will pass to the militants rather than to those who can help the economy. If this Government are allowed to survive long enough to bring Britain to the brink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-19a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "CHINA (DETAINED BRITISH SUBJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have not myself taken that action yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.430.7", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was the Minister of Labour then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "pens to unemployment. This is the graph which is watched most anxiously on both sides of the House of Commons. I am not concerned about the figures which, I think, come out tomorrow. The February-March month is usually the best month of the year, as winter begins to slip behind us. In 1963, for example, a special year because of the winter, there was a drop in those months of no less than 176,300.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.430.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.430.7", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": " diminishing returns, it follows that one must look for a wider base of taxation upon consumption. I know of the difficulties, as the right hon. Gentleman does, of collection at so many different points, but I think there is an answer, or at least a partial answer, by having a cut-off at a resonable level. There are many points of detail. But if this analysis is generally commendable to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.430.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "on and ask for a release of capital. On tobacco, I had hoped for a duty stamp on cigarettes, releasing and encouraging pipe tobacco and cigars, but these are Committee points. Perhaps the most tragic thing about the Budget—I repeat that I think that the Chancellor had to raise enormous sums because of the devastating economic situation which this Government and their predecessors have got us into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.476.7", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "sition. Increases in gas and electricity prices and in postal charges have been announced. The price of gas in Scotland is already 24 per cent. higher than in any other region, and now an additional burden is to be put on Scottish people by the Budget. I earnestly counsel the Chancellor to consider the special problems of Scotland and the other parts of the country classified as development areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.476.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "lism. It is Jenkinsism within the meaning of our party constitution. Going in the same direction, they have to adopt policies of more indirect taxation because the ultimate of the argument for selectivity within our society is of necessity the complete abolition of direct tax. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said yesterday that the Budget must work without impairing the running of a mixed economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": " public spending, the Chancellor probably had no choice but to err in his Budget on the side of caution and to take serious risks. I shall come to those risks in a moment, but first I wish to discuss one or two details of the Budget proposals. The increase in the duty on spirits, and on Scotch whisky in particular, is a piece of sheer folly. It will not increase revenue. It is likely to reduce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.525.3", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "I do not think that such a consideration would encumber the minds of the Cabinet. The hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great respect, is perhaps displaying a little of the cynicism for which this House is being rightly criticised by the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.525.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have to vote on them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "r raising the global sum fair and reasonable? Here I do not want to descend to details because many of the questions asked will be better considered when the Finance Bill has been published. It would be a waste of the time of the House to argue details of taxes not yet fully stated in statutory form and in respect of which the precise interpretation in legislation will be available for discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "d will be better considered when the Finance Bill has been published. It would be a waste of the time of the House to argue details of taxes not yet fully stated in statutory form and in respect of which the precise interpretation in legislation will be available for discussion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We have to vote on them.\"] The general nature of the taxes is indicated sufficiently in the Resolutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "waste of the time of the House to argue details of taxes not yet fully stated in statutory form and in respect of which the precise interpretation in legislation will be available for discussion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We have to vote on them.\"] The general nature of the taxes is indicated sufficiently in the Resolutions. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Do hon. Members want me to engage in long and tedious detail?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "policy, which in itself is a means of curbing demand to make room for exports. There has been no criticism of my right hon. Friend's decision to add not a penny, even at this hour of difficulty, to any tax on anybody's earnings. There has been a certain amount of critcism of the S.E.T. Unfortunately, this criticism has not been accompanied by any suggestion for an alternative means of raising tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " critcism of the S.E.T. Unfortunately, this criticism has not been accompanied by any suggestion for an alternative means of raising tax. [ Interruption. ] It is all right saying \"Come off it\", but the fact remains that it is the easiest thing in the world to dismiss the tax in a sweeping phrase. I accept that it has many anomalies, but, unhappily, so have most taxes. It may have more than others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.539.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "er when the right hon. Gentleman was speaking, and I am very happy that he has so succinctly made good my omission. In the light of what he said, I shall withdraw that criticism, at any rate in relation to him. There is a good deal of attraction in the general payroll tax, and it might well be considered as an alternative to S.E.T., but is there all that revolutionary a difference between the two?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-20", "file": "debates1968-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "14e80bc84b44a118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ion of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) comes about, namely, that there is some form of deflation in the United States, all that is required from the United States is to make some noticeable reduction in its deficit, running presently towards 5 billion dollars a year. If it reduced by 2 or 3 billion dollars, this would have a striking effect on confidence in the dollar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-20a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-21", "file": "debates1968-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "2a8173972c392a06", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-21a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSPILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that if all Departments, including No. 10 Downing Street, were to overspill their present tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-21a.596.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.895.2", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "It is true that some burden fell upon the motor car industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.895.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "for the pressures for increased public expenditure in a democracy are so great that counter-pressures are welcome. But I know from long experience that it lasts one week—Budget week: the week when we must have regard to paying the bill. For the remaining 51 weeks my colleagues and I will be subject to endless pressure by individuals and groups to increase public expenditure in one form or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ds overkill ' Budget and the sentence To have gone higher would have been to indulge in sadistic overkill'. The Economist on Friday, after condeming what is called this appalling nonsense of an incomes non-policy, went on to say that it has clearly obliged Mr. Jenkins to go for some overkill in his tax take. On the other hand, in yesterday's Sunday Times, Mr. Malcolm Crawford, the economic editor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "of problems arise. What about the child who saves out of any earnings he may have? Is this the time to tell young people that it is not worth their while saving until they are 21? And then consider the extreme case of a juvenile pop star who has enormous amounts of unearned income from say royalties? Will that money be aggregated with the earnings of his father, who might be a poor miner in Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ct of wage increases of 4 and 5 per cent. There was his talk in 1963 about the amount of slack in the economy and the need for a 7, 8 or 9 per cent. growth. He doubted in 1963 whether the Budget was sufficiently reflationary. In 1964 he talked about not snuffing out the boom. That is a remark to remember in view of what has been said more recently about 1964. However, I will resist the temptation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "but what would not, I believe, be defensible would be to pay higher family allowances for the poorer families with children at the expense purely of richer taxpayers with children and not at all at the expense of the richer taxpayer without children. I never could see why richer taxpayers without children should go free in this operation. The rest of the money ought to come from general taxation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We still are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "tarted. At stake then was not only the value of the £ but the question of whether the British people would be allowed to have a Government of their own choice. There was at that time a great democratic principle at stake. I am referring to the time just before the run on the £ to the time when we were seeking to implement the elementary social advantages that we had promised to the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " fallen by no less than one-third over the last 10 years. One can attack the United States for the crisis which came before us—for being, if one likes, insufficiently worldly wise. There are various aspects of American policy about which we hear so much in Grosvenor Square and other places, but sometimes we should congratulate the United States on bearing the whole defence of the free world alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.985.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Front Benches do not need any help from either side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.4", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It was not for me to begin to judge the relative importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.7", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It is not—[ Interruption. ]—What I have every intention of saying, however long I have to wait for silence, is that when a Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.9", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "What I am going to say is that the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1038.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lower taxes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ism, the details of the Budget proposals themselves. First, there is the no-incentive argument, much stressed by the right hon. Member for Barnet. The contribution of this Budget to incentives is to make this big shift in demand without any increase at all in the rates of tax on earned income. That is something which is not contemplated in the United States if and when they get their tax increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "tressed by the right hon. Member for Barnet. The contribution of this Budget to incentives is to make this big shift in demand without any increase at all in the rates of tax on earned income. That is something which is not contemplated in the United States if and when they get their tax increase. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Lower taxes.\"] The rates of direct taxation in the United States in the middle range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " expect me to give way at five minutes to ten o'clock? I therefore reject all the main lines of criticism which have been developed by hon. Members opposite. I am bound to point out that they have been rejected at least equally firmly by nearly every independent commentator outside the House. Tuesday's shrill attack by the right hon. Member for Bexley has aroused hardly a single echo from outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1045.5", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": ". ] I am not claiming that it is a universally popular Budget. It could not be in the circumstances. But it has faced up to the needs of the situation, and that is a good deal more than can be said for the response of the Opposition. The weekend before last, in the midst of the gold crisis, we had the spectacle of the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition defining their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1045.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "of the Government of this country at a time of grave international difficulty. I would describe it as an extraordinary spectacle were it not fully symptomatic of an underlying difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about George?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " In other words, he was prepared, on conditions, to put the national interest first. This was far too much for the Leader of the Opposition. In the words of the The Times Mr. Heath's annoyance with Mr. Maudling may be taken for granted. In other words, the Leader of the Opposition made it clear in his speech that there were no conditions on which he was prepared to put the national interest first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "interest first. [ Interruption. ] At moments of great stress this country has normally been lucky in Leaders of the Opposition. They have mostly been prepared to rise to big occasions, but that is not the case today. Not since the early days of Bonar Law's leadership have we seen a lack of self confidence and petty partisanship as uniquely and constantly blended as in the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1046.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-25", "file": "debates1968-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "472d8c0737b3ddaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "Under the terms of this Order, the largest single matter is the pay award for teachers and, having welcomed the Order on that ground, I should like to make one point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-25a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1154.8", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two and a half million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "But did not the Prime Minister yesterday tell the T.U.C. when, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was with that body that unless the incomes policy succeeded there would be 1½ million unemployed?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1154.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1155.4", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "ncy living in disgusting old ghettoes and that we have almost 400 children who cannot be found school places? The money which the Government give does not provide the houses and schools which we need. Will my right hon. Friend consider the amount which the Government are prepared to give to towns like these, and appoint one Minister to be responsible for channelling the money to local authorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1155.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH-WEST ECONOMIC PLANNING COUNCIL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "ow all the fishing has gone round to Newlyn. At Brixham there is some progress because there is some sort of co-operative organisation there which helps fishing to keep going. But why not do something to try to revive the fishing industry? Is it not possible to revive it? What about the possibility of exploiting the region for coal? I do not know whether the people of the South-West would like it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1196.2", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH-WEST ECONOMIC PLANNING COUNCIL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I am glad that at least we now have a date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1196.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1224.3", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH-WEST ECONOMIC PLANNING COUNCIL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly ready to agree that seven months ago hon. Members there each received a copy but it is usual for Members, when they have a copy, to keep it in their constituencies where they make use of it; and it is normal for Papers of this kind to be made available for debates and it is extremely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH-WEST ECONOMIC PLANNING COUNCIL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": ", it must be to develop the area's infrastructure. Let us have the money and spend it where we in the South-West know it is needed. I do not see what Whitehall or even Bristol can do to help that we cannot do ourselves. Give us the money in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, and we know how to spend it much better than the Government. We would spend it on a decent road, and if we had any money left over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1247.3", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH-WEST ECONOMIC PLANNING COUNCIL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ment areas. We have announced and discussed development grants for hotels—20 per cent. outside development areas and 25 per cent. within development areas. While there was political criticism of the fact that we had taken off the S.E.T., no one suggested that it should be put back. I therefore assume that hon. Members welcome the concessions which have been made which will help the hotel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1247.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1283.4", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "that I would want to do would be to spoil the hon. Member's speech. He indicated to me, and he won a place in the Ballot, that he intended to discuss the problem of high interest rates. He must, therefore, link what he is saying with that subject; in other words, he must link rent increases with high interest rates. I am sure that he is able to do it. Indeed, in his position I think I could do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Objectives\". I have said more than once that we do not intend to state on the Floor of the House the details of these commercial contracts. This is not a new policy. It would be no more right to give those details in respect of the N.C.B., or any other nationalised industry, than it would be to expect this kind of publication by large-scale, or indeed small-scale, private enterprise. I do not see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME, SCOTLAND (POLICE POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": " solution but should also be concerned with the short-term. We have had the Canute-like attitude of the Secretary of State for Scotland in face of the rising tide of crime in Scotland. It is the responsibility of the Government to maintain the law, and many of us have gained the impression that the Government are more concerned about the welfare of the criminal than about the safety of the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-26", "file": "debates1968-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "95c0ce4caad7562c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME, SCOTLAND (POLICE POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Glasgow, Pollok (Mr. Wright) on raising this subject and on the manner in which he did so. My only regret is that such an important matter should have to be raised at this hour. It is a general criticism of our Scottish procedures that it could not be discussed in the normal course of business. However, to discuss the benefits of a legislature in Edinburgh in this connection would be out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-26a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1515.3", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am aware that the local authorities of the Highlands and Islands have accepted and, indeed, welcome the majority of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1538.4", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER ACT 1967 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "It is not irrelevant to what I shall say that an article in The Times on Monday carried banner headlines: Parliament no longer able to safeguard freedom. Today's Leader in The Times declares that the British people know themselves to be badly governed. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1538.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1547.6", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1547.8", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "st phase of this crisis, from the debate which took place the very day after the illegal declaration of independence, we have stressed—and the House knows—that, whatever Britain's responsibilities—and they are our responsibilities—this issue is one of world concern; and that action and those that have followed have been unequivocally branded by the United Nations as a threat to peace. So they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1547.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1547.8", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ade more dangerous because of the new emergence of competitive Communism between Russia and China, particularly in Africa, but also more widely. Communism abhors a vacuum and competitive Communism thrives on a vacuum. If, therefore, the only contribution of the House at this time of high and unrestrained passion throughout the Commonwealth is to regard the members of the régime in Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1547.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1549.7", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1549.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1549.12", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng. Every action we have taken since U.D.I. has been fully in accordance with these warnings and events have fully borne out how right those warnings were. If we have had our own disappointments—and I think particularly of the hopes expressed at the Lagos Conference—those disappointments are as nothing to the failure of Mr. Smith to achieve his aim. U.D.I., he said, would be a \"nine-days' wonder\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1549.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that. It was not my interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that. It was not my interpretation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The House must decide. I have had enough experience of dealing with Mr. Smith to know what I am talking about in these matters. The House will hear exactly what the facts are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1555.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The House has been told—[, Interruption. ] I hope that hon. Members will treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1561.3", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y people we are trying to help. The other alternative which has been put forward insidiously outside the House, and even sometimes in it, is that we should simply surrender and, by positive act of this House or by abdication, allow independence and sovereignty to pass to a group of men driven on by a racialist ideology whose tenets they uphold by means of oppression and barbarism. The issue today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1561.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "fficient in its own organisation. Thirdly, it will always be supported in the ultimate event by both South Africa and Portugal. For these reasons, the Rhodesian economy can never be brought down. In the course of this, great damage has been done to our position. Let us recognise this in the appraisal. It has cost us probably £200 million on our balance of payments and is very damaging to sterling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Africans?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " us on this side of the House, and it never has been. The purpose was to bring about a negotiation, and that can be the only justification for the policy of sanctions which the Government are pursuing. But there is a positive side to this aspect. Sanctions—and this must be recognised—have stiffened the spirit of Rhodesia and strengthened its resistance. There can be absolutely no doubt about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ing about a negotiation, and that can be the only justification for the policy of sanctions which the Government are pursuing. But there is a positive side to this aspect. Sanctions—and this must be recognised—have stiffened the spirit of Rhodesia and strengthened its resistance. There can be absolutely no doubt about that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Africans?\"] Including most of the Africans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1576.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1577.13", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "d that the régime is there to stay and, therefore, they are trading with it. These are facts which, however unpleasant they may be, must be recognised if a sensible policy is to be followed. What about the impact of this policy on the other countries of Africa, particularly in the Commonwealth between Her Majesty's Government and most of the other African countries are almost uniformly bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1577.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1578.3", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " of force and impose a new constitution. Many hon. Members opposite would like to see this policy carried through. The Prime Minister has always rejected it. Sometimes there have been doubts about how firmly he was sticking to his statements. I accept that he has never intended to use force to impose a constitutional settlement. The Secretary of State for Defence made this plain last Friday night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1578.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1585.7", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "tantial change in circumstances that he wants to enable him to go to the Commonwealth to call off Nibmar and to the United Nations for the removal of sanctions. However, I want to say this to him. There are certain favourable factors for negotiations which he would do well not to underestimate. It is true that Rhodesia wants to get rid of sanctions because of the effect that they have been having—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1585.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1587.3", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1595.0", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will be fair in his representation of the Prime Minister's speech. The Prime Minister did not describe condemned murderers as freedom fighters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We would not notice any difference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "history. Of course we do not condone these murders. Nobody on this side of the House has done other than condemn violence in Rhodesia, but the violence in Rhodesia has not been peculiar to the Africans. The white extremists have been responsible for provoking violence among the Africans. Hon. Members opposite can shake their heads until they fall off, but they will not convince me to the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"We would not notice any difference.\"] What is the charge against the Prime Minister? The right hon. Gentleman condemned the Prime Minister because of what he said this afternoon, but in my judgment his speech was better than that of the right hon. Gentleman. From experience in this House, I say that the Prime Minister's speech was one of the most realistic ever made in this assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "vernment, and because of the circumstances, and suggest a reprieve. These are legal subtleties completely irrelevant and immaterial to what the debate is about. Let us have no more pretence from hon. Members opposite. There are honourable exceptions, of course, but the majority of hon. Members opposite are in favour of Ian Smith and of the illegal régime. Let there be no mistake about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If it is unparliamentary, I withdraw it. I could use the name Goebbels, or something like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "we divest ourselves of prejudices on this issue, then the other side prove they are in favour of Mr. Smith. We are in favour of the Prime Minister, all the more so because of the venomous, vicious and despicable attacks made on him in recent months. Nobody has the right to object to criticism in public life, but there is a limit to it, and I warn the other side that if it is allowed to go too far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "m is not objectionable. Indeed, it is very often a correction of the Executive. I indulge in it myself, and rightly so, but there is a limit. If hon. Members opposite believe that they will win the next election and that because of their criticism they will get rid of the Prime Minister, they are making a mistake. They will discover that at the next election. The right hon. Member for Barnet said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has got it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I just said that in passing, Mr. Speaker. Anyway, I withdraw the remark. The right hon. Gentleman is not looking for a job in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1608.3", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "oo. The following morning, I received a message to say that the document was totally acceptable. The proposals were, therefore, in such a form as could be given to the right hon. Gentleman the Prime Minister as proposals from Mr. Smith. I hope that even those hon. Members who see no virtue in negotiations at all will agree that, in this approach to Mr. Smith, I was scrupulously fair and impartial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1632.3", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I had better not, simply in the interests of other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1636.1", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I think that the Maoris are rather a trivial minority there.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1636.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1659.7", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "We know the views of the hon. Member for Smethwick (Mr. Faulds) and we know now how many of his hon. Friends share them. But the bulk of hon. Members will condemn all acts of violence and terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1659.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1659.9", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "to try to push sanctions to the point of destroying the economy of Rhodesia would merely embroil us with the whole of Southern Africa, and this, he rightly said, we cannot afford to, and will not, do. Therefore, it seems to me that any attempt to have total mandatory sanctions is bound to fail and will produce damage rather than progress. We are left with one course, which is further negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1659.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "That is not good enough. I ask the Prime Minister: can he or can he not negotiate with Mr. Smith? If he says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.4", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman is obviously not giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": " of the Opposition. I would like to pay tribute to the disinterested way in which the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire dealt with his visit to Salisbury and to thank him for the offer which he made at the end of his speech of further help if the occasion arises. I therefore want to explain to him why I do not think that this opportunity is available to us in present circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "that, in Mr. Smith's long apologia on Southern Rhodesian television at the weekend—his contribution, in a sense to this debate, as I think it was probably meant—he did not once refer to the visit to Salisbury of the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire. Nor did he refer once to the proposals which he himself had given the right hon. Member to bring back here. I think that Mr. Smith's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "n Her Majesty's Government—successive Governments of this country—who, refusing to abandon their principles, have made efforts to find a way out of the impasse, with a lack of corresponding effort on the Rhodesian side. I am bound to say that I deplore the character of the attacks made in this debate on the speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, because nobody in Britain has done more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "ccessive Governments of this country—who, refusing to abandon their principles, have made efforts to find a way out of the impasse, with a lack of corresponding effort on the Rhodesian side. I am bound to say that I deplore the character of the attacks made in this debate on the speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, because nobody in Britain has done more—[ Interruption. ]—more often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": " to abandon their principles, have made efforts to find a way out of the impasse, with a lack of corresponding effort on the Rhodesian side. I am bound to say that I deplore the character of the attacks made in this debate on the speech of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, because nobody in Britain has done more—[ Interruption. ]—more often—[ Interruption. ]—and has shown greater ingenuity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "st settlement of the Rhodesia problem. We in this country have sympathised with the fears of the European minority as well as with the aspirations of the African majority, but all too many of the Europeans in Rhodesia have throughout taken a narrow and parochial view of their own problems. The aim of Her Majesty's Government has always been, and still is, to reach a just and honourable settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "further strengthening of United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia. As the Prime Minister told the House, we are ready to explore, with other countries, the imposing of comprehensive mandatory sanctions on trade with Rhodesia. In deciding the best way to do this, what we shall do is apply the test of what is practical and effective in terms of increasing the pressures on the illegal régime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": " the consequences of the rebellion than protecting British interests. If they are not interested in the United Nations, are they interested in British interests? Britain already applies comprehensive sanctions. If the United Nations makes mandatory sanctions comprehensive, it will help to compel other countries to come up to Britain's level and impose a ban on their own direct exports to Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1664.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I hope that it was a good dinner. I want to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are you doing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "acrificed our former export markets in Rhodesia to commercial competitors through sanctions, they might have given us some support when we are proposing arrangements which will remove this disadvantage to our exporters. I am not seeking to argue that comprehensive mandatory sanctions will produce a sudden economic pressure on the régime and will bring about an immediate change in attitudes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "odesia that the régime is creating for its country a sterile and stagnant position of isolation. In that sense the comprehensive mandatory sanctions should add significantly to the psychological pressures in Rhodesia. As the Prime Minister said, Mr. Smith first prophesied that the illegal declaration of independence would be a nine days' wonder. The worthlessness of that boast by Mr. Smith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-27", "file": "debates1968-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e52d97e09a4494f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "se the comprehensive mandatory sanctions should add significantly to the psychological pressures in Rhodesia. As the Prime Minister said, Mr. Smith first prophesied that the illegal declaration of independence would be a nine days' wonder. The worthlessness of that boast by Mr. Smith—[ Interruption. ]—I wish that some people would show some sympathy for this country and a little less sympathy for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-27a.1669.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-28", "file": "debates1968-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "7341f59cef35c941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1717.2", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "If bands of foreigners come here to join in these events, which should be British events only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-28", "file": "debates1968-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "7341f59cef35c941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1717.7", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Chairman of the National Coal Board has said that his responsibilities are not to individual Ministers, who may come and go as the policy changes, but to the nation as a whole? Will he see that heads of nationalised industries who take this view are brought to heel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1717.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-03-28", "file": "debates1968-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "7341f59cef35c941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "r £6 million for the Civil Defence Corps alone. We had to consider whether we were justified in continuing to spend this money. We concluded that not only in the present internal circumstances, but especially in present economic circumstances, we were not justified. We have frequently heard the suggestion that, by disbanding the volunteer services, we are abandoning all civil defence preparations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-28", "file": "debates1968-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "7341f59cef35c941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horner", "preceding_text": "t. Albans and Brentwood, 20 miles away, the roads would be cluttered with debris. At Epping and Dartford, 50 miles away, houses would be burning and people in the streets would be seriously burnt by the heat flash. At Romford, Surbiton and Chislehurst, 12 miles away, the main zone of fire would begin and there would be a fire zone of 24 miles in diameter. That would be the result of only one bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-03-28", "file": "debates1968-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "7341f59cef35c941", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian MacArthur", "preceding_text": " two voices of the Government have ever been in such conflict as during the last debates about civil defence. My hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish) showed how the Government have reversed their policy and now contradict what they said only a few moments ago. We have also experienced simultaneous contradictions. During the debate on 29th February the Home Secretary tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-03-28a.1792.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-01", "file": "debates1968-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fc00062cd666be7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-01a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (LOAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Since the resumption of relations we have been in constant touch with the U.A.R. about this matter. A promising attempt was made in January—[ Interruption. ]—an encouraging attempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-01a.20.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I thought the Answer I gave was quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.155.7", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I should be only too glad to read the White Paper as the hon. Member has invited me to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.155.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor is hoping to do something like it next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "es very marginal help to some families. Because it gives help, we shall, of course, support it. But it is a very poor Bill indeed, based on extremely shaky principles. The last increases of the Family Allowances and National Insurance Act, 1967, will be almost immediately swept away by the rise in the cost of living. I predict that the increases in this Bill will also be swamped by rising prices.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Symonds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Symonds", "preceding_text": "he Clause states that a man will be denied benefit for the first three days \"…of interruption of employment…\". I remember the time when a man who had had six weeks' benefit went to the labour exchange and was told that there was nothing for him. It was not a question then of three waiting days. Nevertheless, the Clause will mean hardship. I say to the Government, abolish that Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.245.3", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "preceding_text": "When I listened to the hon. Member for Hertford (Lord Balniel) I could not help thinking how nice it would be if one could think that he was speaking for the rest of his party. I do not doubt the sincerity of the noble Lord or the hon. Member for Paddington, South (Mr. Scott), but I doubt the sincerity of quite a number of their colleagues in a debate of this character.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.278.0", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": " he says. He stated: Next year, however, I hope to introduce full selectivity for family allowances and to do it in such a way that people who are not in real need of them do not draw them at all\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th January, 1968; Vol. 756, c. 1800.] The right hon. Member for Sowerby seemed to think that the scheme the Government propose could fit that description, but, of course, it cannot.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Security (Mr. Charles Loughlin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Security (Mr. Charles Loughlin)", "preceding_text": "hat, given all the consideration of public expenditure involved, it would be sensible to look fully at this aspect of our structure of short-term benefits and, therefore, at the provisions in the Clause. My right hon. Friend added that we would have an opportunity to do this because there would be a good deal of time before the Committee stage, which would certainly not be taken before the Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-02", "file": "debates1968-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "11bbbcf31f22f9ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Security (Mr. Charles Loughlin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Hypocrisy\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Security (Mr. Charles Loughlin)", "preceding_text": " provision for the most vulnerable in society. But the last time a Tory Government increased family allowances was eight years prior to their completion of office. Between 1956 and 1964 they never increased family allowances by one single penny; and it ill behoves them today to talk about spiralling prices and the failure of the Government to give succour to the more vulnerable members of society—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-02a.286.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "As I explained, the £410 million to £400 million of the revised series—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what I said to the hon. and gallant Gentleman. It is the job of the board to come forward with an economically viable scheme and then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.363.7", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any potatoes will be destroyed. They may go for animal feed, and so on. I should not like to give a figure for imports. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the only potatoes which are imported are new potatoes. Ordinary potatoes are not permitted into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.363.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It has now been confirmed that the statement will be made outside the House, not at 4·30 as my hon. Friend the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) said, but at 5 o'clock. This confirms that it is to be made outside this Chamber. How can back benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Minister asked that question because it enables me to make my position clear. By buying equity one enters into a limitless commitment. If one buys the equity one owns the business until one can get rid of it, and it might be for 1,000 years. During that period one is liable to support the losses and to find the new capital of that business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is obvious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "hat return we have received on the money. The schemes will be subject to the usual rules and will be debatable in the House. I have no doubt that the necessary information will be given when they come before us. I cannot see that there is anything wrong about what the Government propose. It is general practice not to reveal private business information. I do not even know what the Amendment means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "I have declared my interest in the aircraft industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "One cannot expect civil servants who have been working for long periods with a firm not to accept the word and the figures given by those people. However, this has nothing whatever to do with the Amendment and I regret that the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire imparted it into the debate, because we shall be debating it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Groundnuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " distribute this public money, I do not see why it should be limited to industrial projects. The competent authorities under Clause 1 will often not be concerned with industrial projects. For example, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Ministry of Health do not have industrial projects or anything to do with them. Perhaps a case could be made out for agriculture and fisheries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e financing of the Concorde project. What I seek to do is to make it impossible for that project to go into production. If I am successful with this Amendment and this is removed from the Bill, I think I shall be doing the Government a great service and saving the taxpayers of the country a very substantial sums of money. Therefore, it is with very great enthusiasm that I put forward the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "section. Subsection (2) says: Any such arrangements may provide for financial support to be provided by the Minister by making loans, giving guarantees in respect of money borrowed, or underwriting in whole or in part any losses which may be incurred in connection with the production of the said aircraft, or by any other method which the Minister considers appropriate. It is a very wide provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "o be called for before it is too late. If this aircraft goes into production, it will already be too late. We shall be taking off into an entirely unknown area. It is an extraordinary project upon which the Government are embarked. A vast amount of public money is being invested in a project which is quite untested. All the knowledge about supersonic flying could be written on the back of a stamp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.511.3", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Exactly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "oint which needs underlining is that no one knows what the effects of the supersonic boom from the Concorde will be. A few experiments have been made with much smaller aircraft which, as is well known, cannot be scaled up to the equivalent of the size of the Concorde; and the Americans, who have attempted much more extensive tests than we have, have said that to fly at supersonic speed, the sound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the tunnel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "preceding_text": "f excitement about it. But no, we look at the models, at these sleek, smooth lines and have a sense almost of sensuous pleasure and gratification. In the House such moments come all too rarely. Of course, this particular technological advance is, like many others, a matter on which we could easily be overcome by enthusiasm. We could no doubt talk just as enthusiastically about rockets to the moon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "preceding_text": "xpress the same enthusiasm. There is no money coming from private industry. One of the extraordinary things about this debate has been to listen to hon. Members opposite who are so often regarded as the guardians of the public purse, reluctant to buy a pig in a poke and wanting to know what is involved. They have been decrying those who want there to be some sense in the financing of this venture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ill be bank loans at ½ per cent. above Bank Rate, under Government guarantee, and the rest will be Government loans on the minimum payable under the National Loans Act. In addition to this, there is £30 million for the purchase of special plant and tools which will be leased to the companies at the full economic rental. I spell out these figures rather carefully because even the Economist —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-03", "file": "debates1968-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "db4b251457b18623", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his reference to my capacity. I hope we can now make peace. It is unlikely that these Boards will last long enough for their members to qualify for pensions as members of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-03a.560.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.595.5", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Windy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I think that we have substantial time in which to deal with this Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.595.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.598.5", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that, in the intervening period, we have had to face this great problem of devaluation of the £—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.598.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That seems more a statement than a question. The answer was given by us last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVATE COMPANIES (FINANCIAL AID)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the position that is being dealt with in the discussion on the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, in addition to the discussions on the Industrial Expansion Bill which got its Third Reading lastnight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.605.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.605.3", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVATE COMPANIES (FINANCIAL AID)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the Opposition and I were on other important work, as was the Leader of the Liberal Party. Now that that vote has been secured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — VIETNAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Winnick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AIR CORPORATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": " the Duke of York, marching his men up to the top of the hill and down again, one could walk straight on at the same level. This method is adopted in the United S sates and progress is being made in this direction at London Airport, but it is painfully slow. I agree that those buses running out without any seats are a real hazard for elderly people, or people with children, or any other infirmity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-04", "file": "debates1968-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "fd087da802742f67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUNDANCY FUND (NATIONAL LOANS FUND ADVANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "tly queried the philosophy behind the operation of the redundancy scheme. Those of us who have an appreciation of the intellectual qualities of the Parliamentary Secretary hope that he is carrying out in the Ministry some alternative thinking on the whole philosophy of the scheme. The scheme provides a golden or a silver handshake to people when they are made redundant, but there is absolutely no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-04a.709.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.879.8", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I should like to be the first on this side to congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on becoming the Leader of the House. Will he realise that after many months of painful experimentation, every quarter of the House realises that morning Sittings were a total and complete flop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.879.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.886.5", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan L. Evans (Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan L. Evans (Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household)", "preceding_text": "The Minister is not present as we did not anticipate that this Question would be reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.886.9", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. In these circumstances, is it not the custom to proceed through the other Minister's Questions and to revert to this at a later stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.886.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "GROSVENOR SQUARE (DEMONSTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "Has any disciplinary action be taken against the minority of police from whom, it is evident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.898.2", "colnum": "898", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the noble Lord had been here earlier he would have heard me quote the rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.898.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Except the Minister of Defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": " to tell us before we can rise for Easter. There is the question of the advanced combat aircraft. The TSR2 was cancelled three years ago. Since then, the Anglo-French variable-geometry aircraft has been cancelled, as well as the F111K which we were to have. We therefore find ourselves, three years after the cancellation of an aircraft which was to replace the Canberras, with nothing on the stocks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": "The House is, curiously, thinly attended for what should be something of a rumbustious debate, ranging widely. I ponder on the curious paradox, when the world is so full of a number of crises, that more of my hon. Friends and more hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.912.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A souped-up Cabinet.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "wo answers would be the same, and certainly we should not get a simple definition. During the debate on the Queen's Speech the then Chancellor of the Exchequer gave us a totally untrue definition of productivity. It is time that we had a definition of what the Prime Minister means, and we ought to get it before we go away. Now we have the Mark II, stretched Cabinet. What does this mean for us all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": " to him—he used those words—yet an illegal régime in Rhodesia is. I leave that point there. I have made it, and it is understood. In course of time the hon. Member will realise that the long-lasting influences of British Government—of whatever nature—will endure when the unhappy story of Rhodesia has long been forgotten. I want to come to the reasons why we should be here during the Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster", "preceding_text": "We cannot possibly adjourn for Easter while British citizens are still being held in prison by the Chinese", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "had to accept the arrangements that had been made. I am merely trying to help my hon. Friends, my present responsibility having started today. I have had a word with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and, if it is possible, he could make a statement, if he wishes to do so, which affects the point raised on Durham Prison by my hon. Friend and others. He could make it at ten o'clock, or after.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "any danger of practising solicitors going to the workhouse or becoming applicants for public assistance as a result of some wicked action taken by the Attorney-General, I should become the most humane advocate solicitors ever had in the House. I am not so convinced, because solicitors' practices are geared to property, and the inflating values of property have made millionaires of many solicitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I do not want to speak too long, but I shall not sit down yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES RULES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will, in much detail because obviously this is quite crucial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-08", "file": "debates1968-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "497b8538a5c8083e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES RULES", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It was not before the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "to be made a respondent instead of being entitled to intervene. This has been done to simplify the procedure. It was the unanimous recommendation of the Rule Committee, and it is thought that it will simplify the proceedings in the divorce court by doing away with the separate class of \"woman named\". Complaint was made about the letter I read. It was before the Rule Committee and considered by it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-08a.1031.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-09", "file": "debates1968-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "6d12fe5d64fd6117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-09a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn boson", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"There is none in Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn boson", "preceding_text": "suggest that the Prime Minister was jumping on the separatist bandwagon when he created the office of Secretary of State for Wales, thus acknowledging that Wales needed separate treatment for some purposes? Why, then, have the Government refused to grant Wales what they granted Scotland? A far greater proportion of the land of Wales is in the national parks than is the case in England or Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-09a.1100.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-09", "file": "debates1968-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "6d12fe5d64fd6117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-09a.1206.5", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "nts are much too apt to ignore the effect of legislation on the economy. They have some regard to the taxpayer, it is true, but they ignore that part of the cost of legislation which falls on the economy; although in many cases costs which fall on the economy are much more damaging to the country than costs which fall on the taxpayer. For example, the Selective Employment Tax is always said to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-09a.1206.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-09", "file": "debates1968-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "6d12fe5d64fd6117", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-09a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers", "preceding_text": "I am one of those who voted for the inclusion of \"National Parks\". In asking leave to withdraw my Amendment in Committee, I said: We know that often on Report the Government put the Whips on and change the decisions of the Committee. I do not know whether the Whips are on tonight, but the Government are changing that decision of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-09a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-10", "file": "debates1968-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "815d1b1b090b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1349.5", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "All taxes add burdens, all taxes are unpopular. The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues imposed similar taxes, although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1349.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-10", "file": "debates1968-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "815d1b1b090b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "f there should not be any anomalies in the law, why leave some and get rid of others? The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has no more knowledge than anyone else of who to appoint as a magistrate, and would not pretend to have any. He is busy on his tasks in the North-East, but he is here left with that power. We should take that out of the Bill if we want it all so neat and tidy and sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-10", "file": "debates1968-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "815d1b1b090b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "ajority of the work done there is ordinary run-of-the-mill magistrates' court work. There is another point made about matrimonial and juvenile courts. The juvenile and matrimonial cases cannot come before the City of London magistrates because the court is not competent in law. It has the power to take such cases but because it has only one woman justice, insufficient women justices to take cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-10", "file": "debates1968-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "815d1b1b090b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEWERAGE (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-10", "file": "debates1968-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "815d1b1b090b0280", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN COMPENSATION (EGYPTIAN CLAIMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "t this stage. I merely comment that this is exempted business and there is nothing in our procedure to prevent the Government giving a more adequate reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths) who asked reasonable questions from the Despatch Box. We are prepared to wait until the Government give us reasonable replies. I add my protest to those of my hon. Friends.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-10a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1563.7", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal of sympathy with that view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1563.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1586.4", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRESS CONFERENCES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is \"Yes\", except—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1586.4", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRESS CONFERENCES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer to that is \"Yes\", except—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—certainly. I took over", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (PRESS CONFERENCES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I do not take instructions from him, or the country would be in a very serious mess. As regards the first occasion, the House was not sitting, and I dealt with it when we came back. On this occasion, knowing that these Questions were down, I intended to take the opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Things are different now\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that for 14 years it has been the practice to have just one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that for 14 years it has been the practice to have just one day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Things are different now\"] I recognise that the situation has changed. I have made the announcement. I would only say that we will see how it goes and, if the situation has to be changed on another occasion, we shall consider it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1592.4", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member is being persistent. I cannot accept what he says. For the reasons I have already mentioned, there will be adequate time for hon. Members to discuss the Bill in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1592.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-11", "file": "debates1968-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "5219ba426c187394", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1595.2", "colnum": "1595", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "There is no question of leaving the House in doubt. I am afraid I cannot rearrange the Business of the House as I have been asked to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-11a.1595.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.5.4", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "I am quite sure that the hon. Gentleman is wrong in his suggestion about runaway expenditure. The great addition to the figure has been caused by the desire of the Corporation to establish firm financial control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.5.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "These debts have increased in various ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "These debts have increased in various ways—[ Interruption .]—including the meeting of a£800 million deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A theoretical case can be made for all these groupings and others besides, but I am satisfied, having gone into it extremely carefully, that there is a very important job of work to be done, which will extend the fullest resources of my right hon. Friend in the Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.29.4", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was not aware of any great fanfare of trumpets last August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.29.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a little difficult, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, after the last two months and some doubts about the seasonal correction, to ascertain exactly what the current trend is. I would not like to make a forecast, but the right hon. Gentleman will be aware that when he spoke last autumn to the Old Bexley Conservative Ladies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "BROADCASTING EXPERIMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "do so, quite apart from the novel complications of colour. They will continue to do so unless we do something about it, and what my Bill does is to propose what a small part of that something might be. All I can hope to do today is to convince the House that it is essential, constructive and nonpolitical. Inevitably, it would cost some money, and it must be part of my purpose to justify that cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "preceding_text": " put forward by Sheila Murnaghan in Stormont and rejected. It is up to this House to take action to implement the Conventions signed by us. I am sick and tired of one Home Secretary after another trotting out the excuse that we have a convention that we must not interfere in Northern Irish affairs. Yet hon. Gentlemen from Northern Ireland come to this House and will vote against this Bill tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What things?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "t is important that those who come to this country should not abuse our hospitality. Immense damage is done to racial relations by the spectacle of people from other countries doing things for which they would be imprisoned in their own countries. People who act to the detriment of the public and to law and order in this country must be dealt with because they do tremendous harm to race relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ed about. The procedure permits secret accusations. A person may be loaded with heavy damages because of an act committed by somebody else without the first person's knowledge or consent. All these seem to me to be great exceptions to our normal rule of law. To make great exceptions in this case will exacerbate race relations precisely because people think that a particular class is being created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Ennals)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Ennals)", "preceding_text": "s interpreting Conservative Party policy. These are not the principal issues before the House. The damage done by that one speech can hardly be overestimated. There has been set loose a torrent of feeling, maybe sincerely held but extremely damaging to good community relations. When the right hon. Gentleman was in church in Wolverhampton on Sunday I wonder whether he thought of the words of Hosea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Ennals)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Ennals)", "preceding_text": "would not have supported it, I was much disturbed because it was certainly 10 weeks ago that contact was established with the Conservative Central Office by a distinguished former hon. Member of this House who had been appointed to prepare material for briefing for this debate and for consideration of the Bill. I gave him all the information that was available. I gave him a copy of the memorandum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) who intervenes, knows that it is not the policy of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) who intervenes, knows that it is not the policy of this Government. [ Interruption .] He knows that since 1962—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.163.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Sir C. Osborne rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-23", "file": "debates1968-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "3ab9407565e403d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.165.6", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I have explained this many times, but the hon. Gentleman still sustains a figure which he knows is not based on assumptions accepted by the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-23a.165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Apart from the question of dock strikes, will the President of the Board of Trade look at the prices of imports and exports? Since devaluation export prices have increased by only 4½ per cent. whereas import prices have increased by 9½ per cent., which means that our position is getting considerably worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.210.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.217.7", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman arrange to have the by-elections at Nelson and Colne and Oldham, West before the trade falls off again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.217.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.232.2", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mrs. Gwyneth Dun-woody)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point or order, and since I was one of the Ministers involved, it might be helpful if I explained that there was a Question on the Order Paper tabled by the hon. Member for Honiton (Mr. Emery), but that was not asked because the hon. Gentleman was not in his place to ask it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "To answer the last part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary, I will not instruct Lord Caradon to take the travel provisions out of the Resolution. On the general issue, there is nothing vindictive about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " hardship for all the inhabitants of Rhodesia. This is something we had to take into account when we decided on a policy of sanctions, and I presume that the Leader of the Opposition took it into account when he said he wanted sanctions to continue. I think that in the light of the tone of some of these questions it should be clear exactly where the Opposition stand on this. The Government's view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.235.2", "colnum": "235", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "unt when we decided on a policy of sanctions, and I presume that the Leader of the Opposition took it into account when he said he wanted sanctions to continue. I think that in the light of the tone of some of these questions it should be clear exactly where the Opposition stand on this. The Government's view—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.]—I will go on when hon. Members are ready. The Government's view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.236.4", "colnum": "236", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Broadly speaking, the position on travel will be this: people from Rhodesia who are actually citizens of the United Kingdom, whether in addition to Rhodesian citizenship or citizens of the United Kingdom by itself, will be able to come here unless they are known sanctions-breakers or supporters of the illegal régime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence L. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence L. Higgins", "preceding_text": " his letter you printed on April 17, Mr. Turner asked for an explanation of the Treasury's rulings on the dividends of Rio Tinto and Senior Economisers. He went on: Both decisions were in line with the guidance given by the Chancellor… A situation is created now with regard to dividend restraint where Treasury Ministers are giving the impression that what they are saying is legally binding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ment collecting funds to pay for it. If that is what the Opposition criticise they should say so. In their own programme they made a great many promises in relation to education and hospitals and, therefore, they also proposed to increase Government expenditure to that extent. Both parties based their election promises on the optimistic estimate of an increased production of 6 per cent. per annum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Modest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "e ground that any taxation could not have the smallest effect upon his consumption and would be economically irrelevant and spiteful. I suspect that this argument, which has a degree of logic from an economist's point of view, would not find universal support among other members of the community not enjoying this particular licence. It is untenable that a very modest charge upon investment income—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "No. I did not say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "No. I did not say that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The lesson to be gained from interventions made in the debate is that if only hon. Members would have patience and would not intervene impetuously, a course which Mr. Speaker is at pains to urge hon. Members to follow, we could save a great deal of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "2026;might make it both possible and desirable to reduce the highest rates of tax on incomes\".—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 19th March, 1968; Vol. 761, c. 300.] Those were hardly the words of a class-envenomed, spiteful Chancellor. They give the complete lie to any such ignoble and wholly unjustified suggestion. Thus, this is a once-for-all tax. Another wealth tax, if it is introduced, or some variant of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ay be to some, the fact remains that the Budget is conceived, as is the Finance Bill, in terms of a mixed economy in which it is sought to bring about a successful private enterprise sector in combination with advancing social services. A Labour Government running a mixed economy must make available to private enterprise all the incentives that are likely to make for successful private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is suffering from a short memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.395.0", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "l circumstances in the case of another company—he made no mention of Rio Tinto in that intervention; he mentioned other companies in his later speech, long after the intervention—it had not been allowed. His first intervention was a request to know why the Treasury had allowed a dividend increase for the Pergamon Press whereas, in identical circumstances, it had not allowed it for another company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.395.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I heard the hon. Gentleman's intervention, and whether or not he coupled at that point the name of one other company, I can only say that he ought at least to find out the facts before he makes an assertion in the form in which he made it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Forgive me if I insist on this, but this is bordering on the ludicrous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Forgive me if I insist on this, but this is bordering on the ludicrous—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Since I have expressly disavowed the possession of this power within the hearing of the House only five minutes ago, this is attempting to put an exaggerated gloss on the words that I have used. In the words of the lawyers, I shall have to \"talk like a bloody pleading.