{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-20", "file": "debates1969-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7028d28c144a9f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.46.6", "colnum": "46", "heading": "DISTURBANCES, STRAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not an embassy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the protection of foreign embassies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.46.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-20", "file": "debates1969-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7028d28c144a9f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.56.4", "colnum": "56", "heading": "WHITEHALL REDEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "ning site. On this site it would be possible to provide between 250,000 and 350,000 sq. ft. gross of floor space, probably in six storeys above ground. The cost of such a building, including the construction of access below Bridge Street, might be about £5 million. These proposals are, therefore, considered the best way of meeting the accommodation needs of the House of Commons reasonably quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.56.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-20", "file": "debates1969-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7028d28c144a9f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.79.3", "colnum": "79", "heading": "WHITEHALL REDEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " comes a time for inquiry. There also comes a time for action. That is why all great planning throughout the world has always been authoritarian. It is not a matter for Committees. It is a matter for great architects and for emperors like Napoleon who thought they knew better than others; and mostly they did. I am not Minister of Public Building and Works. The mantle has fallen upon somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.79.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-20", "file": "debates1969-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7028d28c144a9f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "WHITEHALL REDEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "In money?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Chapman", "preceding_text": " of the House of Lords. While we are all busy putting up pet schemes, somebody has to get on with what we can achieve within a reasonable time. Therefore, I am prepared to have the present scheme for the building in Bridge Street, and I have sat on most of the Committees in recent years when we have hammered it out. I want today to examine the price that we shall now have to pay for this decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-20", "file": "debates1969-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "7028d28c144a9f7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "WHITEHALL REDEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "preceding_text": "s. Westminster Hall is different from the cloisters and they again are different from Pugin's designs, and the 1950 designs of this Chamber and the Members' Lobby are different again, although possibly they are within the same family. But there are many buildings, like Hampton Court, which marry styles, Tudor and Renaissance, and function perfectly well without causing aesthetic offence to anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-20a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "TATTOOING OF MINORS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Maddan", "preceding_text": "under the age of eighteen years. In another place, two years ago, in a debate initiated by the noble Lord, Lord Royle, Lord Ailwyn described an admiral under whom he had served who, on his back, had a full hunting scene, with riders and hounds pursuing, in a north to south direction, the fox, which was going to earth. It was, I think, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford to whom the noble Lord referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "en settled some time ago, since when, on the whole, I have received notices of business, with the exception of two weeks. I did not receive this week's notice and, as a courtesy to me, the Liberal Party Chief Whip was good enough to give me a copy of his party's Whip. Unfortunately, by a further coincidence, an error appeared therein, and the Second Reading of this Bill was put down for Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": " you, Mr. Speaker, that I know that in the House of Commons I am not regarded as a patty, in view of the definition of \"party\" given to me by the former Leader of the House, who said that a party consisted of two people, and I am only one. Although I am just one when I cross the Scottish border, I am like Cinderella, being magically transformed into a party with all the responsibilities of a party", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not know the point of order which the hon. Lady was going to raise until a moment or two ago. I have sympathy with the point of view she has expressed. I understand that the business for this week was announced before the House rose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.272.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That lets the Labour Party out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": " It is wrong that parents should be able to buy this social cachet which allows a child to get into other jobs. Looking at it in reverse, they are buying themselves out of unpleasant and less profitable forms of employment. I do not agree that that should be done. I do not find children who have attended fee-paying schools at the coal face, on the footplate, driving buses or on the workshop floor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "Without doubt, people do not want to pay for their prescriptions, but they have been made to do so. They do want to pay some of their education costs and thus help to relieve the burden on the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "A study of Parliamentary Questions and Answers about those who have registered, when they registered and when they paid the £1 would convince anyone with an open mind of the great reluctance of vast numbers of teachers to register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "nt. of the executive registered, it is strange that it should be advising its rank and file members not to register. But, again, it seems that the S.S.A. is taking strong exception to the composition of the General Teaching Council. The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mrs. Ewing) dealt with this matter. She gave us the kind of composition that she would like to see. It was evident from her speech today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No, the hon. Member must not tempt me: \"Get thee behind me.\" I have often given way in the past and I intend to continue to do so, but not tonight. This is a dangerous road which the party opposite are treading. In the end, even the inheritence of genes may be regarded as unfair. Marriage for creative purposes may be banned and we shall be in the test tube era of Huxley's \"Brave New World\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Esmond Wright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Esmond Wright", "preceding_text": "e are debating the wisdom, or otherwise, of removing from the Scottish comprehensive pattern, that has applied all over Scotland not only now but in many cases for centuries, those 27 schools that charge fees in Glasgow and Edinburgh, 27 out of 3,000. If fee-paying schools go from Glasgow and Edinburgh it is the very logic of the arguments put forward tonight that grant-aided schools will also go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "ering loss of that proper dignity which must attach to his office. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) has asked us to decline to give a Second Reading to a Bill which prevents parents from making any contribution to the cost of local authority schools through the payment of fees. There is far more wealth on that side of the House, looking at us here in the midst of poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.361.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.376.9", "colnum": "376", "heading": "EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Millan rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.376.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "MINES AND QUARRIES (TIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Bill was defining the need for retrospection where no retrospection existed previously. At that point the hon. Gentleman became somewhat annoyed with me and said: I should not have my words played around with. I did not say that retrospection was implicit in the situation.—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee B , 26th November, 1968; c. 121–5.] That is what the Parliamentary Secretary said,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-21", "file": "debates1969-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e7e6c009e09cc8fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "MINES AND QUARRIES (TIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": " are set on having some form of retrospection, six years would cover all the points the Minister argued. As a matter of grace it would be good sense for the Government to accept our Amendment. That would do the Government no harm—indeed, it would do them some good by showing that the arguments used by the Parliamentary Secretary in Committee, when he said that we were all opposed to retrospection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-21a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "I do not think they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.464.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "I do not agree that it is absolutely clear that we need more agricultural workers. However, if we look at the record of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite, in the four years to June, 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.484.5", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "Most of the reduction is in the number of smallholdings and nonviable holdings, which do not cause any work at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.484.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e able to weigh the considerations which have resulted in the advisory committee reaching its conclusion. In other words, I will have a second opinion to help me in this matter. If, one day, my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead (Mr. Whitaker) becomes Home Secretary, which is not at all impossible, I am sure that he will find, as I have, that much careful consideration is given to these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "delighted to speak following her. Not only is it grossly impracticable to have a right of appeal with limited immigration into this country, but I believe that it is fundamentally wrong. I will state my position in unmistakable terms, and I am in conflict with my party on this issue. I do not believe in restricted immigration into Britain, I believe in no further coloured immigration into Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.540.5", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "rom which immigrants are likely to try to come from their lands of origin to Britain the provisions in regard to entry to this country. Then, if a would-be immigrant wished to proceed on a journey to this country and to make application for a work permit he would apply in advance from his point of origin. A Pakistani from Lahore or Karachi would apply at the British consulate in Lahore or Karachi,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.540.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Presumably those immigrants wishing to come to this country wish to work. They have to work to live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "impracticalities of this measure. My hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devon-port (Dame Joan Vickers) talked about work vouchers. She said that there ought to be appeals in the matter of work vouchers. This is quite ridiculous. I am glad that the Under-Secretary nods in assent. I do not wish to castigate my hon. Friend because she is an old friend of mine outside this House as well as inside it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nces—I really mean harrowing circumstances—of near deportation to get them back to their point of origin, with the likelihood of mistakes such as were related by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East. Her speech was much to my liking, save for only one passage. My hon. Friend the Member for Devonport is quite wrong, and the hon. Lady the Member for Wolverhampton, North-East is quite right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "I have heard it said by what I regard as fairly reliable sources who are concerned with this work. I have heard that other hon. Members have received similar and even more dramatic figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "I have heard it said by what I regard as fairly reliable sources who are concerned with this work. I have heard that other hon. Members have received similar and even more dramatic figures.[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] If this is not true, I hope that it will be contradicted. I am not prepared to reveal where this information came from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.563.0", "colnum": "563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "To take the precise point of Pakistanis Airlines, they are very good and helpful in this respect. I am answering the question of publicity in the countries concerned. My right hon. Friend cannot, however, tell independent Governments what to do. When people go to our posts abroad and discuss entry to this country, they are informed about the benefits of an entry certificate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.564.2", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of administration, and of what we ask any entrant into the United Kingdom to do, and that is, to produce one of two things, either a return ticket to his point of origin, in which case he is a visitor or tourist—aid he has got to go back if he is a visitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.564.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-22", "file": "debates1969-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "0a19c759fef944fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION APPEALS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says that he was given an assurance that the gold would not be sold without Parliamentary approval. He must be mistaken. I know of no such assurance and I would gladly investigate the complaint—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-22a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "This is something which we are always doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Friend aware that the concession for which he is now attacked is far more than the Conservatives did when they were in power, but that it has led to some misunderstanding amongst elderly people? Now that he has had some experience of the two-tier system, is it not possible to include T.V. licences for people in these categories and, if necessary, recoup the money by allowing Radio One advertising?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "CANNABIS (ADVISORY COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "As a member of a party which has not yet had its opportunity of ventilating its views on \"The World at One\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.664.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.666.10", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion on the Salmon and Migratory Trout Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.666.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that one day would be adequate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I accept that this is a very important matter. If there is an overwhelming demand for two days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION (DIRECT WORKS DEPARTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I was going to say that I hoped that it did not happen in Manchester. But it is a risk and we all know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-23", "file": "debates1969-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "e6b01ed6130ec0d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MANCHESTER CORPORATION (DIRECT WORKS DEPARTMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I was going to say that I hoped that it did not happen in Manchester. But it is a risk and we all know it. [ Interruption .] I am interested not only in the comparison of tenders undercutting private enterprise but in the ultimate cost of the job, which comes to a very different figure time and again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-23a.784.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL PROPERTY BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Two lawyers.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ake further progress with his Bill? There are a few other things I should like to say against the Bill. First, I have heard nothing about how it would begin to operate if it became law. I know that there is a long tradition of the lawyer at the funeral, but it seems to me that, if the Bill became law, there would need to be a lawyer at the wedding to see that the property was carefully divided up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.881.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.895.5", "colnum": "895", "heading": "NURSERY SCHOOLS (PARENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.895.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.895.9", "colnum": "895", "heading": "WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION AND BENEFIT (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.895.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.895.13", "colnum": "895", "heading": "DISABLEMENT COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.895.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "LIVE HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.896.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.896.6", "colnum": "896", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME ACT (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.896.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-24", "file": "debates1969-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "acfed712e99c4dde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.896.10", "colnum": "896", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [ 13th December ].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-24a.896.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-27", "file": "debates1969-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6edaa9ee0c5d08ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.940.4", "colnum": "940", "heading": "SCIENTOLOGY (INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As one who was extensively lobbied by these people about the Government's earlier decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-27", "file": "debates1969-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6edaa9ee0c5d08ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.1023.5", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "in one envelope and so reduce their postage bill. The hon. Member asked me what was the decrease in the traffic over the Christmas period. Between 13th December and 2nd January the decrease was 11 per cent., partly caused by the fact that more and more posters were putting two or even three Christmas cards in one envelope, where previously they were posted separately. That has been our experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.1023.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-27", "file": "debates1969-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6edaa9ee0c5d08ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "s. In 1963 the failure rate for calls which just did not get through was 8·2 per cent. Last year the failure rate was 8·1 per cent. There has been no improvement at all in the reliability of the telephone services in five years. Take again the telephone waiting list. When the Conservatives went out of office the waiting list was just over 40,000. Today it is in the region of 100,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-27", "file": "debates1969-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "6edaa9ee0c5d08ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.1063.2", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "ting, as the Opposition suggests, they have been improving, which was the object of two-tier. During the months since two-tier came into operation, Post Office representatives have been visiting a large number of business firms, because we believe in very close co-operation with our major customers. We have received increasing congratulations from business firms about the service we are providing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-27a.1063.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. For the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for hon. Members personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister's pledge not to intervene in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland still hold good, or does it now depend upon whether the democratically elected Parliament of Northern Ireland selects Captain O'Neill or someone else to be Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1103.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1108.6", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You cannot take it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "There is always the Chiltern Hundreds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1109.6", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I share the opinion expressed by the hon. Gentleman that hon. Members should not use the guise of a point of order to make attacks upon other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1109.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that in the case of a White Paper such as this it is the desire of hon. Members that the Minister should amplify it before the House? As it is too late for the Secretary of State to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": " Levy Board, which I have no reason to suppose will be unacceptable to the House Secretary, are to double the levy on turnover for the next year. This doubling of taxes is getting an extraordinarily bad habit of the Government. The Chancellor comes in and doubles the general betting duty. I suppose that the Chairman of the Levy Board, to be a bit \"me too-ish\", comes along and says that he intends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": " Secretary, are to double the levy on turnover for the next year. This doubling of taxes is getting an extraordinarily bad habit of the Government. The Chancellor comes in and doubles the general betting duty. I suppose that the Chairman of the Levy Board, to be a bit \"me too-ish\", comes along and says that he intends—[ Interruption .]—to double the betting levy. This means a 65per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": " read the Report of the Benson Committee. I am very ready to be convinced that it is necessary to increase the levy by 65 per cent., but I should like to know whether it is necessary at this moment of time for the good of racing. I propose to be absolutely fair in the use of my statistics. One might think that the number of racehorse owners was declining, and also the number of colours registered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "free Subsidies to the Poor Millionaire Race-house Owners Bill. I want to show that that is what it is. I do not understand the reason for all the crocodile tears which are being shed for the poor people who go racing. They do not have to go. The poor bookmakers do not have to go into their profession if they do not want to. In fact, it is the poor punters who pay. I want also to explain presently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I was going on to explain—as my hon. Friend did—that no one has to go in for this, whether he be a bookmaker or a National Hunt supporter or any other type of person. He goes in for it, I assume, because he loves the sport. All right, if he loves the sport let him pay for it. Many of my constituents love to go to football matches. They follow West Ham—one of the best teams—and they pay for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "isagree with the hon. Member. It is not the big bookmakers who are complaining. It is the small bookmakers, and it is the small bookmakers in my constituency who are incensed about this. These are the people about whom I am concerned. The bookmaker must pay a fixed levy on turnover and he must also pay 6 per cent. of his profits. Yet he is not allowed to deduct the levy from his profit before tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": " chance of getting better odds prior to a race. I speak with no axe to grind, because if ever I place a bet on a horse and accept the price of, say, 5 to 1, it is odds on that as soon as I have put my money on the horse it goes out in the betting. It is as though there were some secret system of saying, \"Montgomery has put his money on. This horse has not got a chance\" before the race even starts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1248.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Arthur Lewis?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "purpose of the exercise. Some hon. Members do not know much about the facts of life for the ordinary punter and the ordinary constituent whom they represent. What I am concerned with, however, is that it is the small bookmaker who should be kept in business. It is the small bookmaker with whom my constituents bet. They do not bet with the big boys, with Ladbrokes. They bet with Lewis, of Woolwich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1255.4", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To have more race meetings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "to increase prize money. Whatever some may say about wealthy racehorse owners, prize money at race meetings in this country compared with abroad has for some years been declining. One has only to look at the number of runners in some important races to know that it is not worth while sending horses. The purpose of the Levy Board's operation is to reverse that trend and to make it more worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-28", "file": "debates1969-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "27dd42f2d7b6e83e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "HORSERACE BETTING LEVY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did ask.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ARD you will find that the hon. Member for the City of Chester raised his point of order, then my hon. Friend said that he was sorry that he had omitted to ask for permission and he went on to explain why the Home Secretary was not present. At no time did he ask for the permission of the House. Therefore, it was not put to the House to give hon. Members a chance to object. I was waiting to object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-28a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1304.5", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The demise of the aircraft industry has often been predicted. All I would say about the first part of the hon. Member's Question is that four years after the cancellations to which he has referred, exports per head in the industry were twice as high as in 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1305.2", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the export figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister understand that there is nothing in the Government's past record concerning the aviation industry which gives us any confidence that they will get the decision right? Is the right hon. Gentleman prepared, at the end of a long period of muddle, which is primarily his own responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1305.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "PORTS (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": " course, depend on how long it takes to get the Bill through the House; I am sure that, when hon. Members have had time to digest it, they will want to co-operate on it. It will certainly be our intention to take the earliest steps throughout the whole period of the discussions to ensure that all the preparations are made for vesting day to come into operation at the earliest possible opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "PORTS (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "It will be very early, probably earlier than hon. Gentlemen opposite realise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1330.2", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "PORTS (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "One must always have the public purse in mind. This is a fair basis of compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1334.0", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "PORTS (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "t think that responsibility for an industry can be divorced from the ownership of that industry. The hon. Gentleman also raised the question of consumers and workers in the industry. The question of worker-representation is a specific remit for the Board's report. It is important that the voice of the consumer should be heard and it would be my intention to set up an advisory council of consumers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1341.5", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": " that there are strong feelings about this. Like my right hon. Friend, I still come down against loans for first degree courses, but we on this side of the House have made it clear that we must keep our hands free on the possibility of a loan element in the number of postgraduate courses. It is unrealistic to suppose that we can discuss finance in the 1970s while closing our minds on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-29", "file": "debates1969-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "550c84236a8f6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lane", "preceding_text": "Universities are now facing the greatest crisis ever to beset them in peacetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-29a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tell us again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has asked that question before. I answered it on a previous occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1520.4", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was replying to certain rumours in the City the previous Friday that we were to resign, which involved a very serious loss of confidence in sterling. It was only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1520.