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " I had made it clear with the greatest possible definition that when a worker gives up wages it is inevitable that he has lost them, and that when dividend restraint is maintained the shareholder can receive the money later. If that is what my hon. Friend has said, he is 100 per cent. correct. All I am saying is that it may be unfair, but that it is as fair as comparable circumstances can make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Permanent. Compulsory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"No.\"] There is a reputable case to be made against an incomes policy, whether it is voluntary or compulsory, but it is not a reputable or arguable case that an incomes policy cannot be defended because dividends cannot be made to bear the brunt of wages—— I must ask those who accept that part of the argument: in which other way could we make dividend restraint more fair, more reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.399.2", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "This is a pure Committee point. I do not intend to deal with it now. The last point I want to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.399.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.400.7", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, with the greatest respect, Mr. Speaker. The Minister resumed his seat so as to allow me to ask a question on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.400.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-24", "file": "debates1968-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "ae415d98a63aecf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.401.4", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I give way to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-24a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is it not sad that, when Mr. Ian Smith has publicly taken a stand against racialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no intention of changing the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.485.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.485.2", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no intention of changing the law—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry, I think that there will be Orders placed before the House. At this moment I am not in a position to say exactly what they will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because we have tabled a resolution in the United Nations which is still subject to discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister consulted the Chancellor of the Exchequer and local authority associations about his quite extraordinary proposal that local authorities should deal with this matter by just dipping their fingers into the till and drawing on their reserves? Is he aware that many Conservative local authorities have found that their Socialist predecessors have already robbed the till —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.491.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.493.9", "colnum": "493", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is this permitted, Mr. Speaker, since I have two Questions on the Order Paper on this very issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.493.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scoundrel.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ile it is clear that the rules of the Civil Service must be maintained—we do not doubt that for a moment—does not the hon. Gentleman realise that his Answer is totally inadequate in relation to this extremely important question? Is he aware that there is a great deal of public concern about this whole problem, arising from a genuine belief that the immigration controls are being widely mishandled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "his Answer is totally inadequate in relation to this extremely important question? Is he aware that there is a great deal of public concern about this whole problem, arising from a genuine belief that the immigration controls are being widely mishandled—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Scoundrel.\"]—that a great deal of the present problem, which is of such seriousness, depends on the controls being properly run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.494.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ware that there is a great deal of public concern about this whole problem, arising from a genuine belief that the immigration controls are being widely mishandled—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Scoundrel.\"]—that a great deal of the present problem, which is of such seriousness, depends on the controls being properly run—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"]—and that the public will feel that there is clear evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.494.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Mr. Maudling rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.495.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I made it quite clear in my opening words that the rights of the Civil Service must be supported. Of this, there is no doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He did not say so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Leader of the Liberal Party has just said, may I make absolutely plain to the Under-Secretary, as did my right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling), that we consider the Government to be absolutely right in having an inquiry into the disciplinary matters which have been raised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Would not the hon. Gentleman agree that these immigration officers are responsible and experienced men, dealing with a very difficult problem and that they must have been driven to extremes to make a statement that there was widespread corruption and evasion of the law? This, therefore, would justify them as ordinary citizens in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.501.5", "colnum": "501", "heading": "IMMIGRATION OFFICERS (PUBLIC STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why suspend them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I believe that it would be quite wrong to draw precise conclusions of this kind from a situation which has just blown into the Press and which is now being searchingly examined by my right hon. Friend. This would be quite the wrong time to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.501.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of what was said by my right hon. Friend the Lord President of the Council, but I believe that the Leader of the Opposition will agree that I cannot be bound by that. He will recognise that there is a new situation, because I, as Leader of the House, may have a different approach. It may be an improvement, I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.526.3", "colnum": "526", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "d only have been done by the Committee, and if the Committee were not satisfied it was for them to do so. Let me return now to my speech. Because of this new element, I must warn the right hon. Gentleman that it will be not only the actions of the Bristol Siddeley Company which we shall now be investigating this afternoon: his integrity, the partiality of the Government, will also be investigated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.526.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "ually achieved on both Government and other contracts combined was the 54·8 per cent. mentioned in the managing director's report. The Wilson Committee concentrated its detailed investigation almost exclusively upon the contract concerned with Sapphire and Viper engines. It was dealing with overall profits for the period in question of 114 per cent. on the one and 110 per cent. on the other", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-25", "file": "debates1968-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "5598df171fbd614c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "BRISTOL SIDDELEY ENGINES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "ly forthcoming it should have been peremptorily demanded—and he should have been dismissed from any other public positions he might have held at the time. If that were the Government's philosophy, few of the present senior Members of the Government would be sitting on the Front Bench opposite. But it is not their philosophy. They have shown that they are not in the least concerned with principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-25a.536.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-04-29", "file": "debates1968-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "71b0528ac126259f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-29a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS DUTIES (DUMPING AND SUBSIDIES) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Former\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "sional acton. But we shall need to be satisfied that that is happening. The hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford also made play of the fact, as he thought, that the first mention of the Bill, which he welcomed, was made to a trade union. I have just considered that point. I thought that he was wrong, and in fact he was. The first mention of it was made by the late President of the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-04-29a.916.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1118.0", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Member for Belper (Mr. George Brown) promised it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Today they would take more than a third, and—and here is where there the deteriorating standard comes in—at that price today it would be a smaller and inferior house. What of those who have already committed themselves to buying their own home on mortgages? They have been cruelly deceived by the Government. They were led to believe that they might have mortgage interest rates as low as 3 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1126.2", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e to the records will truly show. We in this House can bandy talk across the Chamber, but we shall not begin to face up to a solution of the cost of living problem unless we can explain the facts objectively and analytically. One of the inescapable truths about our prices and incomes policy in the first 18 months was that it was far more successful on the prices side than it was on the wages side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Deal with today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "mpared with now; and I am comparing like with like, the last quarter in one year with the last quarter of the previous year. The increases in food prices were: between 1961 and 1962, 2·6 per cent.; between 1962 and 1963, 3 per cent.; and between 1963 and 1964, 4·6 per cent. In short, food prices were not only rising each year under the Conservatives, but the increase was accelerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "he Conservatives, with those of countries with whom our exports are competing in world markets. The improvements which we are bringing about have come too late to enable us to avoid devaluation and its inevitable cost increases. If we devalue, to make ourselves more competitive internationally, the way we do it means that the prices of our exports fall, while the level of our import prices rises.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "prices we pay. I accept—and hon. Gentlemen opposite will find it in the speeches which they have derided—that in the coming year we face increases that we have not had to face up to now. In the coming year we face a 3 per cent. increase in prices due to devaluation, a 2 per cent. increase due to the rise in nationalised industry prices, and in the Budget tax. This is inevitably our starting point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1129.3", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "s are rising. Hon. Gentlemen opposite gibe at me for that. An industrialist said that I was a silly woman, making a silly political speech. The newspapers this morning are full of the very developments for which I was asking, full of the examples of what I was claiming would be possible. Today, more than 40 manufacturers of cosmetics and toiletries have decided to abandon retail price maintenance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who will pay? The ratepayer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "its rents on fair rents in the private sector, and made it clear that it thought that, in the present situation of prices and incomes policy, rate contributions should continue. On both grounds, therefore, the Board's Report comes down firmly against the G.L.C.'s proposals, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government has asked the Council to review the proposed increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " without charging ourselves any more for producing it—that is, by keeping incomes stable and not charging ourselves more for producing that extra wealth—because that is the only way in which we shall get ourselves out of debt. But, in addition to the extra £540 million which we must earn, we must be prepared to repay the debts which the Government have incurred since 1965 and which must be repaid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "r producing that extra wealth—because that is the only way in which we shall get ourselves out of debt. But, in addition to the extra £540 million which we must earn, we must be prepared to repay the debts which the Government have incurred since 1965 and which must be repaid—[ Interruption. ] I should be grateful if I could have the right hon. Lady's attention. It would be courteous to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As always, I am grateful for your protection, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, the right hon. Lady's speech was unimpressive and unconvincing, for if everything is so wonderful with our economic position today, I question why it is necessary for her to devote her utmost energies endeavouring to convince the trade unions that they should accept an absolute wage and salary freeze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1153.4", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "on. Friend the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) knows about potatoes in Lincolnshire. I know about industry, trade and commerce in Worcestershire. I have been around these parts for nearly a quarter-of-a-century. I spoke at the eve-of-the-poll meeting at the Dudley by-election. A splendid time was had by all, except that no Labour candidate held a meeting. He dare not. He would have been lynched—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1155.7", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was a good bloke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "d to do so. He knew far better as a good economist—in academic theory alone. He knew full well what would be the consequences flowing from devaluation of sterling in the form of increased and increasing prices in the ensuing year. He had lived through it all before. My hon. Friend the Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) referred to Sir Stafford Cripps in adulatory terms, an adulation I do not share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1155.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is at summer prices.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "I must again remind the hon. Gentleman that he has a memory as short as the hairs on a fish's nose. Did he read in conjunction with the Press statement on the price of coke that the price of domestic coal is going down by 25s. a ton as and from this week? Is not that a substantial decrease?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "preceding_text": " a former print worker myself, I am not sorry—will know that it did a price check in the last week of January. It sent someone out to buy 36 items, which the paper revealed on 20th January had cost just under £4, or 3½d. more than in November. But the interesting fact is that they cost 1s. 10½d. less than in May, 1967. One thing which we must ask the housewife is to shop around more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And get the divi.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "re are differences in these matters. The Observer did a similar survey on 35 items and found that the prices of them had gone down in February and March. Margaret Stone, who did this survey, shops at Victor Value. A member of the co-operative society in Salford found from his own survey in Salford that he could get 34 of those 35 items for more than 10s. less. So the lesson is, shop at the Co-op.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": " the unique reason that there has been a ban on imported beef, and we will hope to see that price go down in the next few weeks. But there is a lesson in this—of making the housewife more perceptive. What can the Government do about the housewife and her shopping? The First Secretary of State could help. She could talk to some manufacturers. By a strange coincidence, I have with me these packages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": ". The right hon. Lady said that this had been referred to the Prices and Incomes Board. I ask her to check that because no reference has been made to the matter having been referred. The only coke increases referred to the Board were those about gas coke, and those increases were referred and allowed. As far as I know, no price increases for coke made by the N.C.B. have been referred to the Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": ". I ask her to check that because no reference has been made to the matter having been referred. The only coke increases referred to the Board were those about gas coke, and those increases were referred and allowed. As far as I know, no price increases for coke made by the N.C.B. have been referred to the Board. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I trust that the right hon. Lady will clear this matter up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "having been referred. The only coke increases referred to the Board were those about gas coke, and those increases were referred and allowed. As far as I know, no price increases for coke made by the N.C.B. have been referred to the Board. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I trust that the right hon. Lady will clear this matter up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Subject to her correction, that is the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "t is especially important because not only does the increase fall on the consumer but it also falls on iron foundries, which are very big users of coke. This makes a direct increase in their prime costs. They have had to take increases in costs of coke in February, 1965, of 14s. 6d. a ton, in April, 1966, of 15s. a ton, and this one of 20s. a ton. I am sorry that the Minister of Power is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1224.0", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Lady leaves the last batch of price increases, I want to tell her that she is producing a purely propaganda speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Tell the housewife paying a 3s. in the £ increase that I am making a cheap propaganda speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " too great for the demand—and the reason for that—and it is a problem with which the Minister is grappling now—is that the Electricity Council considered that it must take into account the forecasts of the National Plan. That was pure propaganda and not fact at all. I have many figures about increased transport costs, but let me give quickly just the fuel tax increases under different Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " would never have another election manifesto if I had my way'. Of course he would not, because the entire Socialist election manifesto was vote for them, and everything would come to those who voted for them. In fact, the situation has been quite different. The problem of rising prices has been with us for a long time. I am the first to agree to that. We could not completely control rising prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1225.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1227.6", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Sir C. Osborne rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "d the beginnings of an effective prices and incomes policy to March of this year, which is the month for which the last figures are available, the increase in the Retail Prices Index was a little more than 9 per cent. Taking the three years under the party opposite which are directly comparable, April, 1961, to March, 1964, the increase in the Retail Prices Index was a little more than 9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you got your licence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "d that reference from the right hon. and learned Gentleman, I took the opportunity to consult the most recent edition of that journal, published on 27th April, which was heralded in some newspapers, and on the front page of some of them, as demonstrating that 120 commodities had gone up in price during the last week. In fact, of those 120 commodities 20 are dog foods of different brands and sizes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait another six months.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " of bottled sauces are included in the total of 120. I had considered not presenting those two facts to the House because I knew they were fruit for the weakest sense of humour, but clearly I misjudged or overestimated the mood of some hon. Members this evening. Clearly, prices have not risen in the way that has been suggested this evening and at the speed which was suggested during the afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-01", "file": "debates1968-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "44750edb19a3bfa8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RISING PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"£500 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "o turn to the three areas of major criticism which have been levelled against the Government. There is the fact that the Budget itself increased prices. Of course the Budget increased prices. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said during the Budget debate that the net result of the Budget on the economy was to be an increase of between 1 and 1½ per cent. in retail prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-01a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-02", "file": "debates1968-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "38d83283b6770d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am always ready to consider the views of hon. Members. But, as I understand, since the guillotine Motion, the whole of Part VI of the Bill, amounting to 24 Clauses and two Schedules, have been removed. I am informed that the new Clause and Schedule about a Channel Tunnel Planning Council which appeared today is noncontroversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-02", "file": "debates1968-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "38d83283b6770d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am coming to it, Mr. Speaker. There seemed to be a deliberate attempt to provoke the use of the guillotine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1297.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-02", "file": "debates1968-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "38d83283b6770d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Promises.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I accept what my hon. Friend says. This Report is very important and should be debated. I will try to do all I can to speed up a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-02", "file": "debates1968-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "38d83283b6770d78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1306.3", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS (ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "vernment are trying to kill Parliament by separating Parliament from the people. On that ground it should be discussed urgently. It is certainly urgent, because if we go on like we are going on there will soon be no Members in the Chamber, because they will all be incarcerated in Committees upstairs. This is to the detriment of Parliament, and people in the country are getting very angry about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-02a.1306.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-03", "file": "debates1968-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "d10b6ae702e71eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1485.4", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Clause 2.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend quite clearly does not know what goes on in the West End of London—[HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you?\"] I have teenage daughters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1485.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-03", "file": "debates1968-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "d10b6ae702e71eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1487.3", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Clause 2.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Any amateur cricket match at which money is taken at the gate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-03", "file": "debates1968-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "d10b6ae702e71eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Clause 2.", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Hamling", "preceding_text": "Under these Amendments this kind of amateur pursuit would be forbidden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1488.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-03", "file": "debates1968-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "d10b6ae702e71eed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1544.0", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Clause 4.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will forgive me for not being in my place during the middle of the day. The Clause has a great bearing upon the balance of the Bill. I take it that the contract of employment referred to in the first line of the Clause refers only to a contract caused by the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-03a.1544.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-07", "file": "debates1968-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "64b5afee8baf72f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-07a.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman realise that, as a result of these very high interest rates, the average borrower, after tax relief, is having to pay 10s. per week more than in October, 1964, or, if his term has been extended, the liability may be extended by up to seven years? How does he reconcile these facts with his radio broadcast last night boasting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-07a.197.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-07", "file": "debates1968-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "64b5afee8baf72f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-07a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Tilney", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Tilney", "preceding_text": " San Domingo and, because Spain is in the majority in the Iberian Peninsula, will it lay claim to Portugal? Despite our semi-quarrel with Spain—which to some extent stems from the action of the Socialist Government in cancelling the naval manoeuvres and in throwing away the trading arrangements which we had with Spain—and remembering that we shared so much together in terms of mutual civilisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-07a.219.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-07", "file": "debates1968-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "64b5afee8baf72f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-07a.259.1", "colnum": "259", "heading": "GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "ave these strong feelings, it is still wrong to attack the United Nations simply because we disagree with its com- mittee's findings about Gibraltar. I think that those findings were wrong and I contest them. We have to be sane enough to look at this in a much wider context. While disagreeing with this particular committee, am I to condemn U.N.I.C.E.F., U.N.E.S.C.O., the World Health Organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-07a.259.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend is under a misapprehension. There is no punishment in this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. There is no spite or pettiness or vindictiveness in this. Sir Frederick Crawford is in receipt of the pension to which he is entitled as a former colonial Governor and that pension is still being paid to him. But I hope that the Leader of the Opposition, however much he disagrees with our decision, will at least allow the House to be clear about the reasons for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "o spite or pettiness or vindictiveness in this. Sir Frederick Crawford is in receipt of the pension to which he is entitled as a former colonial Governor and that pension is still being paid to him. But I hope that the Leader of the Opposition, however much he disagrees with our decision, will at least allow the House to be clear about the reasons for it. [ Interruption. ] The Commonwealth Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "The Commonwealth Office did not state yesterday to Sir Frederick, in a long interview with him, that the reason for impounding his passport was his presence as president of the trade fair. Indeed, the situation is that he, apparently feeling on the defensive about this, volunteered the information as to his presidency of the trade fair as an explanation of his association with Mr. Dupont.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.628.5", "colnum": "628", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, I heard the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.628.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "First, I do not have the advantage of personal acquaintance with Sir Frederick Crawford. Secondly, I was not seeking to suggest that he was against African advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.630.4", "colnum": "630", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I am bound to resist any temptation to give reasons in a case like this. On the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question, I hope that this will reassure the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I am very anxious indeed to avoid any miscarriage of justice in cases like this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Because I do not think that the Government can act on a forecast. They have to see what the situation will be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.653.9", "colnum": "653", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We would not be in such a mess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been Chancellor of the Exchequer. He knows that were he Chancellor of the Exchequer now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.653.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "It is in virtually identical terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ted expression of feeling for these people who have earned so much gratitude from their country, but have not always received speedy and practical recognition. I want this debate to send out a message of the united opinion of the House that we recognise our duty to this deserving group. It gives us an opportunity to recognise the high priority due to them for the alleviation of their difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": "lled the \"national cake\". This is the position now. The classes concerned divide broadly into two groups—retired Armed Forces personnel and retired public servants of all descriptions. Let me deal immediately with the two Motions, because the story behind them is important. This Motion, which was down in my name and those of hon. Members from all the three major parties, and the Welsh Nationalist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "House with them. One incontrovertible fact, however, is that, if there is no rise this year, this will be the first Government ever, the only Government, to let more than three years go by before giving a rise. If I said nothing else, that fact must be met. I have two practical suggestions—the hon. Gentleman can check up, and, if I am wrong, I will withdraw my claim, but I am sure that I am right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-09", "file": "debates1968-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "294e55ba26e0e9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE AND ARMED FORCES PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the teachers\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made an eloquent appeal for those who have been in the Army and Navy. I accept that they have no trade union to negotiate for them, but surely civil servants belong to an organised body, and so have someone to speak for them.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-09a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-10", "file": "debates1968-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "ea144c6537eca622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-10a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So do we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am always prepared to look at this and especially in view of the strong representations made to me by my hon. Friend who feels so deeply about freedom in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-10a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-10", "file": "debates1968-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "ea144c6537eca622", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-10a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "hat my hon. Friend sincerely believes in this point of view and I think the House should take note of it. Technically, as the right hon. Gentleman said, we could have had a debate on this subject instead of on tourism. Nevertheless, the Opposition have so chosen. However, in view of the fact that the right hon. Gentleman has asked me to consider this, as Leader of the House I will of course do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-10a.758.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-13", "file": "debates1968-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f71fd91500e4cbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-13", "file": "debates1968-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f71fd91500e4cbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "No. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I would not be shocked, but I hope that we will be able to remedy the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-13", "file": "debates1968-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f71fd91500e4cbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.857.3", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend must be aware, there are many Select Committees now. We must see how they work and how they progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.857.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-13", "file": "debates1968-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "1f71fd91500e4cbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.864.4", "colnum": "864", "heading": "BANK OF ENGLAND (MR. CECIL KING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that there would be particular value in my calling attention to that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-13a.864.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1034.6", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"…a giant stride.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The reply which I gave on seven occasions was, \"Yes, Sir\", which was unequivocal. To all seven questions put I said, \"Yes, Sir\". If the right hon. Gentleman is now referring to supplementary questions, he will find, if he studies the speech, that the quotation which he attributes to my right hon. Friend was not a correct one. He did not say that it was a great stride on the road to Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1034.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. George Thomson)", "preceding_text": "as asked by Mr. Fenner Brockway, now Lord Brockway, and by my hon. Friend now the Minister of State, Ministry of Technology, why he had impounded the passports of the deputy secretary-general of the Kenya African National Union, Mr. Ochwada, who is presently a Member of the Kenya National Assembly, and of Mr. Oginga Odinga, later a Minister of the Kenya Government and now Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I conceded at the end of my speech that I thought that this should remain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "in Rhodesia, Sir Humphrey Gibbs. I can only report to the House the facts as I know them. Sir Frederick has adopted, ever since U.D.I., a course of behaviour which certainly gave every appearance of lending full support to the claims of the régime to have achieved legality and independence. That is the basis of the reason on which instructions were given to withdraw his passport facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "chieved legality and independence. That is the basis of the reason on which instructions were given to withdraw his passport facilities. [ Interruption. ] I am trying to give the House information which it sought from me last Thursday. Since the illegal declaration of independence Sir Frederick Crawford has refrained from signing the Government House book on occasions such as the Queen's Birthday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "hemselves and sometimes worthy, but used to promote the position of Mr. Dupont and Mr. Smith, who have been invited by Sir Frederick Crawford as guests of honour or as patrons of those occasions. Sir Frederick's behaviour as President of the Bulawayo Trade Fair is only a particular example of a course of conduct which has certainly had the appearance of giving active support to the illegal regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "th of a new nation—the Rhodesian nation\". A significant step in the development of the Fair for propaganda purposes against sanctions was when in 1966, after the illegal declaration of independence, Sir Frederick invited Mr. Smith to open the Fair. In the circumstances, when the Governor had shortly before dismissed Mr. Smith from the Premiership, this invitation was a politically significant act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Patronising\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "t position. I asked him to give me an assurance that he does not accept the illegal declaration of independence as valid nor Ian Smith and the other members of the régime as lawfully holding the offices which they have assumed. I asked him to give me his word that he would take care to conduct himself, particularly in respect of the various positions he holds in the public life of Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1049.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1056.7", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1056.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ent in this country. If that doctrine is correct there cannot be any distinction either in law or logic, between the two. What is sauce for the Rhodesian will be sauce for the British holder of a passport, and very bitter sauce it is. What would be the position of those who like to put up stickers on the back of the car saying \"Support Rhodesia\"? Will not they be said to be giving aid and comfort?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ent to the game reserve 15 miles outside the city and photographed the animals. I saw the huge sheds to which the right hon. Gentleman referred earlier where the unsold tobacco crop is stored. On the Saturday afternoon I went to the Glamis sports stadium. I was one of 5,000 or 6,000 spectators. The occasion was the conferment of the Freedom of the City of Salisbury on Mr. Ian Smith. The sun shone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was for tea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hamilton", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman referred earlier where the unsold tobacco crop is stored. On the Saturday afternoon I went to the Glamis sports stadium. I was one of 5,000 or 6,000 spectators. The occasion was the conferment of the Freedom of the City of Salisbury on Mr. Ian Smith. The sun shone—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and Boy Scouts handed out programmes. There were two bands and a mayoral procession and ice creams—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "e not been able to solve the Rhodesian problem and why we are virtually at war is that we refuse to sacrifice the interests of 4 million people who are denied their natural rights because of the colour of their skin. I hope that the time will not come—certainly under my Government and, I hope, under a Conservative Government—when we will sell out the rights of the majority of the Rhodesian people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be silly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "Secretary and he was not willing then to give the requested assurances. Were those assurances so unreasonable? Of course not. The trouble with the Opposition is that, time and again, whenever a Rhodesian issue comes up, they can, almost automatically, including their Leader, be relied upon to take the point of view of the illegal régime and not to see the point of view of their own country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman will not be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "on is that, time and again, whenever a Rhodesian issue comes up, they can, almost automatically, including their Leader, be relied upon to take the point of view of the illegal régime and not to see the point of view of their own country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be silly.\"] Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite say that I should not be silly, but when the history of this incident is written—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "exercise their natural democratic rights, which are now denied them. The Government have acted correctly and I only hope that the Opposition will recognise that they, too, have a responsibility. We know that a number of Conservative hon. Members have been going over to Salisbury and telling the illegal régime, \"Hang on and do not worry: a Conservative Government will give you all you want\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": ". We know that a number of Conservative hon. Members have been going over to Salisbury and telling the illegal régime, \"Hang on and do not worry: a Conservative Government will give you all you want\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"] I believe this to be the case; those hon. Gentlemen who have been saying this to the illegal régime know who they are and it is unlikely that they will deny it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": " be the case; those hon. Gentlemen who have been saying this to the illegal régime know who they are and it is unlikely that they will deny it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"] One hon. Gentleman went on Salisbury Radio nine or twelve months ago—this was raised in this House—and virtually took to task a Rhodesian newspaper which was critical of the Rhodesian régime. Where is his loyalty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ver, it is on a scale which has never before been known. The only figure we have is that 450 passports have been withheld or withdrawn so far, some Rhodesian and some British. We do not know the make-up of the total. May we be told? We do know, however, that if the United Nations resolution is carried, the scale of this operation will be greatly increased; there can be no doubt about that, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ds. That is the situation the Commonwealth Secretary wants. To him I say that he has no right to demand that of any individual in Rhodesia, and he has no right to take away a passport if the individual does not do it. In conclusion, I have absolutely no doubt—and I do not believe that any right hon. or hon. Gentleman in this House any doubt—about the loyalty of Sir Frederick Crawford to the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "SIR FREDERICK CRAWFORD (WITHDRAWAL OF PASSPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Harper.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "he present drafts before the United Nations, it is likely that people coming into that category, as well as people holding passports of the illegal régime, will be turned back when they try to enter this country. However, there will be full opportunity for the House to debate that when it comes before us. I want now to turn to the Opposition Motion of censure and to the extravagant charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1117.2", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Cledwyn Hughes)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Cledwyn Hughes)", "preceding_text": " application of Community policy. The Committee ascribes this reticence to ignorance. On this, I believe that it was mistaken. There are hon. Members now present who were members of the Committee, and I feel that, if they look back, they will agree that they did not find witnesses from my Department floundering when asked questions about the practical application of the common agricultural policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1117.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John P. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " to discuss subjects, whether restricted to their own area or to others. I am glad that this point was dropped after some consultation and certain Scottish Members added to the Committee. May I say that, in the light of the subsequent experience of the Committee, when more Scottish Members had been added, if some of us had not been there the Committee might have ceased to operate at certain times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "Whatever they said, I am referring to what my hon. Friend said and I assure him that it was sheer nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-14", "file": "debates1968-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "a714fcce9c521146", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1171.3", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I cannot say offhand who was consulted. My argument is that hon. Members like my hon. Friends—and they had every reason to make this request—said that the Committee should be en- larged, and action was taken to meet their request.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-14a.1171.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1208.6", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kitson", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the saw-toothed grain beetle was not in this country five years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1227.4", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "DEVELOPMENT OF PLAY- GROUPS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "and with the pressures of an urban community—the more we will produce neurotic children unless we begin to recognise the needs of children at the age of 2 or 3 and take the necessary steps to cater for them. Next Tuesday the Campaign for the Advancement of Nursery Education will be presenting petitions to the Department and the Prime Minister. A lobby by the under-5s will take place in Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (VOLUNTARY RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I am talking about land forces, which do not need the same sort of training as pilots. A pilot is a fully skilled man needing three years' full-time training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (VOLUNTARY RESERVES)", "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": "h surprises me is that we should be having this debate. It is just over two months since we went over all the ground which has been gone over today. Nothing new has been said in to-day's debate. The only thing which has been noticeable is that the Government Whips have had to scurry round to persuade enough people to come in to keep it going until 7 o'clock when people will turn up for a Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (VOLUNTARY RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Administration (Mr. G. W. Reynolds)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Defence for Administration (Mr. G. W. Reynolds)", "preceding_text": " of points that I want to discuss over the next few weeks with representatives of the Council. The fact that this was going on was known to right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite. The only thing which will happen as a result of the debate and the Amendment which is down is that it is bound to harden attitudes on both sides and in our negotiations which have been going on during the last few weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (VOLUNTARY RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "The same applies to the back row. One thing which surprised me was that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Barnet should accuse us of being dogmatic concerning defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (VOLUNTARY RESERVES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "the fact that in order for ground forces to be effective one has to retain extensive forces in the air as well. We never hear anything about that from hon. Gentlemen opposite. If they mention that people will know that means tens of millions of pounds. The hon. and gallant Member for Lewes remarked that 59,000 extra civil servants will cost £250 million a year. I suggest he does his figures again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-15", "file": "debates1968-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "2c9f0d7a96de2940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "FISHING INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Norman Buchan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Norman Buchan)", "preceding_text": "ad to deal—a problem of a compulsory band of reduction year after year. It is not sufficient to refer to the situation in Norway and elsewhere. I think that the hon. Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Wall) accepts this to a large degree. Despite the intervention of the hon. Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward) I have to say a word about the Scottish position. With respect to the North-East of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-15a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1382.2", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "While accepting what the right hon. Gentleman said, may I ask whether he will give an undertaking that, as no State secrets were involved, no one will be punished for blurting out the truth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1383.2", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us who deplore the incitement to hatred speech of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1388.6", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1388.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, but not always in the case where there is a Commonwealth Government whom we recognise and where there is an attempted break-away or civil war within the jurisdiction of that Government whom we recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "FLATS, CANNING TOWN (COLLAPSE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "y help which they may require in dealing with the immediate situation. The cause of the disaster is not known. In view of the gravity of the occurrence the circumstances will be the sub- ject of an immediate and full inquiry, and I am now considering the form that this should take. The House will wish to join me in expressing our deep sympathy with the bereaved and those who have lost their homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will answer such charges in the debate. This is certainly the first time that the Standing Order has been invoked since 1931, but I remind the Leader of the Opposition that my right hon. Friend had hoped to settle a timetable by voluntary agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1405.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1408.6", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Returning to the issue of the Prices and Incomes Bill, is my right hon. Friend aware that we urge a two-day debate so that all views can be expressed, including the diverse views existing between my hon. Friends and myself? I respect their point of view and I know that they respect mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1408.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1409.4", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Answer now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have said that I would consider the views of my hon. Friends who feel strongly about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend make it quite clear to the country that hon. Members opposite have deliberately sabotaged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1410.3", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "Is he aware that we spent eight hours, seven minutes, discussing when the Finance Bill Committee should sit and whether there should be two fans or three? Is he aware that we spent seven hours and eight minutes discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1410.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1416.7", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have said that I cannot deal with that point when we are considering next week's business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1416.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1420.5", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two hours?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "There will be adequate time for hon. Members to debate the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1420.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1422.0", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Out, out, out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ightly or wrongly—only one day for Second Reading—that this handling of business by the Government is rapidly becoming intolerable? The Government have not one shred of support left in the country from the electorate, from trade unions or from industry. To pursue this policy, as they are doing now, is an abuse of power and is becoming a Parliamentary despotism against which the people will revolt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-16", "file": "debates1968-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "44189c0c40966914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1448.3", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "have been serious events in Hong Kong and in Peking, concerning our Embassy there. I had a description this afternoon from an eye witness of how the Chinese Army, which is supposed to be ravening for the blood of foreign capitalists, helped to save the lives of our embassy personnel. The soldiers carried no arms, because the Chinese Army does not carry arms, but they intervened to save our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-16a.1448.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-17", "file": "debates1968-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f93329dbc96a79a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-17a.1592.3", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "ROAD SAFETY ACT 1967 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What arouses my interest is how the driver will satisfy a court that he is fit to drink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-17a.1592.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-20", "file": "debates1968-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "749b859ca2d86a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-20a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Clegg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Clegg", "preceding_text": "In 0normal circumstances, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I would have made a long and powerful speech—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on.\"]—but I am, unfortunately, one of those hon. Members who are closeted in a Committee Room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-20a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-20", "file": "debates1968-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "749b859ca2d86a5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-20a.177.4", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Clause be read a Second time. The object of the Clause is to grant the Land Commission a new power. It is a wonder that the day has come that anyone from this side of the House should be seeking to give a new power —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-20a.177.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.272.5", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be helpful to publish a list. Indeed, from the point of view of the individuals involved, it would be foolish to give advance warning to these people by the sort of publication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.272.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (VISITORS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask your guidance Mr. Speaker on a point that has caused great inconvenience to some hon. Members this morning? Because this House was sitting, those of us who had parties coming round here found that we were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (VISITORS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask your guidance Mr. Speaker on a point that has caused great inconvenience to some hon. Members this morning? Because this House was sitting, those of us who had parties coming round here found that we were— [ Interruption. ] I am sorry if some hon. Members opposite object to this, but it is an important point. People arrange these visits a long time in advance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "on. Members, inquiring at the Public Bill Office on Friday were informed that there was no copy of the Bill available. They would need it for the purpose of moving Amendments. Yet among the Amendments to the Bill tabled by the Government on Friday—and the Government were doubtless in possession of a copy of the Bill in proof stage—there are a number of Amendments tabled by Government backbenchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You should.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, it has not happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "of economic management, surely at least three basic questions should have been answered. First, has the behaviour of prices and wages in the United Kingdom been the root cause of our economic malaise ? Secondly, what are the real benefits which a successful policy of this kind would bring if all went well? Thirdly, what chance is there of a successful policy, compatible with democracy? Last year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" It still seems long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " in the United Kingdom been the root cause of our economic malaise ? Secondly, what are the real benefits which a successful policy of this kind would bring if all went well? Thirdly, what chance is there of a successful policy, compatible with democracy? Last year —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] So far, I have spoken for 10 minutes less than the Minister did, and my speech will be shorter than hers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": " that if we changed the economic policy we could scrap the Bill. Later still, he defined his changed economic policy as one of high profits and high distributions in the fiercest competitive society. I ask the House, and my right hon. and hon. Friends in particular, to remember who would be the victims of such a society. I lived and worked for a long time while that doctrine dominated our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.328.3", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ch of a demand on our production— I wonder, since hon. Gentlemen opposite want more aircraft carriers than we are providing, since they would return to east of Suez, from which we are coming out, and since they would pick up so many of our defence commitments which we are dropping, from where the cut in Government spending would come. Naturally it could come only in housing, schools and hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.328.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "n the document to which I referred and elsewhere, simply have not been willing to carry it out when it came to doing the job. But it could happen and I hope that the House will forgive me for sounding perhaps a little arrogant when I say that my reading, as it were, of people as I have gone about the country is that they would be willing for it to happen this way if they got the leadership for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e, simply have not been willing to carry it out when it came to doing the job. But it could happen and I hope that the House will forgive me for sounding perhaps a little arrogant when I say that my reading, as it were, of people as I have gone about the country is that they would be willing for it to happen this way if they got the leadership for it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] When I say \"leadership\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ide the country. I wish to address a few remarks mostly to my right hon. Friends on the Government Front Bench and to refer to what I regard as the very dangerous nonsense to which I give the generic name \"Powell-ism\". I ask my hon. Friends who may have doubts about what to do tonight to recognise that the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), who is not in his place today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "iends who may have doubts about what to do tonight to recognise that the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), who is not in his place today—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"] I beg his pardon. Like me, the right hon. Gentleman sits in a rather unfamiliar seat these days. The right hon. Gentleman follows out to its logical conclusion the argument which so many of my hon. Friends use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I believe that the logical consequence of what they are arguing is what the right hon. Gentleman says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, do they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " experience suggests that the voluntary machinery needs legal backing and reinforcement if it is to work even partially effectively. I do not believe that the voluntary machinery will ever work wholly effectively. People talk about it breaking down in Sweden and collapsing in Holland, but the point is that there after 20 years they still regard the situation as better than if they did not have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.335.6", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "not because they were co-operative.\" We all know that that is done, and can name the unions who can do it. I speak as a sponsored trade union candidate for the House and as an official of my union. We are all grown up and we all know what happens. There is no point in trying to pretend that it does not. On the point about other and less trustworthy Governments coming in and taking over the powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.335.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "me consideration. We must never be afraid to say what we feel, whether it pleases our colleagues or not. I would go further. In existing circumstances, one must be forthright, consistent with one's opinions and principles, even though it displease the Goveriment of which one happens to be a supporter. Last night, I listened to a play on the radio called \"Peter Wentworth\", an excellent play indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "preceding_text": "he situation and are still living in a kind of cloud cuckoo land, they do not deserve to be members of a party that has to provide a Government. They deserve instead to be in permanent opposition, whiter than white, pure in word, thought and deed, but impotent and powerless, because that is exactly what they and this party are heading for with the kind of speeches being made throughout the country", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is she?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "crease in prices, and so, as a deliberate act of Socialist policy, to ensure that this year, after three and a half years of Labour Government, the standard of living of the British working man will fall. That is the purpose of the Bill. If I might express it in the harsh, and perhaps rather unemotional, terms of the professional economist, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the right hon. Lady —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": ". It is absolute nonsense to pretend that one cannot cut Government expenditure without touching the sort of social services to which the hon. Gentleman referred. But this is what the Chancellor has done. He has taken a decision, with the right hon. Lady and the Prime Minister, to reduce real wages in Britain. It is ironic that this polished and elegant Socialist, the Chancellor of the Exchequer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ster, to reduce real wages in Britain. It is ironic that this polished and elegant Socialist, the Chancellor of the Exchequer —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"]— who, as Home Secretary, was generally renowned for his permissive attitude to society, should now be the Minister who bears the main responsibility for denying the working man his historic right to receive what his employer wants to pay him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ches there was a certain amount of laughter on the benches opposite as though hon. Members opposite were prepared to dismiss what the right hon. Gentleman had said as of no relevance or importance. Of course, if hon. and right hon. Members opposite mean that it is a waste of time because no one any more anywhere believes a word the Prime Minister says, they are right, but the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only just.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I shall refer to the right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shin-well) in a few minutes. The fact is that the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) is still Prime Minister of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are laughing at the right hon. Gentleman.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "he fact is that the right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson) is still Prime Minister of this country. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Only just.\"] This is very important because it is something which is of great significance to people outside this House. If hon. Members opposite go on tittering and laughing at broken pledges given at the last election they will suffer an even heavier defeat at the next one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ctice, because she knows that the C.B.I. and many leading trade unionists are now becoming more and more in favour of plant bargaining. If she has her way, every productivity agreement providing for an increase of over 3½ per cent., even though it is limited to a handful of men in one small factory, will in future be liable to be vetted by a minor bureaucrat who has never been in a factory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "turn to the speech of the right hon. Member for Altrincham and Sale (Mr. Barber), a speech which was clearly intended to appeal to the lowest common denominator on the benches behind him. Anyone who can face reading it in HANSARD tomorrow will find every political cliché in the book in the 27 minutes that he spoke. Even by the time that he got to the Bill, at 9.25, he was still in the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y speech. He said, for instance, in exactly these words, \"In 1967, it was going to be for only one further year,\" making the point, a charge which has been repeated in the country and in the House—a charge which, were it true, would be admittedly grave—that, by bringing this Bill forward at all, the Government have somehow broken their promises to the House, to the Labour Party and to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " by taking the stand they take this evening they are, in effect, making the real interests of the trade unions—the power to organise genuine material increases for their members, the power to organise a genuine, practical incomes policy—much more difficult to realise than if their spokesmen and their supporters in this House faced and realised the actual situation with which we are now confronted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ths of statutory prices and incomes policy. That is the area of our dispute, and that alone. I believe that it has to be statutorily backed for this simple reason. Clearly the incomes policy as it now stands, and as we have discussed it this evening, is basically a voluntary system. It cannot and will not work unless we have the overwhelming, general, voluntary support of the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "Order No. 43A (Allocation of time to Bills) the Standing Committee to which the Bill is allocated shall report the Bill on or before Thursday 13th June and as respects proceedings on the Bill in Standing Committee, on any re-committal and on report the Business Committee shall make recommendations to the House. I move this Motion in the name of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": " much the same terms as the sessional order of the preceding Session, and it was decided after further debate. So I do not think that I am open to the charge of bringing before the House a totally unexpected procedural development. It is something the House could have expected, given that activities of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West and his colleagues in Standing Committee A and elsewhere", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": " It is something the House could have expected, given that activities of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West and his colleagues in Standing Committee A and elsewhere [ Interruption. ] Of course, I must defend back-benchers. I do. I have dealt with the procedural background. I now turn to the reasons why we have had to put down a time-table Motion at this juncture. They are quite simple. First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "t he had to say about the conduct of the Opposition in Standing Committee A was uncalled for, unnecessary and inaccurate. What he had to say in general about the need to guillotine this Bill was shocking, for this is a shameful thing to be doing. Similarly, though I do not know whether this view is shared by my right hon. and hon. Friends, I have some sympathy with the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "cil to remind us again of 1931 and of Ramsay Macdonald. This experiment was never wise. There is some truth in what the Leader of the House said—that many of us expected the experiment to fail. Most of us, however, held our counsel deliberately, for we wanted to do nothing to make it fail. If it has failed, as it has, the fault lies entirely with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "There are two points here. The first is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: How would the right hon. Gentleman know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " taxed higher than anyone has ever been, without full opportunity for the representation of their views? That is the situation. It is deplorable and intolerable. Perhaps the Chancellor, the Chief Secretary, the Leader of the House and perhaps the Lord President do not intend it, but we are watching in one way or another, and in this matter particularly, the equivalent of Government rule by decree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "If an hon. Member has an operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodbum", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodbum", "preceding_text": "There is no question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodbum", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodbum", "preceding_text": "There is no question —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] There is a danger to people's health if they are not allowed normal hours of work. If people subject themselves to strain, they run the risk of damaging their health. It is not right to ask hon. Members to undergo the sort of strain that the right hon. Gentleman suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "and was acting in that capacity. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is, I believe, a totally honest man and said what he really thought in that debate. He accepted the Business Committee idea which tonight some of his hon. Friends, although not he, are describing as a strange animal. The right hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. du Cann), for example, who manages to spend his time organising elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's point. However, it is not the same one that he made at Question Time the other day, which I am answering, that back-benchers could not go to the Committee and make the points themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "lthy job. He gets all the sticky roles thrust upon him. Defending the indefensible is something he now does with an art and skill which can only come of great intellectual ability and hard practice. The Minister of State is a mixture of absence and presence. Nobody knows whether he is there or not. When he is, one wonders why. Lastly, there is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I feel sorry for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": " the Finance Bill is part of a pattern of chaos in which they are taking the risk of ruining Parliament, which is far more important and valuable than any Government ever has been or ever will be. What are their intentions concerning Parliament? What do they think they are doing to it? To what mess or to what awful depth of muddle have they now reduced the business of Parliament? My last question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "rpenter). Even to suggest guillotining the recommittal of the Report stage is a breach of the memorandum of the Chief Secretary which said that a corollary of a Guillotine in Standing Committee would be that there should be no such restriction on Report. It is very sad to see that this has been broken on this occasion. I will conclude now because the Chancellor wants a considerable amount of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "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": "of the specific points which he put. He began by saying that there was nothing against a guillotine Motion as such, and that is indeed well, because there is no doubt that he, as Leader of the House, had a most remarkable record as a guillotiner. He is the only Leader of the House in history who has ever on two separate occasions guillotined two Bills in one day and within six weeks of each other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.464.3", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was not the Finance Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " to the Committee determined on a guillotine Motion. He is quite wrong. If that were so, why does he think that I met him on the sittings Motion? Why does he think that we ground slowly through an all-night sitting? Why does he think I made constant endeavours to hold some discussion with him? Why did I not behave as he did in 1962 and impose a timetable before the Bill had even gone to Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-21", "file": "debates1968-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "2763d448c6dd5e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.468.3", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "s memorandum, and that he certainly did not exclude a voluntary timetable. But what we are discussing is whether it was the right hon. Gentleman or I who went to the Committee determined to have a Guillotine. I have quoted the absolutely firm observation which he made five months before the Committee began, and to pretend that anything arose out of what happened in the Committee is pure hypocrisy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-21a.468.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I do not want the hon. Gentleman to do harm to his city by giving the impression that there is not ample accommodation, let us say for the Games, in Edinburgh. There is. According to the study which I have mentioned, Edinburgh accommodated something like 2 million bed nights in the year under review. We accept that in 1981 there will be 3 mi lion bed nights so required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misinformed. Four of the local authorities referred are in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misinformed. Four of the local authorities referred are in Scotland—[ Interruption. ]—with respect, he said that there were four out of five of those referred. In fact, the Minister of Housing referred considerably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Of course it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows well that the decision was a Government decision and that is how it is properly to be expressed. As to competing in the same market, that is not always true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has asked me this question. Amendments tabled by my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow, Bridgeton (Mr. James Bennett) and Dundee, West (Mr. Doig) certainly were discussed between my hon. Friend the Minister of State and them. In order to get the Amendments down quickly, with the right page and line references, my hon. Friends asked the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that. The hon. Gentleman made a specific charge yesterday. He said—and I quote from HANSARD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues made a charge. I have answered it. There is now another charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.535.2", "colnum": "535", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I give the hon. Gentleman that complete assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.535.6", "colnum": "535", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that. It would be a tragedy if the practice of having talks between our opposite numbers and an exchange of confidential information on the Bill in question is spoilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.535.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has already told the Leader of the House that if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.536.9", "colnum": "536", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has already told the Leader of the House that he fully accepts his assurance that the copies of the Bill were not given to Labour back benchers. He said this quite clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.536.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.537.5", "colnum": "537", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recognise that in the arguments of the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. Friends we are talking about Amendments put down by members of the Standing Committee? They sat on the Committee and they know the Bill as it is amended, and, therefore, it is quite proper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.537.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL (AVAILABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.593.2", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wise man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Largely because of this. This is a financial Bill. I shall reserve my detailed arguments in connection with North Sea gas for the Committee stage. I am sorry the Minister has not returned at any stage during my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.593.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "e speeches of my right hon. Friend the Minister and the hon. Lady the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher). My right hon. Friend delivered his Departmental brief with his usual Pickwickian charm The hon. Lady responded in similar terms, but the use of the word \"Pickwickian\" would be a misnomer in her case. I should have to use another synonym of one of Dickens's characters, but I hesitate to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "could find the flexibility to break away from the crude idea of requiring these vast sums of public money from below the line in the Budget. There is much to be said for raising this money from the market under proper safeguards. There is no difficulty in Italy for the nationalised industries. If hon. Gentlemen opposite who do not share my political views—they are just polemicists and ideologists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "from below the line in the Budget. There is much to be said for raising this money from the market under proper safeguards. There is no difficulty in Italy for the nationalised industries. If hon. Gentlemen opposite who do not share my political views—they are just polemicists and ideologists—[An HON. MEMBER: \"YOU are.\"] I am not ideological about this. I try to decide on observation and evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Lancaster", "preceding_text": "I think that that is against the weight of evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ers of the Gas Council. I believe these forecasts have often been made by the Press and have never been backed by statements made by leaders of the gas industry. The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) said that he thought that the right place to consider the borrowing powers of the gas industry was not on the Floor of the House but in Committee. He must realise, as a Whip of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "e Minister will look at our fourth Amendment again. This should not be left just as an argument between lawyers. There are practical considerations here. There should be a period. I think that six years is too long. Obviously my hon. and right hon. Friends had a compromise figure in mind in order to get some support from the Government. Three or four years would perhaps be more practical and fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.787.0", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "This is an important alteration. In the Bill as drafted, any frontager on the highway could claim compensation. This is now being reduced to a claim for compensation for the interruption of access to the property. It may be the right thing to do; it may be the intention of the Government not to give compensation for any other damage to property adjoining that highway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-22", "file": "debates1968-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "735070f6722bf709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 5.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDennot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDennot", "preceding_text": "e fact that the wording that has been used and is in the Bill, is taken from an ancient Statute, Section 2 of the Commissioners of Works Act, 1852. This is the phrase which defines the existing power of that Minister to acquire land by agreement. He may acquire land necessary for the public service. All that is being done is to equate his powers of compulsory purchase with his powers of agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-22a.825.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.867.2", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a hope!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The view of many Commonwealth countries is that I have shown too much flexibility—for example, in the \"Tiger\" talks. The conditions offered to Mr. Smith then were fair and honourable and I regret that they were not accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.867.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "BUSMEN'S PAY, LIVERPOOL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t the busmen had a case, that they were not in line with other cities on comparability and that there is the possibility of an increased productivity agreement? Would not my right hon. Friend agree that there could have been a separation of the Liverpool position from that of Glasgow and Belfast and that we should have had an earlier report to get an earlier settlement? Will she give an assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "BUSMEN'S PAY, LIVERPOOL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quoting a sentence out of the context in which the Board said that there was no productivity basis for the original scheme. It has studied the claim on a different basis—that of stress and strain and the rewards for stress and strain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "BUSMEN'S PAY, LIVERPOOL (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I think that we shall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "PRESCRIPTION CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Kerr", "preceding_text": " the debate which will take place on the Order. That it is important has been amply demonstrated by representations made this afternoon by hon. Members on both sides of the House which leave nobody in any doubt about the importance attached by Members to full consideration of this question. That it is urgent will be apparent when we realise that the proposed date for the reintroduction of charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannan", "preceding_text": "lton (Mrs. Ewing). I will not read the whole of the letter, but I submit that it imputes intemperance, even drunkenness, to hon. Members. I quote: … the;customary stance of some M.P.s whilst at the House is closer to the many bars than the Bar of the House I suggest that this casts a smear on many hon. Members which is quite unjustified. These words, written by the hon. Member for Hamilton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.885.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.887.4", "colnum": "887", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand the views of the right hon. Gentleman. The whole question of privilege has been examined by a Committee which has reported to the House but which has not yet been debated. I must for the present conform to custom, which is to defer a Ruling on a prima facie case for 24 hours. I think perhaps that it would be convenient if I ruled on Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fortescue", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fortescue", "preceding_text": "I accept that. They are going up, and then coming down again, in the interests of simplification of Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I am confining myself very closely to the Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-23", "file": "debates1968-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "9895496f2c55cb73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.932.3", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY ALLOWANCES AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I am confining myself very closely to the Clause—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"] I am confining myself to discussing the reasons why the Clause was introduced and whether or not it should now be withdrawn. If you listen to my words, Mr. Yates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-23a.932.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-24", "file": "debates1968-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "792b5e9ec9689895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1100.6", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "h the hon. Member for Walton that it was an insult to Members of the House. I have absolutely no doubt—I say this with respect, Sir—that there was no possible Ruling that you could have given other than that which you gave. I honestly believe, however, that having been said, and the hon. Lady having, perhaps not in the most choice words, explained her motivation and having apologised to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1100.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-24", "file": "debates1968-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "792b5e9ec9689895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON.\" MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "mber for Hamilton (Mrs. Ewing) to the Scotsman. Secondly, and I suggest this is not unimportant, the hon. Lady is on her own here. She does not have more experienced colleagues to advise and help her about how she should handle a matter of this kind. It is fair to say that she has been the object of a certain campaign of personalised criticism directed against her by certain hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-24", "file": "debates1968-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "792b5e9ec9689895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "advise and help her about how she should handle a matter of this kind. It is fair to say that she has been the object of a certain campaign of personalised criticism directed against her by certain hon. Members opposite. [HON.\" MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members, particularly hon. Members from Scotland, can hardly dispute that there has been a personalised tone of attack since she became an hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-24", "file": "debates1968-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "792b5e9ec9689895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "that there is a very grave decline in the public's respect for and support of Parliamentary institutions at the present time, but I question whether it is the hon. Lady the Member for Hamilton who has produced this situation, or even contributed to it to a great extent. I am afraid we have to face the fact that it has been the conduct of our affairs over the past three years which has produced it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-24", "file": "debates1968-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "792b5e9ec9689895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ned we are not as thick-skinned as in the days when Lord Sandwich would ask Charles James Fox whether he would die of the pox or the rope. If I had the courage of Mr. Leslie Hale, the former Member for Oldham, West, I would carry on and give the reply. But we are at any rate pretty thick-skinned. Every one of us, whatever our view on this issue, is jealous to maintain the reputation of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-24a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1210.7", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I agree that that would help some families in these circumstances. However, I am not so sure that it would be right to give additional assistance— for that is what we would be giving— to such families where the wife is able to go out to work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1210.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "WALES (BOMB EXPLOSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "There have been four of these explosions in the Principality during the past 12 months. The police force is at full stretch to find out the people who did it, and I have no doubt at all that it will welcome the support of the general public who may have seen anything unusual on Saturday night or this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1231.2", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "WALES (BOMB EXPLOSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. and learned Gentleman expects my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister to act as Sherlock Holmes", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1231.3", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "WALES (BOMB EXPLOSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Plaid Cymru has condemned without reservation these outrages?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1232.4", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "WALES (BOMB EXPLOSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fortescue", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fortescue", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State use what influence he has in Wales to ensure that these terrorists concentrate their energies on other cities and not always on Liverpool?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1232.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, but whenever the Minister of State says that I should read the Bill, I remember the occasions when I have done so only to find that he was wrong. I am becoming convinced from the Clause that he is here making precisely the mistake which kept us so many nights on the Standing Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1269.5", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ecause by the time that I have dealt with subsection (3) he may not be so confident of it. It is clear from subsection (2)( a )(i) that contract carnages can be run from within to without the area without restriction. That means, first, that contract carriage, which covers excursion tours, which are a major part of the private sector, can be operated from the municipality to anywhere in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1269.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "of and be validated by the auditor. We have not had a reply. Can the Minister of State give us the reply? Can we have a reply from the Minister of State? There is no reply from the Minister, because he knows full well that these reports will not be validated by the auditor concerned. This is the point. Therefore, the figures concerned will be figures representing the views of a particular council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1297.1", "colnum": "1297", "heading": "New Clause No. 3", "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": "way undertakings. Conversely, all local authorities with power to operate bus undertakings have power to purchase vehicles and fixed assets for the purpose of the business. But there is some doubt about their powers to purchase the good will of a business without acquiring its vehicles, and so on, unless the local authority is a chartered corporation and can use the powers it has in that capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1297.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I dealt with this point in my opening speech. I have tried to save time by not repeating it, but I shall have to. Admittedly this procedure was laid down in the 1962 Act by my right hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Mr. Marples).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " of them are taking part in the debate. From him at least we had ideas—revolutionary ideas which helped the country. Section 6 of the 1962 Act does not lay down inflexible guide lines. My right hon. Friend was not one for inflexible guide lines. He was a visionary who made an enormous contribution to transport. I can say these things in his absence because they would embarrass him if he were here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. A number of hon. Members have been unable to obtain entry into the Aye Lobby due to the crowd of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1352.1", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I have given way several times. We have little time left as a result of interventions of hon. Members opposite. I must get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "orks concerned with owning buses, which are totally irrelevant. We are diverting attention from the main problem in our great cities, and that is why the cities themselves are so opposed to it. There is a third reason which the House should take extremely seriously. By delaying the P.T.A. proposals, it would be possible to avoid a major breach in the theory and practice of democracy as we know it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " yet one more planning body, which is what the passenger transport authority, in one aspect of its work, amounts to. It is no surprise to those of us who have made any study of the problem and been to the areas to find out what local people think the solutions are and what they would like to see done to find that the Association of Municipal Corporations, which is by no means a party organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Most West Midlands local authorities are acting on the advice of the Tory Central Office. Since I represent a West Midlands constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1390.6", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "I would prefer to make my own speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1390.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1393.0", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The London Telephone Directory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": " not the case there can be no object in the exercise. This is a \"phoney\" Amendment. There is nothing in it. If we take \"London\", the last time I looked there were nine \"Londons\". Among them are the Transport London, the Metropolitan Police London, the Metropolitan Water Board London, the G.L.C. London, the Inner London Education Authority London, the Electricity Board London, the Gas Board London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1395.2", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "s there is a major and urgent matter to be settled, and the agreement the Minister has had with the G.L.C. has already indicated that all responsible people agree that one cannot wait for the recommendations of the Royal Commission, which is working under terms of reference much wider than this. So I suggest to hon. Members opposite that this debate could well have been very brief on that account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1398.0", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "We are debating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1398.1", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": " The principle is not in question. However, we are a complex and highly industrialised community, and there are bound to be reasonable reservations outside the general areas of urgency. I ask the hon. Member for Worcester again to read the paragraph over the page. If he will not do it, I will get the relevant minutes and ask one of my hon. Friends to read it. But the hon. Gentleman should read it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1399.6", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, leave him alone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "I will leave the hon. Member for The Hartlepools.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "ks about what he imagines happens in local government. Perhaps hon. Members who served on the Standing Committee went over this matter many times, but if they had to listen to the sort of stuff the hon. Gentleman has just been serving up, I am not surprised that the Government have not made better progress with the Bill. Some hon. Gentlemen opposite seem to think that this is a wrecking Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "—which is sustained only by the payroll vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "preceding_text": "f dictatorship, is he aware that Manchester City Council, through a sub-committee which was set up specifically to examine this matter, through its Parliamentary Committee and other committees submitted amendments, having carefully studied the matter, but has approved the Government's view, particularly on the question of the P.T.A.s, but that at the instigation of the Conservative Central Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "preceding_text": " sub-committee which was set up specifically to examine this matter, through its Parliamentary Committee and other committees submitted amendments, having carefully studied the matter, but has approved the Government's view, particularly on the question of the P.T.A.s, but that at the instigation of the Conservative Central Office—[HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"] I have a letter with me from the clerk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A filibuster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "One hon. Member opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-27", "file": "debates1968-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "b404a6ba31c0fd78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Glib talk.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "tions, selling spare parts, petrol and oil—all these people will now find themselves in competition with organisations financed by the ratepayers, and with no financial disciplines placed on them. These organisations are not expected to make a profit; they are expected, in their totality, to break even, and we all know that the result of that is invariably to impose a vast burden on the ratepayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-27a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1477.4", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ves taking over an existing transport business that happens on the side to be running an amusement park with dodgems, does the Minister's statement that they may not extend their activities mean that if dodgems go out of fashion, they may not go in for motor boats? That is the kind of question he must answer if he says that authorities, once taken over, will not be able to extend their activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": " Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths), it might seem that dodgems are a very good attraction for people using its transport services because its, buses are always late. It might say, \"It is expedient for us to have dodgems to amuse passengers while they are waiting for the buses to arrive.\" Such an argument can justify the provision of almost anything in relation to the main services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1493.3", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "May I make a suggestion? Although—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1494.0", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "scuss the Scottish transport group. I regard it as utterly shameful and a cynical disregard of the views of the people of Scotland that the Government should so organise affairs that my hon. Friends have to choose between attending an important Committee upstairs or taking part in this discussion. We cannot discuss this matter, but it will go out to the people of Scotland by whom it will be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You, Mr. Deputy Speaker, have indicated the Amendments which can be discussed. The hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor) has started his speech in his usual bursting blood vessel way, but has not dealt with anything in the Amendment. He is dealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "s a matter of concern to every Scottish Member. Transport is vital to Scotland and transport costs are vital to our economy, and it is a matter of concern when we consider the intolerable burdens which have been placed upon transport by this discredited Government. We want to ask many questions on these Amendments and I hope we can have clear answers. The one vital question that we want clarified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1496.3", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Clause 26", "cue_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Will it be possible to adjourn the House for a few minutes to enable Scottish Members to go to this Division?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1513.8", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I am answering the question. There is a range of boards and these boards run the industry throughout the country. There is one in Scotland, one in Wales and several in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1513.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite represent the gentlemanly party, no doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite represent the gentlemanly party, no doubt. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] The figure for England is, on average, 15-point-something and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1520.2", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We do not want sympathy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gunter", "preceding_text": "I understand the views of my hon. Friend and I have a great deal of sympathy with him in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1520.3", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Corporation is continuing the practice of the former owners of the steel industry by resisting any recognition of white collar unions and also the practice of paying money to an organisation which excludes from benefit any employee who is a member of a trade union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1538.5", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "en this afternoon, when certain aspects concerning Devon will arise on Amendments to the Transport Bill. If the Member rightly attends to his principal duty on the Floor of the House, a Division may be taken in Committee on an Amendment that he has moved without his knowing that a Division in Committee has been called. Hon. Members are trying to co-operate with the Government as much as possible —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1539.4", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "sion or anything that happened in Committee. I have, and I know that the House has, full confidence in my Chairmen upstairs. I understand that the other matter is one of difficulty for hon. Members of Parliament who are torn between their duty to a debate on the Floor of the House and similar duty upstairs. But the arrangement of the business of the House is in no way in the hands of Mr. Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1540.4", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I realise that you, Mr. Speaker, cannot control business, but part of my question to you on a matter of order was whether it would be possible for hon. Members who were doing their business on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1540.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1540.4", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (STANDING COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "rder. I realise that you, Mr. Speaker, cannot control business, but part of my question to you on a matter of order was whether it would be possible for hon. Members who were doing their business on the Floor of the House— [ Laughter. ]—to be notified of Divisions upstairs in Committee. This is not a matter of rearrangement of business, but simply a matter of assisting hon. Members who are trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1540.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ost of the information has already been made available in American technical journals which have dealt very fully with this matter. There is a quarterly magazine published by the American Defence Department and I have seen it displayed in Peking. There is no reason, from the point of view of this country's defence, for this matter to be \"hush-hushed\" and shoved away to the Committee of Privileges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "COMPLAINT OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "ve reservations in my mind about the procedure we are adopting that I am seeking to detain the House. I certainly agree with the earlier remarks of the hon. Gentleman, but I want to look at this matter in a somewhat different light. I hope that the House will appreciate that it is only because I have strong reservations that I am taking up the time of the whole House; otherwise, I would not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1584.2", "colnum": "1584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": " who seemed to be giving some joy and comfort to the Opposition Front Bench. He is a very old campaigner and very astute. He was not antagonistic towards the Amendment. He would not oppose it. I hope that this will be a lesson to the hon. Member for Worcester. If he had not made his obnoxious speech, this debate would have ended long ago. If we on this side of the House speak we are filibustering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1584.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1600.0", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "he House, and I protest about it. It is not only hon. Gentlemen opposite who are guilty of this but, I am sorry to say, some of my hon. Friends, too. If one gets a question which one cannot answer, instead of standing up honourably and saying, \"I am very sorry; I have not the figures but will look them up and send the hon. Member a letter\", they say, \"I am coming to that later\", but they never do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I want to address the House briefly. Under the 1962 Act—which was passed by a Conservative Administration—and under the 1957 Act very large sums were written off for special reasons. They amounted in aggregate to about £750 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1603.1", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "inst this commencing capital debt, whether an enterprise of British Rail has been successful in any one year. If we were to sweep away this vast amount of capital debt, nobody looking at the accounts could form such a judgment. Naturally, we all want British Rail to be successful. I hope that ultimately it will make a profit. However, we do not want to do this by cheating or by fiddling the books—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1607.4", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perfectly sound.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ve at exactly £300 million? In 1962 about £1,200 million was spent and between £500 million and £600 million have been spent over the past five years. Did the consultants' recommendations say any of that ought to be taken into account? I was very interested in the general argument put by the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. J. T. Price). He put the old argument which dates back a good many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1607.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"It is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "r said the same thing another way a moment ago. He said that it had all been explained in Committee, and he suggested that if we had read the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Committee proceedings we should have had the answer. I have not read all the OFFICIAL REPORT of the Committee proceedings, any more than I have read the Blue Book, but my hon. Friemds have assured me they have not had this explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1612.4", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twelve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I have been speaking for seven minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "s, bring into the light of day the details of the trade being carried out by an operator. 8.45 p.m. In the trade with which I am connected there are only two main competitors. I assume that one competitor could, through a trade association, object to what his counterpart is doing and thereby seek details of the demand for the carriage of goods by his competitor. This is Socialism going rather mad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1672.0", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "mpty a few septic tanks on my farm. We must occasionally cross roads and therefore we have an exemption licence. There may be many farmers in this position. Are we expected to apply for a special licence, and who will be the transport manager of a second-hand septic-tank emptier? Are we elevating this task into a profession? It must be nonsense. It represents a classic error of Labour Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1672.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1673.2", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "in rural areas, and by farmers and others operating just one or two lorries which are driven, in the main, by members of one family and are owned by closely controlled companies. They do not know what burdens are being placed on them. These people have approached me with great concern as to the way in which the provision will be implemented. Will they need to take classes and be given instruction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1673.2", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ed me with great concern as to the way in which the provision will be implemented. Will they need to take classes and be given instruction? [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen opposite should take this seriously because these matters which are worrying many people were not debated in Committee upstairs. I have been asked to raise the matter in the House and this is the only chance I have of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "st. It is important to get exactly clear what is intended in these provisions. I am surprised that hon. Gentlemen opposite have not understood the Bill, particularly since my experience with the road hauliers and Transport Traders Association has been that the trade fully understands it. I do not understand the purpose of hon. Gentlemen opposite, unless they merely desire to keep the debate going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I trust that the hon. Gentleman will explain exactly what his hon. Friends mean, since the hon. Member for Norfolk, South (Mr. J. E. B. Hill) argued the case for the system of de minimis to operate so that if an owner operated less than a certain number of vehicles he would not be liable to the provisions of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1675.3", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " small or large, of vehicles has a person who has reached a particular approved standard in their maintenance and operation. I find it very surprising, as I have on a number of occasions today, that the Opposition, with the important issues which they say they so desperately want to reach, find themselves incapable of understanding a section of this Bill. Whatever the criticism of the Bill may be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1675.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1685.0", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "o are worried about this point, and he did nothing to explain the difficulties which may confront them. It is no good his raising the smokescreen of bluff, saying that we have not read the Bill or do not understand it. This is pure arrogance and I do not see why we should put up with it. If he wants the Clause to work, he should allay these fears of ordinary people, small farmers and smallholders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1685.3", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many were B.R.S.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "There is clearly a difference between the two sides on this issue. There is a potential danger which is recognised by all in the public haulage industry. I do not exaggerate the extent. In 1966 and 1967, roadside spot checks of 142,831 vehicles revealed that 55,695, or 38·9 per cent., were defective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1685.3", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ly a difference between the two sides on this issue. There is a potential danger which is recognised by all in the public haulage industry. I do not exaggerate the extent. In 1966 and 1967, roadside spot checks of 142,831 vehicles revealed that 55,695, or 38·9 per cent., were defective—[An HON. MEMBER: \"How many were B.R.S.?\"]—I hope that we can keep the debate on its previous higher level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-28", "file": "debates1968-05-28a.xml", "sha256": "879b86e0c11da97d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1690.6", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "Not just yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-28a.1690.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1738.3", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The Minister is being reasonable and as this is such an important point he is right to be firm. If he is basing these penalties on the results of these surveys—which he admits may have been biased", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1750.4", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quantity licensing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": " low wages. I would be the first to admit that the Government have tried to deal with this by designating most of Cornwall a development area and this has helped the county, but conditions are still bad in Scotland, Wales and other areas, where hardship exists which does not exist in the country as a whole. Therefore, it is reasonable to exempt those areas from the conditions of quality licensing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1750.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1752.2", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member has it wrong now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I can say that there was an error. But is it to be penalised by writing in the lines which the hon. Gentleman wants? He made a mistake, because of lack of time, in referring to this as quantity licensing, when it is quality licensing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1755.4", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "nd's End. As I represent John o'Groat's, I might be permitted to comment on the issue. The hon. Gentleman knows as well as any hon. Member that the inclusion of these three lines make obsolute nonsense of the quantity licensing provisions. It is typical of the attitude of hon. Gentlemen opposite to the Bill that they would rather make a nonsense of the Measure than seek constructively to amend it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1765.5", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "I have only two minutes. I have been told that. I have to sit down after that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1766.0", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": " be co-operating in this debate. I doubt very much—I do not say that I disbelieve it, because that would be discourteous—whether a large number of firms wish to move to Barnstaple or Bide-ford, or even to Scotland, and are being kept out because of quantity licensing. If that has been said to the hon. Member for Torrington (Mr. Peter Mills), it: is almost certainly a piece of political enthusiasm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1779.4", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "preceding_text": "section. I have listened with considerable interest to the points that have been made. I congratulate the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Leslie Huckfield), who at least did us the honour of taking the whole matter seriously. Many hon. Members opposite did not. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) regards this as irrelevant to his area, and there are others who feel the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1779.4", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "preceding_text": "n made. I congratulate the hon. Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Leslie Huckfield), who at least did us the honour of taking the whole matter seriously. Many hon. Members opposite did not. The hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan) regards this as irrelevant to his area, and there are others who feel the same. [ Interruption. ] That was the word used. It will be seen in HANSARD tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1781.2", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I have as much right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1781.5", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "eful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The right hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) was kind enough to challenge me and I responded. I think that he will agree that I asked him to give way by showing my hand, and he did so. I then indicated that I was waiting my turn, and I posed a question. I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will be patient. I have been patient. I have sat here now for 24—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1781.5", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) was kind enough to challenge me and I responded. I think that he will agree that I asked him to give way by showing my hand, and he did so. I then indicated that I was waiting my turn, and I posed a question. I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will be patient. I have been patient. I have sat here now for 24—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] I have sat here now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1781.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1784.1", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "That strengthens my argument. Comparative figures are always interesting. It is misleading to talk about 7 per cent. if my hon. Friend has in mind 40 per cent. of the traffic. In a highly congested country such as this, Mr. Deputy Mayor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of giving way. We have listened to long and, as far as I can see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1831.0", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "him that it has my complete support. Will he answer two particular points? He has indicated that Mr. Charles Hardie will be the part-time Chairman of B.O.A.C. for a period ahead. Can he assure us that Mr. Hardie will sever active participation with the 40 companies with which he is presently connected in order to devote full-time attention to the very important appointment he is getting? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1840.1", "colnum": "1840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacMillan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. I was emphasising that this is the main complaint which relates to my constituency. Otherwise, I have not received a single complaint from my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1891.0", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": ", just as he does after he gets to Billingsgate. In other words, I rather think that the working day is somewhat longer than he suggests. I was even more surprised to hear him advocate a working day which is a quarter of an hour longer than at present. The regulation was laid down in 1933 in the Road Traffic Act, and now the hon. Gentleman wants to lengthen the working day by a quarter of an hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1963.0", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "For the alleviation of anxiety, I am advised to say that the score is 4–1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1977.4", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1983.1", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carol Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carol Johnson", "preceding_text": "right by the public in small manually-propelled boats of such parts of the waterway as have not been artificially constructed. The point raised by this Amendment may appear to be a minor one, but I think it of some importance. The waterways which are comprised in the undertaking of the Board include not only canals, but river navigations such as the Trent, the Lee, the Soar and Stort navigations.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1997.5", "colnum": "1997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "ding the flexibility for the motorists' benefit, so that the revenue may also be used on, for example, improvement of the highways. I do not understand the argument that this does not benefit the motorist. 11.30 p.m. One of our purposes is to extend local authority flexibility in respect of road improvement. The other is that the local authorities can spend the money on improving public transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.1997.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.2023.4", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Bennett", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.2023.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.2031.0", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "Since this will probably be the last time that we shall hear the hon. Member for Tavistock (Mr. Michael Heseltine) on this subject for at any rate some months, and since the hour is late, perhaps we can forgive him for on this occasion not being up to his usual standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.2031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-29", "file": "debates1968-05-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a3dad4eefd49f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.2031.0", "colnum": "2031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "Since this will probably be the last time that we shall hear the hon. Member for Tavistock (Mr. Michael Heseltine) on this subject for at any rate some months, and since the hour is late, perhaps we can forgive him for on this occasion not being up to his usual standard. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] We are all getting rather tired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-29a.2031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2059.7", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "I have it in command from Her Majesty to tell the House that Her Majesty, having been informed of the purport of the Transport Bill, has consented to place her prerogative, so far as it is affected by the Bill, at the disposal of Parliament for the purposes of the Bill. I beg to move that the Bill be now read a Second time.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2059.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2059.7", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "antity licensing of road haulage. If ever there has been a piece of legislation or a part of a Bill which has been exaggerated as to its effects this has been deliberately whipped up by hon. Member opposite to such an extent that one feels that they do not even understand it themselves. A large section of the country does not understand it because, indeed, the controversy about quantity licensing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2059.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2059.7", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Transport (Mr. Richard Marsh)", "preceding_text": "which has been exaggerated as to its effects this has been deliberately whipped up by hon. Member opposite to such an extent that one feels that they do not even understand it themselves. A large section of the country does not understand it because, indeed, the controversy about quantity licensing—[ Interruption. ] It is not a question of knowing the Bill. It is a fact that a large amount of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2059.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2062.1", "colnum": "2062", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "d less efficiently. The whole question of quantity licensing has been deliberately inflated out of all recognition. It is very interesting indeed to see that when this issue came before the Committee and then before the House on Report, although hon. Members opposite expressed themselves as deeply moved by the wickedness of this proposal, the vast bulk of the Amendments were pretty frivolous ones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2069.2", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps one of the most significant of the right hon. Gentleman's phrases was that this part of the Government does not believe in referenda. There is no part of the Government which would fail more in a referendum than his. I first want to express our thanks to a number of the Ministers, particularly the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2069.2", "colnum": "2069", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": ", particularly the hon. Member for Tavi-stock (Mr. Michael Heseltine), the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn (Mr. G. Campbell) and the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor), who have done a considerable volume of work and have made detailed criticisms. I think, too, that both sides will pay tribute to the hon. Member for Bodmin (Mr. Bessell) for his conscientious and lone efforts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2070.3", "colnum": "2070", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "e Government was extending public ownership by various means of back-door nationalisation. As to quantity licensing, apart from the Minister, it does not have a defender in the country. Every editorial in every newspaper, Left-wing or Right-wing has deplored the system. Every section of industry has deplored it. Agriculture and industry combined to say what an absurd bureaucratic conception it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "ty opposite started a great campaign against it. Some of my hon. Friends on this side have been closer to that campaign than I. At any rate, we know that money has been spent like water to try to turn public opinion against the Bill. But it has failed, despite the avalanche of posters about \"Kill the Transport Bill\" and rallies being held up and down the country. Despite the high-powered campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2074.1", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Give them the money back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": "oasting that he was spending £10,000 of his own money to pay the briefing team, the campaign has petered out. There is hardly a flicker of life left. That is despite the 4s. levy per vehicle put on their members by the Road Haulage Association. It must have amounted to hundreds of thousands of £s. I should like to know what will be done with it, because the people concerned have had a bad bargain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2091.3", "colnum": "2091", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "preceding_text": " is a tribute to the Tightness of his judgment. I am sure that the whole distributive industry is grateful for his achievements, his efforts and his dynamism. Today, we are seeing the twin legacy of two people who were, at the beginning of the Bill, the Minister of Transport and the Leader of the House. The erstwhile Leader of the House has reduced the arrangements in this building to sheer chaos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2091.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2098.1", "colnum": "2098", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the longest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That has not been our responsibility. More time has been given to this Measure than I believe to any other that has been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2132.1", "colnum": "2132", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2138.1", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "The prime responsibility for the growing violence concerning Rhodesia rests with those who illegally seize power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2157.2", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend further on the question of providing time for a debate on parliamentary procedure? Is he aware that such a debate would give hon. Members on this side of the House a chance to refute many of the statements that have been made, including the one made by Lord Carrington on 22nd May, in which he said that we were undermining this democratic Chamber by passing illdigested legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2157.7", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Brinton", "preceding_text": "Is it not the right hon. Gentleman's duty to protect not only the privileges of private Members, but also the operation of Parliament? Is he aware of a Question on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2157.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2159.1", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "As parliamentary procedure has been ruthlessly exploited by the Opposition for purely party political advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2160.2", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "This is a matter which every Government must judge in the circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2169.1", "colnum": "2169", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "The second point was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2231.8", "colnum": "2231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "lation among those of us who had the Health Service at heart, because we knew he would do his best to advance the 20 year old Health Service to the next stage. These Regulations move backwards towards the curing of illness; they are not a help towards prevention. Hospitalisation in a hospital for the acutely sick in my area costs £46 a week for every patient. In the hospital closest to this hotel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2231.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2266.1", "colnum": "2266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on; it is very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": " prescription and sometimes got the money and sometimes did not. There were others who took in prescriptions which it was clear from their nature had been issued for something important, but which had not been presented for several days after the issue. In other words, people delayed receiving treatment purely for economic reasons. I have gone on long enough and several hon. Members wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2279.1", "colnum": "2279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ley) who, in a very moving and telling speech—he said that if we are to introduce prescription charges we should do it the way the Tories did; that is better. My hon. Friend the Member for Farnham (Mr. Maurice Macmillan), who spoke from our Front Bench, said the same. He thought that our way was better. I do not think so. I think that the Minister's way is better. I am his only friend here tonight", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2283.1", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "porters, but what we must get across is a much more rational attitude to charging in the Health Service. I believe that it would be possible to introduce a system of charging which is not a tax on sickness, and in that sense I find prescription charges much harder to take. The Minister should look at a system of charging for the food of those in hospital, which could raise exactly the same amount—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2284.1", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Service must have more money. Under this Government we have rightly maintained high rates of public expenditure and, in the circumstances, I believe that we have made the right decision. We have made a massive shift in resources to correct public squalor, one of the main reasons why we were elected in 1964. It is all very well for hon. Members to say that, I am just being loyal to the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2298.1", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are exempt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "aceuticals and diverted from exports. This order is a gross social injustice. Many hon. Members have pointed out that it is totally unfair to tax the sick. This charge will particularly affect low wage-earners, agricultural employees and others who receive perhaps £15 a week. Such a man with a wife and family might spend £1 or more a week in prescription charges if several of his children are ill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-05-30", "file": "debates1968-05-30a.xml", "sha256": "0f842c91d0b380b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2299.1", "colnum": "2299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": "t was inevitably necessary that certain reductions should be made, not in the absolute limits of social service expenditure but in the increases which it had otherwise been intended should take place. Despite what my hon. Friends have said this evening, it is unrealistic to expect that when reductions were being made elsewhere that the Health Sendee could be completely excluded from consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-05-30a.2299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-11", "file": "debates1968-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "f343363e5949a002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-11a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not in your brief.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about the hon. Gentleman's answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-11a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-11", "file": "debates1968-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "f343363e5949a002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-11a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "dit bookmakers can advertise, but betting offices may not. With the removal of the Clause gaming is now more leniently treated, which is surely the reverse of what anybody expected or intended. In any case, we cannot use the vehicle of this Bill to deal with other forms of gambling, let alone some of the arguments advanced in Committee about strip tease. We cannot wrap up everything in this Bill.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-11a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-11", "file": "debates1968-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "f343363e5949a002", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-11a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ", has been answered by the Under-Secretary. Clause 40 is really intended to deal with, say, Church whist drives run as weekly events, and my advice is that the case which he has made, and which has been made before, is covered by Section 48 of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act, 1963. That would give the organisers everything they could want in relation to this kind of entertainment or charity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-11a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-12", "file": "debates1968-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ab6f5ad2fa2e97fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the statement he has made is almost identical with that made by his right hon. Friend 13 months ago, but that his right hon. Friend a few weeks later scrapped the Cameronians? Is he aware that Scottish hon. Members have no confidence at all in the Government's attitude towards Scottish regiments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-12", "file": "debates1968-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ab6f5ad2fa2e97fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.233.9", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I should like to inform the Secretary of State for Defence that the impression he has given of the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.233.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-12", "file": "debates1968-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ab6f5ad2fa2e97fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.267.2", "colnum": "267", "heading": "NIGERIA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Paunell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Paunell", "preceding_text": "that point of order. We surely should not spend much time on this. It cannot be improper to receive documents from either side. A great many hon. Members have never been to Nigeria. They have been to the Library to find out about it and are relying on hon. Members with greater knowledge. This is an emergency debate of which notice was given only yesterday and we have been furnished with documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.267.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-12", "file": "debates1968-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ab6f5ad2fa2e97fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NIGERIA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Russia and Czechoslovakia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " opportunity is given for rehabilitation to take place and for starvation to be prevented. Heaven knows, this risk is very great indeed. But I think we can do one more thing. We can try, through ordinary diplomatic channels, to stop the other side receiving arms as well. Who is supplying them? To the best of my information, it is largely France and Portugal. I do not know whether there are others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-12", "file": "debates1968-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "ab6f5ad2fa2e97fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "In that case, there must be one born every minute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-12a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of rescinding the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.410.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that that is true. The position is that although Mr. Smith changes his ground very considerably from time to time depending on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.432.4", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "With reference to the Prime Minister's last reply, I ask him to recognise that we do not accept that the proposals brought back by my right hon. Friend have been repudiated by a newspaper interview. But that is not the point on which I wish to question the right hon. Gentleman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS CONVENTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rogation from certain obligations of the Convention was lodged in 1957 in respect of the Special Powers Acts. I dealt with this in answer to a recent supplementary question, when I said that this is a matter we shall need to discuss very carefully with the Northern Ireland Government. I know the concern throughout the House about this, but the House will realise that under the European Convention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "MR. COHN-BENDIT (ENTRY INTO UNITED KINGDOM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "His legal representative informed the Home Office that this gentleman does not intend to cause trouble whilst he is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "MR. COHN-BENDIT (ENTRY INTO UNITED KINGDOM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have indicated that the Home Office has been given an assurance by the legal representative of Mr. Cohn-Bendit that he does not intend to cause trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.441.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister sits down, will he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-13", "file": "debates1968-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "6cf032278570ae08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ticipation. It is not, as he put it, going begging cap in hand to the foreigners, putting part of those industries in pawn. Local authorities borrow from overseas financiers and I do not think he says that, because they have access to this money, they have pawned the town hall of South Worcestershire, if there is one. There probably is not one. It is probably too insignificant a place to have one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-13a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-14", "file": "debates1968-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "02ca86636707f202", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-14a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "REDUNDANT MINEWORKERS (PAYMENTS SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": ". We then go on for another period of months until the flat rate benefit runs out and that will then be substituted by redundancy pay. Therefore, at the end of that period, there will be another increase in tax, so although the amount paid out under the scheme will be the same, the taxation consequences will be heavier at the end of the period than at the beginning. There is a further possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-14a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.677.8", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member looks at the Order Paper he will see that there is a Question to me on that point. I do not see why I should answer it now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.677.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "We have to anticipate the statement. When will the Government throw their whole weight behind these proposals by creating a metrication board? What initiatives are being taken to ensure that apprentices are instructed in metric measurement so that they will be properly qualified when they come to the end of their indentures in four or five years' time? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "B.O.A.C. (PILOTS' STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was in the chair?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I expressed to the pilots my full sympathy with their desire to get a new service contract settled at the earliest possible moment, and there were possibilities of doing this in the formula which we agreed. What the right hon. Gentleman calls the traditional conciliation side of the Ministry was in full play during the whole of the discussions in my Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are on strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I will certainly examine that, but no British airline has operated between this country and Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I will certainly examine that, but no British airline has operated between this country and Rhodesia—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are on strike.\"] We hope that the strike will be settled in the near future and that B.O.A.C. will again be flying around the world, except Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "There are, of course, special exemptions in relation to Zambia, but apart from that exception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman did not give me any notice of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman did not give me any notice of this—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] If he was to make such a request that would have been a courteous thing to do. He knows that these proposals were proposals from Mr. Smith to the Prime Minister and if they were to be made public I would have to obtain Mr. Smith's consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ed with Mr. Smith. That has been wrapped up in the secrecy of proposals which the right hon. Gentleman is aware of. He, in the situation which now exists, is in a position to disclose those proposals to the House. He may well think that in the light of this serious crisis, constitutionally in Parliament, and in relation to our international obligations, it is right and proper that he should do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "be a major debate on the Rhodesian question and the constitutional and international problems arising from it. I invite the right hon. Gentleman to give serious thought to what I have suggested. I regret that I did not give him earlier notice of this matter, but, in view of the undoubted fact that this was bound to emerge in this debate, I invite the right hon. Gentleman to consider his position —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "hat betrayed the Africans of Rhodesia. We have no alternative but to press on with our present policy of enforcing economic sanctions, in the hope that the régime in Rhodesia will come to realise the necessity of a reversal of its policy and of its actions. For these reasons I ask the House to approve the Order. To challenge and reject it is to commit a grievous affront to the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "y clause and line of that mandatory resolution when they are really manipulating it to suit themselves— and that will not be lost to others, either. The next element in the Order applies to emigration. I take it that people will be prohibited from emigrating to Rhodesia if they have not got a licence. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that this would apply to certain categories of persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "There are certain matters about which I may not have made the position absolutely clear. Article 7 contains the phrase: Except under the authority of a licence granted by the Minister … It may well be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What were they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " The Commonwealth Secretary has in his possession, and a copy has gone to the Prime Minister, a message which Mr. Smith caused to be sent to me 10 days ago, not by one of his supporters by any means but by some people who are on the whole antagonistic to his Government. It was said that he and his Cabinet still endorse the proposals I brought back to the Prime Minister as a basis for a settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ent have now made it plain that they do not intend to negotiate a settlement of any kind with the administration in Salisbury. From what the Attorney-General said today, it is clear that their reluctance to negotiate is not temporary and that they have in fact made up their minds to have nothing more to do with the Smith Government in any circumstances. Since the Smith Government is there to stay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ied only by the exigencies of war. There is one provision, and one only, which temporizes the severity of this schedule. That is the proviso that no female shall, in pursuance of any warrant issued under this paragraph, be searched except by a female. I suppose the Government will defend the Order with the clarion call, \"Under our Order liberty is lost, but at least the proprieties are preserved.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell that to the News of the World. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Desmond Donnelly", "preceding_text": "y think that it would change Mr. Smith's political position? Did they think that it would bring him down politically? If they did, they were gravely mistaken. Why did they think that it would have that result? Some of them undoubtedly did. I am at a loss to offer any explanation. The only thing that I can imagine is that they thought the Rhodesians were like themselves, demonstrators and not doers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "I scarcely think that. I do not think that some hon. Members on the back benches have ever been to Botswana—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "was introduced. Then the United Nations demanded the use of force. The Government reject the use of force. But in January, 1967, we had mandatory sanctions introduced and, now before us is a general Order covering every form of import and export to and from Rhodesia. Will force be next? The United Nations is still demanding it. Are the Government expecting the guerrillas to do their work for them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.795.0", "colnum": "795", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I will come to the \"Tiger\" negotiation in a moment. I am trying to deal with the right hon. Gentleman's negotiations and trying to discover exactly what they mean. Nobody can deny—the right hon. Gentleman cannot deny it—that Mr. Smith has said in public the exact opposite of what apparently he said to the right hon. Gentleman in private.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.795.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": " people who oppose the Order is that if we do not succeed this time in isolating the Smith régime we shall, in my view, have lost the opportunity of doing so for all time. Having said, and continued to say, that we had no intention of using force—and I still think that in the beginning that was a possibility and it may well be something to which, regretfully, we or other nations may be led—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "r main complaint. It is no good relying on Press interviews weeks after the Prime Minister has rejected the whole idea. Surely, if he was really wanting to get a settlement in Southern Rhodesia, when he was presented with this set of proposals from Mr. Smith, he could at any rate, have made some effort to follow it up and find out whether agreement could be achieved. This is our clear alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.839.8", "colnum": "839", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "the Smith régime wanted to see one, but the tragedy is that through their follies and weaknesses it has been made so difficult to attain. We blamed Mr. Smith for the original act of U.D.I. I thought that he missed an immense opportunity when he failed to get the agreement of his cabinet to the settlement reached in H.M.S. \"Tiger\". I have always clearly blamed Mr. Smith for those two things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.839.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-17", "file": "debates1968-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "e79d94511d7bf2a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.847.4", "colnum": "847", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I am happy to make the paper available privately to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-17a.847.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.886.4", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I am afraid not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.886.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.915.1", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Prime Minister would be willing to say, with his usual precision, whether he endorses the remark made by his right hon. Friend that when the new legislation runs out —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.915.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister say, with his usual precision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G., Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:. \"Why did you not go there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G., Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I will give way in a moment to the hon. Member. He should not get agitated yet. He will have a great deal to provoke him before I am through today. Of course, the arguments having been thoroughly canvassed upstairs—sadly without my presence on the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G., Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G., Nabarro", "preceding_text": "arguments having been thoroughly canvassed upstairs—sadly without my presence on the Committee— [HON. MEMBERS:. \"Why did you not go there?\"] The cacophony opposite of cries, \"Why did I do go there?\", if I heard them correctly, is evidently in total ignorance of the facts of the situation. Immediately it was decided that the Finance Bill should be taken in Committee upstairs, I offered my services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G., Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G., Nabarro", "preceding_text": "or 20 years but so far, save only for a modest Second Reading speech, I have been disenfranchised during the detailed discussions in Committee on a Bill which raises the level of taxation in Britain by a bigger margin than any Bill in the whole of Britain's history. There is no better method of epitomising the increase in the level of taxation in a single record than in the matter of motor spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " he asks me to define sumptuary, I should say it is a consumer tax capable of easy and relatively painless collection. I hope that he will agree with that definition. That is why this heavy burden has fallen on the motorist. Time and again, since 1964, in flagrant violation and contradiction of pre-election promises, the tax on the motorist, that is on his motor spirit, has been sharply increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.4", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are there any?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " million to licence duties and the bulk, £486 million, to motor fuel taxation. In a span of just five years motor fuel taxation has risen from £486 million to £946 million, licence duties to £421 million, and Purchase Tax to £194 million, the total reflecting this increase of more than 100 per cent., from £777 million to £1,561 million, from all road user taxation. Even the most vicious Socialist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.925.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.927.2", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e Co-ops are the principal offenders. It is always they who campaign for a reduction in the duties on motor spirit; a reduction in Selective Employment Tax, or its abolition. Most largely the Co-ops are concerned with distribution; only to a minor extent with manufacture. The Co-ops at least have learned one eternal verity of commerce, which is that all indirect taxation is viciously inflationary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.927.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.946.4", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may lash himself into a fury, but the fact is that the Conservative Government, in 1956, increased the charge in one year by 42 per cent. The fact that they took it off later is beside the point of my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.946.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.954.0", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Clause 2 HYDROCARBON OILS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: They catch fire!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": " constituency, or to the Hawker Siddeley Works at Hatfield, just outside it. No doubt, when asking for pay increases to help meet extra costs, they will come up against the Prices and Incomes Bill. This is quite a different atmosphere in which to talk about increases in taxation. I wonder if he considers the commuters who live in a constituency like St. Albans. The trains are not very comfortable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.954.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.1037.5", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "posite. How will we get the most efficient transport system? In the near future, the Channel Tunnel will be operating with a type of transport depending very much on the trailer principle and I am anxious to hear what co-ordination has gone on with the lorry manufacturers. My early experience in charge of a transport fleet showed me that a great deal of development was restricted in motor lorries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.1037.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.1037.5", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": " but I can go back to the steam trailer, when development was handicapped by high taxation. What consultations have the Government had with the manufacturers, who are doing so much for our exports? How will our taxation system compare with that of the Continent? In the near future, there will be interchange of these lorries, and I wonder whether we will be at a disadvantage with foreign operators.