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "speeches of Mr. Catherwood. I have a great respect for them, but I think that it is very important, equally, that I should respect his independence as a servant of N.E.D.C. and not as an officer of the Government. He is, therefore, free to make these pronouncements. He is, nevertheless, absolutely right to say that individual mergers can either be very good or very bad or can have neutral effects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1527.4", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "IRAQ (PUBLIC EXECUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Horror.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "th some of the countries with which we are more closely associated—such as India, Pakistan and Canada? At the same time, would it not be advisable if, in addition to the representations made by Her Majesty's Government, we had a contribution from the House—perhaps from the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Liberal Party—to show that there is a unanimous feeling in the House of regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "I heard the latter part of my right hon. Friend's statement with some astonishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1534.2", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomney", "preceding_text": "Will the Postmaster-General now state categorically and with as much honesty as he is capable of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1534.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1538.4", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I will, of course, consider whether a further statement can be made about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1538.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1540.1", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. With due respect, it is not the continual practice of the Chair to do this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1540.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1546.3", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. How does what is to happen at a party meeting this afternoon concern next week's business? In any case, anybody who has studied this subject knows that there are plenty of precedents, while hon. Members opposite were in office, of Ministers discussing in advance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1546.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1546.4", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In the second part of what he has said, the right hon. Gentleman expressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUNDANCY REBATES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "lfare of workers were being discussed—it was certainly one thing that impressed me, and I mean this genuinely—Labour Members were notable for their presence whether their party was in power or in opposition. I am sorry to say that when we discuss these matters now, Labour Members are notable for their absence, even to support a Labour Government. The first thing that we should note about the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " end? I read the following words, which are innocent on their face value, with a Postmaster-General who can be trusted to comply with the constitutional proprieties, but ominous read in the context of the situation in which we now find ourselves. They are from Section 8(4): Where for any reason any postal packet can neither be delivered nor be returned to the sender, that packet may be destroyed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I join with the right hon. and learned Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith) in thanking you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing us to debate this matter this evening. It is right that the House should debate it now. This is a serious affair and not a students' union matter. I trust that from now on we shall treat it in a serious way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1620.3", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " That is why the rest of the postal workers are coming out in support. I warn my right hon. Friend, as I did on Monday, that this is a serious dispute which will not be improved until further discussions take place. Nevertheless, I wish to inform hon. Gentlemen opposite that, whatever the rights or wrongs of the Motion, I shall be opposing the right hon. and learned Member for Hertfordshire, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1625.2", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bessell", "preceding_text": "take the step already announced is a very serious matter. It is relevant to quote these figures, given to me at the end of December. They came from postmasters in my constituency. First, the postmaster at Bodmin told me that first-class mail passing through the sorting office there was approximately 20 per cent. of the letter mail, and that the second-class mail made up the remaining 80 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1633.1", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Post early for Christmas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "ate stamp on them—they will be held back day after day so that the 5d. letters can get ahead of them. The Postmaster-General this afternoon talked as if there would be no collection on Sunday because, he said, Sunday collection was based on overtime rates. If that is so, the 4d. letters posted today will not, presumably, get away tomorrow. They might be date-stamped on Saturday if they were lucky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1647.1", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "ould see that this was inevitable. When there is chaos like this in sight, delay in the post is absolutely predictable, in which case instead of saying \"You benefit we benefit, you lucky people\" and all the propaganda we got then, the right hon. Gentleman should have been warning us that this was about to happen. If the Postmaster-General had warned the people, and I say this absolutely seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "If a Front Bench spokesman on this side were to come down in open debate at this delicate moment on one side or the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-30", "file": "debates1969-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4cf1fdcef66391f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "POST OFFICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "No specific legal authority is required, therefore, for any suspension of a business which I am running entirely within my own discretion and not as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-30a.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-31", "file": "debates1969-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fdefd8ac07c13993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1734.1", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF PUBLICATION (PROTECTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "iews of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Stoke Newington and Hackney, North. The jury seem to me to be admirably constituted to decide questions of malice. I am comforted in finding that this view is supported by no less an authority than Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls, and by the present Lord Chancellor with his vast experience in libel cases. It is also the view of Lord Dilhorne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-31", "file": "debates1969-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fdefd8ac07c13993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "RENAL TRANSPLANTATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "try of objectors so that if I, Gerald Nabarro, wanted to record that my kidneys should not be removed in the event of my premature death, precipitating a by-election in South Worcestershire, I would ensure that the central registry had my name and address and my request, which would probably say, \"I hereby record that I do not wish any of my organs to be taken after death for transplant purposes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-01-31", "file": "debates1969-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fdefd8ac07c13993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "RENAL TRANSPLANTATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "very hospital would be prevented from taking my kidneys for the purpose, after my death, of saving the life of a sick man, woman, or child. I wish to make it clear, however, that I take exactly the contrary view because once I have expired, and once two doctors have certified that fact, anybody may take any part of my body that is considered desirable, including my larynx, for transplant purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1791.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-31", "file": "debates1969-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fdefd8ac07c13993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1801.11", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "RENT ACT 1968 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1801.10"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-01-31", "file": "debates1969-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "fdefd8ac07c13993", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1802.2", "colnum": "1802", "heading": "BRITISH STANDARD TIME ACT (REPEAL) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-01-31a.1802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "ROAD LICENCE FEES (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "xchequer aware that his statement has added not a jot nor a tittle to our knowledge? Is he further aware that it is traditional, of course, for a Chancellor of the Exchequer to defend the secrecy of his Budget? Is he so unobservant as to fail to note that the rumours he referred to in such scathing terms have been widely expressed as statements in every kind of newspaper for the last three months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.37.8", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ROAD LICENCE FEES (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "In his statement the Chancellor used the words \"forms\" and \"tables\" and said that they had not been printed and were not likely to be printed until four weeks before the Budget at the earliest. Will he clear up one rumour which is also circulating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.37.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "ROAD LICENCE FEES (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend explain why it is necessary to have an inquiry, unless the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) produces evidence which would be the basis for an inquiry? My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Wilkins) asked that the papers be laid on the Table. I suggest that we lay the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South on the Table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.44.4", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "s be a more appropriate phrase. Unlike some of the bitterly contested Measures of the past, its origin lay in the discussions of the all-party conference which began about 15 months ago, following the reference to House of Lords reform in the Gracious Speech of 1967. That is not to say that it enjoys the full assent or agreement of all hon. Members. It has its opponents on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.44.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e of 72 before the dissolution of the previous Parliament will be able to make a voting declaration, but in order to give flexibility in the early stages of the reform this provision will not be introduced immediately but will be effected by Order in Council at a later stage. Ministers and the holders of high judicial office will be exempted from the retirement rule and the attendance requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.55.5", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y hon. Member on either side feels that they could be better realised by modifications of the Bill, then I submit that the hon. Member's duty is to vote for the Bill but to seek to strengthen it, or otherwise to amend it, in Committee. What the House is being asked to decide, however, is not merely the Bill, it is part of a much wider process. This is a modernising Parliament in a modernising age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.55.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.55.5", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "orm of English local government for over 70 years. While, like every other hon. Member, I am waiting to see what that Commission recommends—and the Wheatley Commission's Report which will follow not very long after—in common with every other hon. Member, too, I am looking to those Reports to point the way by which all of us can move rapidly and with sureness of step to a degree of regionalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.55.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " on the White Paper with great delight and have read it again since. It was a masterpiece of delicacy. He had to be sufficiently forthright to show that there was a case for the Bill, but not too eager in case he aroused the suspicions of hon. Members on this side of the House. The right hon. Gentleman steered his speech very carefully indeed. He said that these powers would hardly be used at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Birch", "preceding_text": "als, retired diplomats, civil servants, ex-Governors of the Bank of England, holders of offices of profit under the Crown, who would not be allowed to sit in this House anyway. There are people like the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, or the head of the Women's Voluntary Service. But these people sit on the cross-benches because they are mostly fairly old, mostly not experienced in politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. Blackburn", "preceding_text": "or, Lord, or plain Mr. It is not the title but the man that matters. I cannot get excited and say that I must oppose a Bill of this kind because it will perpetuate life peers. The last argument which has been brought to my attention concerns pay. There is a great deal of argument about the Lords being paid. Today, however, the Prime Minister has taken that argument away, because we are going back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.98.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-03", "file": "debates1969-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "fb911a1b4b9aa3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "sider with the House as a whole whether there should be some alterations in the nature of the scheme that has been put forward for the new composition. As I understood the right hon. Member for Enfield, West, he was concerned that a Parliament, which is just part-way through its life, not nearly dead—we have been here less than three years yet, let me remind the House—and it is not a day too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-03a.161.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-04", "file": "debates1969-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa0e8330afdc127c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.182.6", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "When I have quietness, I shall proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-04", "file": "debates1969-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa0e8330afdc127c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "preceding_text": "While thanking the hon. Gentleman for some rather vague hope, I am bound to say that the complications in the reply did not give me a great deal of confidence. There are at least three Departments concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.194.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-04", "file": "debates1969-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa0e8330afdc127c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "In view of the correspondence that the Prime Minister has had with the hon. Member for West Ham, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.210.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-04", "file": "debates1969-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa0e8330afdc127c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "ROAD LICENCE FEE ALLEGATIONS (COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "While giving a general, but, in view of the Prime Minister's statement, qualified welcome to this decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-04", "file": "debates1969-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "aa0e8330afdc127c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "ROAD LICENCE FEE ALLEGATIONS (COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "While giving a general, but, in view of the Prime Minister's statement, qualified welcome to this decision— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"]—may I ask the right hon. Gentleman to appreciate that as I am a principal witness in the controversy I shall require that the proceedings be held in public if I am to be able to submit evidence fairly and properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-04a.226.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.380.5", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "\"And to each according to his need.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I think we have argued this at very considerable length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I think we have argued this at very considerable length. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] The answer is, \"Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.383.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The trend has not been quite different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.410.2", "colnum": "410", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cronin", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. and learned Friend leaves Clause 4, may I ask him this? He has made an interesting point, that the maximum jurisdiction of the High Court in 1938 was £200 and, therefore, in terms of increased cost of living, and so on, the equivalent now would be £742, but the minimum jurisdiction in 1938 was £50 and on the same calculation the minimum jurisdiction should now be £185.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is so. We are translating to equivalents of the 1938 position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I should like to look at that, but I should think that the merits of such an application would be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "preceding_text": "re in the county court. This is a fertile field for injustice, and I am sure that, for the expenditure of £40 or £50 per circuit, a machine could be provided for the county court judge so that the full judgment could be available, if necessary. I turn now to another aspect of the matter which gives us concern. It has already been touched on by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ascot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-05", "file": "debates1969-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "b0e58f1ff099ff26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I did not say the Old Bailey.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-05a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INVESTMENT GRANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman read and studied the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Cromer, last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "As a Member of this honourable House, and speaking at the moment without any party affiliation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.589.4", "colnum": "589", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Taylor", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Sir, I am asking the Government to think again. Surely the appointment of a Select Committee is to take a sledgehammer to crack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.589.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I hope not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that there may be many hon. Members who will wish to speak in the debate on Monday on the Motion to appoint a Select Committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.590.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "edge, has been published in this week's issue of the Farmer and Stockbreeder , and is now the subject of considerable debate outside the House, and, moreover, as the vice-president of the National Farmers' Union, Mr. Henry Plumb, a member of the Committee, has on several occasions made statements which obviously show that he entered into the work of the Committee with a prejudiced and biased view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.594.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ous case of the Sweetings. They are a young couple aged 26; he is a builder's labourer, earning £13 a week. His uncle gave him a barn to convert into a house and he did so by his own efforts at weekends, and the evenings, with the help of his brother-in-law. When the barn was converted, he moved into it and, at that stage, the Land Commission came along and asked him for a betterment levy of £960.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " Under the Act, any such couple with a piece of land which they are to develop for owner-occupation by themselves do not pay the Betterment Levy. This couple were, therefore, in the position that, when they developed the plot of land for their retirement, they would not have to pay levy. Unfortunately, the husband died and because the widow inherited the land she is subject to the Betterment Levy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "There can be no better perspective than a straightforward comparison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the hon. Gentleman waits for what I am about to say. It may be that the improved building standards insisted on by the National House-Building Registration Council have contributed something towards this increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.614.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "The Capital Gains Tax was introduced by the Labour Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "pay tribute to the chairman of the Land Commission and to its distinguished members. I pay tribute to them for what they have done in what everyone who had anything to do with the legislation realised would be a difficult initial period. I say in passing to the hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. Hunt) that it is no good constantly saying that the levy is increasing the price of building land. It is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.640.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Speculative builders are not the friends of my party. The land is being sold to speculative builders, and. therefore, is being sold to friends of hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or of the council.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " measures being taken by the Government as deterring the spread of home ownership\". From speeches which I have heard in the House, and outside, I know how keen the party opposite is to spread home ownership throughout the country. Hon Gentlemen opposite believe, as I do, and as the vast majority of my hon. Friends do, that it is better to own one's home than to be the tenant of a private landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "preceding_text": " urban areas. Reference has been made to the activities of the building societies. I read with great interest the statistics they send to us. It is a little disappointing on this occasion to find that there has been a fall in their assets. Nevertheless, last year the societies recorded an increase in the number of loans they made and the number of houses bought. That is a very praiseworthy record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "r there has been a scheme for the sale of those houses, the clever psychologists and sociologists who predicted that no one would buy them have been confounded by the popularity of those schemes. I admit that when these four items are implemented they will benefit concerns in which I must declare an interest; a housing society, a building society, a property trust company and a firm of solicitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "If we take a graph over those years, we find there was a pretty steady rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "If we take a graph over those years, we find there was a pretty steady rise—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—it may have some curves in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Four years or five years. I have taken the precaution during the debate to get the figures, and I tell the House that that is not true. I have the figures with me. The difference is a rise of £793 per council house during that period of Socialist Government compared with £621 during the previous period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. James MacColI)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. James MacColI)", "preceding_text": "The one thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.705.4", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "r Government is complacency. That is true. We have a very difficult job to do under very difficult conditions, and the last thing in the world that we should do is to accept any standard that we achieve as being beyond criticism. The superb timing which has been mentioned more than once during the debate—the moving of a Motion of censure just when the Government have broken all records in housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.705.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "They do not warrant the wrong changes in the legislation. The important thing is to find out what is the best way of dealing with a particular problem as it arises. It will be quite impossible at this stage to start making changes in the legislation which may open the gate to widespread exploitation and evasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-06", "file": "debates1969-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "8145b80c2f8f32ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "e to get it down in the only possible way, which is re-establishing a proper foundation. The right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) produced a nine-point summary for housing at the Tory Party conference. This dealt with the essentials of Conservative policy. I was interested to see that Mr. Robert McCrindle, who is the prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate for Billericay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-06a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-07", "file": "debates1969-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce23e1893672b82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-07a.797.5", "colnum": "797", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Where is Worcestershire, South?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "This is the place to work to get us out. If hon. Members opposite feel so strongly about it, why are their benches not filled with 300 Members? The hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that that is not on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-07a.797.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-07", "file": "debates1969-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce23e1893672b82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-07a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Special Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The fourth debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Special Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "e to reflect on what fate it will have today and to give my views. I do not think this is a particularly party matter. In my view the aims of the Bill are incontestable, and I think the motives of the sponsors are incontestable, but it is my considered view that the Bill would do more harm than good in the area in which it seeks to operate. I think I am right in saying that this is the fifth time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-07a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-07", "file": "debates1969-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce23e1893672b82c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-07a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "NATIONAL INSURANCE (FURTHER PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Special Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Special Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "d to be worried and to think that there was a powerful case for the Bill, but as the debate has gone on there has been an understanding that whatever the motives there are quite formidable obstacles and difficulties which would arise if the Bill became law. I have noticed a decrease in the fervour and certainty of those who support the Measure and a greater understanding of the reasons against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-07a.822.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member can make his contribution later. He has said a lot outside this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member can make his contribution later. He has said a lot outside this House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"] Some of the hon. Member's comments gave the impression that he is not so much interested in discovering the truth on this matter as in staging a great entertainment or pantomime, with himself as the star performer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "on. Members opposite, and possibly some right hon. Members—I certainly know of one—who think, as I do, that we should make a mistake if we appointed this Select Committee. I firmly believe that the appointment of a Select Committee in a case of this nature—and I stress that—with the essentially political background which will quickly come into the foreground, as it has already done this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Lionel Heald", "preceding_text": "all the available documents which are admissible will be produced and that prejudicial or unfair documents will not be produced. There is no rule of that kind. Worse still, the person whose conduct is being inquired into—and we have no doubt who that is here—has no privileges of any kind. He does not even have the privilege that a man accused of murder or an old lag committing another offence has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.893.5", "colnum": "893", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "ere. He reminded us on one occasion of the scenes which took place when the Marconi Report was debated in the House—a most squalid occasion—he said—with howling across the House from both sides. I remind the House that we already have heard some noises of that kind today, even before the Committee has been appointed. What is to be the position after it has reported? I have very little more to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.893.