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.1037.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-18", "file": "debates1968-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "2f10cfc5b2348d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \" It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": " rates of taxation. There is no doubt that hon. Gentlemen opposite like the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South, do have a willing ear from the public. They say, \"Ah! These chaps are in favour of lowering taxation.\" This has a political effect which cannot be ignored, and I cannot believe it is to the advantage of our party that we should be known as the party which prefers high direct taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-18a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Mr. Irving, I am not sure that you have yet comprehended the gravamen of the complaint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": " taking legislative form. This is not to say that S.E.T. is unacceptable as a principle. What is important is that it is not as selective as we would have liked. It could have done a better job, but to dispose of it as hon. Members opposite have said they intend to do, to reduce indirect taxation, as the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) said he wanted to do yesterday evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1152.3", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend must not be unhappy if I disagree entirely with him. If we adopt an academic approach to this problem, we will never get the answer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "a sociological survey. The proposals on Surtax put forward by the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South would cost about £25 million. The cost of reducing the highest rate of Surtax from about 90 per cent. to 75 per cent. would be under £5 million, but the Amendment would cost in the region of £25 million. The hon. Gentleman's proposal relating to Income Tax would cost £427 million in a full year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1171.0", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ould even be interpreted as making cuts in the reduced rates. My hon. Friend has performed a signal service in giving us an opportunity to debate these important matters on the Floor of the House, reiterating our emphasis on the damaging effects of high taxation. I am sure that he will recognise that it would be wrong to commit our party at this stage to a cut in direct taxation of this magnitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": " will at least try to indicate where the money would come from. We heard from his hon. Friend the Member for Wanstead and Woodford that he could not support his hon. Friend's Amendment in today's circumstances. Nevertheless, he prefers less direct taxation and it is remarkable for a party which wants drastically to increase public expenditure to talk about reducing the standard rate of Income Tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"HOW do we know? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "on and it is remarkable for a party which wants drastically to increase public expenditure to talk about reducing the standard rate of Income Tax. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Member for Enfield, West, looks puzzled at my suggestion that his party want to increase public expenditure. All I can say is that he has not read the articles by \" C \" in The Times, and he may even have been the author—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1172.0", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "d that this would add five or six per cent. to the cost of food. I hope that his absence means that he is now working for the Conservative candidate in Nelson and Colne. I hope that he is explaining to the mill workers there that his party would not merely increase defence expenditure and public expenditure in other ways, but would, if now in office, immediately increase food prices by 6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the short remaining period between now and the next General Election. I support a lessening of direct taxation and the broadening of the base of indirect taxation, in direct contradiction to everything said by the hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Alfred Morris). I understand his arguments well. They have always been Socialist arguments. For this reason they have always been fallacious", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ing for the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) to erupt. I have always embraced pure Tory philosophy in these matters: incentives to work harder and longer, to create successful enterprise, to enlarge businesses and to sell more at higher and better profits. This is the pure milk of capital- ism which I espouse, in which I believe and which I support. I love profits better than all else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "f what causes men and women in industry, trade and commerce to produce the nation's wealth. I cannot, of course, take this Amendment to a Division tonight. Of course I cannot. In order to get it selected at all I had to seek a different reduction from that in the Amendment moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West in the Standing Committee—a Com- mittee from which I was excluded —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " rate of Income Tax from 8s. 3d. to 8s. in the £. Subsequently, he took to the vote an Amendment to reduce the Surtax rates by 10 per cent. These were votes on principle, but there was not much publicity associated with these debates, for they were hidden in that Committee upstairs from which the general public, for reasons of accommodation and ventilation and other factors, were largely excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "vative Party is opposed to the principle of the Clause whereas the hon. Gentleman accepts the principle, certainly from the point of view of anti-avoidance. It was obvious from an official Opposition Amendment in Committee upstairs that Conservative hon. Members think that income from parents should not be aggregated, whereas the hon. Member for Colne Valley considers that it should be aggregated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "f anti-avoidance. It was obvious from an official Opposition Amendment in Committee upstairs that Conservative hon. Members think that income from parents should not be aggregated, whereas the hon. Member for Colne Valley considers that it should be aggregated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I am right in saying that the official Opposition Amendment moved in Committee upstairs referred to parents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "n official Opposition Amendment in Committee upstairs that Conservative hon. Members think that income from parents should not be aggregated, whereas the hon. Member for Colne Valley considers that it should be aggregated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I am right in saying that the official Opposition Amendment moved in Committee upstairs referred to parents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or grandparents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ommittee upstairs that Conservative hon. Members think that income from parents should not be aggregated, whereas the hon. Member for Colne Valley considers that it should be aggregated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I am right in saying that the official Opposition Amendment moved in Committee upstairs referred to parents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or grandparents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or relatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "Members think that income from parents should not be aggregated, whereas the hon. Member for Colne Valley considers that it should be aggregated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I am right in saying that the official Opposition Amendment moved in Committee upstairs referred to parents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or grandparents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or relatives— [HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"]—close relatives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " considers that it should be aggregated. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think I am right in saying that the official Opposition Amendment moved in Committee upstairs referred to parents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or grandparents— [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—or relatives— [HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"]—close relatives —[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"] Official Opposition Amendment No. 249, I think it was, referred to close relatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that. I believe that the smaller cases go to the magistrates' court, and the larger cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-19", "file": "debates1968-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "07d934f0b7d53604", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that. I believe that the smaller cases go to the magistrates' court, and the larger cases— [ Interruption. ] The smaller cases of maintenance payments we are talking about, arising under divorce, go through the magistrates' court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-19a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the first half of his statement contained a number of so-called constitutional doctrines which would certainly not be accepted by any constituhistorian of any standing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rines which would certainly not be accepted by any constituhistorian of any standing—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"]—and certainly should be debated? Is he aware that the House of Lords was exercising a right which was maintained by the Labour Government in 1949, a right which, it has now been made widely known in the Press, the Lords would be able to exercise under the proposed reformed powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.4", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", because all parties agreed to confidentiality. If the Leader of the Opposition wants disclosure, he can have it. The right hon. Gentleman is wrong in saying that this is likely to have happened under what has been proposed so far, because we were discussing a fundamental change in the constitution and not a House of Lords based on the hereditary principle, as the right hon. Gentleman well knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I know that a number of my hon. Friends are in favour of unicameral government, but that has not been the position of this party. Indeed, if my hon. Friend will refresh himself on the manifesto on which he was elected on the last occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I deliberately referred to Labour Party policy, which is determined by the annual conference and I was not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.10", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "e wished, and repeating to the Prime Minister the question whether he is aware that my attendance has been somewhat more numerous than that of the Leader of the Opposition, may I dissociate myself from the interpretation by the Leader of the Opposition as to what were the suggested powers put forward by this conference, which does not represent what has been suggested or is likely to be suggested?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.10", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "uestion whether he is aware that my attendance has been somewhat more numerous than that of the Leader of the Opposition, may I dissociate myself from the interpretation by the Leader of the Opposition as to what were the suggested powers put forward by this conference, which does not represent what has been suggested or is likely to be suggested? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Is the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1318.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "—that 194 noble Lords, 119 of whom are hereditary Conservative Peers, were egged on by the Leader of the Opposition to frustrate the will of the House of Commons against the need for radical reform, which beyond doubt is a matter for urgent legislation? May I ask two questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On that point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-20", "file": "debates1968-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "2146706f39e3b600", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On that point —[ Interruption. ] The Leader of the Conservative Party has got his history of patronage wrong. He used to reward faithful members of Parliament with honours—knighthoods, and the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-20a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-24", "file": "debates1968-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "d4448588fd4377b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-24a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COUNTRYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": " byelaws or the country code is much more likely on the highway than on the lakes. I am pleased that we attempt, in the Lords Amendments, to secure compliance with the provisions of the Litter Act. I may be mistaken in my reading of the Amendments, but as I see it, wardens will only have powers in respect of the Litter Act on access land or areas owned by the local authority. This is an absurdity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-24a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is, of course, entitled to his views, but they are not very widely shared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Go home, foreigner. Go home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You can have him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that this is the 800th year of the \"Auld Alliance\" between Scotland and France and that, by right of law, General de Gaulle can claim citizenship of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend discuss with the King of Greece the Labour Party conference resolution about Greece—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Faulds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " and stand for that. It is clear that this issue transcends party politics in many strange ways, and it is as well that the country should realise that. It is of the greatest importance that the message should go out from this House tonight that we believe that no Government have the right to condemn to imprisonment those who organise trade unions to better the working conditions of their members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "w unpleasant those measures may be. My hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) told us what the Government ought to do, as the trade unions were not convinced. May I, in reply, suggest that he and his hon. Friends, instead of denigrating the Government should do their utmost to convince the trade unions that in the final analysis, not in the short term, it is in their own interests", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Mr. Ted Fletcher) made the point that he could not give a damn what the Opposition did tonight. Of course he could give a damn, because this is why some of my hon. Friends have put down the Amendment. They want to defeat the Government and therefore they want Tory support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.369.6", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lomas", "preceding_text": "The objective of the prices and incomes policy is to protect the lower-paid worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.369.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. J. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "or parties at the last two General Elections. The party opposite has for some years put forward, sometimes rather half-heartedly, and sometimes a little more brazenly, a policy which includes a legal framework to enshrine the trade union movement and its major action. The party opposite is on record as wishing to isolate the trade union movement, and it has no case to make for a free trade union.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " one follows my right hon. Friend and her Cabinet colleagues on their own ground one will not have done justice to the importance of this debate. My right hon. Friend needs no lecturing from me or from any other hon. Member about the important economic consequences involved in this matter. She knows as well as many of us that if, in this period of economic recovery which we are beginning to enter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "d we will modify our policy\", and makes a stand on a modified policy, this will not be disastrous for the Government's international standing, it will not be disastrous for the Government's credibility, and it will in no way impair the prestige of the Government. But it will do one important thing. It will bring back to the support of the Government many major sections of the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ot think that it is good enough that some of my hon. Friends should be making the point that the Minister responsible for presenting this policy to the House should not be in favour of that policy, and I hope that when my right hon. Friend replies to the debate she will make this very clear to each and every one of us. I am a member of one of the most militant trade unions affiliated to Congress.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " I found it difficult to swallow his sectional approach, along with the cheap threat which he lodged against his hon. Friends; that if they vote with their convictions they will for ever more have to hang their heads in shame in the company of good trade unionists. In adopting that sentiment the hon. Gentleman did himself less than justice. I regret that, because I was in some personal difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "A large section of them. I could mention many workers who get much more than railwaymen do. My hon. Friend must explain to the railwaymen that they are not amongst the lower-paid. They are, generally, a lower-paid section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that the distinction between his recommendations and those of the Donovan Report is that the Report thought that these matters were not appropriate to be taken into court— which is the phrase I used and I stand by it. The Bill introduces no principle which has not been embodied in the two previous Acts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Once for all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ll as a new development. I stress this because, listening to some speeches, one might think that that was so, that somehow we were at a great turning point in the history of trade unions and of industrial relations. If that were so, then I can well imagine the anxiety that many would express about the unknown. But my starting point is that what Clause I does is to renew the powers of the 1966 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why do the Government need it then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "livered the economic goods that they would like. This is important. It means that we have operated a policy, yet we have done it without exercising the penal provisions, and without even having to use the basic statutory powers. It is central to the argument that it has never been necessary to use the power to make an Order requiring a statutory notification of a pay or price increase. Never once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "It will be better if I do not give way because I am trying to evolve an argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes. The policy has evolved. I am not running away from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And rents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes. The policy has evolved. I am not running away from that. [ Interruption. ] Certainly. We are dealing with another piece of evolution of it in this Bill. We are dealing with the extension of the powers over prices and dividends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "movement is not so concerned about the statutory powers taken for this or that as about the level of its members' pay and, what is perhaps more important, about the level of their real earnings. So far as the suggestion that this policy is taking their minds off growth and productivity is concerned, then, on the contrary, I support this policy because it concentrates their minds on these things. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Isn't it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rms of productivity in a way which has not happened before. I support this Bill because we cannot have the real improve- ment in the pay and conditions of our trade union members unless we do relate prices, incomes and productivity. I have been challenged, but I say unequivocally to hon. Members that it is not true to suggest that this Bill represents some secret or overt commitment to the I.M.F.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " this Bill. We decided that in the light of our own assessment of what was necessary in the way of prices and incomes guidance in order to strengthen the competitive advantage which devaluation had given us. Indeed, Mr. Speaker, I believe that there is a far better, and a far stronger, case for the Bill than for the two previous Acts which were introduced by this Government on prices and incomes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-25", "file": "debates1968-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "d05d19e0ad0369a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady's promise has evolved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-25a.397.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.422.6", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Change it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "The industry's present position is the direct result of the policy for which hon. Gentlemen opposite were responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.422.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I can only add, in reply to my hon. Friend, that we hope to produce the statement in the near future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "We, too, are supplying many millions of £s for our fishing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman refers to potatoes flowing in with a very low tariff in July. I cannot say what the figure will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "As the Transport Bill has not yet come into operation, it obviously cannot have had an effect on the cost of producing potatoes. People should not exaggerate the position in the way that the hon. Gentleman has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "As the Transport Bill has not yet come into operation, it obviously cannot have had an effect on the cost of producing potatoes. People should not exaggerate the position in the way that the hon. Gentleman has done. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am answering and I do not believe that S.E.T. has had any great effect, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that we always have this matter under review. In any event, I did not say that I was unaware of the position. I said that I could not confirm the figure given by his hon. Friend for July. I do not know from where the hon. Gentleman got that figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not help the situation by using such exaggerated language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.431.0", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member does not help the situation by using such exaggerated language. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is the kind of thing which causes alarm in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.432.4", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that if we had far fewer gentleman fanners whose main pastime is asking political questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.470.4", "colnum": "470", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Fife, West is at least clear about what he wants. He wants to sweep away the whole Upper House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "could be implemented. This would be quite wrong. If the Amendment is accepted, I shall be happy. If it is not, I hope that hon. Members will support me in the Lobby. If they reject the Amendment, I would remind them that, 2,300 years ago, at the time of the Peloponnesian Wars, Lysistrata gave an example which the wives of hon. Members who vote against the Amendment would be well advised to follow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mrs. Barbara Castle)", "preceding_text": "eement based on existing differentials between rates for men and for women, and had their agreement cleared under the criteria of the policy because they had concentrated on devoting the yield of productivity entirely to improving pay within existing relativities, the workers could then say, \"We have to think of the poor women now. Now we negotiate an agreement for equal pay and slap that on top.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.502.4", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to finish my speech. I am coming to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "ria of the incomes policy and complained that my hon. Friend the Member for Honiton was wrong when he said that it was stopping even faltering steps. But surely she realises that any steps taken within the criteria would be taken in any case whether they involved equal pay or not. It is no argument to say that a move towards equal pay can be accepted if it is within the money which can be agreed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Let us now examine whether the criteria in the White Paper, now in the General Considerations Order yet to be debated, can help these faltering steps towards equal pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Clause 3(5) was inserted as; a result of discussion in Committee, very largely as a result of a speech by my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo), who expressed the fear that the Government might use their powers under the Bill to impose consecutive standstills on the same group of workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.572.10", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "tely independent body so that it can standardise a pricing policy for industry. I want to know from the Government the criteria on which they base the selection of cases to be kept under continuous review. Are the selected cases to be the subject of a particular type of restraint? Are contentious or vulnerable cases to be chosen, or is it to be a matter of victimisation in the use of these powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.572.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An unworthy suggestion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "s, and is now by law required—I do not object to this— to the fact that the company's subscription to the Liberal Party, or to the Conservative Party, or to the Scottish Nationalist Party, had been increased. It is just possible that, if these circumstances arose, the Government might wish to vary the reference which was already before the Board in relation to the pricing policies of that company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.586.4", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ld be to choose a reference to the Board covering a range of manufactured consumer goods, such as breakfast foods, to which we might decide subsequently to add something which had been omitted, like porage. We would require the power to vary for that reason. I hoped that I made it clear that we would not normally seek to use this power, but we needed to retain it because circumstances might arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " the Prices and Incomes Board to rule that a price reduction should be made. If these contentions are right it is quite ridiculous for the Under-Secretary and his right hon. Friend to say that they are proposing to reduce retail prices. It is false. It is part of the sinister and dangerous window dressing which appears constantly in the Bill. We have too much sinister window dressing in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is a clip joint?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " which appears constantly in the Bill. We have too much sinister window dressing in the House. [ Interruption. ] It is the way in which the window is dressed, with black curtains, and a clip joint atmosphere—where one finds that something very different is offered inside from what one had been led to expect outside. This is a clip joint Government, and they produce a lot of clip joint legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ters, starting \"My dear Aubrey\" and finishing \"Yours ever\": Pray examine this exorbitant price increase. Pray tell me the reasons for the steep advances. Put your horde of clerks to work to justify these increases in prices. Six months later a Report was published by the Minister which said that the price advances were exorbitant. I am still pressing the Minister to know what action will be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.600.1", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nse. It is never intended that the Board should reduce any prices. It is merely an exercise to wave the flag before militant trade unionists and say, \"No wage advances for organised labour, but look how we are striking at the roots of capitalism by denying them the market price for their products.\" That is all that Clause 4 amounts to. We are moving Amendment No. 28 and voting on Amendment No. 38.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.600.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ent further afield into areas not dealt with by my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West (Mr. John Page), in his splendid speech. He had no word to say of the nationalised industries. What is to happen about prices in the nationalised industries? Bisecting my constituency of Worcestershire, South are the Rivers Severn and Avon. There are many locks and they are habitually used by pleasure craft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "y industrial, and the user of canals in rural Worcestershire, which is almost entirely for pleasure purposes. People taking pleasure craft through the locks in Worcestershire are at present aggrieved by the steep increase in the tariffs. With those few words, I appeal to the Minister about the retail and distributive charges of nationalised industries. He must deal with the matter when he replies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " right hon. Lady, presumably as one of the cards with which she attempts to trump the trick of her right hon. Friend the Chancellor. She is always saying that prices are coming down and he is always saying that they will go up. It would be interesting if the Opposition retired and allowed the Chancellor and the right hon. Lady to argue this out. We should be very interested to hear the conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "of hon. Gentlemen opposite, but we welcome their presence. To return to the debate, I want to express my very warm agreement with my hon. Friend the Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen), who, as I do, always tries to be polite. Tonight, he fell over himself to achieve that end. Referring to the Prices and Incomes Board and our feelings towards it, he said that those of us who have a modest conception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": ". Friend's lips instead of talking to his neighbour. He can always improve his education by reading HANSARD tomorrow. He will benefit from it immensely. My hon. Friend the Member for Oswestry referred to the modest conception of the virtues of the Board. My hon. Friend must be congratulated on his civility. I suspect that, like myself, he regards the Board as something of a nuisance and an excuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.605.5", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": ", North is responsible were to be abated. Like my hon. Friend the Member for Oswestry, I see some merit in the second of these Amendments. I am slightly doubtful about the merits of the first and third Amendments. I accept the wisdom of the simple, straightforward argument of my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South. Let us keep as far away from the Prices and Incomes Board as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.605.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " of a division and the dinner interval. However, I do not minimise the strength of the argument which preceded the dinner interval. The Amendment carried in Committee reduced one specific area of power which the Government seek to have. If that Amendment remained part of the Bill, the Government's powers to reduce prices would come to a sudden and, in our view, arbitrary end in the middle of 1969.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "This is the only power in the Bill to reduce anything. Other provisions give power to order a standstill on prices, wages or dividends, but this Clause gives power to make unspecified reductions, and enormous reductions in the prices of some commodities could be enforced by Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lomas", "preceding_text": "Committee? This is where my hon. Friend is chasing shadows. The Under Secretary said: 12 per cent. of the entire agricultural industry is on this minimum rate. The other 88 per cent. are not getting the minimum— currently 11 guineas or slightly more. The other 88 per cent. are getting more than that.\" —[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee F, 12th June, 1968; c. 752.] We are dealing with a minimum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": " land. This process cannot be allowed to go on. We cannot afford it. It will have a serious effect on the expansion of agriculture. In the latest Report of the \"Little Neddy\" for agriculture, we are clearly told: Manpower is likely to continue to decline at least as fast as in the recent past. The expansion may not be obtainable in full if the decline is at the high rates forecast. In other words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.668.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Foster", "preceding_text": "dividend. The company may say, \"We are declaring a dividend of 20 per cent., having declared 15 per cent. last year, subject to Treasury consent\". It can then put the Treasury on the spot and say, \"It is 3½ per cent. for the following reasons\", or it can declare a dividend 3½ per cent. more subject to Treasury consent. Perhaps we are fighting a shadow fight, because the way round it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "not even perpetuating the power in legislation. What is the economic justification for this policy? All economic policy needs justifying and the control of dividends, as set out in the Schedule, is a new major economic departure. The effect, so far as it is successful in stopping dividends rising, will be to inflate the values of companies and send up their equity quotations on the Stock Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The question we are considering, surely, is whether the Minister's power for exercising dividend restraint should be limited in the way suggested in the Schedule. It is only on that point that we are able to discuss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The only point of difference is that the hon. Gentleman wants to freeze in statutory form what were intended as Press statements. One objection to that is that they were not drafted in proper language for a statute, but in the informal language most convenient for clearing up these matters in a Press statement. Second, we want to make the policy flexible and helpful to industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.715.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.721.2", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "he preparation of the Government's plan for economic development is 25 per cent. I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman still finds the drafting of that acceptable. The Financial Secretary's brilliant argument, the cut and thrust of debate and the defence he has put up, has convinced me that the Treasury's guidance on this matter is absolutely useless. Therefore, I beg leave to withdraw the Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-26", "file": "debates1968-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd756e9f1ac4a9cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "That is perfectly true. He has often advocated that we should extend regulated tenancies to controlled tenancies. That is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-26a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.809.4", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That would not in any sense be an accurate or fair comparison. For reasons stated in the House, the terms of the paper brought back by the right hon. Gentleman have not been disclosed. There is a difference of opinion between us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.815.5", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.815.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.817.6", "colnum": "817", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend appreciates, this is a matter for the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "I find myself in rather a difficult position and I hope that hon. Members on both sides will give me a patient hearing while I state my case. I am greatly tempted to vote for the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "l give me a patient hearing while I state my case. I am greatly tempted to vote for the Bill—[ Interruption. ] I am on record, in Parliament, in the Press, on television and on radio, as being in favour of a prices and incomes policy. Indeed, I believe that if a Conservative Government were returned to power tomorrow morning they would have no option but to impose some sort of policy of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "essary. The right hon. Lady considers that the Bill will help us to take advantage of the situation resulting from devaluation. She does not seem to realise the immense financial tragedy that may hit us in the next three to six months. Cecil King's warning was a mere nothing compared with what may happen, and that is why I say that a Measure of this kind is necessary, whichever party is in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "he Bill is an attempt to restore confidence in the economy, in sterling and in our financial institutions. At the beginning of this week I asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer why he had drawn the last 1,400 million dollars of the I.M.F. loan. He replied that it was to fund the short-term debts which he could not repay. That shows the position in which we find ourselves. We are a bankrupt nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We could have a change of Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "That is a fair question. My hon. Friend says that the Bill will not work. What I am asking is what alternative does the Chancellor have?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "could have a change of Government.\"] No, we could not have it for another two and a half years, because the present Government were elected by the law of the land to stay there until 1971. I beg hon. Members to face reality. Because of the tragedy which faces us—I am sorry that I cannot pursue this, because there are other factors which would justify far more than the right hon. Lady has given us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come, come.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for the thought, which is by no means original. On all the evidence, the Government have lost all moral authority to impose such a stern policy of austerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, he said that he could not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "w this sort of thing to happen after all the fulminations from their Front Bench, the criticism and catisgation, the bitter and venomous attacks on my right hon. Friend the Minister. They cannot allow the hon. Member to get away with this. It is a reflection on the dignity of Parliament. We have just listened to a most momentous announcement. The hon. Member for Louth is going to support the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only in the first part.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "atisgation, the bitter and venomous attacks on my right hon. Friend the Minister. They cannot allow the hon. Member to get away with this. It is a reflection on the dignity of Parliament. We have just listened to a most momentous announcement. The hon. Member for Louth is going to support the Bill— [An HON. MEMBER: \"No, he said that he could not.\"]—well, he said so in the first part of his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.864.7", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " for all—is all very well. But let hon. Members opposite examine their history of condemnation of the trade union movement and of the activities of trade unions. I can remember the Osborne judgement. I can remember the Taff Vale dispute. I can remember the Trade Union (Amendment) Acts. I happen to have read the industrial history of this country and how the Tory Party created the combination laws.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.864.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.864.7", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "p when he was speaking. Nobody goes to sleep when I am speaking. I say what I am about to say with what sincerity I can command. \"Sincerity\" is a much abused term. I have listened occasionally to my right hon. Friend the First Secretary. I worried her a little on Second Reading because of my attitude. However, I must congratulate her on her fortitude. For a woman, she has stood up remarkably well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.864.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.879.4", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "preceding_text": "y from the employers and on to themselves. As regards this legislation, for many in the Labour movement the proof of the pudding is in the eating. This is where the views of my hon. Friend the Member for Hudders-field, West (Mr. Lomas) are fundamentally wrong, because they are ventured against what is happening to the low-paid workers. I refer to the change of attitude by the agricultural workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.879.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.883.5", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend said. This has been an extremely traumatic experience for many of my hon. Friends. It is dreadful that we should be faced with the situation of the hon. Member for Louth (Sir C. Osborne) honestly presenting his opinion of the Bill and being jeered by his hon. Friends—not because of the emptiness of his argument but because he is prepared to defy the Whips and managers of his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.883.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-27", "file": "debates1968-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "0fedebd729590a71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "o the Minister might say that, if it were necessary to extend the Bill, these integral powers would, under the Amendment, have to come to an end. I spent over 70 hours in Committee on the Prices and Incomes Bill and I do not know how many this week on Report and Third Reading and not once was this aspect of the policy of limiting prices ever mentioned. It does not seem to be a very important part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-27a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-28", "file": "debates1968-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "0a57499e386e84a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-28a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "t rates. He appeared to be confusing the interest payment due to the I.M.F. with ordinary transactions, nothing to do with S.D.R.—for example, ordinary borrowings and drawings from the I.M.F. These interest charges can be paid by S.D.R. in certain circumstances, which enlarges the value of the S.D.R. The interest position of S.D.R. is more technical and complicated, and I will try to summarise it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-28a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-06-28", "file": "debates1968-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "0a57499e386e84a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-28a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AID BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "I am not talking about aid generally, but the aid provided by I.D.A.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-06-28a.1037.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "NURSES AND MIDWIVES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "mporary gaps, but they form an important part of the permanent staff of hospitals. They account for one in seven of full-time staff nurses in the London area. The additional cost to the hospital service is considerable. I was interested to see in the Nursing Times of 21st June an advertisement by the Kent Nursing Association calling for agency nurses and offering them salaries of up to £110 a week", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "he Government to give an undertaking to protect our subsidies to Malta. Why should we go on subsidising Malta through a lottery and be denied the right to contribute that sort of money to our own hospitals, which are crying out for contributions to research? It may be said that the funds for research should be provided out of ordinary revenue and that hospitals should not have to rely on gambling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is what my hon. Friend is doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " is to be a national lottery in all probability it must be a State monopoly. That would have to be decided in a later Bill, assuming that the Clause is passed. My right hon. Friend feels that it would not be desirable to have a great number of competing lotteries, because then we might be open to the charge that we were inaugurating high-pressure salesmanship and encouraging gambling and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "m football pools and from some of the big money bets in racing, from the Tote, and so forth. If, on the other hand, it was a small prize lottery the money would be attracted from other charitable causes, from football pools and even local Labour parties' efforts. It is essential to know exactly the form that this cheque will take and who is to make the payment. I am not basically against gambling,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "out that. If I believed that this would substantially increase gambling, particularly the worst forms of gambling, I would be opposed to it. It has been suggested that gambling leads to the breakdown of homes and to people spending all their earnings in the betting shop. It is true that gambling causes a host of difficulties, but that is not the type of gambling we are concerned with this evening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I will not give way to the hon. Member, who has interrupted throughout the debate for more than 3¼ hours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1221.7", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member has indulged in statistical hyperbole about a State lottery on many occasions. He is by profession a statistician but I would not employ him. One might, given very great success with a State lottery, raise a sum approximately equal to the sum we now raise by football pools, £30 million to £40 million a year, but it would be at the expense, and to the detriment, of the football pools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1221.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-01", "file": "debates1968-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "43c87cf58b5f317b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "s of debates, as even the hon. Member for Wimbledon (Sir C. Black); and I can assure my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary that a time when I find myself in agreement with the hon. Member for Wimbledon is so rare a phenomenon that he should take regard of the wide section of public opinion that is against the proposal. In this House we seek to govern by rational argument and rational discussion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-01a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-02", "file": "debates1968-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "98d4e9101d5e2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1295.6", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "It is also known as hepatolenticular degeneration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1295.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-02", "file": "debates1968-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "98d4e9101d5e2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take serious note of the point of view of hon. Members on this side who recognise that July is a sticky month in more ways than one—including Sunday's resignation? Will he accept that there would be tremendous support for him if he gave a state of the nation broadcast, because he still has many friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-02", "file": "debates1968-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "98d4e9101d5e2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only the start.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that part of the course is in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-02", "file": "debates1968-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "98d4e9101d5e2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "iend aware that part of the course is in my constituency? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Only the start.\"] Is he aware that for many years many of us have been advocating that the area should be brought within the control of the Liverpool City Council and that, therefore, his statement is most welcome to us and to the people of Liverpool, who have always wanted to keep the Grand National in our area? Can he say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-02", "file": "debates1968-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "98d4e9101d5e2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "llor, of Lord Butler when Chancellor, of Mr. Harold Macmillan when Chancellor, of Lord Thorneycroft when Chancellor, of Mr. Heathcoat Amory when Chancellor, of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for The Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) when Chancellor and of my right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) when Chancellor. It was the policy of the present Home Secretary when Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-02", "file": "debates1968-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "98d4e9101d5e2ef4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1457.1", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "Financial Secretary setting out for what reason the tax was introduced. An anomaly was drawn attention to in the correspondence which ensued and the Financial Secretary said that this was a matter at which he would look. It is important to point out that, although there has been one case in which this has arisen, it is likely to be extremely rare. Gifts of assets rather than cash are very unusual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-02a.1457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not have sufficient details at present. As the hon. Gentleman knows, I am in active touch —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is still in the dark.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "not confined to North of the Border. The voice of Liverpool has now been expressed and I am glad to hear that there is this broadening out of what is sometimes a parochial dispute. However, a one-year period would not give us the opportunity to decide the merits or otherwise of the scheme. I know the North. I was brought up in the Orkneys and I went to school in the dark and came home in the dark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "expressed and I am glad to hear that there is this broadening out of what is sometimes a parochial dispute. However, a one-year period would not give us the opportunity to decide the merits or otherwise of the scheme. I know the North. I was brought up in the Orkneys and I went to school in the dark and came home in the dark—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is still in the dark.\"]—for many months of the winter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1503.1", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "EXPORT ORDER TO GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not extravagant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that both sides of the House agree that political differences should not be allowed to impede trade? Would he not also agree, however, that it was rather unfortunate for the Prime Minister to use such extravagant terms? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "It is always a delight to listen to the speeches of the hon. Member for Tyne-mouth (Dame Irene Ward), even if it is difficult to follow them. She said that the first thing she would expect her party to do when returned to power would be to take action on this matter. I am sure that that could be the last thing she would get, but I shall be here to help her remind her party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1574.3", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "is a much better linguist than I am, pointed out that one does not have these records for entertainment purposes. Then, as the hon. Member for Lewisham, West pointed out, there are those records produced in connection with definite courses of study. I would add another feature which overlaps that category. It is not only those records which are designed with a course of study, but those which are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "ear in which we had to exact a very formidable sum of new taxation from the community. Given that decision, we looked for the areas where we could most reasonably seek to exact some taxation. One of the most obvious ones was that a man should not get a year's marriage allowance if he had been married for only a day in that year. From this, we got the concept of apportioning the marriage allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was not said.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "lation. I thought that a good deal of the discussion on this was away from reality. When people were invited to exercise this option, it was pointed out to them that whether they gained or lost would depend upon their circumstances and that this gain or loss might change as their circumstances changed. The kind of circumstances upon which the gain or loss depends include tax rates, interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is crazy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "uld first go to university and then take articles, or could go straight into a firm, taking articles immediately. If that child had an investment income and went to university, that income would continue to rank for tax purposes as his father's. If, on the other hand, we went straight into articles with a firm and earned a salary, that investment income would no longer be regarded as his father's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1636.1", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It should be stopped.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " the married couple with their children is identical—there is a certain amount of tax payable by the parent because it is the income of the father. If he takes the second course, there is the same amount of tax payable by the parent because it is the income of the mother, and aggregation between mother and father has been accepted and carried out in practice by all Governments for very many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.0", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "sed by the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Richard Wainwright) about the unfairness between the boy working hard for A levels and the apprentice, working hard, I must return to the principle to answer this. The principle here is that the family spending unit becomes two units when one of the children is, as it were, on his own, earning income. That is the only definition that fits the principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.3", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Must be a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "That is not an uncommon situation. The father is rich, and the son does not want to. The son is, say, a musician, or something of that sort, and wants to pursue his studies, and has got a place, say, at the Royal College of Music, and wishes to see if he can make out there. The father dislikes this and says, \"I cannot stop you, but you will not get a penny from me, if you will not go in the mill.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.3", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "n the common spending unit, as the Chief Secretary would say, his income will not be aggregated with that of the mill owner. What is the fairness in that? I hope that is not a situation of which the Chief Secretary is proud. The second example is almost worse. It concerns parents earning, say, £1,500 or £2,000 a year when their son is left a lot of money directly by a remote relation in Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.3", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "at of the mill owner. What is the fairness in that? I hope that is not a situation of which the Chief Secretary is proud. The second example is almost worse. It concerns parents earning, say, £1,500 or £2,000 a year when their son is left a lot of money directly by a remote relation in Australia—[ Interruption. ] I see nothing wrong with that example. It has happened more than once, but not to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "The Amendment deals with children from 15 to 21. My contention was that if the Amendment is accepted all these anomalies and difficulties will fall away like scales. That was the purpose of these examples. The second example is where a boy of 18 or 19 is left directly an unexpected small fortune and he decides to leave the home and goes up to London to live it up with wine, women and song.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "that if the Amendment is accepted all these anomalies and difficulties will fall away like scales. That was the purpose of these examples. The second example is where a boy of 18 or 19 is left directly an unexpected small fortune and he decides to leave the home and goes up to London to live it up with wine, women and song.— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] I agree that is very bad. But what happens then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-03", "file": "debates1968-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "9079af32b739ada7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1643.0", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Little did I think as I wended my way to the Chamber that I would be fortunate enough to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker. I had not intended to intervene in the debate. I have not, I regret to say, attended the debate for the last hour and a half. Therefore, I have missed all the tripe that has been talked about. Let me put this whole matter into a nutshell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-03a.1643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1674.5", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Teeling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Teeling", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman realise that at present the agreement with the University of Sussex has terminated and we are now starting a new one? The university is refusing to delete the clause that students should be allowed to bring male and female friends into their rooms in the hotels up to 11 o'clock at night. Does the hon. Gentleman realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1674.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1689.2", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I do not follow all their successive policy statements. Since this Government were formed, however, two Departments have been abolished and three new ones created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1689.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.2", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "When the right hon. Gentleman does steel himself to make another broadcast, could he, as the most incredible leader of the most incredible Government which we have ever had, aim to restore public confidence in Parliament by dropping his very convincing act of being a man totally devoid of integrity and, at the same time, in relation to his devaluation broadcast, admit quite openly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.4", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "In relation to his devaluation broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.4", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "In relation to his devaluation broadcast—[ Interruption. ]— would he openly admit that he either made a gross miscalculation, misled the people or at best had been over-economical with the truth?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.9", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", if the noble Lord wants lessons in selective misrepresentation, his hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths), who is sitting next to him, would be very good at giving them, to judge from his selection of figures in his article last week. The noble Lord, however, needs no lessons from anyone. The position is that, in my devaluation broadcast, I said that prices will rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1691.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1692.0", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "We realise that the Chancellor has placed a ban on personal appearances by the Prime Minister on television, and, in view of the state of the foreign exchange markets, this is no doubt just as well, but, in the light of the ex-Minister of Power's television appearance earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I will have that point brought to the notice of my right hon. Friend who is responsible, but I cannot give a specific promise at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1698.3", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ered simply \"Yes\" to the right hon. Gentleman's other two questions, an answer which he appreciated, I thought that a precise \"No\" would be satisfactory for the other question. However, if the right hon. Gentleman wants me to consider the matter, I will certainly look into it, but I do not think that time can be found next week. I would rather be frank with the right hon. Gentleman now than later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1702.2", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there have been any vicious cuts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1775.0", "colnum": "1775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " put the position shortly by saying that it is the Government's view that there is no need for the Amendment in relation to approved superannuation or other death, disability or retirement benefits because they do not come under aggregation in any event. The hon. Gentleman asked whether, as there was no liability under Section 2(l)( d ) but there might be under Section 2(l)( c ), I could help him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1793.1", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": " unprecedented conditions. The Committee stage was taken upstairs, and while I do not intend on this occasion to expand on the arguments against this course—they were admirably adduced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) in a recent article in The Times —two points should be made. The first is that by taking the Committee stage upstairs the debates lacked tempo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "e spoke about the relationship between direct and indirect taxation he created that impression, but I accept that it was, perhaps, erroneously created. We are told that this is the toughest Finance Bill ever. It is designed to raise £923 million. It should be stressed that this has come about as the result of the disastrous mismanagement of the economy, culminating in the devaluation of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not by everybody.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "pe that I shall make some of the alternative proposals which the Chancellor said he would like to hear. The first point which needs to be made is that the Chancellor says that he is in favour of a change from direct to indirect taxation. So are we. This is a generally accepted view. I think that it is generally accepted that a move from direct to indirect taxation is a move in the right direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1807.1", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Her Majesty's Opposition have only complained about the high level of imports, and have not said how they would deal with them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1825.1", "colnum": "1825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "whole strategy of devaluation. Once we had moved to the new fixed exchange rate, then the whole argument was that we would have a recovery in the balance of trade of a sufficient magnitude to enable the consequential and sought-after improvement in the balance of payments to proceed, free from the raids of speculation. The Chancellor waxed eloquent on this point and I must quote some of his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1843.1", "colnum": "1843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": " Second Reading, I think, that he wished that the Chief Secretary would take time off from his ceaseless pursuit of matters of tax avoidance and evasion. I want to put it to the right hon. Gentleman that this obsession of his—I believe it to be an obsession—is doing infinite harm. It is odd that such an admirable activity should do infinite harm, but I am certain that it does. Anyone who listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1849.1", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ir, Mr. Speaker, but you, too, would be incapable of maintaining order in the House if we had not all accepted and developed a proper sense of self-discipline in our affairs. The experiment of taking a Bill upstairs also requires self-discipline. I regret that one cannot draw the conclusions that one might clearly have liked to have drawn from this experiment, since it was not given a fair chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1850.1", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "efore, draw the conclusion that we must think a little more carefully about what our methods should be. The right hon. Member for Enfield, West knows as well as I do that I hope that on future occasions, not only on the Finance Bill but on other Measures, we could move more readily towards what I believe to be the only solution for adequate, crisp debate; and that is agreed, voluntary time-tables—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-04", "file": "debates1968-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b9b2b65bc223f1cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1850.5", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "have done. We have seen over the years that Opposition rights have been diminished by Government after Government because they have not been prepared themselves to restrict their own activities. I would be anxious to avoid any continuation of that. That is why I draw attention in particular to what the right hon. Gentleman said. I sense that the House wishes to come to a conclusion on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-04a.1850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-05", "file": "debates1968-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "25c4c8fe43de7553", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-05a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS AID BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "ated in rather a spasmodic and fragmentary fashion. But I entirely acquit the Minister of any responsibility for that, and I certainly do not agree with the churlish and ill-mannered assertions made by the hon. Member for Woking about where the fault for it lies. In the Parliamentary Session drawing to a close, we have succeeded in carrying through a vast amount of enormously valuable legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-05a.1921.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-08", "file": "debates1968-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "72bedc1caf1f545a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.3.7", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUEZ CANAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who's talking?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Is the Foreign Secretary aware that his party's record at the time of the Suez intervention was disgraceful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.3.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-08", "file": "debates1968-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "72bedc1caf1f545a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.26.7", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GREECE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "I think my right hon. Friend is aware that I was in Athens this morning. Is my right hon. Friend aware that recent statements have caused widespread indignation and offence in Greece among critics of the Government and others and among British residents in that country? Although the present Government did not come to power by democratic methods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.26.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-08", "file": "debates1968-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "72bedc1caf1f545a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I would prefer to take the I.R.C.'s view, not the right hon. Gentleman's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ens from distasteful captors. The I.R.C. intervened because it thought that the Kent/Cambridge Instrument link would be better in the national interest than the Rank Organisation/Cambridge Instrument link, and we on this side of the House concede that it may well be so. On the other hand, no one, not even the I.R.C, can be sure that it will be so. No one can predict which grouping would be better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.63.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-08", "file": "debates1968-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "72bedc1caf1f545a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the fact that Sir Frank Kearton is a Fellow of the Royal Society is to be introduced to cast doubt on whether he was acting wholly independently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-08", "file": "debates1968-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "72bedc1caf1f545a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.147.5", "colnum": "147", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly normal practice on a Private Bill for the Minister to express the Government's view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-08", "file": "debates1968-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "72bedc1caf1f545a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "BRISTOL CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "if the West Dock scheme is to be made a viable proposition. If the Government had given Bristol the go-ahead and if the scheme had succeeded, all that Wales would have got out of it would have been the crumbs from the rich man's table. Alternatively, if the scheme goes ahead and if it fails, this will be disastrous to the nation and, perhaps even more so, to the ratepayers and citizens of Bristol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-08a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.187.9", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an assurance of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.187.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that I think Lord Robens has too many jobs he knows nothing about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.213.5", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. The animal noises coming from the other side made it difficult to know whether you had. What on earth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "CIGARETTES (HEALTH HAZARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurence Pavitt", "preceding_text": "re not clearly marked with a warning of the health hazards consequent upon smoking, or which contain gift coupons. This is a Bill about health, and I wish to make clear at the outset, as I have done on other occasions, that it is not my purpose to be anti-smoking. If the tobacco industry can produce a cancer-free cigarette, I shall be delighted if all hon. Members smoke as frequently as they wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "CIGARETTES (HEALTH HAZARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "If cigars could be 10 a penny, if people would smoke pipes instead of cigarettes, I should be delighted. But I am much concerned by the growing incidence of death and illness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.217.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.217.6", "colnum": "217", "heading": "CIGARETTES (HEALTH HAZARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And you die if you do not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "e starting the habit of smoking and getting married and saving for their homes, might well be influenced to keep to the habit by the gift coupons scheme. I hope that the House will acquit me of trying to be a puritan. I think that the moral argument is entirely false. There is nothing good about smoking, and there is nothing bad about it. The only thing is that one is liable to die if one does it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.217.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Happily, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman has said, there is no matter of principle or policy involved here, except for one small point. If we were to accept the Amendment, it would limit the facilities and services to those which are listed in the Clause as it stands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "g (Mr. John Lee) is in cloud-cuckooland. If he goes on holiday with or in the hope of meeting a group of friends in a small paying guest establishment in which there are only three other bedrooms, one bathroom and one lavatory, does he really think that his wife and family will want to share accommodation if in the outcome he finds staying there a black Zambian of the lower class and a Polynesian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "criminate in my own home. If, for reasons of prejudice, I have become, as is referred to in Mau Mau, so persecuted by a particular sect that I can no longer stand them—and there are people throughout the country, and in the party opposite, who would under no circumstances have an ex-member of the Nazi Party in their homes if he was a German and who would be objecting, therefore, on ethnic grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.338.7", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "That is not true. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is a well known, perfectly proper and reasonable fact that those of the Jewish faith would be singularly unlikely to accept Germans into their homes at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.338.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "nd most sensitive stage— people living cheek by jowl under the same roof in what is normally a private house. In those circumstances, one would generally say that the right to privacy should prevail and there should be no interference with it whatever. That is another way of saying, as my hon. Friend the Member for the Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies) said, that an Englishman's home is his castle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.361.5", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "le into contact with these issues. So my experience extends a little beyond the six months for which he takes such credit. Despite those two interventions, I repeat that I do not believe that it is very normal for people to buy or sell houses as a purely personal, private and unaided transaction. Apart from his personal experience, to which the Home Secretary evidently attaches so much importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.361.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I thought when I gave way to the hon. Member when he made an intervention from a seated position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "vention from a seated position—[ Interruption .]—is the hon. Member criticising me for having given way to him and his hon. Friends? I submit—as I did before those three interruptions to which, I hope courteously, I gave way—that in my experience and in the general experience it is not very usual to buy or sell houses as purely private and personal transactions unaided by any advice or assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will extend his Amendment, as he is asked to do by the Amendment in the names of my hon. Friends, to all sales by owner-occupiers without the limitation that they should not use an estate agent, and should not advertise them, I am sure that we would all accept his Amendment as a substantial concession and one which we ought to welcome. Will he do that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "is services in that way, but under the Amendment that will exclude those parties from the concessions the right hon. Gentleman is making. How is it suggested that the vendor of a house can fix the price without testing the market; if he is to make a private sale, if he is not allowed to consult an estate agent, if he is not allowed to insert an advertisement and not even allowed to erect a notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "m without order\". Why cannot he trust the good sense of Englishmen to act fairly in these matters? It is not orders or dictates from the Home Secretary or anyone else that will improve race relations, but a growing sense of responsibility. The more one resorts to orders and the less to appeals to responsibility the more difficult it will be to overcome the very difficult problem of race relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "entleman the Member for Hertfordshire, East and others who have objected to this Amendment, in order to make then-position perfectly clear. They have objected to this, and I hoped the right hon. and learned Member would intervene to answer my question. If we take a private sale of a house, arranged privately by an individual, and the sale is arranged to a person named let us say, Mr. Arthur Brown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.370.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "thing he has power to do is to enable some check to be made through the medium of the Amendment, which preserves some control through the limitation on the employment of an auctioneer or estate agent. It is a very slight concession. It is a most unusual one. I see nothing very wonderful about it. It is an admission by the Government that in reality this is an unenforceable part of the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are not a lawyer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I disagree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You started it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether this is a purely private fight or whether I am allowed to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It happens to be true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard) told the House on several occasions that the existence of this Clause, in its present form, gives employers a licence to discriminate. It is a good, ringing, attractive phrase, the sort of phrase that, I am sure, makes enjoyable reading in the national Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "petual injunctions and to exact perpetual assurances, the grim sanction of indefinite incarceration by way of committal for contempt, the fear of damages with an award of costs superimposed, the spectacle of a powerful board as adversary with all the resources of public funds behind it. Is not that a prospect at which the stoutest heart might quail and to which the clearest conscience might yield?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir S. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir S. Summers", "preceding_text": "That part which I consider totally unjustified reads as follows: Those who disobey the Conservative Party whip in order to oppose it cannot escape the charge that they do not care how their coloured fellow citizens are treated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-09", "file": "debates1968-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "9131d884cbb41e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sacrilege.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hall", "preceding_text": "n, that had the Good Samaritan lived in a time when the race relations legislation was in force, and had he been called upon to succour two injured travellers of different races, with the possible threat of being referred to the Race Relations Board if he chose to succour one first, he might well have passed by on the other side. This is no more absurd than the reference made by The Times to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-09a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.491.11", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "That does not take us very much further forward. I remind the President that we witnessed in the first quarter of this year an increase in imports due to a spending spree; we witnessed in the second quarter of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.491.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.492.4", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Is he aware?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member must put a question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOVERCRAFT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I hope that I shall not be misunderstood if I say that, in general, I am all for encouraging sports, but I have been fascinated by the way in which hon. Members opposite, perhaps as a result of a slightly traumatic night, seem to be feeling very permissive today and anxious to give me all sorts of things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to remind the Under-Secretary of State, lest he may be beginning to doubt it, that there are people who support him on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.663.3", "colnum": "663", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "n its marketing of tetracycline in world markets, and all its price details. On 23rd January this information was submitted in writing, in a long detailed letter containing information covering nine countries and ten competitors. On 26th January the Ministry thanked Pfizer for this and said that it was \"studying with interest the information on prices.\" On 31st January a second meeting took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Tufton Beamish", "preceding_text": "do not suppose that we shall be told. Similar views have been expressed by the Trade Marks, Patents and Designs Federation. What account has been taken of those views? As far as I can see, none. It is, therefore, complete humbug for the Minister to describe the Amendment, which flies in the face of such a wealth of expert opinion, as not fundamental to patent law. Never have I heard such nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-10", "file": "debates1968-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "ee297a6b0c9ef654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC HEALTH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "osure, will realise that in circumstances like this—obviously the right hon. Gentleman is not paying attention, as usual—it is better to play straight with the Opposition, whatever the particular motives, than to introduce a Clause at the eleventh hour. 11.45 p.m. I declare an interest, because I am a director of the pharmaceutical division of a leading British company. I make no apology for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-10a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give that undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.714.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rose — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.733.1", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "While accepting that the charges implied in the Question by the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) are unfounded, as they usually are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.742.7", "colnum": "742", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Opposition time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say whether next week's debate on Donovan is the only time which the Government will allocate to take note of the Report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.742.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.746.4", "colnum": "746", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I did not give that precise promise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.746.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ciency. It means that the question of resources becomes of paramount importance. This is why the Annual Review has been used in a much more purposive way under the present Government than in the past, with the emphasis on the provision of resources for productive investment. The farming community and the industry generally recognise that the Reviews have been constructive from their point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman really advocating, on behalf of his party, that all the small farmers should be driven out of business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.818.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not new.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": " true for agriculture as it is for any industry. We can raise the profits of agriculture only by reducing costs and raising productivity. Even in the past farming profits have not been sufficient to finance the expansion which we all want. This is why there has been a marked increase in bank borrowing and total farm debt. Now, the supply of bank finance for British agriculture is coming to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Grouse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "No, I was not wrong. The hon. Member for Gainsborough does not seem to like small men. He thought that the Government should stop wasting money on the regeneration and reseeding of hill land in Scotland and suggested that it was much better that this land should be used for recreational purposes. I tried to discover what kind of recreational purposes he had in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-11", "file": "debates1968-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "6edb6c979d46ae54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.861.3", "colnum": "861", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "cts 1967–68 was a successful year for Scottish fanning. Yields of cereal and potatoes reached record levels, as did yields of milk and eggs. In other words, expansion. There are clear signs of continuing technological progress in the industry and, subject to the weather in the current year, I see no reason why the net output on farms should not move forward. The trend in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-11a.861.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-12", "file": "debates1968-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "46ee6dcde7e3ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-12a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (BORROWING POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Astonishing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "to the Measure becoming law, found that instead of an estimated bank overdraft fundable of £32 million, £79 million in liabilities of the companies which it inherited had to be funded. It found in connection with trade bills and acceptance credits in respect of the companies which it took over that a nil estimate turned out to be £47 million. I could quote a number of other items. We are prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-12a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1003.5", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I can only assure the hon. Gentleman that these questions should be put to the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1003.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1017.6", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed. I shall be writing to Members of Parliament concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1017.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH REGIMENTS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I could understand that, if we were to recruit men just as soldiers for Regiment No. 1 and Regiment No. 2, or Brigade No. 1 and Brigade No. 2. Perhaps that is the most desirable organisation of our defence. But we are still retaining traditional names associated with famous regiments. Then why single out this regiment? I cannot understand it. Something has gone wrong with the Defence Depart- ment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH REGIMENTS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "onder whether I dare mention it. This is an emotional subject in Scotland and it is no use quarrelling with an emotion. One can quarrel with Scottish logic and get away with it, but not with Scottish emotion. I should have thought that, with all the political possibilities which appear likely ahead of this party and of our party in Scotland, we should be mighty careful about ventures of this sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH REGIMENTS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " political operation. Is it true that the Colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders disobeyed the time schedule of his orders? I had better be very blunt about it. Is it not true that the Argylls in Aden, far from being the superbly disciplined force which they were claimed to be by the British Press, in fact suffered from a lack of discipline? Is not that the actual truth of what happened?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH REGIMENTS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is the kind of Government that we have.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "he proposal is to keep the Argyll and Sutherlands. This is proposed in a country which under-pays its nurses and its teachers, which does not build as many hospitals as it ought, and a country, moreover, which cannot apparently afford to go ahead with the developments in particle physics at C.E.R.N. and Culham. Yet are we to incur military expenditure for which there is no operational requirement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1090.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH REGIMENTS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "icer of the 1st Battalion of the Argylls, personally ordered the Commanding Officer of the Battalion to exploit the speed and success of the initial thrusts, and the G.O.C. the following morning ordered the rest of the town to be taken over by 5 p.m. on 5th July. The whole operation was carried out in accordance with the plan laid down and agreed between the civil and military authorities in Aden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "SCOTLAND (SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "the Highlands and Islands Development Board, which has been doing much more for Scotland than has been done for a very long time. I would say to the hon. Gentleman who represents the lairds and gentry that if Scotland has suffered, the Highlands particularly, it is because of the absent gentry, the folk who have turned the Highlands into a deer forest. They are the people who depopulated Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "SCOTLAND (SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "nisation of the industry by providing incentive grants for a period of four years from March 1968 to encourage the expansion of existing hotels and the construction of new ones to meet present and potential demand, is warmly welcomed by the Board. This decision, the most encouraging in at least 20 year …\". That is one in the eye for the 13 years under right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "SCOTLAND (SELECTIVE EMPLOYMENT TAX)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I am only sorry that we do not have more time at our disposal; otherwise I would be glad to deal with the hon. Gentleman's interruptions. We have been denied a debate on an important matter by having spent the greater part of the day debating something much less significant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "breaking the Rhodesian economy. It is to that aspect of sanctions that we on this side of the House have consistently objected, and therefore we shall vote against this Order, as we voted against the last. If we persevere in the debate, it is for two reasons. First, from time to time we have succeeded in our debates in modifying certain injustices. Second, we still have our eye on the main chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " the materials on which the business runs or if they try to export the product which the business manufactures and thus could keep itself alive, they are guilty of an offence. Can the right hon. Gentleman clarify this further? It would be the product of a mad-house and really laughable if it was not so serious, because this attaches a penalty now under the law. Therefore, what is a business to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1177.5", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " between Mr. Smith and that member. Therefore, I think the time is now ripe for the right hon. Gentleman to take time by the forelock and find out whether Mr. Smith is now ready to approach a new agreement with the right hon. Gentleman and Her Majesty's Government based broadly on the \"Tiger\" approach and on the proposals which I brought back from Mr. Smith to the Prime Minister not very long ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1177.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that if there is to be a successful negotiation it is better that the terms should not be disclosed piecemeal. If the right hon. Gentleman can use those proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear about one thing, and that is why we are having this debate. It is because the Tory peers, egged on by the Tory Front Bench in this Chamber were led to vote against the previous Order, which was supported by the vast majority of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear about one thing, and that is why we are having this debate. It is because the Tory peers, egged on by the Tory Front Bench in this Chamber were led to vote against the previous Order, which was supported by the vast majority of the people—[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Barnet (Mr. Maud-ling) declined to answer when I asked him last time we debated this matter whether the Tory Front Bench had put the Tory peers up to vote against the Order. I can only deduce from his silence that that was the case, and that all that has happened in the last few weeks is the result of a secret meeting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "have gone with the Government to the extent that these measures had to be taken to bring Smith to his senses. They have altered their tune under pressure from their Right wing. I ask the Leader of the Opposition whether he will condescend to make it plain to the House what his policy is today, because the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire has not told us that tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1185.4", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I have decided, Mr. Speaker. If the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition wishes to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "We will come back to the debate, which is really about what is the real policy of the Tory Party. The right hon. Gentleman has said this evening that he has an eye to the main chance, but if he thinks that what he has said represents the majority opinion in the country he is grossly mistaken. The people will not be held up to ransom by a small racist clique—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1186.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "bma policy that makes a settlement all the more difficult. This is why this Order is such a tragedy. The tobacco farmers who are suffering greatly and feeling sanctions severely —I stayed for a weekend on a tobacco farm—said they believed that at the very best the British Government were prepared to risk imposing a second Mau Mau upon them or at the worst to turn their country into a second Congo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did the coloured people say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "tobacco farmers who are suffering greatly and feeling sanctions severely —I stayed for a weekend on a tobacco farm—said they believed that at the very best the British Government were prepared to risk imposing a second Mau Mau upon them or at the worst to turn their country into a second Congo. [ Interruption. ] I am reporting to the House what was said to me out there, what people really believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1193.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-15", "file": "debates1968-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "6c86126a87f93788", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe", "preceding_text": " the Persian Gulf, and elsewhere—it almost revels in the limitation of power to which it has brought to this country. We have to get out of the Persian Gulf and the Far East by 1970 because we have neither the power to stay nor influence to exert in that part of the world. But in some curious way, in Rhodesia, the Government will not accept any limitation of power. I am all for the six principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-15a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "Since the right hon. Gentleman has rejected both birth and election as methods of entry of the House of Lords, and since there are, possibly, objections to a second Chamber wholly nominated by him or his successors, would he reconsider his right hon. Friend's suggestion for a national lottery with peerages as prizes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Up to a year ago, the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1256.3", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "DISABLEMENT INCOME COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley), I welcome him back to our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of the Report of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations 1965-1968 (Command Paper No. 3623). Before I embark on my speech on the Motion, I am sure that the whole House would wish to show that it was delighted to hear the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) actively participating in our affairs again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "sals and to judge them in detail. This is on record. But the problems of human relations in industry cannot, and never will, be solved by constantly taking trade unions—still less thousands of individual strikers—to court. To suggest that this is inherent in our proposals is to misconceive the main purpose of civil law. Remember again that it is civil, not criminal, law that we are talking about.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": ". Gentlemen opposite. They are the sinners come to repentance. They are the traditional enemies of the trade union movement. We discussed the fate of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders yesterday. We would do better to remember that the British trade union movement too has its battle honours. It has Featherstone, Tolpuddle, the dockers' tanner, Tonypandy. In my lifetime, I can remember a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "That is the pressure of competition. That is the ultimate sanction of the competitive situation—a sanction which, alas, is not available to public enterprise. It has no effect on public enterprise.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1364.1", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "es as unimportant because they account for so many fewer man days lost than the number lost through the common cold. The fact is that the threat to strike inhibits managers from doing what, in the interests of the workers and the public, they should be doing. The Royal Commission brings this out in paragraph 412, when it says that the threat to strike has a great effect of management's efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-16", "file": "debates1968-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "2c852671447dbfcb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL COMMISSION ON TRADE UNIONS AND EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATIONS (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "lemen opposite have said, it may be that it is legally open to managements and unions—not trade associations and unions, but managements and unions—to enter into an enforceable bargain now. The Royal Commission says that on page 126 of its Report. It is not for me to argue with the Royal Commission's diagnosis of the law. All that I can say is that managements and unions do not understand the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-16a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-17", "file": "debates1968-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3eb0c28553c3564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1405.6", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scuttle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman will have an opportunity in next week's debate to deploy his argument, but he is aware that the Government's policy is to concentrate our defence commitment in the European area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1405.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-17", "file": "debates1968-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3eb0c28553c3564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I would dispute what the hon. Gentleman says about the arrangements having worked very well up to now. If they had worked very well up to now, we should not have devoted two years to considering how to improve them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-17", "file": "debates1968-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3eb0c28553c3564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1444.0", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-17", "file": "debates1968-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "c3eb0c28553c3564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er in Committee or in another place. It is significant in the sense that, as with so many other things, Scotland is a little ahead of the rest of the country. The main arguments for the Amendment were not adduced in Committee, mainly because on the morning when Clause 12 should have been discussed tempers were somewhat frayed, doors were being banged and various points of orders were being raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-17a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-18", "file": "debates1968-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bda5254a01f84e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "bunch of much more extreme racialists taking advantage of any concessions. But the door is still open. Mr. Smith is perfectly free to enter it. We have tried to contact him about the publication of the proposals brought forward by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) but, of course, Mr. Smith has obviously been very busy in the last few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1663.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-18", "file": "debates1968-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bda5254a01f84e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has announced a date when the House will rise, but he did not say when we would come back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-18", "file": "debates1968-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bda5254a01f84e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1681.0", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not whole.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend will expect me to comment on particular members of another Government. On the general point that my hon. Friend has put to me, it is true that we cannot expect, as a result of the French elections, any change of French policy in this matter. But I believe that the reasons that led this country and the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-18", "file": "debates1968-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bda5254a01f84e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1694.1", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Americans?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ification, joining ourselves and the Americans, and perhaps the French in this task. I was glad to hear from the right hon. Gentleman that in Mr. Kosygin's proposals there is a suggestion that this process might be begun. In Vietnam, it is the Soviet Foreign Minister, acting as co-Chairman of the Geneva Conference, who could act to end this war and to organise a cease-fire and a peace conference.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1694.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-18", "file": "debates1968-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bda5254a01f84e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1798.0", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "s. It is not all a matter of duty-free whisky and cocktail parties. None is more difficult than the post in China, and I am sure that I shall represent the views of all right hon. and hon. Members in sending a message from the House of Commons tonight saying that we admire the courage and fortitude which all have displayed in their exemplary discharge of their duties in China during the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1796.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-18", "file": "debates1968-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "bda5254a01f84e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1803.0", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "ls with the points that have been raised. I agree with the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths) that it would have been better if we could have had a full debate on the whole of this subject. I hope, therefore, that I can take away the feeling that the House approves the Non-Proliferation Treaty and that it would be the wish of the House that we should ratify it at an early date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-18a.1802.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-19", "file": "debates1968-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "773ccba85cf35086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-19a.1839.0", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "preceding_text": "e interesting point is that, in so far as there is direct profit to be gained from the airport, it goes to Luton, but in so far as there is a great deal of nuisance and annoyance derived from the airport, that is carried more heavily by the surrounding areas. Therefore, the obvious means of redress, namely, action through the local authority elections, is not very satisfactory in the Luton context", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-19a.1839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "At the time that British Standard Time was being discussed there was consultation between the Ministers responsible for all Departments concerned and, in my case, consultations with industry as a whole. Even in Scotland there was a majority in favour of this —only a very small majority, but nevertheless a majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "WEST END (DEMONSTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On Sunday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have taken part in a considerable number of demonstrations myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.39.4", "colnum": "39", "heading": "WEST END (DEMONSTRATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman permitted to send a recommendation to magistrates throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.39.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "URBAN PROGRAMMES (GOVERNMENT AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Well, that includes many aliens, anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICAN BREWERIES BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "preceding_text": "Like my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, I want now to reply very briefly to the debate. I cannot help feeling that much of the heat that has been engendered has. been engendered because hon. Members have felt that this was a Government Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICAN BREWERIES BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "preceding_text": "erely take steps to wind up its affairs here and recommence operations in South Africa, although that would cause it certain inconveniences. In other words, this Bill is virtually an adoption provision: instead of the company being a child of an English Statute it would, if the Bill were passed, become the child of a South African Statute. Consequently, it would not be subject to our jurisdiction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTH AFRICAN BREWERIES BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "preceding_text": "I should like to join in the tribute paid by my hon. Friend the Member for York (Mr. Alexander W. Lyon) to the diligence and assiduity with which my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, North-West (Mr. Ellis) and my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "vernment are adopting the same criteria for the nationalised industries. Many of us will have received in the post this morning a notification of the new inland letter service and the changes to be made in postal rates which effectively make a considerable increase in the costs of postal services. Although we are told that the service will not be any worse, we shall have to pay 5d. instead of 4d.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is nowhere near a settlement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "ill be within that discipline of 3½ per cent., to the advantage of women and the disadvantage of men. In other words, the move towards equal pay will have to be made at the expense of men's rates and earnings within that discipline. I should like confirmation on that point. Second, I refer to paragraph 32, which is particularly interesting in relation to the national engineering settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ter productivity? How does the man who ought not to be having greater productivity get a wage increase? I refer to the man working on quality and reliability inspections. One does not want him to turn out any greater inspections. If he is doing that, he is not doing the job properly. What about a safety engineer, who ought to be doing only what he can do and what he is set to do in any given time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Sit down for a moment. Many accusations are made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.180.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "No—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-22", "file": "debates1968-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "b4e5f308e85b9d69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING SUBSIDIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "These two Orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-22a.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes—the right hon. Gentleman gives me the chance to say that, as is freely acknowledged in the Financial Times this morning, the doubts thrown on this matter by the misreport-ing of my speech on Saturday were inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ully implement the promises which the Labour Party made in 1964 in its election programme to transfer the Welsh responsibilities of the Ministries of Education, Agriculture and Health to the Welsh Office? Is he aware that, now that the Welsh people are deciding to live as a free nation, which is the message of three by-elections, the Government have a bounden duty to develop a Welsh civil service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.270.5", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ade in 1964 in its election programme to transfer the Welsh responsibilities of the Ministries of Education, Agriculture and Health to the Welsh Office? Is he aware that, now that the Welsh people are deciding to live as a free nation, which is the message of three by-elections, the Government have a bounden duty to develop a Welsh civil service—[ Interruption. ]—in readiness for self-government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.270.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend whether the debate on the Report from the Committee of Privileges will be on a Government Motion to approve the Report? If it is, some of us might want to amend it. Can my right hon. Friend say what time the debate will come on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.275.8", "colnum": "275", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What time will it be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is, perhaps, being rather dogmatic at this stage. I will put down a Motion tomorrow and I hope that it will be taken immediately. A matter of privilege is a matter which affects the whole House. It is urgent and I like to get rid of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.275.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, at 3.30.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I press my right hon. Friend? Did he not say in his original statement that the debate would take place after the business which had already been arranged?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "virtually no explanation of the reasons for this very steep rise. May I ask him two questions? First, why he has not referred this increase of 20 per cent., the third in five years, to the Prices and Incomes Board, affecting as it does the whole population and, in particular, the old and the sick? Secondly, is he aware that this extra sum could have been raised by accepting advertising on Radio 1—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "n continuing to improve the quality of the programmes. The increase was envisaged some years ago. It is because of the action taken by the Government and by the B.B.C. itself, which has improved its own efficiency, that the fee has been kept down for so long. This is entirely in accord with the White Paper on this subject. Reference to the Prices and Incomes Board would be inappropriate for a fee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has completely misunderstood the point. This is not a charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.278.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.279.0", "colnum": "279", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has completely misunderstood the point. This is not a charge. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is a revenue fee for a licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OWNERSHIP AND INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Far from the mark, the right hon. and learned Gentleman says. In fact, we completed 404,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OWNERSHIP AND INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 1963?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman has adopted an \"Anything you can do I can do better\" attitude towards the previous Conservative Administration. He has said that he has built more houses for home ownership than anyone else. He said that the Tory Party should look at its record. I have the statistics in front of me. In 1952, 34,605 houses were built for home ownership. That figure had gone up to 218,094 by 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OWNERSHIP AND INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But not among council tenants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "preceding_text": "as always been the policy of the Labour Party that people should be encouraged to own their own homes. One of the first benefits which the early trade unions provided for their members was the collection of money to enable people to buy houses in rotation. It is absolutely false to suggest that we on this side of the House do not wish to encourage home ownership among all members of the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOME OWNERSHIP AND INTEREST RATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "from S.E.T., and from the general policies of the Government. Then the constituent says \"Suppose I have got a house. I have managed to save up the deposit and I have managed to find a building society which will advance the money to me, but look at the expenses I will have to meet in repairs and rates\". The Government have not carried out their promise to reduce the burden of rates to home owners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (REDUNDANCY FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO, go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "epared to make the contributions to make it work. I have tried to go through my points as quickly as possible, but I have not got through a third of what I had hoped to say. The rest will have to remain unsaid, since I realise that many of my hon. Friends and hon. Members opposite wish to contribute to the debate. I shall, therefore, disregard the other part of my speech which I had hoped to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.412.2", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT AND LIVESTOCK COMMISSION (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That makes a very meaty subject.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "I met representatives of the wholesale meat salesmen's association in my area last weekend. I am completely in favour of a Meat and Livestock Commission. It is absolutely necessary. It will protect the consumer by ensuring that labelling of meat is clear and definite. I make no bones about that particular point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.412.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT AND LIVESTOCK COMMISSION (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "e whole cost of this levy, I believe it to be £1.85 million, were passed on to the consumer, and I have had these figures checked with the highest authority, it would mean an increase of one-seventh per lb. on retail butchers' sales. This is said to be iniquitous, wrecking the whole industry, causing unemployment and destitution to butchers and their families. This is what was said last Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-23", "file": "debates1968-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "71dd133f89107940", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEAT AND LIVESTOCK COMMISSION (LEVY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And their husbands.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "ly suggested that the slaughterhouse operator must pay the levy partly so that the meat can be labelled clearly, so that the housewife will not be misled by the butcher about the quality of the meat. Whereas the large majority of housewives know perfectly well about the quality of the meat that they are buying, the housewives who have not yet learned to do so have ready advisers in their butchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-23a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.573.4", "colnum": "573", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I have your guidance and, if possible, help, Mr. Speaker? Today, we shall debate the Consolidated Fund Bill, which is well known to be a day when back benchers are able to bring the influence of Parliament to bear on the nation's affairs. Yet on this day we have two Government statements and, after that, Government business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "WRITTEN ANSWERS (CORRECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "thout the permission of the House, or without an appropriate explanation to the House? If such a procedure is not forbidden by rule, is there any custom or convention which should be observed about such matters and, generally, about the manner in which corrections should be made? It might be helpful if I indicated that I received no intimation from the Minister that this correction was to be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.574.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "ALUMINIUM SMELTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "Of course, this has taken a long time to conclude—which is hardly surprising in view of the fact that what we are doing is, in effect, to establish an almost entirely new and very important industry—and to take decisions which involve most important regional considerations and international considerations for a new type of power contract. I make no apology for the delay which has occurred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.583.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If it is to be a crime in Fleet Street to jump the gun, then all the editors will have to be arranged. If it is to be a crime in Fleet Street for any newspaper to seek information on this sort of thing and publish it, there will be many others in the dock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ral Sir Norman Denning, the right hon. Gentleman asked: You have now read the article in the Observer. If the journalist had submitted it to you before it was published, is there anything in it which you could have asked him to exclude because of D notices? That was question No. 435. The answer given was, \"No\". I approve of the right hon. Gentleman's questioning. He asked some essential questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.647.7", "colnum": "647", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I thought that I should intervene at this stage and ask my hon. Friends to give serious consideration to this matter. I thought the time had come when I ought to say briefly—because I presented the Motion—that hon. Members should consider the main issue. We have had some very good speeches. I know that some hon. Members may still wish to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.647.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Of course I agree. I thought that I had made it reasonably clear that I thought that he was at fault and foolish. Anybody reading the Report must agree that he committed a breach of privilege. I said that it was a matter of what should be the punishment and that when deciding what should be the punishment it was right to recognise with what sort of hon. Member we were dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perjurous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That interruption was really quite unnecessary. I will deal with everything that happened in the Committee, including the statements made in the course of evidence by Mr. Astor. I do not want to indulge in any unseemly comments about Mr. Astor. He was casual in his approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A different case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "punishment must fit the crime. There can be no worse punishment than this. Many years ago, an hon. Member made a scandalous and scurrilous statement about his colleagues and the recommendation of the Select Committee on Privileges was that he be reprimanded. The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) rose in his place and moved the expulsion of that Member and he was expelled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (MR. TAM DALYELL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a question of money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "he recommendation of the Select Committee on Privileges was that he be reprimanded. The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) rose in his place and moved the expulsion of that Member and he was expelled. [HON. MEMBERS: \"A different case.\"] I agree that there is some difference. In the case to which I am referring scurrilous and scandalous language was used against colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "Until my hon. Friend was interrupted by a Liberal Member, he was not, I understand, out of order. Surely it is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "Until my hon. Friend was interrupted by a Liberal Member, he was not, I understand, out of order. Surely it is —[ Interruption. ] I wish that the Liberal Party would keep quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "your advice, Mr. Deputy Speaker? I understand that the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) wishes to discuss a matter because we will not be able to have it discussed on the Floor of the House before we adjourn for the Recess. His hon. Friend the Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. MacArthur), who intervened, made the point that he wanted to discuss the merits of the Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "d out and then returned and so I have listened to most of the speeches. The Leader of the House can be assured that there are many hon. Members who are perfectly willing to continue work into August and who strongly resent partaking of a method of escape from public criticism in which apparently the Leader of the House is now engaged. While he smiles gently into his papers, let me say this to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "e hotel industry. He quoted the White Paper which represented policy and he asked me whether I could get the President of the Board of Trade to make an early statement. Again, I will draw the views of the hon. Member to the attention of my right hon. Friend. The hon. Member for Chorley (Mr. Kenyon) asked me many specific points and I should be out of order if I pursued them, as he will appreciate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.696.4", "colnum": "696", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that it is not possible to debate it this week or next —unless the hon. Member has his way and we do not adjourn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.696.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Start again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.702.6", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite may think that the economic situation is very amusing, but my constituents do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.702.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": " by only 5 per cent. Since we have to import 50 per cent. of our foodstuffs and about 90 per cent. of our raw materials, we are paying, on average, 11 per cent. more for all those imports, according to the Chancellor, we export roughly only 30 per cent. of what we manufacture and on that we are receiving only 5 per cent. more, is it not obvious that the more we export: the deeper we run into debt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Did the hon. Member give him notice?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "ut of the present situation by limiting imports. I remember the hon. Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew) saying that the Government would be on trial for three months. He warned that if the Prime Minister's predictions about the upturn of industry did not work out, their economic strategy would have to be scrapped. I have not heard the hon. Gentleman speak recently. He is not even in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "and succeeded, to make certain that nothing should be done for this area in Devon. My accusation is not only that the Government failed, in their overall consideration of unemployment, to consider the smaller areas which are not within development districts, such as agricultural areas where there has been a flight from the land, but that they consider only areas where they see electoral advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ntleman must realise that I consider this to be a serious matter. If he thinks that my point is not true, let him or the Minister tell us an instance in the last four years of the Government having given aid or industrial development certificates to encourage a major industry to go to an area where no political advantage was to be gained. Of course hon. Members opposite do not like the accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "policy, but, even if none of my reasons has substance, I think my hon. Friends will at least accept one piece of reality. That is that the Government are not going to change their policy. Whether they agree with my reasons or not, they will not at this stage accept the charter or any other alternatives. It is the policy we have and they are going to keep it. There are good reasons why they should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-24", "file": "debates1968-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "9542bcebe3e4904b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.774.5", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or any Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "sea with the world monetary situation as unstable as it is, with sterling only recently bailed out from what could have been a serious crisis, with, on the statement of my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West, a world hostile at best, possibly bitterly hostile, to the kind of proposals that he suggests? Can he really see the Government, at this stage, suddenly making a departure of that kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-24a.774.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Having regard to the disabilities habitually placed on me by the Chair and other sources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.978.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.978.4", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Having regard to the disabilities habitually placed on me by the Chair and other sources—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—as a private Member of this House, and the boundless opportunities available to the Prime Minister by comparison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.978.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.978.7", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With the hon. Gentleman I am myself one of the small minority who regrets that we do not hear the hon. Gentleman more. However, I feel that the hon. Gentleman, in his rare interventions, should get his facts right. There have in fact been no published figures for the balance of payments since the end of March.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.978.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "s 5·1 per cent. below strength; in April, this year, it was only 2·8 per cent. below strength. Within the Army the infantry was 7·3 per cent. under strength in June, 1964, and it was only 2·9 per cent. under strength in June this year. I remind the House that, in 1964, 13 battalions of the Army had only two companies. Now every battalion in the Army has three companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1005.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scuttle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " ideas that I am anxious to develop, in spite of any interruptions. That is the end of that. I want an answer to the question: Does it mean that the policy is to be reversed? If so, the Tory Opposition must state explicitly and with the utmost clarity what expense will be entailed and whether the country can afford it. It is obvious what my right hon. Friend's policy or the Government's policy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "nited States and its contribution to Europe. It has four divisions, one of which is mechanised, and one armoured brigade. Whether those units are up to full strength, I am unable to say. What about the rest? Germany has ten divisions. In all, taking the whole of the N.A.T.O. countries, excluding Greece and Turkey, because I do not regard them as being in a practical sense associated with N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Howarth", "preceding_text": "n a run as we have had at this time. It was interesting to note that while the Opposition Front Bench were not noticeably enthusiastic about many of the ideas put forward by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), he appeared to command a much greater audience on the Opposition benches than was present when the official spokesman for the Opposition was opening their case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1068.1", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite right. I am looking at the earlier statement on the Defence Estimates. As I understand it, our present helicopters are smaller than the Sea King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "ir sustained arguments against an independent nuclear deterrent for Britain, those arguments are equally valid today. I dare say that my colleagues will agree with me, but my personal view is that, as regards any contribution which can be made to our defence, the country would be far better off if its nuclear deterrent and the submarines and aircraft to carry it were drowned in the Atlantic Ocean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1090.4", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "at home in peacetime. Although there is no immediate danger of it, an army take-over at some time in the future is not completely beyond the bounds of possibility. It could happen with an army permanently stationed only in this country, and it is a great safeguard for any democracy to have a knowledge of arms \"spread around \". A territorial army or some similar force of that kind, in the ultimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not check it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "e, as in the past, to be able to play its part adequately in supporting our own and other ground forces in Germany and in the Central European area. My right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) listed the numbers of divisions available on each side of the Iron Curtain with a fair amount of freedom. I have not bothered to check his arithmetic but it is probably not all that far out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Faster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": " they had not been talked about so much in the four years before 1964, but that the then Government had got on with the job of getting them built. But the Treasury then was not prepared to provide the money for that type of project. We will have protection against missile-carrying patrol boats through the long-range R.A.F. strike capacity and nuclear fleet submarines. I find it a little difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "ty, so that the missile and the new helicopters make a complete system, with both day and night and all-weather capabilities. We shall be able to deploy forces east of Suez from our general capability, and this is mentioned in paragraphs 70 and 71 of the White Paper. It will mean that there will be a time element in getting heavy equipment out there, which hon. Members can work out for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-25", "file": "debates1968-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "f8993d164e1eba01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am simply trying to get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-25a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-26", "file": "debates1968-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92bd1664f7c4a5bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "MUNICIPAL BUSMEN'S PAY (STANDSTILL ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Basic?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Certainly, if the dispute were ended today, and if the parties came to an acceptable agreement today, it means an immediate £1 in the bus man's pay packet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-26", "file": "debates1968-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92bd1664f7c4a5bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1162.5", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "MUNICIPAL BUSMEN'S PAY (STANDSTILL ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the hon. Gentleman know that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "Is the Under Secretary aware that, whatever his hon. Friends may think, he will have the great majority of the public behind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1162.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-26", "file": "debates1968-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92bd1664f7c4a5bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1167.4", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "re final proposals for that sector are submitted. The Government accept that legislation will be needed to remove obstacles to the adoption of metric units and to define the units to be used. Further consultation is, however, needed before the timing of the legislation can be decided. Arrangements will be made to coordinate the interests of Government Departments so that they play their full part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1167.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-07-26", "file": "debates1968-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "92bd1664f7c4a5bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "NORTH ATLANTIC FREE TRADE AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "As I am on my feet by right, may I, on behalf of the House, express our deepest thanks to you, Mr. Speaker, for the way in which you have conducted this very difficult Session of Parliament and to wish you a very happy Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-07-26a.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1273.9", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "is Government assumed that these developments would not harm Anglo-Soviet relations to which they continued to attach great importance. One of the first actions taken by the Government after receiving this message and learning that an armed invasion of Czechoslovakia had taken place was to recommend you, Mr. Speaker, to recall this House. I am sure that hon. Members will agree that that was right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1273.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I was one of the few hon. Members on this side of the House—and I offer no apologies for it—who expressed doubts about what I regarded as the premature withdrawal of our forces east of Suez. I had regard to Commonwealth implications. But once we are out, to return—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "es and promises of coming to the aid of countries in that area would be foolish. What about the expenditure involved? Let the right hon. Gentleman and some of his chauvinistic supporters in the House tell the Assembly what would be the estimated cost of any kind of return east of Suez, partially or complete? If they want to ruin the economy of this country—I suspect that that is what they do want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1293.1", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "y kind of return east of Suez, partially or complete? If they want to ruin the economy of this country—I suspect that that is what they do want—[ Interruption. ] I will tell hon. Members why I speak in this fashion. I came here today, with other hon. Members, to associate myself with the harshest condemnation of Soviet conduct. In my opinion, that would have been quite sufficient for our purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1310.3", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "pe my right hon. Friends will resist with all their power. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Easing-ton (Mr. Shinwell) said, this is something that we cannot bear economically. I can well see that if the Government were to accede to this clamour, by the time the next election comes the party opposite will have as one of its main planks in its election programme \"Cuts in Armament Expenditure\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1353.2", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "It is a long story. We have been denied it for centuries. We have political movements in Wales whose policy it is to continue denial of national freedom. I say, shame to them. The fact is that we cannot act for ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crawshaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crawshaw", "preceding_text": ", in his remarks about the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home), who was, apparently, involved in the Munich Agreement. Although that Agreement was shortsighted, we also ought to take a certain amount of blame on this side of the House for the fact that it was necessary, from our military weakness at that time. There was no alternative to do anything different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "We were in favour of disarmament all round, and we could have got it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-26", "file": "debates1968-08-26a.xml", "sha256": "995e9d8bb5a83dcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "CZECHOSLOVAKIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "vities. I do not believe that there should be a complete breakdown in these but I am bound to say that it will be extremely difficult to make the impressive steps forward in this field that we had hoped to make before this disaster fell upon Europe. For example we cannot go ahead with the Anglo-Soviet Historical Exhibition in Moscow. That was to depict Anglo-Soviet relations since the Middle Ages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-26a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1436.0", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "but we must recognise that our influence so far has been relatively little. One of the arguments for continuing the supply of arms to the Federal Government has been that it enables us to maintain influence with them. I think that that is a persuasive argument, but I hope that the House can be given some evidence of what this influence has been able to achieve in practice and is likely to achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1433.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": " question. Even if every human being is not shot, as many Biafrans fear, I believe that they are right in thinking that every person capable of giving leadership locally will be killed. In one town in the last few days, every secondary school teacher was killed by invading forces. In two villages near Akwuete, 15 miles south of Aba, 2,500 inhabitants were shot dead, according to the Biafran radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1484.0", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And France.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "preceding_text": "nd I do not accept it. I cannot believe that Britain has any right—and she certainly has no duty—to become involved in a civil war in the territory of an independent State. Certainly there have been no invitations, and there are no treaty obligations. Certain nations which originally supplied arms to Nigeria, among them Holland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and West Germany, have ceased to supply arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "Force. It added that air crews would be recruited from ex-R.A.F. fighter pilots who would serve as mercenaries, and blamed the British Government for actively promoting and fiancing a new instrument by which to intensify the killing of Biafrans. The hand-out is entitled: British Government plans to build Nigerian Air Force. Airwork Services Ltd. is a completely independent commercial organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "ed the source of its reports. Particularly tragic is the way in which the Ibos seem to become the victims of their own propaganda. The belief which has been instilled in them that any concessions would lead to a planned genocide by the Federal authorities is certainly a stumbling block to achieving a cease-fire. We do not accept that the Federal Government have any such intention against the Ibos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shameful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "What my right hon. Friend said was that the Government in this situation could not be neutral.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1527.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1528.4", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1528.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1528.8", "colnum": "1528", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1528.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1529.2", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "This debate has been arranged by the Government in response to requests by hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1529.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-08-27", "file": "debates1968-08-27a.xml", "sha256": "741d5c2439e37945", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1532.8", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-08-27a.1532.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, I would think so, but I should like to come back to that point later on. Before I come to the specific topic of the White Paper, there is one matter I should mention. There is a good deal of interest in all parts of the House about the review of constituency boundaries. Indeed, a number of people are ready to assume that it is my firm intention to gerrymander the results as soon as possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.69.0", "colnum": "69", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "situation has arisen, I think that the voting of all Members on this issued should be revealed. I further suggest that if only some members of a Committee of this peculiar character—and I think that my right hon. Friend made a slip in calling this a Select Committee, which it is not in the normal sense of the word—are called to speak we shall get some of the opinions, but if others are not called—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.69.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I have considered this problem with as much objectivity as possible, although I would not be honest if I did not admit that in my experience most young people between those ages are radical in outlook and that it is quite possible that my own party would derive some benefit from the addition of these young people to the electoral register. But I have tried to put that consideration out of my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ter in Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Ton-bridge, or whatever it might be called, would have an opportunity to say which of the three Conservative attitudes to oil sanctions he supported and, therefore, he would be exercising a preference in an effective manner which, as I have said, is one of the most important features of any system. Obviously, there is not time for me to go through all the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.91.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "changes in the private field even if we wished that they should. The Committee went on to talk about the taxpayer and the fact that the President of the United States must be over the age of 35, and it said this: To keep back generation after generation of mature young people for fear that one day we might have a nineteen-year-old councillor or an eighteen-year-old juryman seems to us unrealistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.161.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Very well. We do not accept that the civic and the private field either would or should necessarily go together\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I did not start it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-14", "file": "debates1968-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "18a0cba036708d3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.162.4", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "pate. We should try giving them responsibility and when we give them responsibility by participating in elections, that will have an effect on them. I, too, speak to young people. I spoke to 600 young youth leaders and potential youth leaders at Butlin's camp in Ayr about a month ago and I heard more serious discussion there of serious matters than I have heard many a time in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-14a.162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "The question at issue is for what these beds could be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.191.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.191.9", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. and learned Friend realise how difficult it will be to explain to low-paid workers why their wages must be restrained and increases denied to them at a time when millionaire firms with friends in high places —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.191.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeger", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. and learned Friend realise how difficult it will be to explain to low-paid workers why their wages must be restrained and increases denied to them at a time when millionaire firms with friends in high places — [ Interruption .] — can increase their dividends by 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.191.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "Seldom, If ever, have I had the support of both sides of the House, but I know that I have that support now in complimenting the hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Fred Evans) on his very effective first speech in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "height, Wales contributed heavily to the economy of the United Kingdom. Now the huge problem facing us in Wales is the decline of the basic industries which attracted large populations to Wales in the first place. It is all very well for politicians to try to score political points when considering these problems. Often the Opposition attack the Government and the Government attack the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "It means financial separation; it means administrative separation; it means political separation, but it does not mean economic separation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.274.1", "colnum": "274", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Backsliding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ut some kind of qualified sovereignty within a confederation of the United Kingdom. One cannot have a confederation without surrendering sovereignty from the federal parts. I understand, therefore, that Plaid Cymru envisages not full independent sovereignty for Wales, but a sovereignty that would be qualified because part of it must be surrendered to a confederation. Now, we are getting somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ple of Wales much better than a mini-Parliament. Make no mistake about this. Presumably, this Parliament at Westminster will continue. However many Parliaments we get in the United Kingdom, while this Parliament is here they would live and work in the shadow of this one and be dominated by it. I say to my compatriots in Wales that if we had a Parliament, for example, on the Northern Ireland model—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.276.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "preceding_text": "tled by virtue of the years of service which they have given to their country. It is a matter of social justice to the miners themselves. Second, industrialists are more likely to be attracted to a new area if they know that in that area there are trained men waiting for work. Therefore, for social and economic reasons we need an adequate training programme and an extension of the existing system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The alternative Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friends' delight at having the Opposition represented on the benches opposite once more in the person of the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery (Mr.Hooson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Harlech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "preceding_text": "ecause of the proposed closure of the Mid-Wales line, or because of redundancy in factories following changes in defence policy. If I read these paragraphs to them, they would not know what I was talking about. I want our excellent White Paper on Wales and on the broad strategic plan to be simplified. Possibly discussion could be generated about it on the B.B.C. or T.W.W. It does not matter which.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Edwards", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gibson-Watt) referred to his state of health. Indeed, the state of health of his constituency is an example to all of us of the shrewdness with which he has dealt with the problems of his constituency. The Labour Party raised hopes in Wales. We told the people there that all the things that were wrong were attributable to a sort of Conservative conspiracy which was London-Birmingham dominated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mrs. Eirene White)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Welsh Office (Mrs. Eirene White)", "preceding_text": ". There is nothing in the figure given by my right hon. Friend which takes into account what the economists call the \"multiplier effect\" of increased employment or of increases in job opportunities in existing enterprises and buildings. That would be a bonus and it is not an unreasonable expectation to envisage such an increase. One may fairly say, from the excellent trade figures published today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-15", "file": "debates1968-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "058c25dd9d3d0371", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Bedwellty (Mr. Finch), whom we are delighted to see back in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-15a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (ORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "stimate at present. On the overseas side, my right hon. Friend intends to give a lot more attention to commercial and export promotion. We believe that, within the existing numbers, at any rate, it will be possible to get a great deal more done in that and other directions. The struggle that successive Governments have had has been to hold down the rise in the Civil Service over a period of years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about filibustering. Just because the hon. Gentleman filibusters, he should not attempt to get me off the point and make me filibuster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.422.8", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": ", and once that decision is taken, then, for the reasons which I have detailed, as its very basis is to integrate the operations of both road and rail and handling of freight, to have a freight corporation which did not have this highly crucial part of the freight movement business would reduce it to such a state that one would wonder if there was any real purpose in having the Corporation at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.422.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to intervene in this debate, but certain things which have been said must be answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "I would point out to the hon. Member for Peterborough, who knows so little about the Bill, that the circumstances were the same when I was trying to intervene in my hon. Friend's speech: he was referring to me. Therefore, I am just paying him out in his own coin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief because the debate has begun to wander far beyond the strict terms of my right hon. Friend's proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swingler", "preceding_text": "sions in the Bill. Although willing to give the Minister total discretion in this matter, hon. Gentlemen opposite go on to say that if he decides to hold an inquiry, it must be public. This is an extraordinary demand. I appreciate, of course, that they are really arguing that the Minister should be obliged, in certain circumstances, to order inquiries and that that is the real point of their case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-16", "file": "debates1968-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "d4fd4d688d66986b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.523.2", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth disagree with the Lords in the said Amendment. The Amendment is designed simply to deprive the Executive of the right to sell petrol, spare parts, and so on, and provide car servicing facilities, at its car parks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-16a.523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.597.1", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I fully agree with the Minister. The nationalised industries do not borrow money. They print it. This is the ultimate freedom in financial mismanagement—that there is no need to go to the capital market and raise funds and account to the creditors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George H. Perry", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For a change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George H. Perry", "preceding_text": "y workshops to go into the export business and compete freely with private enterprise. Let us be clear about the provision under discussion. It was mentioned in the Labour Party's election manifesto, \"Time For Decision\". Those who voted for us knew that it was our intention to take this step. Whatever may be said about the Labour Party not keeping its promises, we are keeping our promise this time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is Hobson's choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ch even this Government would not impose on British industry. But, apart from that, the truth is that there is evidence of foreign companies which want to be associated with British nationalised industries, Continental coal companies in direct contractual partner- ship with the National Coal Board, Continental oil companies in association with the Gas Council, drilling in the North Sea, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "That would be true if they did, in fact, face unfair competition, but the whole purpose of the Clause and the accompanying provisions is that it shall not be unfair. There would be no sense in it otherwise. I see no merit in a nationalised industry just running wild about the country and setting up cutlery shops, furniture shops and the rest. If it can make money out of it, that is good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.637.4", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.637.