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "nto it. But, clearly, the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South is not going to withdraw. He has missed two opportunities to withdraw. He could have risen immediately after my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House had spoken and have withdrawn. Therefore, we must proceed to consider the Motion. It seems to me, unlike the right hon. and learned Gentleman, that some kind of inquiry is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member appears to forget from time to time what he said previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "id previously. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] On Tuesday, he said that he gave \"a general but … qualified welcome\" to this specific decision. So we have the hon. Member on our side. He has given general, although qualified, support to the idea of setting up a Select Committee. So, when he speaks in the debate, I hope that he will stand by those words and show that he wants this Motion to be carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I have listened to earlier speakers with a good deal of quietness, with an occasional intervention to correct them when they strayed from the paths of righteousness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Kidderminster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I have listened to earlier speakers with a good deal of quietness, with an occasional intervention to correct them when they strayed from the paths of righteousness—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and I hope that I shall be listened to in reasonable quietness, too. I will return to deal with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Smethwick—Leyton (Mr. Gordon Walker)—later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "lly, arraigned before his fellow Members for an alleged misdemeanour of one kind or another. Those in ivory towers are the occupants of the Treasury Bench, evidently; the colleagues of the arraigned Member spring to his defence largely on party lines—for there is no personal dishonour involved in the charge today; no personal dishonour, only a controversy about the Chancellor's forthcoming Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.899.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.901.4", "colnum": "901", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman or any of his supporters get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.901.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.901.8", "colnum": "901", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "is exactly out of the mouth of the right hon. Gentleman. He is now nodding assent. I am seeking to say that the Leader of the House strongly confirms the Prime Minister's view that the Committee will proceed with the utmost impartiality. I do not believe it. I do not believe that any one of my political opponents sitting on that Committee will be capable of proceeding with the ulmost impartiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.901.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "he notions of the Leader of the House were by chance correct—that the Committee could proceed with impartiality—why not have a majority of Tory Members on it? None would I prefer to see seated there more than my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg). How delighted and gratified I should be to see my right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain MacLeod.)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend says, \"So what?\" But, at least, it demonstrates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"You hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "agree with the hon. Member for Brixton (Mr. Lipton), a very good remark. My right hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, West is deeply appreciative of my work for his party. He is volunteering to sit on a Select Committee. If he had a majority of Tory Members, Privy Councillors of long experience, as ought to be the case, the matter would not be judged in a strictly partisan or party political sense", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "the utmost confidence in my right hon. Friend. I have said enough about the manifest lack of impartiality of the Committee which is being set up, and I pass now to the second objection. None more so than the right hon. Member for Vauxhall should appreciate this point. The right hon. Gentleman has long and incomparable experience of matters related to privilege. He fought for two years in 1957 and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.905.6", "colnum": "905", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, thirdly, the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity. If I broke Parliamentary privilege and divulged the letters with the names, an action in the civil courts could follow at once for defamation of character and for libel. But, I am utterly privileged in receiving these letters. The men and women who wrote to me are utterly privileged in writing to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.905.6", "colnum": "905", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Nabarro show daily.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ents brought to me. I come now to my third and last objection, as I see it, to the proposed Select Committee. I aver that the Committee should conduct its affairs in public. You have not selected my second Amendment, Mr. Speaker, and I will not allude to its terms, but I merely state that it is my conviction that it is in the public interest that the Committee should conduct its affairs in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "exchanges on the television programme, the entire transcript or text as sworn by a Commissioner of Oaths; otherwise, it will not be admissible evidence for the right hon. Member for Vauxhall. If he does not require that in the Select Committee, I shall, of course, make the charge that he is proceeding unfairly and with partiality, so much of what has been said having been attributed to television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.907.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "e to the House, rested his hands on that Box, which contains all the documents on which we swear our oaths, and gave an assurance. The overwhelming body of Members of the House accepted that assurance. Let any Member opposite who did not accept that assurance stand up now. Every Member accepted it, because when the Chancellor comes into this House and says, \"This is so\", he expects to be believed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.910.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.912.4", "colnum": "912", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in my own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.912.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did not he withdraw?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "about everything at the moment. If they think that something is politically worth 50 million votes they want to pursue it. My hon. Friend has irritated most of us over the years. Nevertheless, I have great admiration for the diligence with which he has gone about his work. When the Chancellor made his statement, that should have been it—never mind what might be the outcome of the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "is substantial. First is the question of information being given by Treasury officials, and the second is the question of the document seen by my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro). On the first point, this has not been his assertion. In any case, it is incredible that Treasury officials should give away information. I do not believe that my hon. Friend asserts that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "s determined to exploit this issue for every ounce it is worth. He said he would continue to appear on television on every possible occasion—I will leave it to the Select Committee to decide whether or not that is proper—continue appearing in John Gordon's column in the Sunday Express and in cartoons in the Daily Express . The Express newspapers are not helping to uphold the dignity of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY (ALLEGATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "ple who can make fools of themselves out of all this. First, there are the Government. I do not see why I should waste time or sympathy on them. If, instead of coming to the House the other day, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had treated the matter with almost the contempt which unsupported rumour deserved and had sent a junior Treasury official in his place, the whole thing could have been dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ly recognises, having held office for some time and having obviously studied all the reports he has received from differing political viewpoints on this topic, that rent control has been a major cause of housing decay. This is a significant factor. There is a genuine Socialist solution to this problem. It is to take away the private landlord completely and have only publicly-owned rented property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Hilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. S. Hilton", "preceding_text": "ary note so far sounded about the expenditure of this money, and if a Member of Parliament has a duty to the House, it is to bring to its attention matters about which he feels strongly. It must be acknowledged that this Bill provides for up to £2,000 per house from private and public investment, and during this particular economic period, and that between 60 and 80 per cent. of it will be wasted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "r families £14 a week after stoppages, who will have their rents trebled and quadrupled. There is an unholy alliance here tonight between the two Front Benches. They say in remarkable chorus, \"Rents must go up.\" Naturally the landlords and the property owners support them. There are too many alleged housing experts whose solution to the housing problem can be summed up in two words—\"higher rents\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.1078.3", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman wants to take us back to an age that we are glad to forget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-10", "file": "debates1969-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "ced51878c97cc06a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " these further steps. But what about allowing the tenant to buy the house? This is an attractive proposal. The hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) said it is a proposal he did not want to turn down out of hand. Nor does any one of us. Let us look at what the difficulties are, because in this there are some very real human problems. A man does not lose his human rights because he is a landlord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-10a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1114.6", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Despite the levity of the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro), this is a very serious matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1114.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1116.6", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GAS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nference. I should be glad to respond to any proposals made to me by the President of Zambia, particularly if he produces evidence of the kind that we require, and take it up with the Portuguese. My hon. Friend will know that it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government not to supply arms to Portugal for use outside her N.A.T.O. responsibilities in Europe. No arms go to Portugal for use in Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1116.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1182.6", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ng within the scope of the Estimates Committee or the traditional field of the Committee of Public Accounts. In particular, the Committee listed 11 bodies which it considered suitable for its investigation. Of these, three were accepted by the Committee as not being of pressing concern—the National Seed Development Organisation, Letch-worth Garden City and the General Practice Finance Corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1182.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "as most unlikely that the Select Committee would wish to give high priority to an inquiry into it. I now understand that this may not be so. I at once give this assurance, therefore: if the Select Committee, when it has examined the possibilities, wishes to inquire into the Horserace Totalisator Board, I would at once propose an addition to its order of reference to enable it to do so immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " to accept that description of the Governor. I believe—and I hope that the Chief Secretary will agree with me on this—that his value to the Government will be very much diminished if he is so regarded. His independence includes the right to make speeches. Some hon. Gentlemen opposite may not like them, but one aspect of his value is that he is not a civil servant. He has some independent standing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a good question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "preceding_text": "nk of England was such a powerful body that it should have itself subjected to public ownership. In those days we used to use a rather old-fashioned word—nationalisation—but it meant the same thing. The principle presumably was that the public had a right to own and control this great manipulative instrument of financial control. If it did not mean that, why did we bother to nationalise it at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Post Office?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "preted those words in a very restrictive way and what the Government are anxious and willing that the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries should do. First, certain things have been added and they are new. The Post Office, the Independent Television Authority, Cable and Wireless and the Bank of England, with certain limitations—all that is new. It is additional and has not been done before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "attitude, its policies, the way it is carrying them out, to a Select Committee with the knowledge —this is the important point—that every decision it made in its management next week, the following week, and the week after that, after it had given evidence, might be subject to the same cross-examination, inquiry and justification that it had already undergone. This is a very valid differentiation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "As to the relationship of the Bank with the Treasury, I have already said \"yes\". As to the relationship of the Bank and the joint stock banks, \"yes.\" That means what the relationship is and not what the Bank says to Mr. X on a particular day about a particular matter. That is a different issue. As to the relationship with the I.M.F., \"no,\" because there is no such relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-11", "file": "debates1969-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "f41cd934129a11b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman has anxieties because of the words on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-11a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1293.0", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree, however, that we as a party are in power to provide an expanded life and expanded luxury for workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Before making a final decision on this matter, would you consider one fact which seems to have emerged from the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Too fast.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "own to create hereditary peerages conveying rights of membership of the House of Lords is hereby abolished. and new Clause 6— One month after the coming into force of this Act, no holder by succession of a hereditary peerage, whether in the peerage of England, Scotland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom shall have the right to sit in the reformed House of Lords by virtue of his hereditary title.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1350.2", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "day, more than 100 years later, it is held that people should be selected for the House of Lords not on their ability, but according to succession, according to the accident of birth. At the time of the 1964 Election, when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister referred to the Prime Minister at that time as the 14th earl, he received the rebuttal that my right hon. Friend was the 14th Mr. Wilson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1350.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Channel? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "immense knowledge which they possess. Let us look at our agriculture and industry and see where we have reached following the efforts of the aristocracy. Let us then look across the Atlantic towards the United States and see what the throw-outs from this country have done, those who came from the working class, who did not get on here, who were persecuted and forced to cross the Atlantic Channel.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1354.0", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " class, who did not get on here, who were persecuted and forced to cross the Atlantic Channel.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Channel? \"]—It is now a channel. It was an ocean. These people built the greatest industrial complex in the world. They did not say, \"My father was Lord So-and-So\". They said, \"I am John Smith\" or \"I am Bill Brown\". Look what they have done, despite the fact that they have no aristocracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1362.2", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ppointment by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. Or it could be by some chance process of selection. The reason why the existing second Chamber has worked, not marvellously, not ideally, but on the whole tolerably well, is because the chance selection of one man to a hereditary peerage with the right to sit in the other place has produced something which is not an interest group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "lures, awkward back-benchers, party hacks and personal friends. That has an element of truth in it. I understand that as a result of all the clandestine meetings to which your predecessor in the Chair referred, Mr. Gourlay, there may be a separate Division—I think that is the least there should be—on Amendment 163, which concerns the princes of the blood royal. They have not been mentioned so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is probably not Labour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "d is an engineer of considerable distinction. Lord Halsbury's services are valued even by the present Government in connection with decimal currency, and Lord St. Aldwyn, who is the grandson of a predecessor of mine in West Bristol, has rendered Parliamentary service over many years. There is even the present Lord Attlee, a hereditary peer, who is surely a valuable Labour voice in the other House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I think that you would agree, Sir Myer, that it would be only right for the Liberal point of view to be expressed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1428.0", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "could represent the same consideration with regard to the people of the Soviet Union, but I do not think anyone in this Committee would suggest that they have achieved good government. Considering the converse side of the argument about progress, there are those, not only in this House but widely in the country, who I think would agree that this is an age of diminishing virtue and failing courage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "representative peers elected by their own peers than from any nomination. The hon. Member for Walton made a powerful plea for democracy, but we shall get more democracy and more injection of independence from the Amendments suggested by my hon. Friends than we ever shall from the Government's proposals. I accept that there has to be a large number of nominated peers in the reformed House of Lords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "than from any nomination. The hon. Member for Walton made a powerful plea for democracy, but we shall get more democracy and more injection of independence from the Amendments suggested by my hon. Friends than we ever shall from the Government's proposals. I accept that there has to be a large number of nominated peers in the reformed House of Lords. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] A certain number anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to join in the general argument about age, because I do not consider it to be a great factor in the consideration of the second Chamber or even of our own House, but I should like to take up one or two arguments. First, I find it difficult to accept the proposition that the greatest protection against any future tyranny will come from some hereditary peers in the reformed Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.0", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half-past three.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Having sat here from 10 o'clock and listened to what has been said since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.0", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Having sat here from 10 o'clock and listened to what has been said since—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Half-past three.\"] I deliberately did not come in from 3.30 till 10 o'clock, because I cannot imagine how an assembly which is meant to represent the nation can spend so long dealing with such a trivial issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.3", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "The Chair would deprecate the use of such language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.4", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "pression has been challenged, Mr. Gourlay, I can do no better than quote one or two sentences which I jotted down during the time that the hon. Member for Kensing- ton, South (Sir B. Rhys Williams), who has now left the Chamber, was speaking. The hon. Member said that he was not enamoured with the two-tier system and that he envisaged a macabre dance of the eunuchs. What sort of language is that?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1469.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1470.6", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "You may have deprecated the use of the term, Mr. Gourlay. but you have not forbidden me to use it. I therefore feel entitled not to withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1470.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1470.11", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "Let us get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1470.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1471.3", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I have noted your advice, Mr. Gourlay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1471.10", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I hope that I will be allowed to proceed with my speech. I entirely accept your Ruling, Mr. Gourlay, and I will be very careful in deciding whether to use that expression on future occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1471.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1478.2", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "We have had a good debate. I put on record at the outset that I do not accept that this is a trivial matter. I say that especially to the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1483.3", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman should have spoken earlier.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "The debate to which the right hon. Gentleman has just replied embraced Amendment No. 68, standing in my name. It is similar to the Amendment eloquently moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Hastings). I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman decided to reply to one Amendment and not the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1483.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1484.2", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We ask that partly for the sake of continuity, partly to have a younger element in the reformed House of Lords, and partly as a salutary corrective to the exaggerated claims which are made for the process of democratic election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1484.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-12", "file": "debates1969-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a37a68af1a614950", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1489.0", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Question is, that the Amendment be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-12a.1488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1589.3", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "of collective bargaining, particularly at company and plant level. We have either to give up free collective bargaining or set about in earnest trying to strengthen it and that is why we have kept on saying that the choice before the Government and the country is either to go on to more compulsion on a permanent basis, or to go back to freedom within a framework of reasonable discipline and order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ernment's support in realising them and thus keeping my promise that once the argument about the interim settlement was out of the way we could work out together ways of giving building workers the chance of organised advancement for which they looked in vain under the Conservatives. My right hon. Friend and I have already set up a working party to pave the way for policy decisions on legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"By how much did dividends rise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rything possible during the last few months to wreck the policy. Let me give the right hon. Gentleman and the House figures that are more relevant, because they cover the period of the current policy. From March 1968, when the new phase of the policy was introduced, to December 1968, hourly wage rates rose by 4·2 per cent., earnings by 5·8 per cent. and prices by 4·7 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Gentleman and the House figures that are more relevant, because they cover the period of the current policy. From March 1968, when the new phase of the policy was introduced, to December 1968, hourly wage rates rose by 4·2 per cent., earnings by 5·8 per cent. and prices by 4·7 per cent. [An HON. MEMBER: \"By how much did dividends rise?\"] Dividends rose by 3·2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "he Government are bound to take corrective measures by other means. The answer to these questions is that we have partly earned it by increased output, which has been rising rapidly, increased exports, which are at an all-time high and still, I am glad to say, on a rising trend, and by increased productivity, which has been one of the marked successes of the policy: even the T.U.C. admits as much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "t of the increase in strikes last year due to the policy. He did not quote it, but I will. Last year, 4½ million working days were lost through strikes. That is the highest figure since 1962. But he knows—and that is why he did not quote it—that the figure includes H million days lost as a result of the one-day engineering strike last March. It was part of their normal negotiating strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1616.7", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Let us say, the tally clerks. Was it right that their claim should be allowed when the municipal busmen were nearly double-crossed over their claim? Was it right that the Post Office and railway workers should have received the special treatment which university lecturers were refused? Let us just take those illustrations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1625.1", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "estriction of contract law. Such a scheme has all the problems which are attendant upon the scheme in operation in the United States. Why could not the Government have spelled out in some detail support for their own policies in the Amendment? Why is there this nebulous arrangement of words? The answer is that the Government realise that there is no support in the country for their incomes policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1625.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Their wives are working.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "As a toolmaker, in 1932, 1 worked for a company in the Midlands which provided bicycle racks for its workers. In the same plant, in 1951 those racks had gone, for a car park.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nine-tenths.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ike my hon. Friends, during most of my life in the Labour Party I have found myself in opposition to most conference resolutions. This resolution was on the agenda of the Labour Party conference because it had been passed overwhelmingly by the Trades Union Congress. We put it on the Order Paper of the House because it is the expression of the trade union and Labour movement throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1670.3", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "In other words, it would be an offence. Surely a breach of contract is an offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "bsolute nonsense. She said that this is not the policy of her right hon. Friends, but in March last year the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs said: It is …a necessary condition of the economic adjustment which we have to make that incomes should rise more slowly than the cost of living over the next year.