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " fair competition, the question he must answer is, when was the last revaluation of the assets of British Railway hotels? The fact is that there has not been a real revaluation for many years, and my impression, backed up by the opinion of experts to whom I have spoken, is that £10 million does not even reflect the site values of British Rail Hotels, let alone the value of the buildings themselves", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I cannot recall any violent representations against quantity licensing from British Rail, either from the management or unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "in about congested roads and an insufficient return on capital invested in some of the nationalised industries, to adduce the sort of arguments expressed by hon. Gentlemen opposite when we have here a service which has already begun to prove itself very well indeed, so that we can now take full advantage of it. In short, the argument of hon. Gentlemen opposite has been \"phoney\" from the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "t that point \"some months later\" took us, perhaps, to the middle or end of 1970, a considerable advance on what the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor said. She was not prepared to accept the end of 1969 in her reply to my question. We are considerably reassured by the Minister's statement in September, and we feel that he is, perhaps, a more sensible Minister in this respect than his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER POSTAL SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "der instructions. But the principle of the Act has clearly been infringed. The Government must act now to retrieve the situation. Is the Cabinet urgently considering an emergency operation to regain at least the former standards of delivery? It is essential to restore confidence in our postal services. If the Government are at a loss to know what to do, I make this suggestion for immediate action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.729.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-17", "file": "debates1968-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "7c5e68bedcc72850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.736.3", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER POSTAL SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Read the headline.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "ice for the second-class mail is that it should normally arrive on day C, which is the day after first-class mail would arrive, and we are already achieving this for 93 per cent. of the second-class mail. Hon. Gentlemen opposite read the Financial Times. I was interested to see today in that newspaper a result of a survey conducted by the C.B.I. The C.B.I, posted 302 envelopes as first-class mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-17a.736.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.884.4", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's feeling on this. As I said, I deplore brutality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "preceding_text": "I would add my congratulations to the Minister of State on his removal from the Ministry of Transport, and also point out that since the Bill began—it seems a very long time ago—we have seen all three Ministers disposed of and three new ones come in. I hope it is three and not four. However, we congratulate the Minister of State and wish him success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Webster", "preceding_text": "ll three Ministers disposed of and three new ones come in. I hope it is three and not four. However, we congratulate the Minister of State and wish him success. [ Interruption. ] I never can hear the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) when he speaks while sitting down. I thank the Minister for the three months' leeway that we wrung out of him during the Committee stage of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.923.1", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "We had this kind of interruption throughout the Committee stage from the hon. Gentleman. This is a very serious subject and I wish that I could impress him with it. If he had to face the kind of problems which face transport undertakers and lorry drivers and others he would appreciate this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.923.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cathcart, in trying to make the case for exemptions, tried to underpin the main problems which can arise in a complex transport industry, in which it is admitted that some flexibility is needed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Mapp", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Mapp", "preceding_text": "een applied generally and it is to be hoped that it will be applied generally as a result of the Bill. By this Measure we are saying that a driver's day shall be comprised of 10 hours, with a total of 60 a week. That is, by any standards, a heavy week's work, and even allowing for a reduction on Saturdays, it will be 50 hours a week. It is now being argued that drivers should work 62 hours a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.936.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member wishes to be fair and accurate. It is simply not the case that this action was commenced before the publication of the Bill, and it is very important to have that clear. By inadvertence the hon. Member stated the contrary. The distinction between the commencement of an action and the preparation of an action is one which the House must be asked to recognise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ere told by the Government that that was an unacceptable concept. When this problem arose in another place, exactly the same arguments were put forward by the Government. Now, the Government have slightly reworded what we have said all along and have put it down as their own Amendment. It would be discourteous of me, in the last speech that I shall make from the Dispatch Box on the Transport Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.1038.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-21", "file": "debates1968-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "1185e3512ff96a54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.1040.2", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Clause 91", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest intention of sitting down because I am told by hon. Gentlemen opposite to sit down. This has been a long debate, and I certainly do not wish to prolong it beyond saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-21a.1040.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1082.7", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not yet accept that if his proposals contain either a direct or an implied threat to the political authority of Europeans in Southern Africa as a whole they will either be rejected outright, as has so far happened, or they will be accepted in the context of a cynical determination to find constitutional means to escape the consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1082.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1088.5", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "have as great sincerity as the hon. and gallant Member. Without in any way seeking to trespass on the ground covered by the Government of Ireland Act, I say to the hon. and gallant Member that he is entitled to his view on the matter which he has just expressed. Up to now we have perhaps had to rely on the statement of himself and others on these matters. Since then we have had British television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1088.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1089.7", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND ACT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "In view of the despicable imputation of that last observation by the Prime Minister, I beg to give notice that I shall raise the matter on the Adjournment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1089.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "OIL TANKER \"SITAKUND\" (WRECK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "The Eastbourne Council and the East Sussex County Council are extremely experienced and efficient in the matter of cleaning up oil. They have at their disposal Circular 34/68, which we issued on this subject only two or three months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM DOGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "preceding_text": " given to bring in a Bill to compel dog owners to display a warning notice on their outside gate; and for connected purposes. In my constituency, in Dundee, 100 postmen are bitten every year by dogs. If Dundee is the same as other places, then 25,000 postmen in Britain are bitten every year by dogs. What is the normal procedure when a postman is bitten? The Post Office sends out a warning letter.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM DOGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "The Post Office sends out a warning letter to the owner of the dog saying that in future the mail will not be delivered if he does not keep his dog under control. But who do you suppose delivers that letter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM DOGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "ursing this wound. The next letter, from another postman, says Personally, I have been bitten three or four times. Due to this the skin was broken and medical treatment was needed. I have been thrown from my cycle by an aggressive dog, fractured my skull and spent three weeks in hospital, not to mention the hundreds of frights, nips in the trousers and real alarm that I have had as a consequence.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "It would have been accepted, I think, but for the unhappy circumstances which I have described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that is exactly the same problem as we have faced over the last few years. The Government of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "posals it is possible for a man who has not committed an offence and has been blameless and who may have been locked up under the 90-day procedure without trial or charge to continue in detention if it is thought that he is likely to commit an offence in the future. That is contrary to the principles of English justice. I am sure that that would be the view of the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "ned Member for Ipswich (Sir Dingle Foot) related to the House a repulsive experience he suffered when he was in Bulawayo in 1959. I would tell him that last week I found in Salisbury that the mixing of the races, in hotels and public places, continues. Although it is true that certain legislation, which I dislike very much, has been passed, that legislation has not so far been brought into effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1194.1", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "preceding_text": "number of my hon. Friends, be a thousand times better to have withheld recognition of the régime and all that it stands for than to give it our moral endorsement and thereby to have taken one more critical step towards a total break in inter-racial confidence throughout the world, because it would be foolish in the extreme to believe that the issues at stake al e limited to Rhodesia itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "t December, 1965, less than six weeks after U.D.I., I warned him against any idea that he could impose any form of direct rule. I said: I believe that it was wrong, and I said so at the time, that the Prime Minister should speak at all about direct rule, even for a short time.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st December, 1965; Vol. 722, c. 1894.] We know the problem that this caused on the \"Tiger\" proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " that there may be a Division tonight at the end of the debate on this Motion, that the Prime Minister will be challenged by some of his hon. and right hon. Friends. If this is so, I for one shall regret it deeply. In my view, Her Majesty's Government ought to be allowed to continue with this nego- tiation and Parliament should then pass judgment when they offer to the House their final agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I have made my position absolutely clear. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will agree that my sincerity is just as great as that of his hon. Friends, which I respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1212.4", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, we have not yet reached the stage where we can even consider a settlement. To address myself to a hypothetical situation, as the result of an unknown settlement possibly being broken, is not something that I can do in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1212.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman could not be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Nor am I prepared to advise my hon. and right hon. Friends to vote blind at this stage of the White Paper. I have no wish to be controversial tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1212.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why mention it?''", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "be impossible to take the matter further in the absence of a considered reply from Salisbury. I understand that, in the last few minutes, a reply has arrived from Salisbury and is now awaiting my attention. The House would not expect me either to ask for a moment's break in my speech to attempt to see what it says or still less to give a snap judgment on a reply which has taken nine days to draft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d to me, any clearly articulated suggestion that we should withdraw our insistence on external guarantees. I shall study the speeches tomorrow. I do not believe there has been any attempt to say that we ought to be more generous in our offers to Mr. Smith than we have been, but there has been, of course, on the other hand, a great deal of suggestion that we have been too generous, not too lenient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1227.0", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nomic effects have been absorbed by British economy some time ago, and goes on to say: Possibly Mr. Smith thinks Mr. Wilson was bluffing. If so, he is making a serious mistake. However much Mr. Wilson might like to get the Rhodesian issue off his back, there are limits of conciliation beyond which he cannot possibly go. He came very close to those limits on the Fearless. He cannot go much further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Guardian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree. Today's Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1228.2", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-22", "file": "debates1968-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "e732c79676a18e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA ACT 1965 (CONTINUATION ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "bout those sanctions which one might call Sanctions with a capital \"S\". The Government consider that their continuation during the period of negotiations is necessary, and I am not prepared to differ from that. But there are sanctions with a small \"s\", and almost every hon. Member must know of cases where individuals have suffered from them. We have numbers of cases. I shall not quote the Details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-22a.1229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1936 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A liar.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "The report of the police officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1936 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " represent are not cowed on a Sunday afternoon in Regent Street, or anywhere else, ever, by militant German contingents running forward in step and chanting, \"Sieg heil\". The people whom we represent are prepared to put up with a lot from their fellow countrymen, though their tolerance is now being stretched to the limit. The British people are fed up with being trampled underfoot by foreign scum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1291.6", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PUBLIC ORDER ACT 1936 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " a stick-up'. Some might criticise the language as being rather callow and immature, but the House and those with responsibility for the security and well-being of decent, quiet-living constituents must criticise the message itself in substance as nothing but destructive aggression. If this is the quality of the revolutionary leadership specifically imported from abroad to cow Londoners on Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1299.9", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Chancellor, who can exer- cise in regard to him his powers to make an exclusion order under Section 4 of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1906. The justices who are appointed by the Lord Chancellor will be able to preside over the courts in the City of London. Although the Lord Mayor will be chairman of the whole bench, he will, of course, be able to preside only on the occasions when he is present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1299.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1303.1", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. and learned Member already has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "e Government, in trying to force the administration of justice in the City into this mould, were, nevertheless, trying to force it into a procrustean bed and were doing so with more regard to a doctrinaire ideology than to the merits and necessities of the case. I rise this afternoon, however, to welcome something and, therefore, I do not wish to go over old ground and to stir up old controversies", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "The House is talking about my constituency, as indeed it was on the recent Ten-Minute Rule Bill. I have never had any connection with the Corporation of the City of London, and when this Measure and this issue first appeared I felt, without thinking about it, very much as hon. Gentlemen opposite have expressed themselves this afternoon. But on inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How many live in the City?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Much as I should like to enlarge on world affairs in general, I feel that we must limit ourselves to justices of the peace and not look into the perfection or otherwise of judges who deal with appeals. The hon. Member for Bristol, North-West also asked \"Who are these aldermen?\". Well, who are these turtle-fed plutocrats? The Lord Mayor is an architect. Two aldermen are lawyers. One is a solicitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many wage-earners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "me proportion of aldermen live in the City of London as the proportion of the people who appear before them for justice. Another alderman is an accountant. There is also a textile agent, a builder, and a grocer who started from scratch. They come from all walks of life, but some have demonstrated that they can get out of a walking pace. Another alderman is a fruiterer and there is another builder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am sure the whole House is grateful to the Attorney-General for the soothing, peaceful and almost ecumenical tone with which he has sought to reassure those in various parts of the House who were not satisfied with his first efforts. If he will forgive me saying so, he is such a nice old thing, that I do not want to knock him about in any sort of way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1371.0", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I am sure the House, as usual, has been entertained by the jovial and impish style of the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg), but behind all this joviality there is very much a defence of lawyers and the position of lawyers. We must be quite honest about this. Behind it are not arguments about the rôle of the assessors but the defence of the lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-23", "file": "debates1968-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "c35386e95e78c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1384.0", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "If it is not improper for a mere English Member to intervene in the hon. Gentleman's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-23a.1384.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1590.6", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "MINISTER OF TECHNOLOGY (SPEECH ON BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Nor is there any vendetta with the B.B.C.'", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1590.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "MINISTER OF TECHNOLOGY (SPEECH ON BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I note what my hon. Friend suggests about my right hon. Friend, whose reputation in technological matters during these two years has grown enormously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "MINISTER OF TECHNOLOGY (SPEECH ON BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that the appointment of Lord Hill, with his vast experience and his highly successful administration of the I.T.A., and the neutrality shown by the I.T.A., would carry the confidence of most hon. Members, of all parties. With regard to the alleged vendetta, which dates from a refusal of mine to appear in a particular programme, which was thoroughly justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1593.4", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "MINISTER OF TECHNOLOGY (SPEECH ON BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nce and his highly successful administration of the I.T.A., and the neutrality shown by the I.T.A., would carry the confidence of most hon. Members, of all parties. With regard to the alleged vendetta, which dates from a refusal of mine to appear in a particular programme, which was thoroughly justified—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Certainly. If anybody wants to ask me about it, I will tell him why, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "MINISTER OF TECHNOLOGY (SPEECH ON BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd of the last General Election, during that election, as will be remembered, there was a good deal of interest in the mounting of a particular type of political programme. When I discovered that the B.B.C. was discussing with the Conservative Party the form of that programme, and, having agreed with that party, was putting it to me afterwards, I thought that there was a case for not broadcasting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1601.0", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "DEMONSTRATIONS, CENTRAL LONDON (27th OCTOBER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "While protecting the freedom of people to demonstrate, as he should, will the right hon. Gentleman also bear in mind and protect the freedom of my constituents to spend a quiet Sunday in and around their own homes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Local offices?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "my mind. Things will remain the same in Scotland, and I would not dare to upset that as a first contribution by me to Anglo-Scottish relations. We have been asked whether we can bring together the social security offices. We can. As I travel round, I see that we have done this to some extent. Since the merger of the Supplementary Benefits Commission, in 1966, out of 983 offices we have merged 141—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1679.0", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Unanimously.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "ntrary to the public interest. The contract between the Society and its members is not, of course, a contract of employment; and it would go far beyond what is necessary to deal with this particular problem if the law were to enact that such stipulations in all contracts were void. It should be sufficient in our view to provide that no Friendly Society should have such a rule, and we so recommend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "by it. To my mind, three points stand out from the rest of what he said. The first is his amazing act as a member and supported of A.S.T.M.S. to quote a reference from the National Board for Prices and Incomes in support of his case. It may be the first time that this has happened. The second point which was interesting was that he spent most of the time attacking these so-called vindictive rules—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ints stand out from the rest of what he said. The first is his amazing act as a member and supported of A.S.T.M.S. to quote a reference from the National Board for Prices and Incomes in support of his case. It may be the first time that this has happened. The second point which was interesting was that he spent most of the time attacking these so-called vindictive rules—[ Interruption. ]. He said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "r bid for a friendly society which, as the hon. Gentleman says, has assets of £16 or £17 million. The fact that he put this point and said that the rules would be changed generally confirms what some people have suspected for a long time. The Bill is the culmination of a vindictive vendetta by A.S.T.M.S. against a friendly society of non-trade unionists who are employed as supervisors in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "id that the rules would be changed generally confirms what some people have suspected for a long time. The Bill is the culmination of a vindictive vendetta by A.S.T.M.S. against a friendly society of non-trade unionists who are employed as supervisors in industry—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I hope that my activities in industry and in this House can free me from the accusation of being anti-trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1689.6", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Mr. Taylor rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1689.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1694.5", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "ntational costs have not begun. Thus, I ask what is the justification for this gross abuse of the procedure of the House on a night when everybody knows that there will be so few hon. Members here—that is, except those who, out of special interest, read the Private Business of the House? How many hon. Gentlemen opposite are here because they are sponsored members of trade unions? Most of them are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-24", "file": "debates1968-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "b7975c55a2c7bf69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (STANDING ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "terested by virtue of their membership of trade unions which are involved in this private dispute, and that is not good for the reputation of Parliament. Let us consider what the Bill is about and strip it of all the humbug which has been elevated around it by the hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Booth) and the hon. Member for Feltham. It is just a straightforward bit of union buccaneering —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-24a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.3.15", "colnum": "3", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "I know that I speak for the whole House when I say how sorry we are that my right hon. Friend has given up his office of Chairman of Ways and Means. The appointment which he has vacated is a demanding one, but throughout the time that he has held it he has earned our gratitude by his tolerant, firm but friendly contribution to the handing of our affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.3.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " this Government. I am afraid that every adjective which can be used about these statements is already exhausted. Dreary, unimaginative, irrelevant, unrealistic: all have been used. In moving and seconding the Motion for the Address, even the hon. Members for Birmingham, Northfield (Mr. Chapman) and Aberdare (Mr. Probert) have been hard put to produce any convincing support for the Queen's Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"This is Enoch Powell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "on charges. It has been a year in which the toughest Budget ever imposed in peacetime has been placed upon the British people. It has been a year of industrial unrest, and one in which two senior members of the Cabinet resigned because they could not stand the Prime Minister any longer. It has been a year in which our international indebtedness piled up. The Chancellor was forced by circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Enoch Powell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "inet resigned because they could not stand the Prime Minister any longer. It has been a year in which our international indebtedness piled up. The Chancellor was forced by circumstances—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"This is Enoch Powell.\"] The Chancellor was forced by circumstances to negotiate the Basle Agreement. But the Prime Minister has come forward with his usual explanation: that wicked people outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already explained, many times, why that was done, because the other place was being used as the poodle of right hon. Gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "expressed some anxiety about the continuing high level of imports, and they were right to be concerned. However, at that time and since then we have had a continuing strong upward trend in exports. During the last three months, exports have been running at the rate of 25 per cent. higher than in the second and third quarters of last year; that is, before dock strikes began to affect comparability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ng up again; indeed, were about 8 per cent. above the average for 1967. The House will have seen reports of the speech made yesterday by Sir Donald Stokes. I hope that he does not get into trouble with the right hon. Member for Bexley for using the word \"miracle\". The right hon. Gentleman, for about the fifteenth time, referred to my use of that word, obviously because he did not study the speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e word \"miracle\". The right hon. Gentleman, for about the fifteenth time, referred to my use of that word, obviously because he did not study the speech. [ Interruption. ] The right Gentleman got it wrong again today. He said that I had referred to an \"economic miracle\" on the basis of one month's figures. He must know that the figures could not have been known to me when that speech was prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who is paying the bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hich the phrase was used. I trust that he will read it. He will find that it was a specific reference to what is happening in industrial modernisation and restructuring and that it was based on the proposition that this time—because it takes time; it takes some years for an industrial miracle of this kind to come true—we are not leaving it to the other side to reap the fruits of what we have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We are frustrated as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ppointed that the Prime Minister has not gone further on this. Time is not on our side. I am not sure whether the hon. Member for Hamilton (Mrs. Ewing) was taken ill, but I am told that, as soon as the Gracious Speech was read, she left the Chamber in disgust. We cannot leave this on one side. The Scottish Nationalists feel frustrated, as do the Welsh, the Lancastrians and the people of Yorkshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Symonds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Symonds", "preceding_text": " too ready to support this planning idea. There are 200 acres of land in the vicinity of Millom which could be used as a caravan site to help the tourist industry. The men and women of Cumberland are not lacking in knowledge and ability if they can submit schemes like this. What they want is a recognition of the fact that we are a proud county? Paul Jones tried to invade this nation at Whitehaven—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "al ends, and that criticism is entirely unjustified, because they know that they will not get a lot of support from people of 18 to 21 years. The Government know what happened to their League of Young Socialists and how long that lasted. They know that the Young Liberals are always referred to as \"the Red Guard\". They know that one of the strongest bodies in the country is the Young Conservatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "ority from 21 to 18 is a different matter altogether. The only practical result will be that these people will be able to get married without their parents' consent and without having to appear before a magistrate. That may be an advantage. No doubt hon. Members have their views about it. I have no strong view on it. But it will remove the protection which people of 18 to 21 years of age now have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-30", "file": "debates1968-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "8410f78b501cfd8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "Mr. Pavitt), chairman of our health group in this House, who has done a lot of work on this, and who knows that I have taken an interest in it with him, no doubt will be making some reference to this later. I am sure he will, but certainly it is time the Government stopped listening to their economic advisers. Some of these people have been the bane of our lives. Some of them are academic nitwits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-30a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "of the government of England? Although the Post Office is a matter of some importance, the fact that we are to have a debate and Prayer next Monday night, and are to have a Second Reading debate on Monday week, leads one to suppose that the Official Opposition are keener on having three separate debates on the Post Office than a debate on the future of the government of the country. That being so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it is not for me to choose what Amendments are tabled by Her Majesty's Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is it not a monstrous abuse of the privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is it not a monstrous abuse of the privilege—[ Interruption. ]—of the privilege—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Liberal Chief Whip?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Many hon. Members have been talking about a subject on which they feel deeply. Will the Leader of the House, therefore, through the usual channels, consult the Leader of the Opposition and the Tory Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Campbell", "preceding_text": "On the point raised by the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) about there having been time available to discuss the two-tier post, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the only time available so far was the short period of my Adjournment debate on the subject? It is because the Postmaster General's reply on that occasion was totally inadequate that a debate is now urgently needed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.177.4", "colnum": "177", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "As the Official Opposition are in the process yet again, under their present leadership, of making a fool of themselves on Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "t that is a safe road to pursue for the present. I only say that we cannot forget it. Secondly, if it is argued that we should give up the idea of withdrawing from the Middle East and Far East by 1971, we must face the fact, which is so obvious that it would hardly need to be restated if it were not for the line that the Opposition have taken about this, that the age of imperialism really is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "very serious scrutiny of the Committee of 24 on Decolonisation. On this I merely wish to repeat the principle which I have asserted before in the House and which is in line with the Charter of the United Nations. It is that we consider it wrong to dispose of peoples against their own interests and wishes. The statement of that principle is, perhaps, all I need say on this subject at this juncture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.195.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about Rhodesia?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "o repeat the principle which I have asserted before in the House and which is in line with the Charter of the United Nations. It is that we consider it wrong to dispose of peoples against their own interests and wishes. The statement of that principle is, perhaps, all I need say on this subject at this juncture. [ Interruption. ] I assure the House that it applies to all our dependent territories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "basic circumstances of the world in which Great Britain plays her part, although we may, as I shall show, have some differences as to the strategy we think our country should pursue. For many years, the Royal family have been ambassadors of good will from Britain to countries overseas, and on Friday Her Majesty will carry with her the gratitude and good wishes of the House on her journey to Chile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ey would all be consumed and our second position would be worse than our first. Thirdly—and this I fear is what will happen—we could allow the national expenditure to exceed our income to such an extent that we have rip-roaring inflation. This is the most likely development. That means that things like National Savings Certificates, War Loan and bank deposits will become worthless pieces of paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.278.5", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ivilisation is to ruin its currency. Fourthly, we could again do what hon. Members opposite suggest. We could impose selective import controls. There is a good deal to be said for that. But if there are import controls, ultimately there must be consumer controls. We cannot control imports at the port and allow free purchasing by the individual. That ultimately means the old ration-book back again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.278.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "In the debate on the Address today, as the hon. Gentleman knows, a great number of subjects have been raised. I think that it would be unreasonable to expect every Department in the Government to be represented in a debate like this. It is true that my right hon. Friends have not been present, but I have not noticed Opposition defence spokesmen either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-10-31", "file": "debates1968-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "068a84f541bc2108", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "ivities in these areas after 1971, when our troops are withdrawn. In many other parts of the world, we have great commercial and other interests, but we do not feel that we have to maintain armed forces there. But tonight, as I understand it, by only talking in terms of making a \"contribution\", the Opposition have conceded our main thesis that we should withdraw from a worldwide military presence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-10-31a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-01", "file": "debates1968-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "98e3c639078db150", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-01a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEENS SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "of disproportionate severity. The postponement of the raising of the school-leaving age, the very severe mauling of the school building programme, and the pegging of the rates support grant, are all factors. I have just had a message from Mr. Chataway saying that I can, with his full backing, report that it would take an increase of 6 per cent. or 7 per cent. simply to implement existing policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-01a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.454.2", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals:", "preceding_text": "My answer to the hon. Gentleman's second question is that I am certainly not proposing any change. As for his first question; we must recognise that a substantial extension of private practice in medicine would not be in the interests of the general public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.454.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "n the two parties before the statement was. They are the only groups of persons who can gain. In local government—this is the grass roots of all the troubles in Northern Ireland—we have a position in the City of Derry—it is represented by the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark)—where one person has 24 local government votes and 8,000 people are denied a single local government vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman really must not misquote me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman really must not misquote me. [ Interruption. ] What I said was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.505.5", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "television screens. We are told that this House can only enter into Northern Ireland affairs in matters concerning defence, Income Tax, and so on. However, I have a statement proving conclusively that that riot squad of the R.U.C. was based overnight on United Kingdom property. The members of that squad were quartered in H.M.S. \"Sea Eagle\" the night before the riot and the night which followed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.505.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " Gentleman ought to come clean. Unlike many others of the religious minority in Northern Ireland, he is a good deal less interested in civil rights and good community relations than in using every weapon to hand to end partition. The hon. Gentleman cannot keep sectarianism out of even a sporting occasion. Last year, there was a parade to celebrate the victory of Glasgow Celtic in the European Cup—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "falls into the latter category that I have mentioned. Time and again he has shown himself both militant and dangerous in what he has said. He has made speeches which can only be regarded as an incitement to violence. Camden Town Hall, Strabane and Dungannon are on his battle roll. I will deal with what happened at Dungannon on 24th August. The hon. Gentleman was not allowed into the market square—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "gannon on 24th August. The hon. Gentleman was not allowed into the market square—[ Interruption. ] He said from the platform that if it were not for the presence of women and children he would lead the march into the square. Then this standard bearer of good will went on disarmingly to refer to two senior members of the police force, who hap-pended to be standing by, as a pair of \"black bastards\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.518.1", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "nly lead to trouble. As a Member of Parliament, the hon. Gentleman attempted to lead a parade into an area of Northern Ireland where, traditionally, supporters of what he believes in do not go, and it is traditional that there are areas—the House may find this amusing, but I think it wise—into which pro-Government supporters do not go because it would be regarded as coat-trailing, and vice versa —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "those fears are removed there will always be charges and counter-charges of prejudice and discrimination. Men of good will on the spot must do the rest, but the House must recognise that the wounds of Ulster are as deep as they are old, and they cannot be healed overnight. Foolish talk of a United Ireland and repeated suggestions of intervention can only frighten, and frightened men are dangerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But it is Communist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "ared and contrasted with countries like the Baltic States, an exercise which is most instructive. Look at countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg and Iceland, and also Yugoslavia, which was described in an article in yesterday's Sunday Times as a country which had emerged from a backward society and become almost an affluent society, with a thriving industry. It is now a thriving industrial nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.566.2", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER LETTER SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "would be delivered more slowly than they were before. The right hon. Gentleman referred to that fact as though it were a great failing. It is a great success. It is exactly what the Post Office was aiming for. If hon. Members opposite had only read the documents I sent them on 19th July—I sent a whole bundle to each hon. Member—they would have seen that this was one of the objects of the exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.566.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER LETTER SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "ealise that the first post was only a fraction of what could be handled effectively. This was done at long last, and it was the right thing to do but of course it put paid to all the statements by the Postmaster-General, about which we have heard so often today, that it was deferred only when necessary to enable the prompt handling of the first-class post to take place. This infuriates the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.601.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER LETTER SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": " week six, the week ending 27th October, was 32 per cent. Therefore, we have achieved that objective. Second, we have achieved a 94 per cent. delivery next day of first-class mails with a 5d. stamp within six or seven weeks of the beginning of two-tier, a really remarkable achievement. We have almost reached the target we set. I do not ask the House to accept merely the Post Office report on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER LETTER SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "of 4d. mail showed a 95 per cent. rate for delivery within 48 hours, higher than the 93 per cent. given by the P.M.G. on Thursday. The Economist /C.B.I. Report showed 94 per cent. Fourth, we are maintaining delivery by the time of 9.30 that we said, and we are maintaining two deliveries a day. The essential point is what our main customers, the general rank and file customers, think of our service", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.615.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER LETTER SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What colour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE (TWO-TIER LETTER SYSTEM)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We have heard, in the terms of the Amendment, that the two-tier system has caused chaos, muddle and confusion. There has been ample demonstration that there was no chaos, no muddle and no confusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INLAND POST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "nd is matched by the letters of protest that have been given prominence in some newspapers. This is part of a deliberate campaign, obvious to most people, to discredit not just the Post Office, but any form of public enterprise. The kind of sixth-form debating that we have heard this evening has been an insult to Parliament. No wonder public opinion polls are not favourably disposed to the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INLAND POST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": " an examination of them that, whatever shortcomings we may have, we have at least responsibly tackled the problem, while the manner in which the Opposition are going about their business has not endeared them even to their own supporters. I suggest that this kind of small-mindedness, raising such issues as this is one of the reasons. I do not see why I should give hon. Members opposite any advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INLAND POST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is unlikely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "er mind about it being delivered on time. There has always been deferred matter and mail deliberately withheld, even under the control of hon. Members opposite when they were in charge of Post Office affairs. I do not say that this is a perfect system. Perhaps it has not been properly understood, or the reasons have not been properly \"sold\", but it makes sense to me. If I were running an industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-04", "file": "debates1968-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "6167a21324b701af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INLAND POST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not disputing that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-04a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.668.3", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "It depends on the urgency of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.668.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Cooking the books?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "llion to £562 million of Supplementary Estimates to follow. The very first question asked in the Third Report from the Estimates Committee was for an explanation of this, and the answer included this remark: A certain amount of it is probably due to the fact that Estimates were drawn very tightly last year and this emerges from the very large number of comparatively small items that have come in\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Gentleman listened to my remarks, he would be aware of my view on deflation. I said in categorical terms that there is no case for general reflation. I do not urge that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": " my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the First Secretary of State. But the right hon. Gentleman struck a somewhat more muted note than the right hon. Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath), whom we are all glad to welcome to his first economic debate for seven months. The right hon. Gentleman cancelled the last one altogether and at the one before he had a very pressing engagement, as we remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": "nd the First Secretary of State. But the right hon. Gentleman struck a somewhat more muted note than the right hon. Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath), whom we are all glad to welcome to his first economic debate for seven months. The right hon. Gentleman cancelled the last one altogether and at the one before he had a very pressing engagement, as we remember—[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Bexley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is starting off with personalities, he will have nothing left to which to descend—and he usually goes pretty low—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.4", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I will get on with the greatest pleasure as soon as right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite stop making a noise. The right hon. Member for Bexley—I hope that I can mention his name this time—appeared on Friday to be whipping himself up into a frenzy across Shropshire. In speech after speech which was reported he accused the Government. Of what did he accuse them? Apparently of deceiving the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.4", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ng himself up into a frenzy across Shropshire. In speech after speech which was reported he accused the Government. Of what did he accuse them? Apparently of deceiving the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and of misleading the electors of Bassetlaw. Those were the charges. The first charge does not begin to stand up. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made a holding statement on Wednesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.713.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.0", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Opposition spokesman was heard in comparative quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend the Leader of the House also made it clear that a statement would be made when it was ready. What my right hon. Friends said was totally compatible with an early announcement such as my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade made on Friday. On the second charge, I am amazed that the right hon. Member for Bexley had the brazenness even to mention it. Is my memory wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "t the day before, but three days before. Why had these by-elections been held on the Tuesday—a rather unusual day—and not on the Thursday? I will tell the House. Because on the Tuesday, but not on the Thursday, the stale register could be used—with all that was involved in that—with 3,500 postal votes in Taunton alone. Who moved the Writs for those by-elections, selecting the day with loving care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman may have regretted that at times in the last year. Who moved the Writ selecting this day so as to use the stale register but the right hon. Gentleman? I agree with my right hon. Friend the First Secretary of State that the right hon. Member for Bexley has been not only frenzied, but hypocritical. I agree with her that there is not a word to withdraw in her Bassetlaw remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—or in the Prime Minister's reply in the House or in the answer of the Lord President of the Council. No one in his right senses would think that a Government should announce in advance that they were to lay an H.P. Order—even the right hon. Member for Enfield, West admitted this—and no one with any idea of the meaning of words would call what we have done an economic freeze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "t of the Council. No one in his right senses would think that a Government should announce in advance that they were to lay an H.P. Order—even the right hon. Member for Enfield, West admitted this—and no one with any idea of the meaning of words would call what we have done an economic freeze—[ Interruption. ] We will continue to enjoy—and I will come to this a little later—a rapid rate of growth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ould announce in advance that they were to lay an H.P. Order—even the right hon. Member for Enfield, West admitted this—and no one with any idea of the meaning of words would call what we have done an economic freeze—[ Interruption. ] We will continue to enjoy—and I will come to this a little later—a rapid rate of growth—[ Interruption. ] Certainly we will, and I will give some figures. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.714.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "That quotation, which I read very carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Where is the cutting?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "That quotation, which I read very carefully—[An HON. MEMBER: \"From where?\"] From the Financial Times . The quotation from the Financial Times was, I repeat: …in the first month of a new Conservative Government taxation would be reduced. I would like to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not blessed with a very good memory. A few days before the 1966 General Election he was chosen by his party to represent Labour on a party political television broadcast in the Midlands. I was chosen by my party to represent the Tory view, against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.727.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are asleep now!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "or more than nine months and have no prospect whatever of finding work under Labour policies in the foreseeable future. They are the deliberately created Labour hard core of unemployment. It is now the policy of the Labour Government to maintain an increased and increasing pool of unemployed for the purpose of serving their economic policies. Not a squeak of denial comes from the benches opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "istmas booms does not arise in the last few weeks pre-Christmas because their buying must be done many months before that period. Thus, the dangers of which the hon. Gentleman spoke can be over-stated. I wish to comment briefly on the hire-purchase restrictions introduced last Friday morning. I completely accept that the decision to announce them on Friday was because of the Bassetlaw by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "nd we can service them. What our creditors would not want and would not allow would be for us to reduce the size of our debts too rapidly. Certainly £500 million a year for 40 months, let alone £720 million, is a rate which other countries would not stand. So we should stop talking about the impossible and set our sights on a smaller target. We should stop talking about massive repayment of debts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.810.5", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that we publish the trade figures a great deal faster than he did. In view of the very bad trade figures that were published on 16th October, a few hours after the polls closed, will he say at what hour those figures were in the hands of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": ". It is a different date each month, as he knows, from the situation under his Government. I am saying that if he is accusing me of delaying the publication of the figures, let him say so. We want to know this. Is he accusing me? He tried this one three years ago. I have taken a lot about 1964 and I will take no more from the Prime Minister. I am not prepared to accept these sedentary expressions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do your own dirty work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " and fundamental of all our problems. Certainly, the effect of unofficial strikes on our exports has become very serious. It is not merely the delay in export deliveries which causes concern but the loss of future orders and the loss of confidence abroad in this country's ability to deliver what we say we will deliver. I implore the Government to realise the urgency of dealing with this situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am very short of time. I have been asked to deal with the positive things we think should have been in the Gracious Speech. I have given one very definite one, legislation on trade unions. I give another very definite one—cutting back on Government expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " kinds of things which should have been included in the Gracious Speech, and we regret their absence. I turn, finally, to the question raised already of the position about the announcement on Friday morning on hire-purchase controls. Let it be quite clear that this was the position, as we know from what the President of the Board of Trade said, that the decision was taken before this debate began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.813.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am talking about confidentiality. Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that his hon. Friend the Member for Louth was not informed by a certain person? I am asking for the right hon. Gentleman to investigate this. It is a serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.817.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.817.7", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": ". Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that his hon. Friend the Member for Louth was not informed by a certain person? I am asking for the right hon. Gentleman to investigate this. It is a serious matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"] I do not want an evasive reply and the Leader of the Opposition is being evasive. We went into this through the usual channels and showed all courtesy. This is deplorable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.817.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " that it was not in order. Then I rose and volunteered a statement because I was anxious to help. I said in reply: If a statement is necessary, I will see that it is made.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st October 1968; Vol. 772, c. 164–8.] I cannot understand why the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. Friends have got themselves into such a frenzy about nothing. They seek to distort the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.2", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Lost the place? Start again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "nd volunteered a statement because I was anxious to help. I said in reply: If a statement is necessary, I will see that it is made.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 31st October 1968; Vol. 772, c. 164–8.] I cannot understand why the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. Friends have got themselves into such a frenzy about nothing. They seek to distort the position. [ Interruption. ] They seek to distort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "There is no question of my having to start again. I believe that right hon. Gentlemen opposite have sought to distort the position, and I cannot understand why the Leader of the House has got himself into such a frenzy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ot understand why the Leader of the House has got himself into such a frenzy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I apologise. I should have said \"Leader of the Opposition\". After all, the right hon. Gentleman has not answered my charge. He knows that he cannot get away with this. I have asked him once and I repeat my claim that he should hold an inquiry. I turn to the arguments that have been deployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman has not answered my charge. He knows that he cannot get away with this. I have asked him once and I repeat my claim that he should hold an inquiry. I turn to the arguments that have been deployed. [ Interruption. ] When hon. Gentlemen opposite carefully read what has been said they will find that their leader's frenzied neurotic approach is not becoming of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.818.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "One hundred million pounds?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe that hon. Gentlemen opposite honestly think that the hire-purchase restrictions amount to a new freeze.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.819.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.824.1", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I accept absolutely the right hon. Gentleman's sincerity. But will he knock it into the head of the Chancellor of the Exchequer who is utterly urban-minded and introspective in these important matters? I sit for an agricultural constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has forgotten. I gave a very good Price Review last year. I gave a very good Price Review the year before. Exchequer support was forthcoming. My right hon. Friend and his predecessor helped me to achieve it, and this was accepted by the farming community. The industry is not stagnating. It is increasing its production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-05", "file": "debates1968-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "95eb040403a5ae1f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not hear the question which my hon. Friend raised in her point of order. We are now near the end of our debate on the Queen's Speech. The arguments which have been raised in regard to the proposed Commission will be carefully noted by the Government. We regard the setting up of the Commission as an important matter, and we shall speed up the talks on the terms of reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-05a.825.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-06", "file": "debates1968-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66ac302536a8469f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-06a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nothing to do with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend confirm that positive and careful consideration is being given to the construction of a major airport in the Yorkshire-Humber-side areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-06a.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-06", "file": "debates1968-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66ac302536a8469f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-06a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the future of Glasgow Airport will turn on something rather more significant than the way in which it is described and I know the active championship of Glasgow which my hon. Friend has pursued. Here again, however, \"shorthand\" is useful. I remind my hon. Friend of the statement made by my right hon. Friend on 22nd February when he endorsed the previous agreement between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-06a.887.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-06", "file": "debates1968-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "66ac302536a8469f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-06a.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISHERIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Very welcome.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "t we consider them important. A fundamental point is that we need more information on the proposed draft Order before we can give full consideration to the proposals in the Bill. Another is that we hope that the Government will let us know their thinking on the long-term problem of imports. The Minister will agree that his announcement today on the 10 per cent. levy is only an interim arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-06a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-07", "file": "debates1968-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b528e37ec5540637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary realise that the continued use of police horses on these occasions is deliberately provocative and likely to lead to disorder? Will he not consider alternative methods of carrying the police at the places at which disturbances are occurring, and bear in mind that police horses are reminiscent of Waterloo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-07", "file": "debates1968-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b528e37ec5540637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "BRITISH EAGLE (CESSATION OF OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that over 2,000 employees are involved, including over 170 aircrew? Will the right hon. Gentleman say if whether the I.R.C. has made any attempt to help the company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-07", "file": "debates1968-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b528e37ec5540637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "BRITISH EAGLE (CESSATION OF OPERATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. Neither my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer nor I have ever urged companies, as a general piece of advice, not to raise their prices following devaluation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-07", "file": "debates1968-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b528e37ec5540637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES (TIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for giving way. He must recognise that these words follow a certain Section of the 1954 Act, and have already been legally interpreted. Because they have been legally interpreted in a certain way it is much easier to follow the same words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1188.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-07", "file": "debates1968-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b528e37ec5540637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES (TIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "s very soon to receive the scheme from its advisers, and then I hope to receive it from the Board. The scheme will then be fully and carefully explained to the representatives of the people of Aberfan. The preparation of a scheme of this sort is a big and complex task. I ought to tell the House now that large-scale moving of tip material will not be practicable during the winter months. I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-07", "file": "debates1968-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "b528e37ec5540637", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1198.4", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES (TIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " responsibility. It will be advised. Local authorities will be able to call on the full expertise of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Mines and Quarries. I should have thought that every county council would have a highly qualified civil engineer on its staff. I should be very surprised if any county council had not got one. He will also be able to get the advice and co-operation of the Inspectorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-07a.1198.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-11", "file": "debates1968-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "edd012f38cfe7a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-11a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Atkins", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that research so far, into the cost of construction, transit speeds, maximum capacity, and all-weather efficiency, shows that there is not at present any alternative to the Channel Tunnel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-11a.25.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-11", "file": "debates1968-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "edd012f38cfe7a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-11a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "nister makes probable another Minister yet. I hope that the Assistant Postmaster-General will give the House a categorical assurance that this Bill will not lead to the setting up of an additional Parliamentary Secretary, one for posts and one for telecommunications, and that the Patronage Secretary will not, in that event, have the chance of handing out another job to yet another Left-wing rebel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-11a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-11", "file": "debates1968-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "edd012f38cfe7a4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-11a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member will agree that we have to protect the system as it is used, but all that is under consideration and we shall see what comes out of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-11a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "AGRICULTURAL OBJECTIVES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked a completely irresponsible question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ort which can be approached from over the sea. We need an airport either in the estuary or on the coast, where large numbers of people will not be incommoded. In addressing myself to the Order I do not wish to pursue the matter wider than I have done already. I said that the Authority is answerable to the Board of Trade and not to the Department represented by my hon. Friend the Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": " to America, £100 million of it, and did not keep one or two for our own use and so help to soothe the feelings of some hon. Members. I have risen to speak on one point and one point only. I raised it at the very beginning of the debate. I was told what I expected I would be told, and what I knew already, that Scotland, of which I was speaking at the time, is excluded from the scope of this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.259.3", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ate the future of Edinburgh and Prestwick. But are we in Scotland taken for people so simple as to believe that decisions which are taken today about Heathrow and Gatwick and Stansted will not apply to Prestwick and to Edinburgh? They are all part of the British Airports Authority. Everything that we say and do and decide about the Authority will apply when we come to deal with the Scottish Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.259.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Boston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Boston", "preceding_text": "I agree with what has been said about it being absolutely necessary for us to debate this Order today. I feel sure that we would have heard a great deal less, particularly from the benches opposite, had the debate on this Order not been taking place within the general context of, and at the same time as, the Roskill Commission.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Boston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Boston", "preceding_text": "arly from the benches opposite, had the debate on this Order not been taking place within the general context of, and at the same time as, the Roskill Commission.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I do not think that there is any doubt about the sensitivity of the Government and my right hon. and hon. Friends towards planning matters. The recent Town and Country Planning Act speaks for itself in that respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Boston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Boston", "preceding_text": "S: \"No.\"] I do not think that there is any doubt about the sensitivity of the Government and my right hon. and hon. Friends towards planning matters. The recent Town and Country Planning Act speaks for itself in that respect—[ Interruption. ] The unfortunate thing about right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite is that they so often find the truth unpalatable. There is no doubt about the sensitivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.276.4", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "cater for all the expected Stansted traffic for some years to come, and at least until 1972. I have spoken to Mr. Masefield within the last half hour. I referred him to page 63 of his Report and asked him, as the Government were asked this afternoon, what further expansion he has in mind. He made it perfectly clear that he does not expect any need before 1974—except, perhaps, for a duty-free shop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.276.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (AIRPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "—to answer all the questions that have been asked to the satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.303.1", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL EMERGENCIES ORGANISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "llowed to cover the fact that there are some disasters, such as flooding, in which there are other considerations to be taken into account, namely, the prevention of flooding, which is a rather different question but something which my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government has been considering of late. The Government are not complacent about their arrangements for dealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " avoiding late sittings is not to overload the programme and for Ministers to show a certain willingness to meet the wishes of the House and a certain flexibility in debate. The right hon. Gentleman, as Leader of the House, ought to know this. The outrage is made the worse when it is perpetrated on Parliament by a Government who have, and know they have, completely lost the backing of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": ". The outrage is made the worse when it is perpetrated on Parliament by a Government who have, and know they have, completely lost the backing of the country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and when the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends know perfectly well that they have lost the support of the country. They know that they dare not face a General Election in which their numbers would be obliterated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.349.1", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " hon. Members take some care to allow themselves to be available for Standing Committees and to make sure that that work does not clash with their Parliamentary duties and with Measures with which they are concerned. All that goes for nothing if a Measure which has taken one afternoon and evening goes on the next morning and clashes with a Standing Committee on which they are serving next morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": " belong to a small opposition party. It may well be that it will remain an opposition party for some time. It is true that the right to keep the Government out of bed at night and, indeed, to make life almost intolerable for an individual Minister is one of the few rights that an Opposition Member possesses. It is possible that hon. Members opposite will find themselves in opposition at some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "It may well be that it will remain an opposition party for some time. It is true that the right to keep the Government out of bed at night and, indeed, to make life almost intolerable for an individual Minister is one of the few rights that an Opposition Member possesses. It is possible that hon. Members opposite will find themselves in opposition at some time. [ Interruption. ] I express no hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ng Order would hit only the Opposition, and principally Opposition backbenchers. I ask the House to cast its mind back to the debate we had on judges' remuneration. That debate was very unpopular with the Front Bench, but many hon. Members opposite below the Gangway kept it going until 6 o'clock in the morning. They would not have been here making the same speeches the following morning at 10 a.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-12", "file": "debates1968-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad4798f90277fd59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE (SUSPENDED SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Pure guesswork.