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st March, 1968; Vol. 761, c. 621–22.] Who is right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "er policy by an overwhelming majority, does she still stand by her words, spoken only 14 weeks before the T.U.C. gave its verdict? She told the House: … we all recognise—and the Government recognise—that an incomes policy cannot work if the whole concept is repugnant to the trade union movement and if it has to be imposed by the use of compulsory powers. Does she still stand by those words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "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": "ystery of the 3½ per cent. ceiling and the relationship between prices and earnings during the last year. It is a mystery which he and his right hon. Friends have tried to probe before. I will not weary him or embarrass myself with a long quotation from a speech I made on this subject in April of last year. I will remind him of what the Prime Minister said on 23rd May on exactly this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "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": "re all wage negotiations conducted on an across-the-board basis, unrelated to productivity criteria, undoubtedly during the last year there would have been a fall in real living standards. If, on the other hand, a substantial number of productivity bargains were negotiated, then there could be a real increase in living standards. It is the second and more happy alternative which has been the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "y is intended to achieve was equally wrong. I take those two examples to explain, at any rate to my hon. Friends, how the Motion and the way in which it has been argued by hon. Gentlemen opposite is misconceived. The right hon. Member for Mitcham said that the avowed purpose of the policy was to help the lowest-paid worker strengthen his position. We have never said anything half as total as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "e policy should be spared the lowest paid. I mention with some embarrassment what I said on the Report stage of the Measure. I said that the lowest paid would be insulated from an admittedly hard policy. I said that that was the sum of what we were claiming. In other words, it was not the avowed purpose to help the lowest paid as such but to insulate the lowest paid from the rigours of the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1696.0", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I know that quotation well. It occupied two days discussion in Committee. If the right hon. Gentleman will have a little patience he will find that, before the end of my speech, I will talk about the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1698.3", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " contained the possibility of substantial and continual wage increases so long as they are related to improvements in productivity. Since the right hon. Member for Mitcham originally made the comparison, it is interesting in this context to compare the full 2½ years of our policy with the 2½ years which began with a previous July when what was called the Selwyn Lloyd pay pause began—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1699.1", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I suppose that my hon. Friend thinks that I have special obligations to him because he is one of my supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1701.3", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Finally, I turn to the question of the future. Before turning to that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1702.0", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Sir Harmar Nicholls rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1703.0", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)", "preceding_text": "Order. Sir Harmar Nicholls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1703.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "It is clear, from the noise, that the House can see through the double talk of the hon. Gentleman. He came here to sooth his back benches, but admits that the policy will be renewed in the autumn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1704.0", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Roebuck", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-13", "file": "debates1969-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "fff663cb72d0a6b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1704.1", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPULSORY CONTROL OF INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am trying to find out why the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Roebuck) is addressing me. Mr. Roebuck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-13a.1704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1730.3", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "I shall do so, Mr. Speaker, but the intervention did not in any way undermine the validity of my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1734.5", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "It was carried out by Liberals which, if anything, gave a distinct bias against the results obtained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1740.1", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "dum. It is used also in Switzerland. The hon. Gentleman said properly that he did not know what proportion of people would vote, and so I examined the Swiss position and found that in the national referenda there, as opposed to the cantonal referenda, an average of 50 per cent. vote. I do not suggest that this has anything but interest when trying to figure out our own, but that is the proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1742.6", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Yes, but all I am saying now is that this has a perfectly respectable democratic antecedent, but that, on this occasion, Mr. Attlee's argument was that it had a Nazi flavour about it. The point is that if one looks for antecedents from the days of Louis Napoleon and the plebiscite, one finds that this sort of method has been a way of appealing over the heads of State to people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1750.1", "colnum": "1750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wylie", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wylie", "preceding_text": "d reply, in the full knowledge of the political responsibility involved, this proposal achieves nothing at all. The Bill has the basic weakness of removing political responsibility from the decision and the further basic weakness of introducing a whole series of confusing and conflicting propositions all of which, to put it bluntly, the electorate would not be able to pose a fully considered view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1750.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1756.6", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Separation.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "My party will contest the next election on the fullest control by the people of Scotland over Scottish affairs and everything to do with Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1758.4", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would not be needed\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "the ballot box\". I ask hon. Members to consider the implications of that attitude and to pursue that logic to its end. If the House insists that we ignore referenda as a useful means of ascertaining answers to questions of this kind and insists on the ballot box verdict, when the ballot box verdict comes, if it is in favour of my point of view, it will then be far too late to propose a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1758.4", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "le with that sense of national identity in Scotland. They are not the same. If the major parties equate an ancient nation and all the things that go with that with a region of another ancient nation, they do us a great disservice and they show great illogicality. I am all for having a referendum for England, but as that is not mentioned in the Bill, it would not be in order for me to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1758.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1766.0", "colnum": "1766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "n and contentment and not of the virility which ought to be expected in a House such as this. We do not paint a picture of an aggressive approach which could bring the nation to greatness. We do not paint such a picture to people who believe that this place is of no consequence—and nor is it. Is any back bench Member consulted on the major issues which are brought before the House and the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1768.1", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES (REFERENDA) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "being of our nation would be a commission or inquiry focusing on what we shall do in the future. That is the importance of our being here—not to produce arguments based upon what Gladstone may have said or what Lloyd George may have said or even what the newspapers may have said yesterday. Let us come to our own conclusions and put our point of view. I do not want to take up the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1768.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Both nations have constitutional equality and a similar status inside the Czechoslovak State. They both have governments of their own inside the Federal State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "All the facts show that Wales and Scotland have never been put at the top of the considerations which the Government have in mind in formulating their policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question as fully as I can in the time allowed me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Separation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I have already answered that question as fully as I can in the time allowed me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If the House will give me time, I will go into the matter more closely. I shall be glad to do so. We stand for Commonwealth status for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "r Commonwealth status for Wales. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Separation.\"] Hon. Members may call it by any emotive term they like. The fact is that we stand for Commonwealth status. We stand for a status which will give us equality of status with the other members of the Commonwealth of nations. Is not that clear enough? Hon. Members may call it \"separatism\" if they like. It does not mean economic separation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " is that we stand for Commonwealth status. We stand for a status which will give us equality of status with the other members of the Commonwealth of nations. Is not that clear enough? Hon. Members may call it \"separatism\" if they like. It does not mean economic separation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Hon. Members may jeer and laugh as much as they like. They have not accepted what is an elementary fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " common market with the other three nations of these islands. When we have this Commonwealth status, there will be no passports; there will be a common citizenship. There will be no tolls or tariffs on goods passing back and forth between our countries. There will be no border in that sense. There will be freedom of movement for people, goods and capital. Thus there will be no economic separation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1790.4", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "oice. If we pass a Measure that seems to disregard them, they may well say, \"All right—have your separate Scotland; have your separate Wales; have your separate Ireland. We will have our separate England and see what happens. We, the English, will decide whether or not you can come in freely. We, the English, will decide whether you require a passport to come to Wembley to watch a football match.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1799.2", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including a judge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "n very slow and its terms of reference are very wide. It is therefore not surprising that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition went ahead last July and announced that he had invited a very strong and distinguished membership to form a constitutional committee for Scotland under the chairmanship of my right hon. Friend the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1799.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1806.3", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "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": "ws are based, in this context, other than upon the concept of the referendum. Secondly, I have been horrified by some of the things I have heard, and I want to emphasise, therefore, that patriotism is the prerogative of no individual or party. When patriotism is sullied and dirtied in this way, for political purposes, I for one not only reject that course but regard it as un-Welsh and un-Scottish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1806.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1814.0", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a specious argument.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "l Party decide how much space should be given to every question in every newspaper, or will it be left to the Government to do it? The hon. Member for Carmarthen said that he did not trust the Government to do it. How will it be done? There cannot be equality of democracy unless democracy extends all round, and this is the great weakness. Already there is an imbalance in this way in our democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1814.1", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "the referendum was amply put by speaker after speaker. I have shown the weaknesses of the referendum. The supporters of the Bill assert that its purpose is to let the Scots and the Welsh say how they wish to be governed. I, too, believe that the Scots and the Welsh should be masters of their own destiny, but I believe that this purpose is not served by inviting them to make their choice blindfold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1821.3", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "LARGER WALES MOVE BY PLAID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "The criticism has been made, on the one hand, that having four questions complicates the issue and, on the other hand, that there ought to be more than four questions. The Under-Secretary of State said that important matters arose out of points which were omitted from the questions. He is arguing in favour of an extended referendum. Hon. Members cannot have it both ways. These issues are simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1821.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1830.2", "colnum": "1830", "heading": "ESTATE DUTY (SURVIVING SPOUSE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1830.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1831.2", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "BORDERS DEVELOPMENT (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1831.6", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "HOUSING (LOCAL AUTHORITY CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1831.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1831.22", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "RENT ACT 1968 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1831.21"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1832.2", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "NURSERY SCHOOLS (PARENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1832.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-14", "file": "debates1969-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "2515e22d8473d6d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1832.6", "colnum": "1832", "heading": "LIVE HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-14a.1832.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-17", "file": "debates1969-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8cd3f94702a8a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY LAW REFORM BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that intervention. It would seem almost a piece of cruelty to punish a child for the circumstances in which the child was born. I was turning to Part III of the Bill, which is concerned with questions of proving paternity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-17", "file": "debates1969-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8cd3f94702a8a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jennings", "preceding_text": "think that the most important fact is 1st April, 1971. Unless something unforeseen happens—take, for instance, the unlikely happening of the present Government extending their own life—there will be a new Government in office on 1st April, 1971. There may be a change of Government or conceivably—depending on the swing of the pendulum—the same party may be in power. Who knows? I am not speculating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-17", "file": "debates1969-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8cd3f94702a8a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "nsider at precisely what point of the Parliamentary year the Bill is introduced, and so on. These considerations must necessarily be allowed for in terms of Government undertakings, which have to be fulfilled by actual legislative time and by Bills. This is why I cannot be more specific. Here is where I relate this to the White Paper and to the biennial review as it is proposed in the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-17", "file": "debates1969-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8cd3f94702a8a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": " by Bills. This is why I cannot be more specific. Here is where I relate this to the White Paper and to the biennial review as it is proposed in the White Paper. [ Interruption .] I must be allowed to make this complete point because the two are inter-related. The White Paper contains a proposal, which is being welcomed by both sides, for an inflation-proofing biennial review with statutory powers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-17", "file": "debates1969-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8cd3f94702a8a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.133.0", "colnum": "133", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "hat it had been welcomed in many quarters, and I understood that most of the remarks this evening directed towards the desirability of a regular review of public service pensions to some extent at least derived from, and had certainly referred to, the proposal for biennial reviews made in the White Paper. If the Opposition are arguing that they are against biennial reviews for ordinary pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-17", "file": "debates1969-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "8cd3f94702a8a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. H. Loveys", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. H. Loveys", "preceding_text": "n two respects it might rot at first be considered a suitable or propitious moment at which to discuss the monopoly of the Post Office with regard to the use of equipment. I had intended to thank the Postmaster-General for coming to the House to reply to the debate. He gave me a definite assurance that he would be here, and I have had a conversation with him in the Lobby. It is treating the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-17a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.191.4", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "I realise that the hon. Member and others have made that proposal. It is being looked at. There are certain difficulties in proceeding that way. I hope that the publication of the Clause together with the Government's intention to do this now, which has been made clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.191.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "We are discussing the removal from the House of Lords of peers who have had the right to go there for perhaps the past 700 or 800 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I only mentioned this because the sample may be contested. I hope that it will not be. I would like my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I gather that before I took the Chair quite a lot of this had been said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ve, if he does, that he will not only be reporting the truth, but doing a service to the Government as well. We all know it is difficult for Governments to drop Bills when they have reached Committee stage, but it has been done before. The Government can properly say, as has been proved already, that no Whips operate on the Bill. Everybody knows that the Whips are withdrawn. It is already evident—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.325.0", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A brave man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " it is particularly high. I shouted across the Chamber on that occasion, \"Tripe !\", and I had the support of some of my hon. Friends, but the hon. Member who was speaking did not agree with me. In a more formal way, I want to say now that this view is nonsense. I pay not infrequent visits to another place and in preparation for this debate I have paid some more. I stand there and listen carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.325.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: '\"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have just had a word with my right hon. and learned Friend, and he will be only too pleased to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tonight?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is very persuasive, but I cannot accept his Amendment. I hope that he will await my right hon. and learned Friend's statement at a later stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that. On the legal advice which I have had from experts I have made a statement which I think sums up the reply to the point. I hope that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite will not press me more at this stage. I will do all that I can to help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-18", "file": "debates1969-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "56d9bcb0807b80ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "There is some substance in what my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale says. I think that a statement should be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-18a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.363.10", "colnum": "363", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": "mposition of the new Chamber will conform with the two major principles of maintaining a balance between the parties and maintaining representation of the various parts of the United Kingdom. It indicates that the Bill is passed by Parliament on the basis of the declarations in the White Paper relating to the number and character of new creations. Although it has no more than a declaratory effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.363.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "As I am of opinion that the principle of the Clause has been adequately discussed, I propose, under the discretion given to the Chair by Standing Order No. 47, to put the Question forthwith.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.426.7", "colnum": "426", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "re faced with a series of frivolous interruptions and frivolous speeches which are repeating Second Reading debates, clearly designed to take up the time of the Committee without being obstructionist. That has been the whole purpose. It has been said that we will lose the Bill. That is exactly the objective of a small group of Members who are determined to oppose it. They want us to lose the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.426.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or discrimination?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "out. I invite the Government to put the matter to the test. Let them say to their adherents—as to those … adhering to other parties and members adhering to no party … to borrow some words from the Preamble—that there is no Whip on the Bill, that they wish candidly and openly to ascertain their views on whether or not the Bill should pass and that no sort of disadvantage or prejudice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "It seems that the nerves of right hon. Gentlemen on the Government Front Bench are becoming a little frayed. Their behaviour is difficult to understand. I had the impression that the Government were worried about the progress with the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.431.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A free vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "at all measures would be taken to block it. I now repeat to the hon. Gentleman the question which I put, without answer, to his right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell). Is there anything which would satisfy him and his small coterie of colleagues, except the complete withdrawal of the Bill? In what circumstances would they be willing to allow the Bill to go through?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.433.2", "colnum": "433", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has been sacked from that job.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Cannot the Chair do something about the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.433.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.447.5", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Who are our friends and allies in the Middle East?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. If my right hon. Friend looks at what was said by my right hon. Friend, or if he looks at tomorrow's White Paper, which I cannot anticipate, he will see that out of the 170,000 ex-National Servicemen who have a liability for service under the Army General Reserve, there are no plans for calling up more than 15,000, and those would be called in only in circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "nment are wrong and will regret the step they are taking. I doubt whether, having gone through the business, we can rapidly unscramble it. Once we have it, we shall be stuck with it and we shall have switched upon us the extraordinary argument which has been used to sustain this Clause and the Bill—that the people do not care, that the average man outside has no interest in what the Lords is like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "My hon. and learned Friend is strictly correct, but he will know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "number of Conservatives are there by succession—274. It was reckoned that it would be necessary to convert about 42 of them, who would become created peers. If the scheme were brought into force now, there would be seven Liberals. If it is not brought into force until after the next election, and if the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) is right and the Liberals suffer losses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.514.4", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I would not want to comment on that, but I am bound to assume that they are honourable men, all honourable men. Also, of course, it would not be for the Government to approach them, because, as is well recognised, the system will continue under which the Opposition would nominate their own people. So it would not be proper for me to say whether anyone has been approached, except that I am sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is because of the payroll.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "h troubles with the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale without getting into any more difficulties. I think that I have said enough. I do not accept the view of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, Southwest that there is abhorrence in all parts of the Committee. As so often, he claims too much. Whenever he goes into the Lobby on this issue, he gets 40 or 50 votes. That is the measure of the abhorrence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": " and there may be a case against an Amendment confining the House to voting peers. After all, if we have a set-up of 100 peers appointed to vote for the Government—and having accepted that appointment they can hardly honourably do anything else—and 85 peers appointed to vote for the Opposition—and, again, they could hardly honourably do anything else in the circumstances—we are left with 85 peers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.529.5", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hanging.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ent and housing for the homeless. Every Thursday the Leader of the House answers questions about the Parliamentary timetable by saying \"Not next week, Sir.\" \"There is no Parliamentary time for it.\" He will not find time for the things which are necessary, but he is finding time to discuss matters about which our constituents do not care a twopenny hoot. They ask why we do not discuss this or that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.529.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.530.7", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will not be staying after eleven o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.530.7", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "reement with the Opposition Front Bench may have been made, withdraw the Measure. That goes for whatever agreement may have been made with the Liberal Party, but how he came to reach an agreement with the Liberals, who are never here, I do not know. I believe that if there were a secret ballot not only would the Amendment be carried, but the Bill would be rejected. Two weeks ago I was in Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "f the hat were as invisible as the hon. Gentleman, I would deal with the matter. The Government's priorities are wrong. We are wasting precious time. We should be dealing with matters which concern the people we represent. There are economic subjects to debate. Our debates on the Bill will go on and on for days, weeks and months if the Home Secretary does not tear it up and forget the whole thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.534.4", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ". I dare say that there are many hon. Members who would like to go there if they had the opportunity. If the hon. Gentleman will study the table on page 5 of the White Paper he will see that there are many peers by succession who now attend for more than 33⅓ per cent. of the time. Those are the peers who basically, but not all of them, would be included. Please do not ask me to defend this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.534.