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "y be. It is a good point. It is really the nub of the argument against. It has, however, to be weighed with one other factor. While the right hon. and learned Gentleman was speaking, I took the trouble to jot down the figures of the times at which the House would have risen on the six occasions of which we have spoken if we had not moved the suspension of the sitting, and the times are as follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-12a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.387.5", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "While not necessarily decrying the need for retaining the N.A.T.O. alliance, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether he recalls that in the three previous White Papers on defence he explicitly stated that there is no evidence that the Soviet Union has aggressive designs on the West?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "When will hon. Members opposite realise that it has never been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.400.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " who came before a date in 1965, but it inevitably follows that half are coming in in respect of those who came to this country since that date. Let us examine the startling significance of the fact that, in 1968, 25,000 are coming in in respect of heads of families who first came here since, say, the middle of 1965. If that is so, it is nonsense to talk about a plateau and the numbers falling off", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DRUGS AND APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "It is an extraordinary sight to see so many members of the Liberal Party present at any one time. What they are complaining about when they get the chance of making speeches on this subject, I do not know. We accept this season ticket concept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.551.6", "colnum": "551", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DRUGS AND APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "It is an extraordinary sight to see so many members of the Liberal Party present at any one time. What they are complaining about when they get the chance of making speeches on this subject, I do not know. We accept this season ticket concept—[ Interruption. ]—not because we like it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.551.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (DRUGS AND APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I shall respect Mr. Speaker's Ruling. Having recognised that there had to be some savings, quite clearly we would have preferred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.566.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-13", "file": "debates1968-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "29775293d802936e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Questions for elucidation are in order. The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-13a.572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-14", "file": "debates1968-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3127efabee7f4470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.594.5", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I have already indicated the difficulties of allocating total expenditure in support of development area policy to particular job creation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.594.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-14", "file": "debates1968-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3127efabee7f4470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend tell hon. Members why it is necessary to have two days for a debate on House of Lords reform, particularly in view of the fact—and I understand that it is a fact—that the Government have agreed with the Opposition about the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-14", "file": "debates1968-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3127efabee7f4470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.617.5", "colnum": "617", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I note with interest the right hon. Gentleman's support for the Leader of the Opposition on this matter. It is a point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-14", "file": "debates1968-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "3127efabee7f4470", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have given my answer on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-14a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-15", "file": "debates1968-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "8c3430c66ff2a57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-15a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES (INTERIM WAGE SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will have full opportunity of expressing his views on this policy when we have the Board's report. Dividend increases are as strictly controlled under the White Paper as incomes are. In putting forward individual cases at this stage my hon. Friend is not helping matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-15a.765.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-15", "file": "debates1968-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "8c3430c66ff2a57e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-15a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES (INTERIM WAGE SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "essing his views on this policy when we have the Board's report. Dividend increases are as strictly controlled under the White Paper as incomes are. In putting forward individual cases at this stage my hon. Friend is not helping matters—[ Interruption. ]—because I am confident that, if this is examined, I am sure that the Treasury will be prepared to examine any particular case and give an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-15a.765.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES (SCHOOLS OF EXCEPTIONAL DIFFICULTY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. McNamara.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.891.5", "colnum": "891", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES (SCHOOLS OF EXCEPTIONAL DIFFICULTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "First, Mr. Speaker has not the knowledge that the hon. Gentleman seems to have about sponsoring Questions. Questions appear on the Order Paper. It is for a Minister, if he elects to answer a Question at the end of Question time, to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.891.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.892.4", "colnum": "892", "heading": "TEACHERS' SALARIES (SCHOOLS OF EXCEPTIONAL DIFFICULTY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The curious part about today's business is that the Member who had the Question down was not here to ask it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.892.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "RHODESIA (MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " in January. The general picture which the right hon. Gentleman has given is disappointing, but has not he reported something of real and concrete importance when he is able to put on paper that Mr. Smith accepts a blocking quarter of directly and popularly-elected Africans? Is not that really the essence of the matter for the protection of the Africans? Therefore, this is surely something gained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "RHODESIA (MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend confirm that sanctions have begun to produce a devastating effect on the Rhodesian economy, with the result that devaluation of their currency is now in sight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.913.4", "colnum": "913", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "ered the matter again in the light of that debate. A number of hon. Members, and especially those who served on your conference, Mr. Speaker, put the case for fixing the age at 20. Others, including those who did not serve on that conference, thought that the age would be better at 18. Sufficient spoke in favour of 18 to give a fair indication that the sense of the House is divided on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that question arise out of what I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.917.3", "colnum": "917", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that the House will express its own opinion. As far as I am aware there is no one capable of dragooning any hon. Member into a Division Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite object both to our carrying out our pledges and to our not carrying them out. What they really object to is any situation other than one in which, by divine right, they feel they should be constantly ruling the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No, I am not ready to give way to the hon. Member. Of the remaining provisions of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Leeds councillors—that is all; likewise in every other town and city. To the extent that there is genuine concern about this—I do not rely on this; I mention it in passing—I think that the Maud Committee, if it recommends any larger boundaries, may redress the position. This may be some solace to hon. Members opposite. However, I do not rely on that, because to me that is not the essential thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.926.3", "colnum": "926", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If I had thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to ask me that, I would not have given way. That is nothing to do with the Bill and I would be out of order if I were to attempt to discuss it now. Neither of these changes will apply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.926.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for the next election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that it is bound to lead to more counting the following day; I agree with that. That is why I was coming on to discuss possible improvements which we might look to offset that disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "has been the one at which a young person has been treated as fully mature for National Insurance purposes, and it is also of historical interest that the heir to the Throne can succeed without a Regency resulting if he is 18 on the demise of the sovereign. It was that fact which enabled Her late Majesty, Queen Victoria, to succeed without a Regent when she was only a few months over the age of 18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "s 18 names on it. It is far more difficult to know the political colour of all those 18 names than is the case with the three or four, at the most, at Parliamentary elections. It is not good enough for the right hon. Gentleman to say that he has produced such confusion in trying to deal with Parliamentary elections that he hesitates to make such a proposal in respect of local government elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should not interevene if it is to make stupid remarks like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No taxation without representation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "embers opposite say that business interests should have a say in how the rates are spent. But the 19th-century battle is over. We no longer have political representation based on financial interests. That is one of the major changes that has come about in our constitutional debates, and it would be a retrograde step if we went back on that, if we were to relate voting to property, to one's wealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " have to accept that much overtime is worked, and, besides producing inefficiency in industry, it is a positive deterrent to people to participate in the normal democratic process. With longer distances to travel and overtime work, people tend to come home late, have a meal, curl up by the fire and watch television, so that before they look round it is nine o'clock and the polling booth is closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1019.5", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ed Gentleman's suggestion that there is here serious political gerrymandering. He must know that that is abusive exaggeration, some of the other kind of laughter that he himself put into it. He did not mean us to take him seriously. For whatever reason, that was the approach that he decided to adopt to the debate. Anything is good enough for a laugh and for brightening us up at this time of night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1019.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1021.1", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "nce of Mr. Speaker's Conference—comes to certain conclusions, and the Government subsequently think it right to carry through certain changes which do not conform with some of those conclusions, they are doing something wrong. We are not denying the right of the House to know what the Speaker's Conference did. The question of secrecy is a matter of tradition. What we try to achieve is a consensus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1021.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "tors would be about 7,000, and most of them would be caretakers, security people, and the rest. The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone got rather mixed when he referred to the Maud Committee. That Committee did not relate to franchise, but purely and simply to a person becoming a candidate. That Committee said that everyone who worked in an area could become a candidate in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1027.5", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not an alien.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "Would not the right hon. Gentleman agree that there is nothing to prevent him as an alien from standing in my constituency at the next General Election?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1027.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1068.2", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is high time that it was changed, then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "preceding_text": "I want to comment first on the criticism about the presentation of the Highway Code. This procedure has been followed for 38 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1068.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-18", "file": "debates1968-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba233acb22c9d705", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ng to the left. The publication of the new code will make it necessary for the present instructions which are given to approved instructors to be changed, but this cannot be done until the House approves the code tonight. Several hon. Members referred to the price of the code and compared its cost of 1s. 3d. with that of the former code, which was 6d. There is ample justification for the increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-18a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first part of my right hon. Friend's supplementary question is that no payment of dollars is involved. The answer to the second part is that this is a matter for the Bank's internal management alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIVATE INDUSTRY (OFFICIAL FORMS AND QUESTIONNAIRES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was in fact 1949 and I was referring to a whole number of wartime controls that I thought it would be right to get rid of, including clothing rationing and similar matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1133.3", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " from the present one. If the right hon. Gentleman thinks that the result of the present method, used by the Conservative Prime Minister of the time, was the result he described, it is likely to be repeated; but if he was making mere propaganda, and he was satisfied with the results achieved, there will be no change in the method of appointment. I have seen it suggested that in the reformed House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "he Lawrence Committee. I am aware that this will not satisfy some of my hon. Friends, especially those who tell me that hon. Members of this House could be suborned by the prospect of a peerage at so many thousands of pounds a year into forfeiting the back-bench independence we so rightly cherish. And if there is to be a payment I gather that they would prefer a kind of expenses to a fixed salary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1143.3", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Thanks to the infusion of the cross-bench element, the experts and public servants I have mentioned, we should have at our disposal after the reform a new source of manpower in Joint Committees who could devote time and expertise on service on these Committees, if they were made, as they could be, Joint Committees of both houses.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1144.3", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get rid of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I should say, with great respect to my right hon. Friend, that he should ask himself another question: what would the electors say about a House of Commons and a reforming Government who left the hereditary House of Lords completely unchanged and un-reformed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "very wide Motion, chosen by the Government, to take note of the White Paper. I think that they were very wise to choose this Motion, because it will enable the House to have the broadest possible discussion of all the issues involved. I have no doubt that if the Government decide to proceed with legislation after this debate, they will pay full attention to what is said on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1145.1", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "its the constitution of this country, or suits the national interest, and we will not in any way depart from that; but I think it only right to stress that we on this side of the House have no responsibility for the White Paper in its terms or wording, and that we expect the Government to be prepared to answer the many questions which will be put forward and the many criticisms that may be raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How does the right hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " believe that there is any public support of any volume for a single-Chamber system. Whatever one thinks about the present status of Parliament, or about the reasons why the present public regard for the House of Commons may be a little lower than we would like it to be, we should all recognise, if we are practical and sensible, that the electors would not like to see one-Chamber government alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "is established one of the main issues before it will be the power of the Executive, which has increased, is increasing, and should be diminished. This is the general view of the majority of people. The long-term problem before the House is not concerned with peers versus people, but with people versus politicians. There is no more unpopular a personage in Britain today than the average politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1211.3", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "cutive. In the old days the barons certainly did not go to Runnymede to act as a rubber stamp for King John, and so it has been throughout history, until now. Now all there is left in this House is a mere rump of an Opposition, and the bulk of the Commons are the \"yes\" men, more to be added to the Lords—the dogs, as the Prime Minister so felicitously put it, with a licence to bark but not to bite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. That was impromptu. I apologise in advance to the hon. Member who will become the Duke of Buccleuch, but he knows my point of view and will not be surprised. This applies to the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Viscount Lambton). He would far rather lose his hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords than the right to the acres he now possesses and from which he now draws rent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not 700, but 600.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "en the House of Lords is like a great giant sleeping. It stirs now and again, but not very often. However, when there is a reforming Government it stirs a great deal. The Parliament Act of 1911 had to do with reform of the House of Lords, and the then Prime Minister, Asquith, had to get the King reluctantly to accept that he might create 700 peers so that Asquith could get his legislation through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-19", "file": "debates1968-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "75d3e563271f3c84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no reform.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "EMBER: \"Not 700, but 600.\"] It may be 600. I cannot remember the exact numbers, but it was a lot of peers. In 1947 reforms were introduced by the Labour Government, but it took two years, because of hold-ups in the other place, to get them through. It is said that on this occasion we are carrying out the reform very kindly, that there is no great feeling, because there is no constitutional crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-19a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is out of touch with farming opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1270.6", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "If he does that he will realise that the programme which I announced is the most dynamic which has been announced for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1270.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1295.5", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman resist all temptation to reallocate space in this House if it involves further Government expenditure, because the country is bust and broke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1301.2", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (VISIT TO BONN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "—which this Government have been trying to impose upon our people, and that both are the symptom of the absurdity of a system of fixed exchange rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "in political terms the right to exercise political powers as a legislator, can still be derived from the accident of succession to an hereditary peerage. Secondly, the House still contains a permanent majority for one party, the Conservative Party. Although it may be that one or two Bourbons here and in another place may defend a largely hereditary Chamber, there is a general view that it must go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lord Shawcross.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "er of political interest, since the present Government have been in office, being men and women of good judgment, normally they have voted more with the Government than against it. The Government accept that it will be important to ensure that the cross-benchers do not as a group become identified with any one party, and the proposed Review Committee would be expected to satisfy itself about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Most of them, I think, will be just independent in a political sense. Dedicated party man as I am, I am sure that there is room for independence in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " never known of any Government responsible for such an action. In effect, they are saying, \"We ask for your opinions. We would like to know what you think about the White Paper and its philosophy.\" We express our views honestly in this democratic assembly, and the Government say, \"We do not care a tinker's curse what your views are. We intend to go on with this legislation.\" It is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1351.2", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "He was never Prime Minister. Even Conservative Prime Ministers have appointed Labour hon. Members of this House to be ambassadors or high commissioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "e in the working of this scheme. There are dangers in patronage, and there always will be. But the suggested committee will be some safeguard because the matter will be above board. I think this a useful method of breaking down some of the failures and shortcomings of the past, provided it is regarded as temporary and transitional My colleagues and I on this bench will operate a free vote tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was the last generation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "one recognises that many great men are there. I even detected in the speech of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ipswich (Sir Dingle Foot) that he thought Parliament was slipping. If we take any of the authorities and any of the great literary figures, Pepys, Hazlitt, Dickens, Stevenson or Carlyle, we find they have all spoken with utter contempt about this place in their generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1388.3", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": " of the Roman Catholic Church, in the new, reformed House of Lords. I make it clear that I am not a member of the Roman Catholic Church, nor have I been asked to speak or put this suggestion forward on behalf of anyone in or from that Church. Indeed, I think that, if either the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool or the Archbishop of Westminster were offered a seat, he would gracefully decline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if I did not make myself clear. It would be made operative after the election and after the will of the people had been made known. I welcome these proposals. I know that many of my right hon. and hon. Friends, and some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, do not agree with me, but at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.3", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "I am only too well aware of the views of my right hon. and hon. Friends, and some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, but at least we on this side of the House will be able to express our opinions, and make our decisions, without the application of the Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "I fancy that that muted applause owed more to sympathy than to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "I fancy that that muted applause owed more to sympathy than to support—[ Interruption. ] I was referring to myself. The House is now about to move to a conclusion and a decision on an issue which comes up at regular intervals, a matter of high constitutional importance. But I point out at the beginning that the House is about to move to a decision, but not at the instigation of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "e and, at the end of the debate, may consider those views, but for there to be no vote. If it had been in the Government's power there would not have been a vote tonight, but a vote is being challenged because my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) wishes, without further consideration, to reject any prospect of altering the composition or the powers of the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": ") wishes, without further consideration, to reject any prospect of altering the composition or the powers of the House of Lords—[HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"]. That may not be his intention, but that will be the consequence. There is only one alternative to the White Paper which he is seeking to reject, and that is a void. There is nothing else. Or is it suggested that we try again to find a better scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "into two parts, in which those of us who are interested in economic affairs are not to take part in foreign affairs, as though there was not interaction between the two? Is it the other schemes which have been put forward for nominating certain people either from the House or outside, or the scheme put forward by the Leader of the Liberal Party for some regional representation? The plain truth is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "use or within the parties or among the parties on what alternative we have. So let us be quite clear; if the Government were to take this away and return with another scheme, there would still be as much disagreement. There might be different schemes and different facets and different fragments who would unite, but there would be no more agreement about any new scheme than there is about this one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Not only that. He will be voting to preserve a Conservative majority in the House of Lords. He will also be voting to ensure that a Labour Government's, but not a Conservative Government's, programme will be under challenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Not only that. He will be voting to preserve a Conservative majority in the House of Lords. He will also be voting to ensure that a Labour Government's, but not a Conservative Government's, programme will be under challenge—[ Interruption. ]—in the last two years of their life. If that is the path of revolution, give me reaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I have a difficult job tonight", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "m, my conclusion is that they will be very chary of doing so. First, unlike the situation in the existing Chamber, the majority party in the House of Lords will be comprised of Government supporters, whichever party is in power at the time. Therefore, the first thing one has to presuppose is disaffection among Government supporters and that there will not be an equal reaction among the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ront Benches over the last couple of days. Whatever we feel about that, the simple arithmetic shows that the cross-benchers do not divide up either for or against a Government as a bloc . I cannot find such a case. They tend to break pretty evenly both ways. What we have to presuppose, as the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) pointed out in his admirable speech this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " cannot find such a case. They tend to break pretty evenly both ways. What we have to presuppose, as the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) pointed out in his admirable speech this afternoon—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It was an admirable speech. If there is to be this hands across the seas between the Labour and Tory back-benchers, I do not see why I should not get a little as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " a point which has to be considered and watched very carefully by future Governments. Let me put the underlying point. The underlying essence of the scheme is that the Government of the day have a majority, so if there were a permanent combination of cross-benchers who by voting continuously one way were to destroy that underlying essence that situation would clearly have to be taken into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "tting a lot out of it. That does not mean that the Government should object. This understanding, or agreement, has elements in it that appeal to all the parties in a number of different ways. I see no harm in saying that it is a bargain when that is what it is. On the whole, I prefer to move forward in constitutional reforms by agreement if possible rather than by creating a constitutional crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I do not think I could add anything to what I said. I think that it is permanent until the House of Commons decides to change it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n the misconception which has arisen about the position of Cabinet Ministers. There is no agreement on what has gone into Appendix II of the paper in which this was put; but, as I understand it, the thought there was that it might be that some Ministers might in certain circumstances speak on their own legislation, perhaps in Committee in the other Chamber. That was the thought that lay behind it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1466.5", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALUMINIUM REDUCTION PLANT (ANGLESEY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I wonder whether I could question your timing, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My estimate is that we have at least another two minutes to go before the hour and a half—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1466.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1478.5", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALUMINIUM REDUCTION PLANT (ANGLESEY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "ricity for this contract? I do not believe that I shall get an answer to this question. I did not get an answer on the previous Scheme, not for the reasons the Minister gave. I believe the reason was that the Government do not know. They cannot nail their colours to the mast and give a definite answer, because the capital investment for this plant is likely greatly to increase in the period ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1478.5", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALUMINIUM REDUCTION PLANT (ANGLESEY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "is being made. Surely the country has the right to know what the Government consider to be the total? I do not mean just the £33 million in this Scheme, but the total projected cost for the whole of the Scheme. Surely there are some figures? I do not mind if they give us just an estimate. The House has the right to know what they consider this estimate to be. I do not get any pleasure in speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1478.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-20", "file": "debates1968-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "5d6771494908bc0a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1480.1", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALUMINIUM REDUCTION PLANT (ANGLESEY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "ent areas. I must ask the Minister whether he is aware that the Opposition have already suggested that there are better ways of serving the development areas, on the one hand, the grey areas, on the other, and the national interest as a whole, than the present highly distorted and very expensive use of taxpayers money by way of the present pattern of investment grants. That is not for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-20a.1480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1532.7", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER FOR REPATRIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "right hon. Friend bear in mind that opinion polls have shown overwhelming support for the restriction of immigration but that the same polls have not shown any support of the same quality for the other panaceas of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West? Will my right hon. Friend also bear in mind that, in view of the exemplary attitude of the Leader of the Opposition on this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1532.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER FOR REPATRIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us share considerable problems in connection with speeches made by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER FOR REPATRIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "er for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell)—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"]—but that many, both in and outside the House, particularly bodies like committees of conciliation, find their work made increasingly difficult by these continuing speeches which dish out the dirt to a certain minority of the community? Is my right hon. Friend further aware that at the same time we are desperately anxious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER FOR REPATRIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "s of conciliation, find their work made increasingly difficult by these continuing speeches which dish out the dirt to a certain minority of the community? Is my right hon. Friend further aware that at the same time we are desperately anxious—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is too long.\"]—that the Government should give us all the help possible to remedy the defects left by 13 years of Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1534.2", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER FOR REPATRIATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She will still lose it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I recognise, as do most of us in the House, at any rate those who are willing to listen to my hon. Friend when she puts a question, the very deep problems which she has to face in her own constituency. All of us bear testimony to the restrained and responsible way in which she has consistently fought for her Wolverhampton constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1534.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "THE CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "d the first is a primary matter, and people have sense, reluctant as so many of us sometimes are to credit them with it. People instintively know a great deal more than the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State is prepared to allow. We in the Opposition are pledged to this. We want an open society. We want an efficient Administration controlled in conditions of genuine bureaucracy—democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1619.0", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "THE CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "d tend to produce a Civil Service which would lean excessively towards one point of view in politics. As a Liberal I must say that I stand for the greatest possible variety of thinking, and I, personally, would deplore the application of a particular view which tended to fill the Civil Service with people of a particular type of political thinking. The hon. Member opposite laughs. It is not funny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-21", "file": "debates1968-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "126f042058184dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1659.1", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "THE CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "an interesting point made some years ago by Dr. Ian Little who said that it is very often the person who takes up a subject in later life who becomes \"academic\" in his approach to it, in the wrong sense. I believe that there is much truth in this. If I wanted to be controversial I could think of one at least of my right hon. Friends who had taken up the study of economics dangerously late in life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-21a.1659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VEHICLE AND DRIVING LICENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "does not drink, but if he did he would know that there are two good drinks. One is a Bass, which has a red label on the bottle very similar to the current red motor vehicle licence. People put the red Bass label on their cars. The police see them but take no action. The colour of next year's motor vehicle licence is blue. The Worthington label is blue, and so the motorist uses a Worthington label.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VEHICLE AND DRIVING LICENCES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Berry", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"She has been for some time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Berry", "preceding_text": " the powers of the courts concerning the date of birth. I appreciate that as a means of checking it is in some ways useful, but I would like to know whether this information will be made public. There are people who would not necessarily like their date of birth to be made public. In the newspaper this morning, not for the first time, I noticed a reference to Miss Zsa Zsa Gabor, who, I see, is 45.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SITUATION (ECONOMIC MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ve demonstrated. These measures are what is necessary for our overriding objective of achieving and sustaining a sufficient balance of payments surplus. We shall ensure that the movement of resources into the balance of payments that has already begun will persist and accelerate. The action that we are taking demonstrates our determination to put our balance of payments right and to keep it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1803.1", "colnum": "1803", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SITUATION (ECONOMIC MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman's question is the same as that of the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe) and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Sheldon), which I have already answered. On the second point, the hon. Gentleman, like anyone else, is entitled to use phrases like \"dereliction of duty.\" I take it that he means that I should have done more at the time of the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SITUATION (ECONOMIC MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why no public expenditure cuts?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. What I intend to do is to stick to the targets which were laid down. We are sticking to them very well indeed; and they are for a very limited growth in public expenditure this year and a still more limited growth next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1804.1", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SITUATION (ECONOMIC MEASURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " Sir. What I intend to do is to stick to the targets which were laid down. We are sticking to them very well indeed; and they are for a very limited growth in public expenditure this year and a still more limited growth next year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why no public expenditure cuts?\"] I will explain why. It is because public expenditure this year is almost exactly in line with what we said it would be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1804.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-22", "file": "debates1968-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f2a7aac51adbd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "vening's business—which he says is exempted for one-and-a-half hours—that private Members may carry on the debate for an indefinite length of time on the Order, having regard to the fact that the right hon. Gentleman is imposing additional taxation of not less than £250 million? Is he aware that I protest mightily at being confined to a discussion of only 90 minutes in the House when £250 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-22a.1806.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.17.7", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I am neither denying nor confirming that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.17.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows perfectly well that the purpose of our policy is to continue reduction in unemployment, which we are now glad to see taking place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.29.1", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor's latest measures are designed to secure a sound foundation on which the expansion movement which has begun can continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.29.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I can understand the hon. Gentleman's view. He said publicly this weekend, I understand, that what the Government are at present doing is extremely good for the Labour Party. If he holds that view, I respect it. I now come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I can understand the hon. Gentleman's view. He said publicly this weekend, I understand, that what the Government are at present doing is extremely good for the Labour Party. If he holds that view, I respect it. I now come—[Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] I wish now to deal with the question of exports and the balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I asked the right hon. Gentleman a question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Like France?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ernment's failure in attempting to deal with the problem as they have? The consumer is not prepared to bear the full brunt of the Government's measures. That is now absolutely clear. It is the silent revolution of the consumer, and it is based on a philosophy which have grown up over these post-war years of rising expectations of life. They see it happening in every industrial country in the West.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "hey will work can lead only to increasing progress towards disaster. In that context, let us look at the measures which the Government took last Friday. The regulator—another £250 million additional taxation, a total this year of £1,173 million, 30s. for every family in the country, a total since the Government came into power of £2,280 million, or £3 for every family per week. That is the burden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "million, or £3 for every family per week. That is the burden. [ Interruption. ] Yes, per week—30s. per week this year in additional taxation, and during the Government's total period in office £3 a week. We now have a credit squeeze which is more than a freeze. It is cutting back credit to a very considerable extent. It will mean damage to many firms, particularly the smaller and the family firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about east of Suez?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "about Government expenditure, if he is to secure a response from the people. They are not prepared to see Government expenditure continue at the rate it has been going on, nor are they prepared to see it continue at the present level. In 1963–64, Government expenditure —the total of public expenditure—was £12,067 million. In 1968–69, it is £19,386 million, an increase of 60 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.38.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will do so. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to recognise that under the Administration he supports it has increased by 60 per cent. during this period of four years, and for that the Government are responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will do so. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to recognise that under the Administration he supports it has increased by 60 per cent. during this period of four years, and for that the Government are responsible. [An Hon. Member: \"What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"] I will say where I believe that Government expenditure should be dealt with. The first place is in agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.42.5", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What would the right hon. Gentleman do?\"] I will say where I believe that Government expenditure should be dealt with. The first place is in agriculture—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—because I believe that it is right that the present agricultural support price system should be changed to bring in levies to the Chancellor, to save the subsidies to the Chancellor not the production grants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.42.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman will have the opportunity to catch Mr. Speaker's eye. I have reviewed our policies, and these are the right ones in present circumstances. If people on low incomes are particularly affected by any increase in the price of food, they can be helped through the social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rial powers know the solution to which they are working, any world conference will be disastrous for the stability of the countries concerned. I ask the Government to take account of the national positions over currency. To judge from the Press, they seem to have taken singularly little notice of them so far. I believe that what people want above all—and people of all countries—is a stable economy", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "oblem, he must at least take these views into account. The questions which I wish to pose to the Chancellor are these. Was he really so inept, or was the Prime Minister so inept, as we read, in handling the German situation at this conference? Did the Prime Minister really summon the German Ambassador after midnight and threaten to withdraw British forces from Europe in order to make them revalue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ctics over the currency question? There is much too much truth in the reports from Bonn about the Chancellor's attitude of hectoring and lecturing to overlook them entirely. How inept are the Government to handle a critical situation in this way! Is it really true that at the E.F.T.A. Ministerial meeting on Friday there was no discussion with them about the import deposits and their impact?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.43.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.47.3", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, yet again, has deliberately falsified the words I used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.47.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.47.4", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, yet again, has deliberately falsified the words I used. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I asked him a fortnight ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.47.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": " which deserve very serious answers, and these I propose to give. Early in his speech the right hon. Gentleman said that it was appropriate that the House, in present circumstances, should deal with reality. I believe that this is so, and I believe that the great majority of the House today will be more interested in the basic facts of the situation than in the routine exchanges on party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": " been necessary and certainly not at this stage. We had to accelerate the move into surplus and show the world that we were doing it. Repeating something that appeared in the Sunday Press, the right hon. Gentleman said that it would have needed last week's crisis to concentrate my mind upon the need for the balance of payments surplus. He knows that he is taking the remarks totally out of context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The timing element of it\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "t to the Government.\" Indeed, they had. The right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) wrote a very interesting article some months ago, which I read, and the right hon. Member for Enfield, West mentioned it on his speech on the Address. The right hon. Member for Bexley said, We suggested it to the Government\", and he immediately turned round and half-denounced it as the most iniquitious measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Inform\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": " repercussions of any measure against imports. If we save them only at the expense of other people frustrating our exports, we shall be no better off. My right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade, as he told the House in an intervention just now, was able to take the opportunity of the meeting of E.F.T.A. Ministers in Vienna on Friday to inform his E.F.T.A. colleagues of our proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "There is no reason to assume that E.F.T.A. is taking any strong line against us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "There is no reason to assume that E.F.T.A. is taking any strong line against us—[Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"] I hope that hon. Members opposite will consider carefully what their attitude is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.56.5", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "If there is any point to be filled in, it will be given by the reply this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.56.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend not agree that the attitude of the Opposition is rather anti-British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.57.6", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "erms for 1968–69 will be almost exactly what the January White Paper stated. For 1969–70, which is the only year we could affect at this time, we are also close to target, and we are working on an increase of only 1 per cent., substantially less than the likely growth of the national income. I should add that this does not mean that there will be no Supplementary Estimates this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.57.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman that if he tries to use an international monetary crisis to climb to power he will not succeed. Even if, by a remote chance, he did, he would long regret the irresponsibility of his action. There is one other point on which I disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. He said that in his view our people would not accept the burdens which are necessary to cure our economic difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.62.2", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "g that there probably would be a Labour Government. We heard very little about the stocks of industry. What has happened in the intervening years? These stocks have been liquidated. Almost every firm in Britain has aimed, quite rightly, not to be overstocked. The Government have had the advantage of these large stocks in that period. Today there is very little in the larder, and that frightens me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "cause they have been trying to analyse the living standards of ordinary people—what ordinary folk can do and stand—on the basis of fictitious price indices. This has been responsible for much of the erroneous thinking of the last 12 months. We have been listening to arguments about the rising cost of living which attempt to assess a situation which does not exist because the indices are all wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.80.5", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": ", may be faced with a fairly critical situation. We know also that private enterprise has great capacity for adaptation to difficult and changing circumstances. It may well be that businessmen will look around, will begin to raise money in the secondary money markets from friends, from here and from there. They may even withdraw some of the liquidity which they have transferred into Deutschemarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.80.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It is heavily taxed. I headed my article, \"Bitter Harvest of Squandermania\". What pleased me most, however, was the fact that the editor of the \"News of the World\" quoted the Prime Minister's words on television on 19th November, 1967, the very words which the Prime Minister denied this afternoon. He had better sue the \"News of the World\" for libel. I bet that he does not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The hon. Gentleman has rehearsed this.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "9, 1967. Those were the words which the Prime Minister denied today. Those were the words which he used, and I shall not allow him to forget them. I shall not deliver a political speech between now and the next General Election polling day without quoting them, because nothing is more disgraceful, nothing smacks more of political turpitude, than those miserable words uttered by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary has said that it is not legally possible to speculate and that, so far as evasion is possible, the Government have achieved their objective of preventing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "se ideas and I hope that we shall be able to reach conclusions and announce them to the House before too long. That consideration is going on. It is quite wrong to assume that my right hon. Friend is not, as ever, fully interested in promoting savings. On the domestic scene, I would like to deal with the regulator first. I do not know whether the general feeling is that we are doing too much here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.154.3", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Ask the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": " could not have dealt more specifically and in a more detailed manner with the timing and he could not have been franker. I have never known a Chancellor since 1945 who has been franker with the House, both as to the material on which he bases his judgment and on the timing of the way in which his mind works and when he reaches his conclusions. Whether it is wise to be so forthcoming and so frank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.154.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.156.8", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "o my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister that there should be no limit of any kind to public expenditure so long as he could get what he wanted. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have only to read their speeches to realise the truth of what I am saying. The rate of increase in public expenditure for the first years of our Government is broadly what it was during the last four years of the Tory Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.156.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.165.7", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "\"Forthwith\" means as soon as practicable after the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.165.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "d back to many previous debates in which I have taken part, in the House and elsewhere, on the effect of imports on this country. At the outset, I make clear that I am no protectionist in the sense that the old Tory Party was protectionist, but I am at least a Lancashire Member who has had to deal at close quarters on this very problem with my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.184.5", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Glad rags.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "It all depends what the hon. Member means by rags.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.192.3", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION RECEPTION, DEVON (HOLSWORTHY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-25", "file": "debates1968-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "deee6cc318c5d2c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION RECEPTION, DEVON (HOLSWORTHY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "re these points? In any event, I do not intend to do so. I have answered debates in the House and Questions on this subject of the general proposition. This proposition has been raised many times; but on examination it simply does not stand up. It might help if I restate the objections. The legal position is that a broadcast receiving licence confers merely the right to install and use a receiver.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-25a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " is to be the Opposition's programme, I fail to see why the hon. Gentleman should have fundamental objections to this Resolution. I agree with him at least in thinking that it is a highly complicated and complex problem which the ordinary man in the street does not understand. I would welcome an announcement that the Government intend to produce a popular illustrated booklet to explain the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " I have the right to insist that I am absolutely secured, that I will get£100 from him in January if the Act comes into force. He says, \"I have nothing to offer except£100 in cash and you can hold that as security that on 1st January I will apply that money to the discharge of a debt.\" To hold otherwise is to penalise citizens who are not in a position to offer bonds, bank securities and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentlemen opposite do not wish to deprive the Government of duties which the law allows them to collect, properly and correctly, in cash. All I am telling them is that if, on the advice of the Law Officers, the law allows us to collect it in cash tomorrow—and I do not think that the Chancellor condescended to say how he was to collect it—then we will collect it in cash as from tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.237.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Are we on my point of order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that it is not a point of order to complain that I am addressing the House on any subject which is in order. I hope that the hon. Member and others will allow me to clear up the point which is, as I understand it, causing very genuine anxiety, at least among some hon. Members, if not among others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "With respect, if the deposit is a Customs duty, the Customs duty is payable from 27th November. If a Customs duty is a deposit, then the deposit is payable from 27th November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "SCHEME CAN STOP STEEL IMPORT PLAN", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Order means that the Government will take millions of pounds in import deposits from plywood importers in respect of raw materials which arc then reconverted and used for packaging essential British exports on an economic basis to go, all over the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "SCHEME CAN STOP STEEL IMPORT PLAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Unlike Income Tax, it would not need another Act of Parliament to renew it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.267.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was Churchill's.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "on. Friend aware that demands from hon. Members opposite, which are pretty constant, for reductions in public expenditure are alternated with demands for increases in certain services in their constituencies, such as hospitals, roads and social services? Would not he agree that this incredible attitude of theirs only confirms Disraeli's dictum that the Conservative Party is an organised hypocrisy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He must be wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "g to say that it is all speculators and industrial strikes do not matter. Industrial strikes can create an atmosphere in which a vicious force of speculation, some of it just as much politically motivated as some strikes, can take effect. But here the right hon. Member for Barnet, speaking for himself, supported in almost the same words the words I used a year ago for which I have been criticised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.296.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am getting a little used to the Leader of the Opposition taking my words and putting them in quotes on lines of his own. Having done that now three times in the last month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am getting a little used to the Leader of the Opposition taking my words and putting them in quotes on lines of his own. Having done that now three times in the last month—[ Interruption .] Yes I am referring to that. If he will now take the words which I used in the broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am getting a little used to the Leader of the Opposition taking my words and putting them in quotes on lines of his own. Having done that now three times in the last month—[ Interruption .] Yes I am referring to that. If he will now take the words which I used in the broadcast—[ Hon. Members: \"Read them out.\" ] I have read them many times in this House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am very glad to have from the right hon. Gentleman, with his reputation in these matters, the first acknowledgment from the Opposition Front Bench that in that broadcast I did warn the country that prices would rise. This has always been denied by the Leader of the Opposition. I said that inevitably prices would rise because of increased import costs. In fact they have risen less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.298.7", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend offer any advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.298.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " large number of youngsters would not vote even if the voting age were reduced to 18. The question, however, is not only whether they want to vote, they dislike coming within the voting age range, because of the pressure that would be put on them through national campaigns, families and all the other means that are used at election time to induce people to vote. They want to avoid those pressures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.316.6", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is consistently misrepresenting the position which arose at Mr. Speaker's Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.318.5", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "It cannot be accepted in Committee, so it is out of order. Mr. Strauss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.318.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.318.8", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "With respect, this time on a point of order. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary asked a specific question of a member of Mr. Speaker's Conference. He has given a reply which I regard as the opposite of the truth. It is the entitlement of the Committee that another Member be heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.318.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.318.8", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "With respect, this time on a point of order. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary asked a specific question of a member of Mr. Speaker's Conference. He has given a reply which I regard as the opposite of the truth. It is the entitlement of the Committee that another Member be heard—[Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"] It is untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.318.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "The electorate take their decisions not on one single point, but on a whole spectrum of policy. No hon. Member on either side can claim that he personally determines the mind of the electorate. Therefore, the whole point is without value. We are not dealing in personalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "committee. Therefore, the recommendation has not the force which my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall has said it would have as a decision arrived at purely on merit, and this Committee of the House of Commons is entitled to form its own view on the matter. There is no force of pure merit behind this majority recommendation. I turn now from that question, and I can speak much more quietly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.330.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "he Latey Report considered that marriage contracts and the signing of contracts were matters for people under the age of 21. the casting of a vote, I consider, is in a different sphere. Broadly speaking, young people up to the age of 21 are largely concerned with their own position and prospects in society. It is only as we get older that we become larger in compassion and tend to think of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " 21. the casting of a vote, I consider, is in a different sphere. Broadly speaking, young people up to the age of 21 are largely concerned with their own position and prospects in society. It is only as we get older that we become larger in compassion and tend to think of others. [Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"] I am sorry, but that is my experience. I think that there is a good deal of cruelty in the young.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.355.1", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "s of life, yet not having a right to vote. Whether the Government's proposal will have any electoral repercussions remains to be seen. Obviously the Labour Government consider that it will help them to give young people the vote at 18. If they think that, they miscalculate. Young people of 18, 19 or 20 whom I have met recently struck me as the sort of responsible people who will vote Conservative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Waddington", "preceding_text": "agic age of 21 or that I had been deprived of anything when I did not have a vote during the first years when I was playing a part in politics. 6.15 p.m. One argument which does not seem to have been advanced with much force today is that, somehow or other, if we give votes to people at 18 we will reduce student unrest. It has been suggested that all that will disappear in the twinkling of an eve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "e otherwise, there might not be so many people put in prison for fraud. When one sums up this debate, all these arguments about maturity, and about ability and about Mr. Speaker's Conference fall on one side compared with this single fact. We have decided that young people become adults at 18. We have decided that argument. This is the point of view which is accepted in all parts of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Hon.Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": " arguments about maturity, and about ability and about Mr. Speaker's Conference fall on one side compared with this single fact. We have decided that young people become adults at 18. We have decided that argument. This is the point of view which is accepted in all parts of the Committee—[Hon. Members: \"No.\"] We have decided that it is right that people should be able to enter into marriage at 18—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"In the correct Lobby.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "rgument that was put forward on Second Reading. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman is in a state of unique isolation that is, perhaps, a customary position for him but it is one which need not detain the Committee for very long. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) knows, I am completely in favour of free votes on these issues and I exercised that vote only last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.381.8", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House wishes me to reach my peroration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.381.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Except the Iremonger one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "to be taken in a group of young people aged 18 to 21 in the Midlands. I represent a West Midlands constituency, and I have never heard of it. One was allegedly taken in some kind of junior Hansard Society, which I think mainly comprised grammar school pupils. I should not say that the polls presented to us tonight could be said to be statistically random or in any way to represent a cross-section.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.408.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman is so much a creature of opposites that I will keep him quiet by forecasting, I think that is something useful. He will no doubt work himself into a tremendous lather about the use of the Whip on the Government side. This is an absurdity and no one will take it seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"With a three-line Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "entlemen opposite can find something more than that to cheer about. It would be a strange matter if the Government of the day, which carries the responsibility—which the Opposition does not carry, much as it would like—of ensuring its business goes through, were to deny themselves the opportunity of indicating to their supporters what line they should take in the Division. That is what I am doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Member for the Hams—both of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-26", "file": "debates1968-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "1cb62f4a9b76e20a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ill they learn that the House of Commons, left to itself, is wiser than Governments on matters of general legislative concern? Left to itself, the Committee is wise enough to defeat, if it wishes, the right hon. and so-called learned Member for St. Marylebone when he says that the vote ought not to be given to people at the age of 18. But we shall never know now. Hon. Members opposite are so meek.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-26a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "I just want to look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": " vote without being involved in organising a postal vote to cover all corners of the world. The Amendment would have been simpler had it been tabled to instruct the Prime Minister not to call a Parliamentary election during the holiday months. That would have been much more effective and would save a lot of trouble and a great deal of cost. We live a free and easy and comfortable life in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.548.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that in Scotland many constituencies are over 50 miles in width? Are we to fetch voters backwards and forwards to the polling stations there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.556.4", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "or the increasing numbers of people—the hon. Member for Meriden was right, and so was the hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. van Straubenzee)—who have to go on holiday at particular times, not because of choice, but because of the pattern of their work and staggered holidays. It is not, therefore, simply a question of having a General Election in December. I would not like that to happen in Inverness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.556.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.557.0", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He is a lawyer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ertainly acquit my hon. Friend the Member for All Saints of any party bias in this matter. I know my hon. Friend a lot better than the Opposition do. If there is any hon. Member on this side who could be described as being objective in this matter, it is my hon. Friend. I have no doubt about this. The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone is far too suspicious of motives in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.557.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gordon Campbell (Moray and Nairn) rose——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.578.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "Sir Douglas Glover (Ormskirk) rose &—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.580.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Do not be cynical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "tion out of all proportion to anything which we would think equitable. I hope that at any rate some hon. Members opposite will agree with me that this is an evil which should be corrected. I do not expect much help from the Conservative Party, because they, of course, are the ones who stand to gain from the existing situation. But if one approaches this problem objectively, as we are trying to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.626.5", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on your side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ech and then we might be saved another one. We are not being realistic enough. My point about the imposition which we place on agents is very serious, because to keep within the limit they might resort to shifts, stratagems, devices, not to say fiddles. I will not say what fiddles an agent might use, since I do not want to put evil thoughts into the minds of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.626.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "y object. I think that I have made my point. I support this series of Amendments because I represent, as do other hon. Members, a county constituency with, mercifully, a large majority, but also a large electorate. Indeed, if one counted one's majority at the present time, it would be positively vulgar. I represent 100,000 constituents. I am, therefore—to use the technical expression—\"overweight\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has sat down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Member sits down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": " broadcasts at election times. We have had the B.B.C. Charter and Television Act for a number of years now, and no one has ever accused television interviewers or producers of unfairly discriminating against a candidate. I do not see why it is necesary to introduce this provision, unless the Attorney-General is following the example of the Prime Minister and pursuing a vendetta against the B.B.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": " has ever accused television interviewers or producers of unfairly discriminating against a candidate. I do not see why it is necesary to introduce this provision, unless the Attorney-General is following the example of the Prime Minister and pursuing a vendetta against the B.B.C.—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite may groan, but why otherwise is this provision being introduced at this stage?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "It was serious until the hon. Gentleman intervened. I was asking a straightforward question and I reiterate it. Has this provision anything to do with the dispute which is being pursued, as we all know, and it is useless for the hon. Gentleman to deny it, between the Prime Minister and the B.B.C.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "sking a straightforward question and I reiterate it. Has this provision anything to do with the dispute which is being pursued, as we all know, and it is useless for the hon. Gentleman to deny it, between the Prime Minister and the B.B.C.? [ Interruption. ] It is no good the hon. Gentleman clucking like a disappointed hen in the background. I am putting a straight question to the Attorney-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "This is one of those rare occasions when I find myself substantially in agreement with the hon. Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard) and the Liberal Chief Whip, the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.661.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.663.1", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Gentleman, never right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Mr. Chairman, is the right hon. Gentleman now about to break——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.663.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.663.4", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Never.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "for the constituency in Britain which manufactures the largest number of commercial motor vehicles in any constituency in Britain. I happen to sit for a lush and productive agricultural and horticultural constituency. Now the questions on the television broadcast were beamed to industrial matters. There was not a single question on agricultural or horticulture. Thus I was placed at a disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman indicates dissent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.665.3", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "d for weeks. I remember the General Election singularly well, because from beginning to end I drove an open motor car. I had a ruddy tan by the time polling day arrived. That question might have been interpreted as bias in favour of the Liberal candidate to cause farmers in the Torrington Division to pin the blame for the shortage of water on the inadequacies and deficiencies of a Tory Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.665.