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridiey", "preceding_text": "I think that we have reached a very strange juncture when the Bill is stated to be Presented by Mr. Secretary Callaghan, supported by The Prime Minister, Mr. Secretary Cross-man, Mr. Fred Peart, Mr. Secretary Ross, Mr. Secretary Thomas, and Mr. Attorney-General \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.555.0", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If the Amendment were carried and my hon. Friend's intentions were given effect, the sort of questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.582.5", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "lected by panels of candidates elected on a vocational basis, representing cultural and agricultural interests, industry and commerce, public administration and the social sciences. To take another example, in Italy the President of the Republic is nominated to the Senate by representatives of the social, scientific, artistic and literary life of the country. This will appeal to the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.582.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Wolverhampton, Southwest, I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman has read some of his speeches on incomes policy not with total disagreement. Clive Jenkins is a man who could be affected by new Clause 11. He is a lively minded, highly intelligent man, capable of original thought and with a good deal of independence. Would he get there if the trade unions were allowed to select?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.588.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who are \"they\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "Of course not. The one man we can be certain they would not let in would be Clive Jenkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a few moments. This is about the right time in the process of the Bill, I suppose, for us to put our applications in. I am, as I say, anxious to promote the interests of scientists and technologists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "y absurd. I believe that most great trade unions do not allow their general secretaries to be Members of this House. If the most active man in a powerful trade union is precluded by the rules of his union from being a Member of this House, is it reasonable to suggest that the trade unions would allow them to go down the corridor, and that they would be willing to go down the corridor to a Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.598.5", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that this is just the sort of scheme that a clever dick from a university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.598.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.615.6", "colnum": "615", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "I have prepared some remarks, if I may be allowed to come to them, on the question of numbers, and I will deal with the hon. Gentleman's point when I get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.615.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.616.4", "colnum": "616", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": " arts. I hope that you will not suggest I am out of order, Mr. Gourlay, if I say that the universities also should be able to find representation in the other place. I have never been able to find a reason why university members should have voices in the House of Commons, and that is not a recommendation which I would make; but I think it is wrong that they should be excluded from the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.616.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They do now.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": " our debates in this Committee I hope we shall come to another Amendment, which I have sponsored, which would give somewhat more power and credibility to the other place—a degree of authority which they could exercise in an extreme emergency, and only then. But in the normal course of business they are not really legislators. I do not think we see them as initiating legislation in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "e day to take soundings of expert opinion as and when they need to in the ordinary way of business. One could call it a Royal Commission in permanent session, or, to use a modern expression, a Royal Commission in real time, able to contribute at once to our debates here. In dealing with the question of numbers, I entirely accept the point made by hon. Members of the necessity to include the young.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.627.3", "colnum": "627", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"By accident.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "ned—industry, trade unions, the chairmen of great companies and the bankers—are already adequately represented in the Upper House, either by peers of the first creation or by hereditary peers. The Church is represented by the Bishops. The Free Church is represented. There is a Church of England parish priest in the Lords. There is a Roman Catholic priest there. They are in the Upper House already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.627.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.642.3", "colnum": "642", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I believe that this is an important point of order. The Leader of the House has conceded that, when we reach the Scottish Amendment he will adjourn the proceedings of the Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—well, move to report Progress then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "nd what will take place in what was called a gilded Chamber. In this crucial matter of how the Lords are chosen, we are faced with another absurdity. Many hon. Gentlemen previously uncommitted are now beginning to have very serious doubts about the value of the Bill. In the last day or so Ministers have come to me to express their point of view and said that they were not happy about this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-19", "file": "debates1969-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "0a2b5feaf0170784", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.682.2", "colnum": "682", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "found little difficulty in guessing, withdrew one item from the package. He withdrew remuneration from the package. Therefore, if it was the Government's view that a paid and, therefore, presumably pretty well full-time House of 230 was required, it must inescapably follow that when that House becomes unpaid—its Members bound to earn their living elsewhere unless only rich men are to be appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-19a.682.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-20", "file": "debates1969-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "29b4a274e3e6ea4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-20a.804.3", "colnum": "804", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "upsetting that this should have to happen. I recognised that, in the economic circumstances in which the country finds itself, this has to be done, but I regret it. If we had been in office during the last four years, industry would now be booming in Scotland, no one would have heard of the Selective Employment Tax and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders would have a splendid future before them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-20a.804.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-20", "file": "debates1969-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "29b4a274e3e6ea4f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-20a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE SUPPORT GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She is just coming.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ferential which has existed for many years. The equivalent percentage for England and Wales is 56. Therefore, there is a differential of 8·5 per cent. The Exchequer covers a considerably larger proportion in Scotland than in England and Wales. I am sorry that the hon. Lady the Member for Hamilton (Mrs. Ewing) is not present and has not been here since the beginning of this important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-20a.805.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has his view and I have mine. I shall be delighted to see him outside and mention names to him, and then, off the record, he will agree with me. It is interesting that the result of the Vote which took place a matter of minutes after the Home Secretary had spoken showed that over 90 of those who went into the Lobby in favour of the White Paper were on the payroll vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1362.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1389.4", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why not accept the Amendment?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "r. William Hamilton) with great force and power and, I promise him, I listened to every word of it. What is the difference between us? He says that he does not want payment for Members. I have come down to explain that the Government do not propose to introduce payment for Members. This is why I expected the compliments; this is what my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister came to the House to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "e to vote, I should support new Clause 8. I should prefer to support Amendment No. 66, rather than support the Government on this matter. The only case for a paid Chamber was advanced by the hon. Member for Luton (Mr. Howie). He put forward arguments in favour of a paid second Chamber with all the conviction of an ex-Government Whip. He realises that he has to secure a majority in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1415.4", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Committee, who sometimes talk as if they think that such an appalling eventuality might occur, are not prepared to tell the Committee how they would exercise such powers. The Committee is in an extraordinary situation that neither Front Bench will say how the major Clauses will operate. On every Clause we reach we try to extort from them, wheedle from them by every Parliamentary device, an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "re that right hon. Gentlemen on the Front Bench believed that they could get this Bill through much more easily if they dropped this question of remuneration. They thought that half the opposition would die away, that it all revolved around this question of remuneration. What did my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister say? In the Second Reading debate on 3rd February—I will not quote him in full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He would have to be a Lady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " have a second Chamber, it must be democratically elected. The proposition in the Bill is neither one nor the other and all it will do is strengthen an undemocratic system. It will worsen the position from both points of view. While noble Lords arrive in the other place by birth, we cannot determine that a Conservative Lord will necessarily give birth to a Conservative Lord; he might be a Liberal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1431.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1442.4", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "er unlikely if this figure were a coincidence. What appears to be in the mind of the Government, and possibly in the mind of the Opposition, is to have the same figure, after deducting expenses, for the House of Commons and for the House of Lords. Some serious consequences flow from such a situation. The House of Lords would be rated every bit as high as the House of Commons, for four days a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1442.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1444.6", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I can listen to further points of order after I have taken the tellers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1444.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1444.8", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Rodgers (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Can you recall a previous occasion, Mr. Irving, when an hon. Member has been cut off in the middle of a speech for the Closure to be moved, without the Government having replied to the debate? I have never known this to happen in the whole of my time in this place and I therefore ask you to reconsider your decision that a Division be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1444.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1452.4", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am sure that you have the sympathy of the entire Committee in the very difficult position in which you have been placed by the extraordinary conduct of the Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1452.5", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "at I want to ask, for my clarification, because there may be other hon. Members fully aware of the point of order underlying the decision which you made, is whether it is normal and traditional for the Closure to be moved when a speaker is still in the course of his speech, when the Committee stage of a Bill is on the Floor of the House. I gather that it is in order in Standing Committee upstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1452.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "h zeal in moving the Closure, that he might correct this error by making a statement to the Committee to the effect that he was not being discourteous to my hon. Friend? This is an important point. There are many of us on the back benches who want jealously to guard against criticism of the Chair, but we want to be absolutely sure that these matters are being conducted in a completely fair manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1453.2", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order——", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I have listened to the hon. Gentleman with care. I am grateful for his forbearance in not wishing to criticise the decision of the Chair. I cannot give a direction to the hon. Member for Rotherham. I can accept his proposal. This I did. It was perfectly in order. I hope that the Committee can now make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1453.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. I was not referring to the particular circumstances to which the hon. Member refers. I was referring to all the circumstances that must be taken into account by the Chair in deciding whether to accept a Closure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1456.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "preceding_text": " a point of order. Some of us have shown consistent interest in the Bill. I have noticed that some of the points of order have been raised by Members who are no more than squatters. In the interests of all those Members who are concerned about the progress of this very important constitutional Measure, I think that we should hear those parts of the Bill which are of peculiar interest to Scotland——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1461.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Of course you have.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "On a different point of order. My point of order was about to be—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"]—Do I take it, Mr. Irving, that I have not the right to raise a point of order?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1484.5", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "In Scotland.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "characteristic of the peers living north of the Border and it is out of keeping with the historical background hinted at by the hon. Gentleman. I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman has the support of the Scottish peers. What is the position in the Conservative Party at present? Where is the best known and most respected right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1484.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1485.3", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Translate.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "yr. Hon. Members will remember that the most distinguished and immortal citizen of Ayr was Robert Burns. He was born at Alloway, but he spent part of his time in Ayr. There is a strong historical sentiment in Ayr against the House of Lords. Robert Burns wrote: Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1485.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1487.7", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to any in disrespectful terms. I was merely referring to the literary figure, Thomas Carlyle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1487.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1488.7", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I understood that the peers are to be elected by ballot——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1488.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1489.5", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Preamble.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "our noble families, whose descendants the hon. Member for Ayr wants to see in the Lords and specially privileged. This classic was written by an ex-Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr. Thomas Johnston. I could spend a great deal of time, if I did not want to keep my speech brief, reading copious extracts from this classic and well-known work, but I will content myself by quoting from the preface——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They cannot be good at everything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "gest that the Scottish peers have no special right to claim a certain fraction of the membership of the House of Lords. There is no historical argument for their being there. Mention has been made of the Treaty of 1707. If hon. Members go to the House of Lords they will be able to examine that treaty in the Lords Library, and they will see that many of the Lords could hardly write their own names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We should be home earlier \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Mr. David Steel) declared his lack of interest in the Bill. He said that until we came to this important Clause affecting Scotland, he thought that the best way he could discharge his obligations to the Committee on the Bill was to be absent altogether. I am sure that that is the view held by some, but I am sure that they do not understand what would be the result if we all followed their example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " home a bit earlier, but that should not be our approach to the conduct of important business in the House. If hon. Members followed that course, the Bill would go through entirely in the form in which the Government propose it. Therefore, the hon. Gentleman must answer for his attitude. At an earlier stage in our discussions, the Liberal spokesman said that they were bitterly opposed to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ected, when the Act of Union was put through, that those who would represent Scotland in the House of Lords would hold to the opinion of sustaining the Government of the day. The Government of 1711 happened to be engaged in a particularly disgraceful manoeuvre of betraying our allies in Europe in order to secure the Treaty of Utrecht. The Government in power at that time—a Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1524.1", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking about white fish or the Prime Minister and I never know which is which.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1526.0", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steady as she gees! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " great improvement. I do not think that we ought to ask where the others are. At least we are getting some contributions from the two hon. Gentlemen. When General Ormskirk and Field Marshal Chigwell are setting such a good example, it is not for the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames to be faint hearted. There is work to be done; there is a battle to be fought; the Bill has to be examined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To the consequences.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " which his Motion has been received by the Home Secretary, will already have decided not to withdraw it, but to submit it to the Committee in due course for decision. One of the remarks of the Home Secretary, which I think will not have been lost on the Committee, was his reference to motives. He said that in this Committee we are wise not to pay attention to motives, but to what is actually said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At No. 10.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "he should have said was that the time when my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham moved the Closure was the time when Government Members who had been at a party had been called back for the vote. Where my hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham slipped up was that it had been prearranged that the vote would come then and so they had to return from Claridge's, or whether it was they held their party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1559.6", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter). The majority of hon. Members want to report Progress, including the Liberals. Indeed, I notice one hon. Member nodding on the Government Front Bench, though I use the word \"nodding\" not to imply that he is assenting to what I am saying. The occupants of the Opposition Front Bench have already reported Progress and have gone home, including the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman ought not to say that. There is a custom of the House that we accept what an hon. Member says if he is challenged. My hon. Friend the Member for Rotherham said earlier that he did not do it intentionally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1576.6", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "hed report to make to the House. None the less, I feel that we ought to make that report now. We shall have to say that we tried to make progress in subjecting Clause 2 to the scrutiny it deserved in respect of the Amendments about the payment of these—as my right hon. Friend the Member for Flint, West (Mr. Birch) called them—lavatory attendants that we are proposing to establish in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1576.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1579.8", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "y, that he would consider withdrawing the Bill, after what has happened tonight. That is why I said I thought my right hon. Friend was so very right in not pressing that part of the Motion which speaks of sitting again. I think the Home Secretary must be having very serious qualms of conscience when he considers what he has done. He has entered into an unsuccessful conspiracy with our Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1579.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1582.4", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "There are no hands in which I would sooner leave matters of order, Mr. Irving, and I hope you have not been unduly generous. You have been extremely fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1582.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1611.3", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lord Reith?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hat is quite right, so we should rely on the convention and upon the spirit in which it is being approached. The only other major difference I have with the hon. Member is that he seemed to be unduly condemning a number of former Scottish Ministers by his insistence on the need for residence in Scotland. The former James Stuart would not have qualified; nor would Lord Drumalbyn, nor Lord Craigton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1611.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1616.2", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Methodist backgrounds, know these texts. I commend them to the right hon. Gentleman. I repeat again—it is the essence of the scheme, which we cannot avoid, whatever arguments right hon. and hon. Members may advance, that it depends on conventions, good faith and understandings. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may dismiss all that. I agree that one cannot have good faith among people who are not gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ready for the Select Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am in some difficulty, Mr. Irving, and I seek your guidance on a point of order. Like the hon. and learned Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget), I have just returned to the Committee after eight hours' sleep, and, appropriately refreshed I am, I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1632.0", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "sleep, and, appropriately refreshed I am, I am—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Ready for the Select Committee.\"] If the hon. Gentleman will wait, I will deal with the Select Committee. That is the very point of order I am raising. I seek your guidance, Mr. Irving. Which takes precedence—the affairs of this Committee on the Floor of the House or the Select Committee dealing with my affairs upstairs? As you know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1654.2", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "sing main parties. When we come to parties which we consider to be near-subversive, the situation becomes more difficult still. The Communist Party, for instance, is not banned in this country, but there is a healthy condemnation of Communists. As I have said previously on this Bill, no Communist has managed to find his way into either House of Parliament except by inheriting a hereditary peerage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "was decided after very careful inquiries. A number of actuarial studies were carried out to test the effect on the size of a voting House of various ages of retirement, each taken with various assumptions about the frequency of changes of Government, the number of new creations for an outgoing Administration, and matters of that kind. It is very easy to make fun of this kind of actuarial exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-25", "file": "debates1969-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "c4db5c599ac13971", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1677.3", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we shall now have a period of unusual silence from my hon. Friend the Member for Watford, so that I may bring my remarks to a speedy conclusion. I do not wish to detain the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-25a.1677.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1704.6", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that two days ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1704.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1722.1", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS (STAFFING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We wish you would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "statement, if he has any suggestions as to where there can be reductions within the figures I have mentioned, the House would wish to discuss them. The right hon. Gentleman also asked about the Civil Service Department and the general implementation of Fulton. He welcomed the fact that we are virtually doubling the central training programme this year. We would have liked to go further and faster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1727.3", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT TO 1972", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs 'Mr. Peter Shore)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs 'Mr. Peter Shore)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1741.5", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": "0 p.m. Parliamentary eunuchs have no place in our system of government. Therefore, I ask my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General to reconsider this matter. Surely, there could be some machinery for easing Members out when they are a little past it. Perhaps a Committee of the House of Lords, consisting of Members under 60, could be set up to determine when someone had got a little too old—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Erhardt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "I am indebted to my hon. Friend. He has mentioned the President of Germany, Dr. Adenauer, and called attention to his remarkable age when he retired. He was the wizard who fabricated the wonderful financial structure which Western Germany enjoys today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Minister is going to do, although I agree that it is a great pity and that it would perhaps be better for us if the Prime Minister were to listen to my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale and to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) as much as he does to, say, the Lord Chancellor. People who serve on local authorities do not get payment. They may get out-of-pocket expenses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1768.2", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Of course, Sir Beresford, but we are also discussing with the age limit for voting, the age at which a wage or salary shall cease to be applicable, be it 72, 65, or whatever age is finally agreed My hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale went to great pains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1770.6", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Will Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Will Griffiths", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is making his speech at a unique moment. On the Opposition Front Bench at the moment there are two right hon. Gentlemen, the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) and the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) who are both leaders of the party opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1770.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1771.0", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Sir Beresford, I mean this honestly and sincerely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1771.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1773.3", "colnum": "1773", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has come in too late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1773.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or judges.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " peer retires may be higher if he reaches the age of 72 shortly after the beginning of a Parliament. I appreciate that the requirement may be criticised on the ground that many peers will still be active and well able to perform the duties of voting peers for some time after they have reached the age of 72, and on the ground that there is no similar requirement for Members of the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1779.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, no, but I am prepared to believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1782.3", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "r for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) for correcting me. He has evidently not lost his capacity to amass recent memory and other things with it. I am more attracted by the idea that somewhere in the Government's subconscious—that vast recess—there is a figure of 72 which has leapt to their mind as being about the minimum general I.Q. I think that this is the sort of thought association process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1782.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1819.0", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "sion upon this age limit. I understand that during my short absence I missed the speech of the hon. Member for Norfolk, Central (Mr. Ian Gilmour), but I gather that he echoed the line of criticism of his right hon. Friend. I do not feel optimistic about the prospect of satisfying these critics on this point, because I have nothing to add to my earlier submissions on how this figure was arrived at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1819.12", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I cannot produce as an exhibit the calculations or the formulae.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1819.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1820.1", "colnum": "1820", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the Liberals?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Were these figures given to the Front Bench Opposition spokesmen and the Liberal Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1820.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1822.0", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "fied to Us, in Our Chancery, without delay. It will be observed from the terms of the writs that in each case Members of both Houses are ordered to attend Parliament rather than one or other of the Houses of Parliament. The reason is that the form of the writs is based on that issued before Parliament had become a clearly bicameral legislature. I have dealt with the points raised by hon. Members——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1821.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1822.7", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "ch appear to be so complex. When I espied the Attorney-General coming into the Chamber, I hoped that he might get together with my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General and produce an answer to our problems. Not that I wish to cause a division between them. As I see them there, I cannot help recalling the words of John Gay: How happy could I be with either Were t other dear charmer away.\"!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1822.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, in the words of Winston Churchill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1842.3", "colnum": "1842", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why waste time? Why not give them in the first place?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "re figures which anyone can obtain by studying the attendances in the Lords during the last five or six years. What I said was that I thought that it would be for the convenience of the Committee if I mentioned the figures on the basis of which we reached our conclusions. I will give the Committee these figures, which are quite simple. There is nothing secret or mysterious and no document required", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1842.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1849.1", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Do they clock out as well?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "In defining the concept of attendance, would not the hon. Member use, perhaps, the same definition as is used in the London dock labour scheme: merely signing on in the morning and in the afternoon to get a minimum attendance in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1849.2", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " be paid a great deal. But, as it is, unless these peers are to be capitalists to a man, they will have to work outside, just as we do. The attendance requirement is coupled with the absence of payment, or the payment of a trivial amount. Further, the necessity that they should work outside makes it virtually certain that young people will be totally excluded from membership of the reformed House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1849.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1853.4", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member represents the City of London. We all know that most of the peers who are ennobled come from the City of London and go to the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1853.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. John Smith) possesses an individual style that commands the attention of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1855.1", "colnum": "1855", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tention of the Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I think it would be very interesting, he having sung the vespers for us, now to attempt over the next few days to sort out the wheat from the chaff. The manner in which the hon. Gentleman holds our attention comes of this peculiar combination, though I must confess that on occasion I feel that there is more chaff than wheat about what he says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-26", "file": "debates1969-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "959c54f9046f7957", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "SECOND READING COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "If I may, with the leave of the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-26a.1880.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1916.3", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman equally well knows that there is no difficulty about finding finance for exports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1916.4", "colnum": "1916", "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": "hen he was President of the Board of Trade, we have persuaded the banks to offer at long and medium term, for some years ahead, a very favourable rate of interest lending to the export firms. This is no reason why, with present money rates in Britain and all over the world, we should put private borrowers on overdraft, much of that even for speculative purposes on the Stock Exchange and elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1916.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1917.0", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that on this side of the House we are much more concerned about the high level of unemployment than about the nonsense of squeezing the private sector into bankruptcy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1917.1", "colnum": "1917", "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": "With regard to the first point, what we are concerned about on this side of the House—and, I think, on all sides of the House—is sufficiently to squeeze excessive production consumption in the home market to get a much bigger increase in exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1917.2", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e been trying to get him up for three weeks—on something other than the Tate Gallery. I know that the right hon. Gentleman is concerned about that. He might take a little time off, after all his gloomy speeches, to say something about the increases in exports brought about by the private lending squeeze. With regard to the estimates of future unemployment, it is not possible to give a figure here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "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 have not yet had from right hon. Gentlemen opposite what are their proposals for reducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "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 have not yet had from right hon. Gentlemen opposite what are their proposals for reducing—[ Interruption .] It is very easy to have slogans about Government expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1920.4", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "QUESTION TO PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to Question No. Q3, to the Prime Minister? This Question has already been answered by an official statement on the B.B.C.'s one o'clock news, when full details were given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1920.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1921.5", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "QUESTION TO PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Naturally. The Press thought, incorrectly, that this is what is technically known as an arranged Question. My hon. Friend knows that it is not an arranged Question has been made that the Question an arranged Question. I have had to have some speedy discussions with the Swedish Government in order to be able to give an answer to my hon. Friend about the date. But no—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1928.3", "colnum": "1928", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT NIXON (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " few words that he uttered before he moved away, if he heard my previous answer he would know that my concern with the B.B.C. had nothing to do with anybody's amour propre , but with the proper defence of two civil servants whose professional integrity had been impugned. Any other Government would have asked for the text in order to study it. It was not a question of amour propre , but correcting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1928.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1932.7", "colnum": "1932", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "In view of what the Father of the House has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1932.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1938.1", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "BANK RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": ", perhaps for the first time, they are not. Various conclusions can be drawn, some most damaging to this country. The Prime Minister scuffed over this in Questions and the Leader of the House has refused time to debate it. If we hoist this international signal of distress we must make it plain to the world at once whether, this has been done because, which I do not believe, the ship is sinking or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1938.3", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "BANK RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "We must make it plain whether it has been done because the ship itself is in danger, or because of a lesser difficulty on board. That can only be done by a debate now in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1938.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": ". Tinn), in rural and non-rural areas these are ludicrous. The President of the Board of Trade said that he would look at them, as if he did not know where they were. The most plausible explanation I have heard is that the right hon. Gentleman, or his predecessor, sat down with a map of Britain superimposed on a bingo board and that the Chancellor of the Exchequer called out the numbers at random.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1956.3", "colnum": "1956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": ". Member was not able to respond in a responsible way to my challenge. [HON. MEMDERS: \"He did so.\"] He must have been joking, I hope he knows that the Conservative Party intends to abolish Selective Employment Tax entirely. That would be the best relief that the hotels want. [HON. MEMDERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I shall be dealing later with the other points the hon. Member made. Three years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1956.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1958.1", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "That is a relevant point which my hon. Friend has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1961.0", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMDERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ces. We have made that clear in relation to other industries. Whether it will be the best system for the future is something that at this stage I cannot say. It is certainly a better system than the investment grant system, where the eligibility has to be decided on a whole lot of arbitrary criteria by officials and is thoroughly unsatisfactory. The only clear light ahead for the tourist industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1961.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1970.3", "colnum": "1970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMDERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "uch better off. Far more could and should be done by fiscal means if we want to inject capital into the industry and get growth. It is fair to say that the sum total of these grants and loans will go nowhere near to offsetting the recent fiscal disadvantages. When the statement was made on 13th November last, the Conservative Opposition were rightly worried about whether we need a statutory Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1972.1", "colnum": "1972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " both. Not only on the grounds of the criminal sanctions, and the right of entry which we are being asked to pass, but also because of the prospective costs, we are entitled to know a little more about registration. I want to deal with the creation of Scottish and Welsh Boards and the sort of mixed federal-cum-English authority. I welcome the existence of Scottish and Welsh Boards for two reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.1972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMDERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "equired for the common weal—and that should be the only basis on which a grant is paid—it should be paid in a selective manner, in the best interests of the community as a whole. I have some notes here, and I have wandered off the mark a little, but those, briefly, are some of the aims and objects which any government should pursue. Let us have no more interference than it is absolutely necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2004.3", "colnum": "2004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMDERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baxter", "preceding_text": "tive manner, in the best interests of the community as a whole. I have some notes here, and I have wandered off the mark a little, but those, briefly, are some of the aims and objects which any government should pursue. Let us have no more interference than it is absolutely necessary. [HON. MEMDERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Grants are not necessary if the natural forces of business are permitted to prevail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2023.1", "colnum": "2023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMDERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "grants being made to hotels in non-development areas and 25 per cent. grants to those in development areas. I thought that this was a Bill to assist the development of tourism. Why should we give another advantage to the development areas? Either the Government have development areas on their conscience or they must have a phobia about them. After all, very few development areas are tourist areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-27", "file": "debates1969-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "7b701a78519cc6a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2036.1", "colnum": "2036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "urism. I take the example of a hotel in a small dingy provincial town which never sees a tourist from the beginning of the year to the end, a hotel used almost entirely by commercial travellers and those who have to visit the town for business reasons. Another example is an establishment providing \"night hawk\" facilities for lorry drivers going up and down a main road. I know something about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-27a.2036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2077.5", "colnum": "2077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be very difficult to do that. People take on a job, and, if they do not want to work on Sundays, they can take other work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2078.0", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": " Lord's Day Observance Society are devout and sincere, with every right to hold their own opinions. But, in my view, they have no right whatever to try to use the power of the State to dictate to other people who do not agree with them how they should spend their Sunday. I know that hon. Members have had a great flood of letters engineered by the Lord's Day Observance Society all over the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2078.0", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": " view, they have no right whatever to try to use the power of the State to dictate to other people who do not agree with them how they should spend their Sunday. I know that hon. Members have had a great flood of letters engineered by the Lord's Day Observance Society all over the country.[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I know from experience that it is one of the most powerful pressure groups in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2079.2", "colnum": "2079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "I oppose the Bill, and I hope that the House will reject it. Had I had any doubts about the unwisdom of the Bill, this week's economic turn of events would have convinced me completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2080.4", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On a Sunday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ill goes through they will have to help both inside and outside the ground and in dealing with the traffic. My objection to the Bill is economic more than moral, though I have strong objections on moral grounds. Yesterday's announcement about Bank Rate—and this is not a party matter; we are all in it together—shows that the Government are determined, I believe rightly, to cut personal expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2080.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2088.3", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it matters whether a man is a professional or an amateur. I could name professional players who have the same view. My hon. Friend should not be obscurantist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2088.5", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I could name professional players who take this view, and their view is respected. There should be a conscience clause in the Bill. Then there is the question of noise. If I had to choose between noise and Sunday observance, I am all in favour of avoiding the noise and doing away with professional football matches if necessary on Sunday. I hope that Clause 3 sufficiently covers that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2088.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2118.5", "colnum": "2118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I am not going to give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2118.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2122.0", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "One-sided.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "people going to church on Sunday if they want to. It will not interfere with those who wish to have a quiet, restful Sunday at home. The Bill will not compel anyone to go out and seek entertainment. It will not prevent people from going to church as many times as they want on Sunday. It will give people opportunity and freedom of choice. Ireland is a country that has pretty strong religious views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2122.3", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "e toilet rolls, into one's garden in an exuberance of spirit. There is a great deal of noise from rattles, chanting, and goodness-knows-what. I suffer this every Saturday. It is not a bit of use the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Renée Short) laughing. If she lived near a football ground she would know that there is nothing to laugh about. People who go to football matches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2146.1", "colnum": "2146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we have all had different experiences in this matter. But I am fairly accessible to my constituents. Most of them know where to find me, certainly on a Saturday evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2151.7", "colnum": "2151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Hooley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Hooley", "preceding_text": "opinion in favour of that activity. There is absolutely nothing of that kind whatever on this issue. Not a single teenager or youth club or anyone like that has suggested that this kind of legislation is necessary or desirable. While I do not wish to be objectionable to my hon. Friends, I must say that it seems a bit odd that it is the greybeards who are supporting this legislation this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2151.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2164.5", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "l interests. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Mr. Fortescue) talks of football teams, but no one will persuade me that the shareholders of Ipswich, Tranmere Rovers or Preston North End have been benefiting a great deal lately. These are not the millionaires, the people who are making thousands every year. The Bill is not sponsored by anyone with any commercial interest in the matter at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2164.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2167.5", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The real big business in entertainment is in bowling pin alleys in which big business people have invested millions and are determined to keep their places open. Everyone knows that they open on Sunday, and have done so for years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2167.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-02-28", "file": "debates1969-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "16c1e5492b0a2c5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2168.1", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "The present situation is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-02-28a.2168.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "oyers 'Associations 1965–1968'; The points made in those Amendments, and other points for or against the Motion, will no doubt be made during the debate, at the end of which hon. Members will vote for or against the Motion or abstain, for the reasons that emerge during the debate. The second point is that 47 hon. Members wish to speak in today's debate, among them 31 on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.36.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.38.2", "colnum": "38", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. This is a most serious matter, because the Ford case is central to the whole of the concept and the related aspect of the Government White Paper. In consequence, the Ford agreement, of which many of us have copies, is germane to this debate. We respect your Ruling, Sir, but if we cannot properly discuss the Ford case the debate should be adjourned until we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.69.4", "colnum": "69", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "n should be open to dismissal solely because he or she is not or has ceased to be a member of a trade union for any reason other than failure to pay the dues, once having agreed to join. In our view, it is absolutely wrong to limit that right as the White Paper does. We say that if such a dismissal occurs, the employee dismissed should have an action for damages against the employer and the union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.69.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "having ballots before official strikes is a matter which we will no doubt have an opportunity to discuss in detail. We support the Government in asking for this power, although we do not believe that it will be of much value. If one is to have power to order a ballot before a strike takes place, one should also consider taking power, to be used on rare occasions, to order a ballot to end a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman is wearing the wrong colours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Brown", "preceding_text": "e get peace in industry. At the moment we have proudly to boast to our membership of 9½million that 500,000 of our brethren and comrades are out of work, and that this White Paper will not help them to find jobs. In introducing the White Paper the right hon. Lady has abnegated that side of the House and taken on the colours of this side in introducing what some have called Tory legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": "s part of a larger malaise. I refer to the growing lack of respect for authority of any kind. Lest there is any misunderstanding at what I mean, I must say that I am not expressing views on respect for authority between men and management. I am thinking of the respect, among other things, that men have for their own elected representatives. We see it in church affairs, in politics and in families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Spencer Summers", "preceding_text": "oudly it would be very helpful to the speaker. To deal with a lack of respect for authority the best advice that I can tender is to see that authority attracts respect. To have respect and authority we must have good communications. This is essential. Recently it has been clear that channels of communications have been singularly lacking. There is also the need for speed in handling these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "all the speeches made today by her hon. Friends behind her, and she has nothing to fear from those who oppose the White Paper. It was an exhibition of the brain of the dinosaur caught in the primeval forests. The first backwoodsman who appeared on the scene called out, \"Woad, it has always been woad, and woad it must remain\". I thought that I should try to make a speech related to the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "and his hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) regard the right of trade unionists to break contracts which they make as the Ark of the Covenant, something which must be defended at all costs, the final bastion round which they must stand and fight. Apparently, that is the reason why those hon. Gentlemen and certain of their hon. Friends will go into the Lobby against the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "obby against the White Paper. [ Interruption .] I assure hon. Gentlemen opposite that the Government have taken a shuffling footstep in the right direction. I am willing to compliment anybody who does that. If hon. Gentlemen opposite ask why the Conservatives did not do something along these lines during their years of office, I remind them that I went to three Ministers of Labour on bended knees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " does not recognise a good Cockney accent. That right hon. Gentleman always said that what mattered in a contract was what it contained for the trade unionists he represented. He made it clear that if the employer would give a big enough carrot, he would negotiate and consider making a recommendation to his men. That makes sense. The whole object of the White Paper is to have greater negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "cks at Tilbury and elsewhere, but without removing any of the restrictive practices. There is nothing in the White Paper to change that situation. What is needed is a change of emphasis from the point of view of the Port of London Authority. The employers will have to buy off the restricted practices and negotiate with the smaller labour force the necessary new scales and terms. The time has come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), a proposition with which I must once again associate my party, that no law will eliminate all strikes. We do not have any such chimera in our minds. We do not believe that the law can cure all. Our aim will be full employment, high earnings and, because of competition, low costs, the end to any attempt to control prices and earnings——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "hat made by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell). I say right away that it was a brilliant, scintillating, witty, intellectual speech, but it showed a lack of understanding of the subject we are debating. That is as good an answer as I can give to the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) who asked why I should be winding up for the Government tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.153.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.155.4", "colnum": "155", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way. You have asked a question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I have a lot of ground to cover.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "What about the non-union striker? Who enforces it against him, or is he not a party to the agreement, so escaping enforceability? Is he to say that he is entitled to contract out becuse he is not a party to the agreement? There are non-union strikers, believe it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " the law, I accept his word, but that is not what the Opposition's policy document says, and it is not the implication of the interpretation of Section 4 which is contained within their policy document. This, of course, does not answer the point of what happens to the non-union striker, nor what happens when a trade union tries to discipline its members into conformity with a collective agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "y irresponsibly and contrary to the leadership. When asked how a union could avoid having its coffers drained, he said: I would have thought the union, as of necessity, would have to expel. I mention these points to show the confusions and ambiguities one is led into by pursuing this panacea of legal enforceability. If I may turn to some of the other points raised in the debate by my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.158.3", "colnum": "158", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "he latter criticising the proposal. My hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West said that the trade unions had no need of what he termed this \"tainted\" money. My hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, North reminded me of something. Hon. Members on both sides of the House complain, with justification sometimes, I feel, that the voices of the back benches are not adequately listened to in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.158.