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ude to this Amendment and to the matters which have been raised in this vigorous discussion. The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) has done less than just justice to himself tonight. He has quite unjustly attributed bad motivation to the clause and quite gratuitously tried to drag in an allegation of some so-called vendetta. I am surprised that he should descend to such political vulgarity.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.670.5", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "9, it brought us little comfort with regard to subsection (2). I am glad to hear that he will have another look at the subsection. May I suggest the direction towards which he should look? I do not wish to raise the temperature of the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), or to descend to vulgarities, but I must say that one is bound to see the shadow of the Prime Minister behind this Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.670.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.670.5", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "For particular queries the Government depended on the recognised channels of communication. If the Prime Minister wished to complain, he complained to the Chairman of the Governors or the Director-General. If the Chief Whip wished to complain, he complained to someone at his own level, his opposite number, in either organisation. But, with the advent of the Labour Government, we had new practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.670.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-27", "file": "debates1968-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "360e9de3a28353e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.678.3", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "nstance, at which all the candidates are supposed to appear. Perhaps there is a meeting of old age pensioners, or a meeting with a trade association, or an open air meeting. This Committee has a duty to safeguard the position of future candidates. If a candidate in such a situation says, \"I cannot possibly take part\", it should be left to him whether he wants the broadcast to preceed at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-27a.678.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "TERRITORIAL ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "Since 1st April, 1967 I have been in process of disposing of about 850 drill halls in various parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I would imagine something approaching £6,000 million will be excluded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Temporarily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "That is entirely right, and to the extent to which they are prepared to do so over and above existing facilities two things will happen. One is that the scheme will not bite on that particular import and reserves will benefit correspondingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are a lot of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "hat, certainly within the limited period ahead, which is what the regulator deals with, it will not accrue. I am content to appeal to the people in their more reflective mood, in their more compassionate mood, in their more understanding mood. I can regret it if the Conservative Party seeks to harness the unthinking of the malcontent, or those who cannot see through this problem facing the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "ereof this House declines to give a Second Reading to a Bill which requires importers to make interest free loans to Her Majesty's Government at a time when the amount of our resources taken by public expenditure is not being reduced. Although this afternoon I shall be criticising Government policies and some mistakes for which the Chancellor of the Exchequer must now be bitterly blaming himself—-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I did not take the entire point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.768.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.772.3", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "raid funds which they have earmarked for investment; damaging to the public interest because it will featherbed home producers and bankrupt small businessmen through no fault of their own; damaging to the national interest because it will inflate costs. After all that damage, it may be ineffective because deposit money will be found in one way or another for all but a few of the imports concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.772.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "While one would not expect statesmanship from the Opposition at this time, one would have expected a little less cynicism and dishonesty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about wages?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That is the sort of expenditure they would cut. The right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. lain Macleod) was honest enough to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.778.5", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "accepting my argument. As I explained, I believe that the result will be deflationary and will not have much effect on imports because most importers will be able to raise the necessary cash. That is the point I was making, and when hon. Gentlemen opposite shake their heads they really should understand that when one goes to borrow money a lot depends on whether the money is available, admittedly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.778.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "This is a very interesting possibility. Could we apply the same principle to the regulator to show its interest and attractions for people—that a wholesaler may get an allowance from his importer on the one hand, because of the higher prices at which he will ultimately have to sell goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "imports by 4 per cent. It will have an effect over the whole range of the economy because of the way in which it will restrict the import of essential machinery required for replacement and re-equipment of factories for the purpose of making them more competitive in world markets. The use of the regulator will start to impact itself in the weeks ahead and this will mean raging inflation in prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A bank manager.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "its, the Bill is becoming more and more a mouse which everyone applauds because it will not create any special offence and will pass through in the night unnoticed by anyone. I want to go to the other extreme and put in a plea for it as a meaningful piece of legislation. I do not want to give offence to my hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst (Mr. Macdonald), who is an ideological colleague and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "onsumer expenditure. We cannot have a policy of real, savage and serious import controls without facing the ultimate of consumer control, the ration book—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"—this is the logical outcome. The hon. Member for Heywood and Royton (Mr. Barnett) followed the Financial Secretary by saying that this miserable little Bill will have very little influence on imports. If so, why go on with it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.841.3", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ve inherited an awful mess from the present Home Secretary when he took over, a much worse mess than the country realises. It has been estimated by responsible people that the deficit this year will be £656 million. I remind the hon. Gentleman that the Chancellor promised some months ago that during this year the economy would be just in balance and next year we should have a considerable surplus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It would not be fait to them, but I will tell the hon. Gentleman the names afterwards. On seasonally adjusted figures, the deficit for the first 10 months of this year has amounted to £645 million. That is at the rate of £774 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "45 million. That is at the rate of £774 million a year. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members think that that is something to giggle about, I do not. We are in a far more serious position than the Chancellor has allowed the nation to believe, or the Bill suggests. The Bill is not nearly tough enough for the problem. It does not tackle it in the right way and it will not produce the results we require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Dick Taverne)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Dick Taverne)", "preceding_text": "ast of Suez are to be disregarded as methods of solving our balance of payments, but a system of higher rents for council tenants will apparently solve the problem. Indeed, the inconsistency of the Opposition's approach could not have been better illustrated than by the business which immediately preceded this debate. Then the announcement was made about the reorganisation of the Territorial Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "I will come to that. In any event, the right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. He knows that there is no connection whatever between the Amendment and the Bill. Why was the Amendment moved? As my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary pointed out, it was designed to hide the differences which exist inside the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "debate, that today has been the day of the free traders. if they read the OFFICIAL REPORT Of our proceedings they will see that that has been so and that Monday and Tuesday were the days of the protectionists. The public expenditure argument is relevant to the Order for the Regulator, and I will therefore comment on this issue. We of course accept the need for strict control on public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "ption .]—and in order to divert resources into exports far-reaching cuts in public expenditure were made in January of last year, when £300 million was cut from public expenditure planned for the present year and £440 million for the year 1969–70. As the Chancellor said in Monday's debate, public expenditure this year is exactly in line with the January forecast and the January White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.864.7", "colnum": "864", "heading": "CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "down, the trend for industrial production is upward. The main issue before the House tonight is the Customs (Import Deposits) Bill. In dealing with the Bill, I want, first, to dispose of a number of preliminary points which have been made in the debate and to answer some of the questions before coming to the main principles involved in the scheme. My lion. Friend the Member for Heywood and Barnet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.864.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "ing on importers, and it will work in two ways. First, there is every reason to suppose that it will have a direct effect on the volume of imports. Hon. Members opposite have tried to have it in different ways. Some have said that it will not have any effect on imports because everyone will be able to obtain credit. Others have said that it will ruin small importers. They cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "y effect on imports because everyone will be able to obtain credit. Others have said that it will ruin small importers. They cannot have it both ways. [ Interruption. ] But the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East tried to have it both ways in his own speech. Other hon. Members have contradicted each other. He was the only one who contradicted himself. Of course both these things cannot happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.868.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Many of us sat here all day with the intention of participating in this debate. We were assured that there was an agreement by both Front Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.871.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-11-28", "file": "debates1968-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "0833122fa83b5c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.872.6", "colnum": "872", "heading": "CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "r advocated a system of controls on import credit. As my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State has said, he repeated this view as recently as June of this year, in The Banker. The Opposition have tacked on to their Amendment the point about public expenditure. I want to point out that in July, 1966, the rate of public expenditure was far higher than it is today. That is why this Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-11-28a.872.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1022.7", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "When may we expect the White Paper? We have been waiting quite a long time for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1022.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1038.6", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (DISTURBANCES, ARMAGH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "anisation took over complete control of the city. During the course of the parade which eventually took place in the afternoon, a county inspector of the Royal Ulster Constabulary spoke to the leaders of the Civil Rights Association and told them very plainly—it has been adequately reported in the Press—that he could not afford the civil rights demonstration the protection which had been promised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1038.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1039.4", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (DISTURBANCES, ARMAGH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "journment of the House and it would, therefore, not be possible to discuss any matter for which there was not Ministerial responsibility in this House. Therefore, the matters of which the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) is giving so tendentious and inflammatory an account would not be debatable in the House, so that what he is seeking to do is a gross abuse of the procedures of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1039.5", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (DISTURBANCES, ARMAGH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members who differ in opinion must rely on Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1039.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (DISTURBANCES, ARMAGH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": " my concern about the safety of British subjects. I shall refer to three members of the British public who are resident in this country. Two of them are employees of the B.B.C. and work in the \"Panorama\" team. Their names are Mr. John Reynolds, the producer of the \"Panorama\" programme, and Mr. Richard Kershaw, his associate. These two men were brutally beaten by the police of Northern Ireland and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (DISTURBANCES, ARMAGH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": " to arise. In submitting his application under the Standing Order, the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) made some extremely serious allegations. Had the matter been debated, there would have been a chance to rebut his accusations. As it is not now to be debated, it seems that those accusations will remain unchallenged on the record of the House. Is that right? What can we do about it, Sir?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-02", "file": "debates1968-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "97179fe2d5695cde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (THE GURKHAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "cruited battalions have been quoted. The figures given are only half the story. Gurkha soldiers in the Far East cost, man for man, about one-third as much as United Kingdom soldiers. That is just the cost of the men. One has to look a bit further than that. A Gurkha battalion has considerably more men than a British battalion. Man for man it is about one-third, but there are considerably more men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-02a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1222.6", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I want to be helpful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1222.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": " the purpose of the talks is to restore communications between the islands and Argentina. The absence of such arrangements at present is a very great hardship. We have the absurd situation of imports from Argentina going all the way up to Montivideo and 1,000 miles across the sea to the islands. The purpose is to improve communications and in that context we are prepared to talk about sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "cations between the islands and Argentina. The absence of such arrangements at present is a very great hardship. We have the absurd situation of imports from Argentina going all the way up to Montivideo and 1,000 miles across the sea to the islands. The purpose is to improve communications and in that context we are prepared to talk about sovereignty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—but only in the context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1258.4", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask him\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "alfont, on his visit, was accompanied in every meeting, except for the confidential meetings with the Executive Council, by five journalists. A great deal has appeared in the newspapers about this matter. In the short time that Lord Chalfont has been back, I have not thought fit to ask him about every line in every newspaper. I cannot conceive that Lord Chalfont would make a statement of the kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "The matter cannot be left in abeyance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1264.4", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "It is not as simple as that, as I should have thought the right hon. Gentleman would know. It is not a question of an agenda. It is a case of discussing the position in the light, on the one hand, of the United Nations resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1264.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1265.0", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "one about it. We want to utilise this situation to reach the best understanding we can between the islanders and the Argentine Government. We have made it quite clear to the Argentine Government that, unless the Falkland Islanders so desire, we shall not transfer sovereignty. I have made it quite clear that we do not rule out the possibility that in the future the islanders may change their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1268.2", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Promised.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "cation under Standing Order No. 9. Since it appears that Lord Chalfont cannot be brought to the Bar of this House, and since it also appears from my researches that he cannot now be impeached, may I ask you whether the Leader of the House is not anxious to catch your eye for the purpose of informing the House when we may have the further statement which has been indicated by the Minister of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1268.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "x00B7;1 per cent., which I have made approximately £498 million. Then what are called crude materials, inedible—timber, pulp, wood, lumber and ore—21 per cent., which makes £198 million in a full year. It looks although about £400 million worth of imports from the E.F.T.A. countries would probably be exempted and about £500 million would have the duty deposit paid upon them. I should hardly think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " do not in fact think that those who are lucky enough to borrow money will have to pay high rates; but if we assume that they cannot borrow the money at all then we must recognise it is a very heavy burden. The sum involved over the country as a whole is £600 million or £700 million, but it comes from relatively few firms. I have a letter from a firm in my constituency of which I have never heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1340.3", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must not present me with these simpliste either/or propositions. The answer is that It will do both. The hon. Member seems to think that doing one excludes doing the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1340.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1343.1", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not the same thing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I must confess that the number of firms importing to the tune of £1 million a year which are teetering and are without £25,000 must be singularly small. The answer is that the hon. and learned Gentleman's argument could equally apply if we said that a purchase tax charge placed on firms was liable to bankrupt then because they had not the additional working capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1350.0", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "in its full context. First, is it the Government's intention to ruin a number of small im- porters? Certainly not, we have been told, but if it happens, that is too bad. I assure the Minister that a good many small importing firms are extremely worried. Is it the object to put up the basic price of imported goods by 2 to 2½ per cent.? I understand that the answer to that question is, \"Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1422.2", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Mr. Nott) in which somebody else bought the gilt-edged security, and in only one case in ten the Government bought the security, there would be that marginal activation where none had existed. It would bring new liquidity into activity. I think the hon. Gentleman will concede that, to make his point overwhelming, he would have to ask the Government to abstain from supporting the gilt-edged market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1422.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1434.5", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "which they could come back to give us their considered answer. My hon. Friends would welcome that evidence of an open mind on a point which would add a disproportionate inconvenience to a large number of businessmen for an utterly marginal benefit to the Government scheme and would consider withdrawing the Amendment. If not, I am sure they would wish to divide against the Government point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "rised in the total turnover of less than £500.000 would be considerably less still. 1.15 a.m. The Amendment stands on two legs. The first is the limit itself, on which we are prepared to agree any reasonable figure. The second is the leg of principle. Is it agreed between the two sides of the Committee that there should be some sort of exemption for the small company? We hold that there should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Member waited to the end of my sentence, he would have seen that I said that this is a practice which relates to Customs duties and it is also something which should be applied in the case of the deposits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1482.0", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: They will renew it again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "It will be within the powers of the Government to prolong it if they wish. We all know that. There is no reason why that should not be said, although it is perhaps an unfriendly thing to say. It seems to me that there is a benefit in reducing it. It is certainly much nearer my concept of \"temporary\" to have six months instead of 12.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-03", "file": "debates1968-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "82b79d8c536c76e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1484.4", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a dog's dinner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I took the hon. and learned Gentleman's point the first time. The Attorney-General did not say that this duty was not a duty for the purposes of the Bill, since the Bill specifically refers to the deposits as duty. If the Bill calls a duty a dog's tail, it would have been for the purposes of statutory interpretation, a dog's tail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-03a.1484.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1512.3", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that Scotland is at the bottom of Europe's motorway league—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. My right hon. Friend has just confounded the allegations made yesterday against my right hon. and noble Friend, Lord Chalfont. In the circumstances, should not we first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1531.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1533.4", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "There is no question of withdrawing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1533.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1533.5", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "There is no question of withdrawing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Are we to take it from what the right hon. Gentleman has said this afternoon that he categorically denies the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1533.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1533.7", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman now categorically deny the report in Monday's Daily Telegraph —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1533.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1537.2", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister of State, on behalf of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1537.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenyon", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that if hon. Members could spend six months on those islands, the majority of them would change their minds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "of gases—oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, argon, and so on. I shall not turn this into a chemistry lesson, an area in which I have no special competence, but it can be seen easily that if we were to exempt helium, somebody would say how absurd it was to exempt helium and not hydrogen. if I exempted hydrogen, would be referred to the idiocy of failing to exempt oxygen, argon and a number of other gases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1597.8", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "one through only elementary processes. This results in anomalies. For example, the importation of raw timber is exempt, but the importation of a basic material to make substitutes for timber is caught by the Bill. I will refer to that later. I should think that after the years that the Government have had since the import surcharge they could have found a more sophisticated Schedule of exemptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1597.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A nutshell?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "ations and maintenance work. The production of fibre building board in the United Kingdom is about 10 per cent. of our consumption and falls far short of requirements. If the Amendment is not accepted, the inevitable effect is that building costs will go up, and one socially undesirable feature at the moment is that building costs should increase. There, in a nutshell, is this group of Amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "h they are basing these exemptions. The difference between an absolute raw material and a partly finished material which is essential to a completed product, but which, partly completed, is useless for any other purpose, seems to be so fine that we can virtually lump the whole lot together as raw material. I do not know what else can be done with printing paper, except eventually to print upon it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1695.2", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "ld that British agriculture has to produce import savings of about £150 million in the period beginning 1970, but how is it to be done if our farmers cannot get the machinery with which to do it and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Honiton (Mr. Emery) said, even if they get the machinery, they cannot get the spare parts to keep it going. The Amendment covers virtually all the necessary machinery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1696.0", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirk", "preceding_text": "ot, he would know that a very large part of the machinery used on our farms is provided from home sources. But if he wishes to restrict British farmers solely to supplies coming from home sources, a lot of which come from my constituency, he will not achieve the increase in agricultural production which his Government are so anxious to see, together with the import savings which will come from it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1721.3", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "tariff treatment. We are anxious to give both relief and procure for them E.F.T.A. tariff treatment. Our attitude is not half-hearted. We want them to get remission of the deposit and not to lose their E.F.T.A. tariff benefits by reason of that fact. The only reason this is in question is, I fear, because we cannot legislate for the E.F.T.A. countries, and we have to take up this matter with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1721.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1755.5", "colnum": "1755", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed , That the Bill, as amended, be reported to the House.—[ Dr. Miller .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1755.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1760.2", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " I regret that a good many of us are lax in that duty, but that is what we should do. The Motion would make a mockery of the work of Parliament because no hon. Member has had opportunity to read all the debate in Committee, let alone give it mature consideration. The Government now are just using their majority to steamroller legislation through the House. I cannot carry this argument any further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1777.0", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "e cannot even look at the whole record of this Committee stage. I am sure that this procedure is wholly without Parliamentary precedent in peacetime. We must particularly bear in mind that the objectives of the Bill are secured effectively in the Ways and Means Resolution for provisional collection. I should like to see the Leader of the House here. I should like him to come armed with precedents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1777.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1779.7", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I shall leave it there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1779.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1780.2", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "eading debate. How could we possibly know at that time what was going to pass after the business statement and until this moment? The Financial Secretary seemed to cast aspersions on the Opposition's motives in objecting to the proposal that we should now proceed to the Report stage. Why? I believe passionately that it would be wrong for the House now to proceed without an interval for reflection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1780.2", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "til this moment? The Financial Secretary seemed to cast aspersions on the Opposition's motives in objecting to the proposal that we should now proceed to the Report stage. Why? I believe passionately that it would be wrong for the House now to proceed without an interval for reflection—[ Interruption .]—and I resent, having sat right through our previous debates almost without leaving the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1785.4", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have selected a manuscript Amendment standing in the name of the right hon. Member for Leeds. North-East (Sir K. Joseph). I will read it slowly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1785.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1785.5", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have never pretended to know procedure to the degree that other hon. Members do, but I put it to you that a manuscript Amendment supported by 15 hon. Members opposite is hardly a matter which should have serious consideration at this hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1786.8", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, in page 1, line 22, at the end insert: or, in cases where notice or notices of assignment of the right to the return of the deposit have been duly given in writing to the Commissioners, to the ultimate assignee of that person. After the House has heard my eloquent discourse in support of the Amendment, I am sure that many more than 15 hon. Members will be supporting it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1786.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1787.0", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wake up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. First, I am finding it difficult to hear my hon. and learned Friend. Secondly, in all sincerity, I have no clear idea what this Amendment is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1787.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-04", "file": "debates1968-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "7f60559e73434ae4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1797.1", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "r we have to accept that that for the whole country there will be a severe increase in the credit squeeze. But at what cost? The Bill is marginally protective and thus makes us marginally less efficient. It will marginally reduce exports as well as reducing imports, and hon. Members have developed a number of instances to show the link between any cut in imports and a consequential cut in exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-04a.1797.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-05", "file": "debates1968-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb1d94168d08c632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-05a.1832.0", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES", "cue_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Earl of Dalkeith", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister give a straight answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-05a.1832.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-05", "file": "debates1968-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb1d94168d08c632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-05a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "NIGERIA (EARLY DAY MOTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I draw your attention to an unfortunate mistake in today's Notice Paper. All of us are greatly indebted to the remarkable efficiency of the printers, but on this occasion they have slipped up, no doubt due to certain nocturnal activities in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-05a.1836.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-05", "file": "debates1968-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "bb1d94168d08c632", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-05a.1894.0", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "mmittee says that Your Committee, while not wishing to question the strategic arguments advanced in justification for continuing the refit, are nevertheless very concerned that a decision to spend some £30 million may result in no more than two years' further operational life for the carrier. Perhaps the Chief Secretary could comment on the findings of the Public Accounts Committee on the Argylls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-05a.1894.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Minister said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Webster", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister tell us how many of these appointments are part-time, how many are functional—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.8.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, as the Minister chose to make a personal and unjustified attack on me of trying to make political capital out of this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "n the White Paper was announced was headed: Rate relief in 1969–70 and 1970–71. The first paragraph told us: Exchequer rate relief for domestic ratepayers will be increased by 5d. to 1s. 3d. in the £ for 1969–70 and by a further 5d. to 1s. 8d. in the £ in 1970–71. The whole atmosphere created by the Press handout was that the Order would be good for domestic ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I respect your Ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and in such a brief speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.87.2", "colnum": "87", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "ts in certain places or to cut out certain services altogether in order to arrive at the figure of 3 per cent. that would have been quite all right. But the figure was really an exercise in walking backwards. The Prime Minister is constantly walking backwards from the real figures. He dreamed up a figure of £2,000 million for defence expenditure and then decided that that figure was the ideal one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.87.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "far more generous treatment than those with less urgent housing need. The present Government, with all their faults—I have not been uncritical of the Government, and am not standing here in a white sheet; I have often said things critical of the Government that I support—have done more to assist with the re-housing of our people in the last four years than has been done at any time in our history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ficult area, and has many problems. I have said that people in my area should get a better proportion of the money than they are getting today out of the rate support grant. The hon. Member for the City of Chester knows that the London boroughs, through the Conservative Central Office, have got together and decided that the parks and open spaces in London shall be transferred back to the boroughs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.128.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-09", "file": "debates1968-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "394610857e9c1ca2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle (Birmingham, Hands-worth)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle (Birmingham, Hands-worth)", "preceding_text": "Finsbury (Mr. R. W. Brown) really thinks that the education service, relative to its needs, did as badly in 1963 and 1964 as it will do in 1969 and 1970, I must disabuse him of that idea, because it simply is not so. Perhaps I might quote one figure. In October, 1963, when we were celebrating National Education Week, I announced the school-building programmes for 1965–66 and 1966–67.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-09a.129.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " am glad to hear what the hon. Gentleman has said. So far as we are concerned, the original proposal was made as long ago as November, 1965. I do not know whether that was before or after the suggestion of the right hon. Gentleman. I have just consulted my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip. He will be prepared to look into this. If he has received the letter referred to by the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.208.7", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ecision can be made. The answer which I gave was based on the situation as I saw it and on consultation with my right hon. Friends. I have consulted my right hon. Friend and I am very glad—I do not think that much time has been lost—to accept the statement of the right hon. Gentleman, which was made in good faith by himself in the House 10 minutes ago, and answered in equally good faith by myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.208.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Monstrous!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f in the House 10 minutes ago, and answered in equally good faith by myself—[ Interruption. ]—I am accepting the statement made by the right hon. Gentleman. I expressed my regret at the long delay earlier, but I accept what he said. I have now seen the correspondence for myself for the first time. The answer I gave earlier was on the information fairly supplied to me, and I think that it is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "nestly do. I had an argument on this subject on radio with my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill) on Sunday. She does not agree with me. I accept the view of those who say that the present Jewish method of slaughter is humane. We had a pleasant discussion, but I am interested to note that in 1956 her mother, Baroness Summerskill, in the Upper House, voted in favour of my proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill) on Sunday. She does not agree with me. I accept the view of those who say that the present Jewish method of slaughter is humane. We had a pleasant discussion, but I am interested to note that in 1956 her mother, Baroness Summerskill, in the Upper House, voted in favour of my proposal—[ Interruption. ] I was about to say that while I entirely accept her views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whatever they are?\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Only one further thing remains to be said. The House may wonder what is my concern in this question. I am not Jewish, I do not eat kosher food, and I have no interest to declare. My interest is that I regard it as a very serious matter for any legislature to prohibit the practices of any minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "nt of mobility. Under the Bill they will be deprived of the interest which they can now take in the places where they work. I have no objection to workers coming into this if they have genuine interests in these areas. As long as people's interests are greater in the areas where they work than in the areas where they live, they should have this right. I am not being political in stating this view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gerrymandering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "preceding_text": ", a boundary was quite artificially drawn about three years ago, during the time of this Government and when there was a Labour city council, against the advice and recommendations put forward to the Boundary Commission. That was done to bring within the boundaries of the council's area estates which were outside the city and to leave out private estates which were left as indentations on the map.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Their trade\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": "eople and which will affect them for many years, is the possibility of drastic traffic control schemes being introduced in the centre of the city, making large parts of it pedestrian-only areas and turning other parts of it, possibly including this street, into a one-way system. We all know that nothing so arouses the feelings of shopkeepers as proposals for traffic regulation or a one-way system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Member.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker) made a good democratic speech. He made the best of a bad job. But the hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "preceding_text": "emocracy should have its way. It is no good hon. Members opposite arguing that local government ought not to be local. We on this side assert the principle that local government should be local government. It is no good liking democracy only when one can have one's own way. True democracy means that one must like democracy when one does not have one's own way. I shall not like democracy very much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.329.0", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "preceding_text": "two years' time I shall be bundled off the Council, because the Conservative Party is now in control after many years, and my brother will be bundled off with me. But we shall not go around shedding the crocodile tears that hon. Members opposite think people should shed because they are put off a council. I believe that a business qualification is not a strong qualification for council membership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.329.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I am not talking about the rotten boroughs of Westminster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "What is certainly true about Entwistle now is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "What is certainly true about Entwistle now is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"]—that the Tory Party in Liverpool did not want him at all, because it was the Tory Party who chucked him out.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "What is certainly true about Entwistle now is—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"]—that the Tory Party in Liverpool did not want him at all, because it was the Tory Party who chucked him out.—[ Interruption. ]—If the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) wants to test public opinion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pink", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pink", "preceding_text": "stion of work and interest lies where one lives or has lived, but also where one is prepared to serve in a voluntary capacity on a local authority. One will never be prepared to serve in that capacity unless one has a genuine interest in the authority. If this proposal is implemented we in Portsmouth will lose many councillors and I am sure that they will not seek re-election in other authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.343.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.344.4", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "opposite have concentrated so much—should have the right to stand as a candidate in the area in which he works. Let us see what this Amendment means. The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker), who moved the Amendment, did not explain it. It would mean that all 6,000 people working in Linwood, Renfrewshire, about 50 per cent. of whom live there, should have the right to put up as candidates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.344.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "(in part)\". If those words had come after the reference to Clause 15, it would have been clearer. The right hon. Gentleman pointed out that the words \"abolition of property qualification\" are there, but in Scotland that is dependent on the non-resident qualification. This is not the fault of the Secretary of State, but of the Home Secretary. We are glad to see him here for discussion of Clause 15.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I would like to say a word to the right hon. Gentleman before he replies. He was not present during the earlier debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the right hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "preceding_text": ". I thought that it was a very good hotel. If the hon. Member wants to indicate to the citizens of Liverpool that he does not think much of that hotel, it is for him to say. The rest of us believe that the Adelphi is a perfectly good, reputable hotel, and I am glad to spring to the defence of the reputation of that hotel against the vicious, unprincipled, below-the-belt attacks by the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "preceding_text": " it both ways; or, I suppose he can, since that is what Conservatives try to do all the time. Either we are dealing a savage blow at our own people, or trying to get rid of the Tories; or it may be that we think the simple proposition, one man, one vote, the man living in the place in which he votes, is right. It is at least conceivable that that could be the reason for putting the Clause forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "preceding_text": "sides provided he is not a limited company. Only the ratepayers who are not limited companies are to enjoy the franchise, as I understand the Conservative approach. To take an illustration, the Guest Keen Iron and Steel Company, in Cardiff, or the Steel Company of Wales, in Port Talbot, have at least as big an interest in the fortunes of the city as the local shopkeeper who lives outside the city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-10", "file": "debates1968-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "699dc1e880325a15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Caliaghan", "preceding_text": "Parliament has functions to perform which lie outside the boundaries of each of the constituencies that we represent. That being so, there is a case for saying that Members of Parliament should not necessarily reside in their own constituencies. I know many hon. Members whose attention to their constituencies is quite as great, although they live outside them, as that of others who reside in them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-10a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend will accept that we are doing everything we possibly can to get someone in to the factory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give that undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.426.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "an has just said, I fully accept the Foreign Secretary's good faith and his obvious intention today to clear the air, would he not agree that as long as sovereignty remains on the agenda, statements, whether true or untrue, that joint efforts being made by the two Governments to convince the islanders of the necessity for a change in their links are bound to be misunderstood, if one bears in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "tion today to clear the air, would he not agree that as long as sovereignty remains on the agenda, statements, whether true or untrue, that joint efforts being made by the two Governments to convince the islanders of the necessity for a change in their links are bound to be misunderstood, if one bears in mind—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—the Argentine Government's known intention to have sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "ether true or untrue, that joint efforts being made by the two Governments to convince the islanders of the necessity for a change in their links are bound to be misunderstood, if one bears in mind—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"]—the Argentine Government's known intention to have sovereignty—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"]—and the British Government's open declaration that they do not rule out the possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.435.2", "colnum": "435", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "raying on the highway. I had hoped that the abundant evidence which is and has been available for many years to prove the necessity of affording compensation to those who are injured by animals straying on the highway would have resulted in legislation being passed on a Government level. I am indebted, in the first place, to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdare (Mr. Probert) who, many years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.435.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-11", "file": "debates1968-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "ed4f7208f7d0e184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.457.2", "colnum": "457", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "r that—but he is totally wrong when he says that in the single-Member constituency contact is not as great as we think between Member and elector. This may be so, but it is overwhelmingly greater than in the multi-Member constituency. With other hon. Members, I spent part of the summer in Sweden, where multimember constituencies are used for the election of members to the legislature, the Riksdag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-11a.457.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that we appreciate what he has said about the courage of our Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.581.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "One man, one vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "the courage of our Prime Minister—[ Interruption. ] For greater clarity may I make it plain that I was referring to the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland? Is the Prime Minister aware that the best service that any of us can do to all the people of Northern Ireland at the moment is to support Captain O'Neill's call for moderation and restraint and good sense, an end to demonstrations on all sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.586.5", "colnum": "586", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I again remind the House that there is an important debate ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.586.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " is no alternative but retaliation. I make it clear that if the Foreign Secretary prefers to say nothing today, I will not press him, and I believe that the House will understand. Nevertheless, it is right that, on behalf of hon. Members on both sides, it should be stressed what a very serious view hon. Members take of the Chinese Government's delay in releasing a man who is innocent of any crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "he N.A.T.O. flank, I must ask them how they reconcile that with their insistence that we are to try to take back on the shoulders of this country responsibilities right across the world which no nation of our size and resources attempts to maintain at present? There is a real cleavage here, which some of the shrewder, if not necessarily kinder, personalities on the benches opposite have perceived—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire, who suggested that there was only a thin line between persuasion and pressure. It seems, from what the right hon. Gentleman said, that he accepts my assurance—I do not think that anyone doubts it—that we shall not transfer sovereignty against the wishes of the islanders, but must find some point of disagreement to gratify certain hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.612.5", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This is an important point. The right hon. Gentleman has accused my hon. Friends of trying to find a point of difference with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.612.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman is really saying is that he does not trust me or believe my assurances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ty's Government to be acting in good faith and that any settlement that is reached will be consistent with the pledge that we have given. That is my reply to the right hon. Gentleman. I assure him that we shall not conclude an agreement with another country behind the back of Parliament and then try to conceal what we have done, as the Government of which the right hon. Gentleman was a member did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.613.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That was true then.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Foot", "preceding_text": " well as the military capability of the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact powers. The starting-point of any inquiry must, therefore, be to consider how the threat has changed since N.A.T.O. was set up, and why. The allied governments recognise, by their actions no less than by their public statements, that tension in Europe has relaxed and that there is little danger of aggression at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Jackson", "preceding_text": "ollow him in what I should describe as a rather liberal round of world affairs, except to say that I totally disagree with most of his comments about Nigeria. How the hon. Gentleman could imagine that British policy in terms of supplying arms to the legitimate Government of Nigeria could in any way jeopardise the situation there or cause unpopularity for this country round the world I fail to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.681.5", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "In that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.681.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clifford Kenyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clifford Kenyon", "preceding_text": "der present conditions that cannot be done. The Argentine will not agree to this interchange and the islanders will not agree because they want to keep the Argentinians and the Chileans off. There is far more at stake than sovereignty. Wipe sovereignty right out of the discussions; put it on one side. There is enough to discuss between the two Governments to establish a better life for the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-12", "file": "debates1968-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "bc536c4f5ce66e6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I do not want the right hon. Gentleman to mistake what I said. I said that we knew you better. It was not that we knew what was best for the Falkland islanders; it was that we knew the Government better.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-12a.708.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-13", "file": "debates1968-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "ed51093405e804bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-13a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (INTERIM PAY SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that if the statement had been made earlier in the day, inconvenience to backbenchers would have been avoided. This is the problem about making any Ministerial statement on a Friday which is devoted to private Members' time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-13a.834.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.856.7", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": "Council will at some stage consider this as a matter of particular importance to them, and one of the four is the Soviet Union. As regards losses to us sustained since the closure of the Canal, the estimate which has been made is that in the last six months of 1967 the loss to us on the balance of trade ran at about £20 million a month, but, as commerce has adapted itself to the changed situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.856.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "DEFENCE (ARMY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thought that it was by the will of the House that the first two Motions should be taken formally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.880.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.912.3", "colnum": "912", "heading": "ARMED FORCES AND RESERVES (RUN-DOWN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ink that they will react effectively to what has taken place in Europe and how they will effectively protect the southern flanks of Europe, and protect our N.A.T.O. allies in the Mediterranean, fulfilling the new commitments and obligations which they appear to have assumed under the N.A.T.O. communiqué, without making any change whatever in their policy to run down our forces and reserves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.912.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.920.1", "colnum": "920", "heading": "ARMED FORCES AND RESERVES (RUN-DOWN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reynolds", "preceding_text": "ould be strangers drafted in from elsewhere to make it up—and the unit would have to be moved to B.A.O.R. All this would have to be done in seven days to meet B.A.O.R. contingency plans. The first thing I discovered was that the plan was impossible to carry out. The reinforcement of B.A.O.R., with the machinery we inherited and the seven days laid down for it to be done would have been impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.920.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "ARMED FORCES AND RESERVES (RUN-DOWN)", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan Giles", "preceding_text": "ional forces for peace-keeping in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, than to require nuclear weapons, tactical or strategic, independent or collective.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 26th February, 1964; Vol. 690, c. 469.] From this position the Secretary of State has eroded the trust and confidence of Servicemen at all levels until now it is not too much to say that he is anathema to almost every one of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.986.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "ARMED FORCES AND RESERVES (RUN-DOWN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "ARMED FORCES AND RESERVES (RUN-DOWN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "th out training and equipment, particularly on the day on which war breaks out. There will not be time in another war to train and equip forces once it has started. N.A.T.O. also has no interest in home defence as hon. Gentlemen opposite define it. If home defence were ever needed in the United Kingdom we would already have gone nuclear. We would be faced with an entirely new dimension of problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1005.1", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "ARMED FORCES AND RESERVES (RUN-DOWN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentlemen opposite define it. If home defence were ever needed in the United Kingdom we would already have gone nuclear. We would be faced with an entirely new dimension of problem. [ Interruption. ] This is the assumption on which the whole of N.A.T.O. bases its plans. The fact is that only two European countries maintain a voluntary reserve for home defence, and they are Norway and Denmark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1005.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-16", "file": "debates1968-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ef39aa0bf1836502", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENTERTAINMENTS (CHILD PERFORMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "to speak for themselves here. It is our duty to speak for them. We have a responsibility in this matter which we must exercise. I therefore urge this House to say to the Government,\" You are doing something wrong here. Take these Regulations back and produce a new Act which will provide reasonable conditions so that an application has to be made in every case when it is desired to employ a child.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-16a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1065.3", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weitzman", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to take up too much time in dealing with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1065.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "It does not become a Government Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "the divorce law has certain unsatisfactory features and that reform of some of them is called for. That view was widely held in the last Session and it applies today. My impression is that, on the whole—looking back on the proceedings in the last Session—hon. Members moved, in different degrees of course, in the direction of a common attitude towards large parts of the problems which are involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1172.5", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "PETITION (ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Woodburn", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This is a rather more serious point. Is there any way of protecting the dignity of the House from propaganda stunts of this kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I oppose this Motion very strongly, mainly on behalf of my constituents. The people who elected me to Parliament do not understand, at a time when the nation is visibly in peril financially—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1186.3", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "hursday for hon. Members, on both sides, to ask for time for debates, which the Government always refuse, I wonder whether it might be possible for my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House to consider a system whereby, say, those who want genuinely to come back a week earlier can do so for a series of Adjournment debates. On that basis, there would be no voting and no decisions would be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I agree that I should have to go into detail. I think that I had better leave that there, because it does not appear that we shall come back a week early, or break up a week later, than is planned. I think that we should debate the growing practice of the police raiding people's homes and taking liberties with the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a rumour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend. I think that he is the only person who can confirm what I have heard. I have only the Press reports to go on, and one cannot always believe what one reads in the Press, but I have heard, and I am told, and I have read, that last week there was a conference at Chequers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1193.3", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "I have not taken part in a debate of this kind during the four years in which I have been in the House. It is the sort of debate in which a large number of hon. Members rise, sometimes in good humour, to raise constituency points. Certainly, I cannot recall hearing the debate deviate into one of seriousness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1199.5", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "I do not want to say a great deal more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the merits of the present position there, if merits there be, but it should be well known to my right hon. Friends that a debate on this subject would attract a wide measure of support on this side of the House. Two other matters, though of less importance, also demand early attention. There is the continuing situation at the Hornsey College of Art—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1204.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1208.1", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "sent—let us not forget that we still sit as representatives of the people, as a parliamentary democracy—believes that we have a job to do here. If ever there were a case in recent history in peacetime when we should not retire into recess it is now when the problems of the nation are being swept under the parliamentary carpet and that then we should return to see what has arisen for us to tidy up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "tlemen opposite to make speeches to be reported. However, they will be able to make speeches in their constituencies. They will not condemn industrial efforts in their constituencies, but they can do it here. Therefore, the exercise, from the hon. Gentleman's point of view, is to have this Chamber sitting so that the Opposition can put down hundreds of Questions, which are often almost irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "had lasted so long. I will have a word with my right hon. Friend the First Secretary of State about it. I know that it is giving my hon. Friend concern, but it is a constituency matter and I hope that he will have a conversation with my right hon. Friend. The hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls), in a strange and typical speech, supported the Motion. He said that we were punch drunk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "sly before transferring assets worth £270 million for a sum of £27 million, which is considerably less than the capital spent on those assets even in the last two years. He has written off the cost of the Victoria Line before it has come into operation. If Shell or I.C.I, said to a rival that it would sell off the whole of its works for one-tenth of the value, the shareholders would be after them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are very lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "r. It will not help the motorist and I do not find the idea attractive of a Ministry or any official being able to differentiate between an essential and non-essential parker. The object is to stop long-term parking and turn everything over to short-term. It is all very well for us to agree to that—I do not necessarily agree—but we at least have long-term parking facilities here, so we should not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ad one major failing. It can run buses independently to a certain extent. It can run tube trains independently to a certain extent. There has never been any proper measure of co-ordination. What has been happening in Hamburg for the past two years makes the Bill about two years out of date. What happened with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority makes the Bill about 10 years out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is an extremely sharp political question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is a very fair question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it your answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is a very fair question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and the Minister knows that there is another answer. It is the answer already drawn to his attention by the Prices and Incomes Board Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is a very fair question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—and the Minister knows that there is another answer. It is the answer already drawn to his attention by the Prices and Incomes Board Report—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it your answer?\"] I will deal with the management of London Transport Board when I get to it and with the costs which may be saved there, as opposed to dealing with it now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "r the question.\"] I will answer the question. I have said that there is another way, as Mr. Awbrey Jones made clear, by which administrative costs could be saved in the London Transport Board situation. I shall come to that later in my speech. I am sure that hon. Members have read the Report of the Prices and Incomes Board. It makes quite clear that there are economies and there is an alternative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-17", "file": "debates1968-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "2a993763d01b5e82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "GREATER LONDON, KENT AND SURREY ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I have tonight heard the views of the hon. Member for Orpington I am not sure that I entirely agree with them, having read the report of the inquiry. This is the point that I was trying to put to show that it is unfortunate that the Order includes all three transfers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-17a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1353.12", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that I found in the Gulf this autumn that the keenest supporters of the Government's policy for withdrawal are the ordinary Service men, separated as they are from their families", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1353.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1365.8", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Answer the question.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1365.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£10 million?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anybody would regard a net expenditure of £10 million as an immense subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Go to the Old Vic.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is not this expenditure an unrequited export? As the Government are so fussy about increasing exports which are paid for, will not the right hon. Gentleman do his duty and insist that the Germans, not the British, foot the bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1418.2", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ve not accepted the most important recommendations while they have accepted the minor ones. On a pure numerical basis they have accepted most of them. On this recommendation we went into the problems in conference and individually with our agents, working out the difficulties involved. It is significant that the Government's first try was accepted by the whole House as being completely unworkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "t if we are ever to have another Speaker's Conference, it must sit in public, and not merely have its proceedings published. I believe that it would be worth while the Government formulating proposals and putting them to Mr. Speaker's Conference, rather than the other way round. When that situation arises, I suppose in about 20 years' time, no doubt no hon. Member present now will be in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-18", "file": "debates1968-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "0e033aedbaa13fb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker. I was carried away by my own eloquence. So inspired was I by the record of my Government that I went too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-18a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1538.0", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman, whose pessimism about unemployment I do not share, has seen today's figures, which are very good indeed for the fourth month in succession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1538.4", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I have assured the House on three occasions that we are not confined to any specific rate of growth which may have appeared in a newspaper. I accept the need for wide dialogue on this matter. We are doing precisely that in the N.E.D.C. We then intend to discuss these matters in the little N.E.D.C.s with each of the industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Questions concerning the continuity of surpluses of this type must be addressed to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I hope that my hon. Friend will accept what I said earlier; that this document was produced by officials for discussion within the N.E.D.C. One cannot present to Parliament a document which is not in any way finalised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.3", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "at I said earlier; that this document was produced by officials for discussion within the N.E.D.C. One cannot present to Parliament a document which is not in any way finalised—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] I am explaining why—and which has not yet even been discussed adequately with our colleagues in the N.E.D.C. When we have completed that stage, the question of publication will arise. I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.5", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.6", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members are entitled to ask questions. I am entitled to give the answers. I have explained that we are not saying that there is no hope of the document being published. We should like to see that point arise, but we must have some- thing through which the N.E.D.C. can discuss these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1539.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "do not disagree with one word uttered by the right hon. Gentleman. Certainly, on the question of publication, I will discuss the matter with the Prime Minister. I must not be interpreted as saying that we are opposed to the document's publication. I have not said that. To answer the right hon. Gentleman's question about Press leaks, when he was in Ministerial office there were Press leaks as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": " question about Press leaks, when he was in Ministerial office there were Press leaks as well. [ Interruption .] What I have said in this respect is that this kind of paper must be given to the N.E.D.C. We have done that on a confidential basis. I cannot say from where the leaks came. When one is discussing a matter of this kind with a large body of people, certainly the Government cannot pretend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member and his hon. Friends have to make up their minds whether they want the Government to reduce public expenditure or to expand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1557.3", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "But does the Prime Minister recall that in his speech he said that he would do everything possible to obtain the release of Anthony Grey, and since then all we have had, as usual from his Administration, has been words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1558.3", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Would it not be timely if the Prime Minister were to pay a wholehearted tribute to Captain O'Neill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1558.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1562.3", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I am prepared to take any latitude I am given. But on this question, the future of the prices and incomes policy must rely to a certain extent on the element of growth the Government believe will take place in the economy. Will the Prime Minister now say whether the official statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1562.5", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, the right hon. Gentleman has not even read the Question under discussion. It is not about the prices and incomes policy. It is about Ministers answering questions related to the policy, which is quite a different matter. I repeat that if Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1562.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1564.3", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The problem is that the discussions are confidential until there is a statement and publication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1566.3", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I would be better able to give a specific and useful answer to the hon. Gentleman if he would tell me the kind of renegotiations which would be affected by this change in the degree of liberality with which we grant these per missions. There was never any kind of assurance that this facility would be kept at the same level continuously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1968-12-19", "file": "debates1968-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "9b1e4a0cc49d5340", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "eaches us on this side of the House, if I may say to my hon. Friend the Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mr. Allason) who is leading us at present, is that we have got to look at variegated occupancy and ownership in new towns. What it teaches hon. Members opposite is that the concept of handing the totality of the housing over to the council is blown sky high, if we accept the evidence of this Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1968-12-19a.1676.1"}