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-03", "file": "debates1969-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "5b6fbdb0f046205f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I accept your Ruling, Sir, and will draw my remarks to a close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-03a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-04", "file": "debates1969-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "055409a3aa12e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT DE GAULLE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "In the event of President de Gaulle visiting this country to iron out these difficulties, will the Prime Minister give us a solemn undertaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-04", "file": "debates1969-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "055409a3aa12e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "PROTECTION FROM DOGS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Doig", "preceding_text": "de of the rest of the House of Commons was the usual one of merriment. I can only say that they were displaying an appalling ignorance of the real problem\". Another wrote: As a postman, I feel that this dog menace is getting out of hand. The number of dog bites will not decrease until postmen are issued with a repellant. The third wrote: My sister has been savaged in the road by a couple of dogs\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.226.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-04", "file": "debates1969-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "055409a3aa12e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "ment of more sophisticated nuclear warheads for the Polaris submarine missiles. No one knows how much this will cost, or at least it has not yet been announced. Again, it appears from a recent Parliamentary reply—and the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) mentioned this a few moments ago—that the two aircraft carriers which it was intended to scrap are to be retained in service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-04", "file": "debates1969-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "055409a3aa12e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not mean it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "sment of what this country requires in the way of defence forces and a realisation that Britain's defence forces can be valuable only as a component in a collective security military alliance. If after the next General Election it should happen that the Conservatives come to power and if they persist with their announced policy of returning to deploying forces in the Far East and the Persian Gulf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-04", "file": "debates1969-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "055409a3aa12e0f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "t General Election it should happen that the Conservatives come to power and if they persist with their announced policy of returning to deploying forces in the Far East and the Persian Gulf—[An HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not mean it.\"]—perhaps they do not, but there is no harm in rubbing this in—it would mean an increase of at least £500 million according to the assessment by our research department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-04a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.399.3", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At no point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is talking about leaping out of the partnership. Is it not the case that he is unable to leap out of it even if he wants to do so? At what point would it be possible to break the agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.399.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.426.2", "colnum": "426", "heading": "CHEDDAR CHEESE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "ould be further compared with a rise over the same period of 32 per cent. in the cost-of-living index. It is not surprising, therefore, that farmers should feel something rather sharper than dismay at the spectacle of their markets being undermined by imports of subsidised produce at prices which bear little or no relation to those ruling in the countries of origin. It is widely felt to be ironic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.426.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " the beautiful city of Prague. Instead, it was decided to send the; army back into barracks, not to use the air force, and to adopt a policy of passive resistance. What else could they do? They were faced with overwhelming forces. They decided that not to fight in the conventional military sense was the wisest policy, and I applaud them. There is a parallel between Czechoslovakia and this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.540.1", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "at, nevertheless, N.A.T.O. cannot forgo reliance on nuclear escalation in face of a large-scale attack. I agree that the impact of what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said was slightly weakened by the remarks of the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) this afternoon, in a charming and perfunctory speech, as usual. I have never known a man do so much housework with so little homework.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.540.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.548.5", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "gramme which, I can tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman, would cost £30 million over 10 years. It is without the increases in stocks and support facilities which he said yesterday that we were running down too fast; and it is without the home defence forces which he and his right hon. Friends said that we might need to deal with large-scale Soviet paratroop attack in the case of general war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "If it were written into the Bill, it would be competent for a subsequent Home Secretary to introduce new legislation to change it again. I appreciate the anxieties expressed by bookmakers on this account, but it is not acceptable for these words to be written into the Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian Walden", "preceding_text": " everyone else who served on the Standing Committee that the majority of the Committee wanted the Bill but that they had doubts—mine were very strong—about Clause 1. However Clause 1 was phrased in its entirety—and that is not what we are now discussing—there are doubts, and hon. Members had sufficient doubts to make them change the nature of the Bill in Committee on the matter of capacity to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.576.2", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Montgomery) said that ultimately the punters will pay this levy. Thus the ordinary man or woman will be paying an additional tax with no opportunity of deciding how it is to be spent. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, All Saints, is in favour of the Bill because it helps horseracing; so it does up to a point. But it also gives a very large tax-free subsidy to wealthy racehorse owners.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "how or other the Standing Committee was persuaded by the great oratory coming from himself and other hon. Members opposite to turn this matter aside and not go along with the Bill as it was. The facts are somewhat different. The vote went that way because two hon. Members on the Government side of the Committee happened to be out of the room at the time the vote was taken. It is as simple as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.584.0", "colnum": "584", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "The House has every right to disagree with what Standing Committees say, and I am sure that no one would deny the right of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.584.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.591.11", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I do not see why these wealthy racehorse owners should receive such a sum, be they Lord Wigg or anyone else. Lord Wigg is a racehorse owner. He took on his job at £4,000 a year but then got £4,800—an extra 20 per cent. before he started. He is a racehorse owner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.591.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-05", "file": "debates1969-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "2b47806208c1a39a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Committee is grateful to the Parliamentary Secretary for his explanation of this short amending Bill. When I read the Second Reading debate on the original legislation I noticed that only four speeches were made, three of them from the respective Front Benches. That possibly sets a precedent for us today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-05a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.645.4", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "It is understandable that, in view of the fact that the central figure of the Investiture is the Prince of Wales, whose superb broadcast the House, I know, will have apreciated, hon. Members should want to attend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.645.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask a question further to that asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.672.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.672.4", "colnum": "672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Three.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I ask a question further to that asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey)? [ Interruption .] We have had a quarter of an hour for the Prime Minister's Questions. We have been lucky to get through five evasive Answers——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.708.1", "colnum": "708", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cautious!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Naturally, any public agreement will be written into the Bill or the Order in Council in some form or other. I will not say whether it will be in the Bill or in the Order in Council. The question of what figures will be written in is a highly specialised one which I shall not answer today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.708.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I think that, off the cuff, the calculation that would affect the contributions to the scheme, not the terms of the agreement with those who contracted out, would be something we have to consider now. For instance, we have now a demand from those inside the scheme that the present graded element should be dynamised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "I was saying that the public are rightly cynical, because they remember the promises made only four years ago. They remember that the minimum guaranteed income scheme was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No codding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " because I am dealing with my right hon. Friend. A famous politician who was engaged in an attack on Sir Winston Churchill once said in the House, when a back bencher tried to intervene, \"I will not give way. Why should I bother with a little fish when I have a great big cod on my hook? \"I say that without disrespect to the hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Nott), to whom I shall give way in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A billion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "d been 8 per cent. unemployment, which providentially there was not, the National Insurance Fund would have \"gone bust\" long ago. My right hon. Friend has given an indication of good will towards the occupational schemes. There are 65,000 of them. They cover between 12 million and 13 million people, they cater for more than half the adult workers and have assets valued at £8,000 or £9,000 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "paid in, whereas benefits in the latter are directly related to contributions paid. The more one pays, the more one gets. It is wrong to claim that workers' contributions to the new scheme are no different from taxation. They will represent a genuine provision for retirement, since each earnings-related contribution will build up the right of the worker to his own personal earnings-related scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ers' contributions to the new scheme are no different from taxation. They will represent a genuine provision for retirement, since each earnings-related contribution will build up the right of the worker to his own personal earnings-related scheme—[ Interruption .] When the noble Lord has asked me questions, he might have the courtesy to listen to my answers. The noble Lord made another statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "heme are no different from taxation. They will represent a genuine provision for retirement, since each earnings-related contribution will build up the right of the worker to his own personal earnings-related scheme—[ Interruption .] When the noble Lord has asked me questions, he might have the courtesy to listen to my answers. The noble Lord made another statement. [ Interruption .] He said that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-06", "file": "debates1969-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "544cf5c03ff2d90d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "EARNINGS-RELATED SOCIAL SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": ". My hon. Friend the Member for The Hartlepools (Mr. Leadbitter) regretted that there was a 20-year maturing period. He seemed to give the impression that one had to wait 20 years before one received benefit. In fact, one need not wait for more than one year, because after the very first year one will get part of the earnings-related benefit; although it will take 20 years to receive full benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-06a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-07", "file": "debates1969-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4aecd1b87f455f1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.847.4", "colnum": "847", "heading": "VAUXHALL MOTORS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I cannot say that any steps taker now to introduce the proposals of hon. Gentlemen opposite would help the situation at all, because the framework of law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.847.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-07", "file": "debates1969-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4aecd1b87f455f1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "COMPANIES (MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Newens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Newens", "preceding_text": "he way through was profit, and there is no doubt that he had been highly successful in this respect. In fact, in 1967, he said in that article, his organisation made £974,000 profit before tax. After taking into account the various costs of acquisition and all the rest of it, the profits were expected to go up in the following year to about £3,102,000, an improvement of £2,128,000 or 218 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-07", "file": "debates1969-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4aecd1b87f455f1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "COMPANIES (MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": " down what should be done for the benefit of the public generally, the consumers and customers. I am sure that few people engaged in the management of industry or commerce, despite what the hon. Member for Southend, East has said, want a system of completely free and unfettered competition with no rules, no guiding lines, no codes of conduct, no supervision in the public interest and no sanctions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.866.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-07", "file": "debates1969-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4aecd1b87f455f1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "COMPANIES (MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "rgers would tend to increase redudancy, turnover and change. It is the grasping of the point that modern, evolving technological society will have to change a great deal more than some hon. Members have been prepared to accept which lies at the heart of the solution to our economic difficulties. The essential reason behind the need for mergers is greater efficiency. But the reason against mergers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-07a.888.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-10", "file": "debates1969-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cea4e2fecf806a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.983.4", "colnum": "983", "heading": "FORD MOTOR COMPANY (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You used it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I think that the phrase \"penalty clause\" is misleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.983.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-10", "file": "debates1969-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cea4e2fecf806a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "e of the Royal Navy. I could not help noticing that some of the phraseology used by the Under-Secretary was similar, particularly when he referred to dockyards—productivity and so on—to the phraseology which I used when I held his office. However, while the voice was that of Jacob, I could not help wondering if the hand was not that of Esau—though when a mistake involving £1 million has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-10", "file": "debates1969-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cea4e2fecf806a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "ences to the size of the Russian Fleet. The Russian Fleet is apparently a great danger. The tasks to which the British Navy might be committed is the destruction, or aid in the destruction, of the Russian Fleet. It is not so long ago that the Secretary of State for Defence made this perfectly clear, when he said that the Russian Fleet could be sunk within five minutes—I think those were his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-10", "file": "debates1969-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cea4e2fecf806a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-10", "file": "debates1969-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cea4e2fecf806a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I have been left only 20 minutes, and I owe it to other hon. Members to reply to the points they have raised. There was a period of some years during the construction of the four——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-10a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1162.4", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that 75 parking places are provided in Constitution Hill, and that on some days in the summer up to 140 coaches arrive for these places? Is he aware that there is a growing demand for parking places because of increasing tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1162.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1170.4", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA (SUPPLY OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And de Gaulle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, for reasons which have been given in the House. While I know the feelings of hon. Members, I should not want to raise hopes in that connection. I think that the real issue would be that, if there were to be an embargo—and it would have to apply to private and black market sales as well as to Governmental sales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1172.2", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": " and it is universally wanted by the public. The Government pick and choose among Private Members' Bills and give time to help where they see fit. Kissing goes by favour. Let the Government show favour for once to a Bill which everyone wants. It would be a change. Abortion, abolition of capital punishment, divorce, Sundays—all widely, and many universally unwanted and unpopular Measures have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1176.4", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "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": "authority, which will manage the home through a body of managers of whom one-third will represent the voluntary organisation. An assisted home will be financed by the voluntary organisation--which will charge fees to local authorities for accommodating children in its care—and managed by the organisation through a body of managers of whom one-third will be appointed by a specified local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": " his long experience as a magistrate in juvenile courts, I look forward to his contribution to the debate. He has made a valid point. Under the regulations which the Home Secretary may make a boy who is a perfect vandal and has caused trouble at a football ground—it may be at Oldham Athletic or Manchester United; if it occurred at Oldham Athletic there might be some justification for his behaviour", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Stalky & Co.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "he question whether we are talking about equality or uniformity. Although I do not recall the name of the book, I recall a story in which some schoolboys were talking about a headmaster who was a particularly beastly example of his species. The schoolboys were not particularly concerned about his beastliness. One of them remarked, in a quite famous comment, \"He is a beast, but he is a just beast\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The curate's egg.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "ing dealt with by the juvenile courts rather than in the school or the home. It is not a kindness to young people that this process is taking place. It has been the inevitable result of the tendencies of our day. It is against this background that I find the Bill to be rather like the parson's egg—good in parts and bad in parts. Naturally, I would hope to be able to separate the bad from the good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1305.6", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Power (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House doth agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1305.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1305.10", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "d a new Clause dealing with the notification of the beginning and ending of tipping operations. This was agreed to and it became Clause 4 of the Bill as it left this House. It gave discretion to the inspector for the district to permit the resumption of tipping on a closed tip from a mine or quarry of a prescribed class or description within a shorter period than the specified 30 days. It did not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1305.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1311.4", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (STATUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "bute any relevant views on major matters of university policy. We can see the force of that if we merely look around this House. Take, for example, the Government Front Bench. There is my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1311.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1318.3", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (STATUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evan Luard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evan Luard", "preceding_text": " university as a whole, those with whom we are concerned in assessing the question of Convocation? In what way can they be said to be directly concerned by all the decisions, detailed as well as major decisions, reached within the university? The answer is not at all. Not a single, solitary scrap. These are of no great or immediate concern to those who have passed through a university and left it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (STATUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "Precisely on the ground I have been describing. These people are directly affected by the decisions which are reached, whereas ex-members of the university are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (STATUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "e moment during their distinguished lives had to spend a year or two in the Army should continue for the rest of their lives to exercise a power of veto over all the decisions reached concerning the organisation of the Army? Would my right hon. and learned Friend consider that all those who had been members of a Government should continue throughout the rest of their lives to exercise veto powers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-11", "file": "debates1969-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "de3134ae073e5fa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (STATUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "asily get there to cast a vote. And there are the wealthy plutocrats who can afford to take a day off from work in London to cast a vote in Oxford. What more conservative body could there be therefore than these dons, parsons and plutocrats? But it is precisely these whom my right hon. Friend is trying to retain in decision-making at Oxford. It is true that this might be alleviated to some extent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-11a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1377.3", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "FORD MOTOR COMPANY (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that the Ford workers have a justifiable claim for a wage increase above the 3½ per cent. norm, particularly as Ford skilled workers are no better off today than they were 30 years ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackenzie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackenzie", "preceding_text": "propose to conduct their lives. During the last few months—as a Scot I might be expected to say a word or two on this—we have discussed the question of uncertainty and the policy of this Government and previous Governments. But, linked with it, has been the question of amalgamations and of regiments being disbanded. This lack of regimental appeal has been a considerable factor in Army recruitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Secretary of State at all. He should really be renamed, for it is the Treasury who are really behind our whole defence policy. That policy has been geared to one thing only, the saving of money. Has it ever occurred to the Government that if that is the only criterion of defence we could save the whole lot if we did not have to consider what defence is for; and some hon. Gentlemen would like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I find myself in somewhat of a quandary following the hon. Member for Epping (Mr. Newens), as I think that most of his speech, delivered I am sure with tremendous sincerity, was hardly relevant to a debate on the Army Estimates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1481.4", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "preceding_text": "The debates used to go on all night. I was always extremely fortunate to be called very quickly by a predecessor of yours. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Lord MacAndrew, because I think that he knew that I had just given up command of a Territorial battalion and knew what I was talking about. We waited until about six-thirty in the morning before the Minister replied. I apologise to this degree to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1481.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1498.2", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How many?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "also the cadres which have been referred to. These form a base for ex-Regulars whose reserve service has finished but who can still volunteer in an emergency. A great many people would be available for that sort of emergency. There are regulars from the R.A.F., from the Navy, and there are a great many officers who are not required in the ordinary mobilisation plans but who will also be available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-12", "file": "debates1969-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "9c0048cbc456a4fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (ARMY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyden", "preceding_text": "The whole adds up to considerable thousands. The basic concept put forward is that the defence of Britain does not lie in N.A.T.O. It does, and the general organisation of N.A.T.O. is the basic defence of this country. These form a bonus reserve in England in the kinds of circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-12a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1556.5", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "siting the representatives of the International Monetary Fund. The latter part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, I hope, will himself be visiting Washington before too long. The hon. Gentleman can then no doubt put that question to him. I recall how much difficulty we had through the inheritance of such a large deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1556.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1562.9", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "MEMBERS (DECLARATION OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "ry. I queried this with you, Mr. Speaker, because, after nearly 24 years in the House, I could not recall an occasion when an hon. Member had declared an interest when asking a question. I realise that at the moment this matter is under general consideration, but until it is decided hon. Members could be in some difficulty if they are to declare interests when they ask Oral Questions in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1562.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1566.0", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Robson Brown", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware of the grave anxiety in certain parts of Surrey arising out of the disastrous floods of last September? I am deeply dissatisfied with some of the Answers that Ministers have given to my Questions on this vitally important matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "With arms.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Maurice Foley)", "preceding_text": " also learn from their past mistakes and strive to live in harmony with other Nigerians as equal partners for national progress. Here, I must introduce a brief note of caution into our debate. We must remember that we are discussing the internal affairs of a sovereign, independent State. In many respects—and I make no apologies for this—we are intruding into the grief and private agony of Nigeria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which was the largest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foley", "preceding_text": ". Since last June, the contribution by the Government has been almost £1 million. Of this amount, £700,000 took the form of a contribution to the International Red Cross in response to its appeal for funds to finance the relief operations up to the end of the year, and then up to February. Our contribution was the second largest Governmental contribution made so far to the International Red Cross.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1591.2", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "y had been hit. Children were killed. I saw a church on the road to Umuahia, and the little villages round the church, almost like countryside villages in this country. Bombs had fallen there, too. We talk about discrimination in bombing. There can be no discriminatory bombing in a place like Biafra, in which there are so many people roaming about. Stop it altogether; that is the only thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1597.1", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "es of the cold war. We are seeing a conflict between France and Russia—and indeed ourselves. We are seeing a clash between European Powers as well. We are certainly finding ourselves at variance with the views of our European allies. That is why the British Week was cancelled in Switzerland. That is why there have been posters up in Berlin saying \"U.S.S.R. and G.B. Volkmord\", which means genocide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ion which was in operation before the coup d'etat of General Gowon and General Ironsi. I do not think that this is something that we can do. I think that this will have to come from the United Nations, or from the O.A.U., or from the Commonwealth as a whole. Unfortunately, I think that we are too tainted. I hope that the Government will not think that they are taking useful initiatives by sending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do you oppose these Missions being sent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "to bring back reports. I do not query the faith of the Prime Minister in this matter, but it is extraordinary how many missions have been dispatched at hours' notice the day before difficult debates. We have seen it in Rhodesia. We have seen it in Vietnam, and we have seen it now in Nigeria. But even if I accept that every one of those initiatives has nothing to do with any tactical consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who told the hon. Gentleman that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "looding this country is that it was the Ibos who began the whole thing. First, they murdered the Federal Prime Minister. They murdered the Prime Ministers of two of the other regions. They murdered the Finance Minister, and later they started the actual fighting, even though the Federal Government had gone on being immensely patient and paying the salaries of dissident officials in the Ibo areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "rs of two of the other regions. They murdered the Finance Minister, and later they started the actual fighting, even though the Federal Government had gone on being immensely patient and paying the salaries of dissident officials in the Ibo areas.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who told the hon. Gentleman that?\"] The facts are there. The trouble is that nobody wants to know. Before General Gowon began the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ed the Finance Minister, and later they started the actual fighting, even though the Federal Government had gone on being immensely patient and paying the salaries of dissident officials in the Ibo areas.—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Who told the hon. Gentleman that?\"] The facts are there. The trouble is that nobody wants to know. Before General Gowon began the war—[ Laughter .]—sorry, before Colonel Ojukwu—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "side every cemetery. There were most horrible murders, but, apparently, because they were done by the rebels, this does not matter. None of my hon. Friends who make such a commotion now bothered to take that up, any more than they agitate about the rocket firing by the Vietcong on civilians in South Vietnam, which is far worse than anything that General Gowon can do and is killing far more people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "United Nations and how many Motions are put on the Order Paper of the House of Commons, the realpolitik of the situation is that the Russians have said, \"If the British let you down, we will see that you finish the rebellion.\" Why should we cut off the arms in any case? They are the legitimate Government. Surely they have a right to defend the integrity of their country against internal rebellion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1607.3", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I can tell my right hon. Friend this much. At the conference in Ghana, it was agreed by Colonel Ojukwu that General Gowon should be the head of the Federal Government of Nigeria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1609.2", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "to abandon all our ideals and hopes for Africa. If so, we cannot imagine what would be the result. That is why I am amazed at some of the extraordinary attitudes which some people adopt over this question. Pressure should be brought to bear on Colonel Ojukwu to agree to what must be regarded as the very reasonable terms that have been put forward. He is one of the most unreasonable men in history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1626.1", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "I do not know why hon. Members get so indignant. I was just coming to that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1626.3", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) in making that appeal to General Gowon. But if we ask a man to throw away one weapon he is unlikely to respond unless we give him another to replace it. I do not think for one moment, as I have said earlier, that there can be a negotiated end to this war. So we must get a military end to it—quickly, quickly, quickly—to save further starvation among the Ibos.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1628.2", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "nue to do so. Of course I agree that if we could get a total embargo it would be most desirable, but are we likely to get a total embargo by unilaterally stopping the supply of British arms? I do not believe that we can, and so the position is rather a curious one. I am a little bewildered by some of the arguments, because supposing there was, for example, an armed uprising of Maoris in Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1641.5", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Barnes", "preceding_text": "ew of the military stalemate, Britain must choose. One can understand the protest about the bombing in this country, but it is not enough to say, \"Stop the bombing\". The choice is this: either we take the view which the hon. Member for Surbiton (Mr. Fisher) took, which is similar to the view of my hon. Friend the Member for York—and I hope that he will have a chance to catch your eye, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1641.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1652.0", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Zambia?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "g arms so that the black man can be killed he should go to Kenya, or Uganda, or any area where there are real tribal problems, and ask the people there what they want to see as a result of the Nigerian war. It is noticeable that the most enthusiastic adherent of Biafra's course of action is Tanzania. She is one of the few African states which have very few tribal divisions within their boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "air, they will never have anything to put against the Nigerians. This war is fought on the roads, and the movement goes on on the roads. It takes place over the urban areas. Then there is a movement back of the troops. There is only one urban area left in the Biafran enclave. I am sure that if the roads were taken, if Umuahia were taken and the other urban roads were taken, this war would be over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "s to end the war, though I shall have more to say about this later. I believe that the House will accept that if we are to take such steps we must keep closely in touch with the Nigerian Government; otherwise it will simply be an empty exercise. It is to be expected, therefore, that at some stage there will be a meeting of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister with the Prime Minister of Nigeria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "ly be an empty exercise. It is to be expected, therefore, that at some stage there will be a meeting of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister with the Prime Minister of Nigeria. [ Interruption ] It was well known and it was public knowledge at the time of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference that such a meeting might occur. Indeed, I can tell the House that there is to be such a meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, I think not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, I think not. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] It may be possible for me to give way later, but to do so just at the beginning breaks the line of argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1686.0", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "What we have urged on the Federal Government is that they must take every possible measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1686.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Mediating with arms.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " any chance of acting as mediator would have gone at once. I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer), that I have never pretended, the Government were in the position of a mediator. For the very reasons I have just set out. I understand that that cannot be so. If my hon. Friend will read what the Government had said he will see that he has not been misled on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-13", "file": "debates1969-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "67ad1bfac16e0c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "erm defence of Portuguese colonial interests in Africa. Similar considerations arise in the case of other countries. In this situation—and I hope I carry hon. Members with me here, for I am pointing out, as I must, the difficulties—it would be easy to pretend that we could make a striking initiative for an embargo tomorrow and try to conceal the fact that the chances of success are not very great.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-13a.1690.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.17.5", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAYMASTER-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that statement. This is a very delicate position but, as of now, I would say that both sides have been co-operative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.17.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.17.7", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAYMASTER-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is stopping them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I have said that at the moment there is very full cooperation by both sides towards the attempts being made to release these ships from the Great Bitter Lake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.17.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "MORTGAGE INTEREST RATE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "t that 90 per cent. of people with mortgages refuse to take advantage of it? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware than an 80 per cent. mortgage on the average price house now results in payments of £2 10s. a week more than when Labour came into office? In the light of what the Prime Minister said in his election manifesto, at Bradford, at Sittingbourne, at Huyton and at Stevenage, and at a time when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.44.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "MORTGAGE INTEREST RATE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " Is the right hon. Gentleman aware than an 80 per cent. mortgage on the average price house now results in payments of £2 10s. a week more than when Labour came into office? In the light of what the Prime Minister said in his election manifesto, at Bradford, at Sittingbourne, at Huyton and at Stevenage, and at a time when—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"]—at a time when the mort gage interest rate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Obstinate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "solution the Government are now prepared to bring forward. This dispute has already done too much harm to the industry and Parliament cannot simply wash its hands of the matter by allowing the Order to go through. The impression which many farmers have is that the Under-Secretary's Department and, in particular, his right hon. Friend the Minister have been too harsh and dictatorial in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY (TRAINING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "that the levy is to be imposed through the fertiliser subsidy. Therefore, let us hear precisely what realistic proposals the Government can bring forward. The Minister may tell us that if the House should refuse to pass the Order tonight that will mean that the Board will have to be wound up. In all the circumstances, would such a result be looked upon by the farming community as a total disaster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-17", "file": "debates1969-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "284fc21fb47c0ef3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "BRIGHTON CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why is the Minister intervening?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "esthoughton (Mr. J. T. Price) seemed to suggest that the Bill would by-pass the priorities of the Ministry of Transport. I want to clear up this point. The Bill gives the Brighton Corporation the power to borrow money to construct these roads, which are purely within the responsibility of the council. They are not Ministry of Transport roads as such, and would not rank for grant from the Ministry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-17a.140.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.180.8", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "It is due to banding five Questions together that I have to ask this super-supplementary question, Mr. Speaker. Is my right hon. Friend further aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.180.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.201.8", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend make sure that he gives full pub- licity to all of the quite outstanding achievements of the Government in Scotland since they came to office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.201.8"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.202.5", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Jobs.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As to unemployment, which is the best measure of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall be very glad to look into the job figures, and to give them to the right hon. Gentleman. I will also give the right hon. Gentleman what is most relevant to this, the amount of new factory development, the number of new jobs created by this Government, which was at a rate 112 per cent. higher, in terms of floor space—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.203.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.214.8", "colnum": "214", "heading": "ART AUCTIONS (RINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Board of Trade (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Board of Trade (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "ull explanation has been given. It may be helpful to the House, and avoid further delay, if I indicate what my right hon. Friend would have wished to say had circumstances allowed him to be present. The House will know the great courtesy that my right hon. Friend always shows on these occasions and will not assume that it is not his intention at the earliest moment to give a very full explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.214.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "iscussion, namely, the need for absolute clarity of Government statement, otherwise English lives could be endangered. This seems a new point, especially as there has been no denial by the Government—and I failed to catch your eye this afternoon, Mr. Speaker—in a very complex legal situation under the 1967 Act, that this possible sending of British troops is not at the request of Premier Bradshaw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.224.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "uable to the Committee if I pointed out that I have been trying to obtain a list of statistics which are relevant and which are in the Library, but which have been denied to me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have proof with me that the list exists. I have a letter which tells me that a request for straightforward statistical information cannot be given because of undertakings supplied to certain people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Why not?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "On that point of order. Have you considered what the Solicitor-General said, as reported at c. 1819 of the OFFICIAL REPORT for 26th February? When asked by the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Sheldon) about these figures, the right hon. and learned Gentleman said: I cannot produce as an exhibit the calculations or the formulae.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.239.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ainly also includes the same figures as I had. Therefore, I do not know how far this document, which my right hon. Friend heard was in the Library and which was offered to him for examination, is relevant. It may be a very relevant document. I took the figures which in our view were the relevant figures, and I still maintain that they were relevant. There may be others, but I quoted in good faith—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.253.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "at is why we are discussing it now. If there is this document, we should suggest to the House of Lords that it should be made available to us for public discussion. I want to say to my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) that, if there is a document, there is only one, for which he asked from the House of Lords. As for my reference, the document I was referring to was my notes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Arthur Vere Harvey", "preceding_text": "ument to be produced in the future. I do not see how the Committee can proceed with its business until it has the document. Requests have been made to the Patronage Secretary, in his absence, that he should send for the Leader of the House, who is the only Cabinet Minister able effectively to deal with the problem. If I may have the attention of the Patronage Secretary—is he reading the document?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gourlay, I wish to support the point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Mr. Sheldon) and ask him that we should be allowed to put ourselves in order and under proper procedure. I notice that the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) has just left the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.263.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Mr. Gourlay, I wonder whether I can assist the Committee and you in particular in resolving this dilemma? I apologise for not having been present throughout the whole of the period covered by these points of order. I have been attending a steering meeting of the Parliamentary Scientific Committee which, I think, has done rather better work today than this Committee has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.264.5", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "er in order that the document might be produced. Now we know that you do not have any such power. Therefore, we can come on to the other points of order raised by hon. Members on both sides, and it would be for the convenience of the Committee if those points of order could be disposed of as they occur. I have heard several hon. Members on each side of the Committee making the same point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.264.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I was not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.266.5", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Therefore, I suggest that the debate should be allowed to proceed on the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.266.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.285.4", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They know not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ged for that interesting observation. Modesty being one of my characteristics, psychoanalysis of Front Benches is not something in which I freely indulge. The only reason why I have been led to delve into the mental attitudes of occupants of the Government Front Bench on this occasion is that they are sponsors of the Bill. What the attitude of those on my Front Bench is on this subject I know not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ation. I understand that my hon. Friend is not saying that no information has been published but that it has not been organised in the way that is most convenient to him. I do not believe that that is a sufficient reason for reporting Progress now. In view of my hon. Friend's valuable speech assuring us of his knowledge that all the relevant information is already published, with all the relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.294.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I was pointing out that, given a certain mortality, which must be assumed and which is ascertainable from the mortality tables, and given an age composition of the House, which, again, is a basic assumption which can be made, there is only one age of retirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.344.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-18", "file": "debates1969-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "a569b2ab9bc58b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elystan Morgan", "preceding_text": "ample, Bills starting in the House of Lords—or other debates. I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kingston-upon-Thames on having directed his speech wholly to the Amendment that stands in his name. Nevertheless I put it to the Committee that a one-fifth qualification is not really consistent with the status of being a voting peer and part of the working House in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-18a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alleged?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ember for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) thought fit to refer to \"unworthiness\". I suggest that if the reports of my two earlier interventions are considered, they will be found not to have any contradiction whatever. I leave it at that. On the issue which the right hon. Gentleman latterly raised, he and the Committee will appreciate that these alleged undertakings of my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "t\"— that is, nothing in the document— which has not been published previously.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 18th March, 1969; Vol. 780, c. 296.] The Committee then divided upon the Question, That the Question be now put, and then upon the Question, That the Chairman do report Progress and ask leave to sit again. The Committee, by a majority, rejected that Motion and by that Division indicated its attitude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Since I was the Member who originally brought this matter up, I should like to press it a little further. I believe that Erskine May would turn in his grave if he had been alive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Irving, you had not listened to the point that I was about to put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.412.9", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "olve, although progress had not then been made, only by the opportunity to debate the Motion to which you are referring. If I might trespass upon your patience just so far, it is to emphasise the very close similarity between our difficulty now and that of yesterday; namely, that we have—and this is not the fault of the Committee—been confronted with, I think it is now three Ministerial statements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.412.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I rise simply because the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.455.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.455.4", "colnum": "455", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I rise simply because the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House—[ Interruption .]—has, in so far as it lay with him, put right what many of us felt was done wrong this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.456.6", "colnum": "456", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) accused my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) of calling the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) a Nazi. The hon. Gentleman's allegation is totally untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.456.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "PARLIAMENT No. 2 BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The Committee having spent most of this morning, and most of yesterday, on points of order which were quite farcical, I protested at the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) rising to speak on what he called a matter of courtesy, but which some of us felt was completely discourteous. I wanted to say that, and I have now done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I am familiar with my hon. Friend's powerful advocacy of the cause of Glasgow, which we have de bated on several occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With draw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that some of the less honourable Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "from which it was evident that the Anguillans as a whole would have welcomed them. After this reception, an armed minority decided that the proposals must not be further discussed with the people of the island. My hon. Friend was confronted with a group of armed men who demanded his withdrawal from the island. After shots had been fired, he decided to leave the island to avoid possible bloodshed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "d with a group of armed men who demanded his withdrawal from the island. After shots had been fired, he decided to leave the island to avoid possible bloodshed.—[ Interruption .] I think that any hon. Member, had he been in that position and aware of how much the whole future would have been damaged if there had been any loss of life or injury, would have taken the action that my hon. Friend took.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.493.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.506.10", "colnum": "506", "heading": "ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "You have me across a barrel, Mr. Speaker. I have no choice but to withdraw, which I do under protest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.506.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "FORD MOTOR COMPANY DISPUTE (SETTLEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " with the right hon. Gentleman that this has been an extremely damaging dispute; damaging to all concerned. The Ford workers have lost a great deal, as has the country as well as the firm. As for making an analysis of the causes, one has only to live through the negotiations which have taken place over a dispute of this kind to get a good running day-to-day analysis of the causes and difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "It is correct to say that the Farmers' Unions have not agreed the Review, but the right hon. Gentleman knows from his experience that he had two disagreed Reviews when he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry. Of course, it is important that this Review should match up to the statement I made in November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I think I can give the figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said that he has paid council rents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said that he has paid council rents—[ Interruption .]—or he is stopping any increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "a scheme, one cannot order them about in the way that he was suggesting. I heard the hon. Gentleman say that he could get the building societies to make concessions about opting in and opting out of the scheme. Only today we have had a letter from the Building Societies Association saying that it has set its face against any suggestion of further complicating the scheme by allowing second options—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.542.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Names.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "to enable them to grant two or three mortgages each. The Minister said with regard to some areas, \"We have stopped the wicked and foolish sale of council houses.\" The truth is that, not every hon. Member opposite, but there are some in high places in the Labour Government whose vision of a new Britain is still a nation of council house tenants. This is a fundamental difference between the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.561.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.565.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": "n opening the debate my right hon. Friend the Minister of Housing and Local Government—I cannot understand why the right hon. Gentleman denied this—went through the party manifesto page by page, referred to all the items dealing with the housing programme, and explained how it was that we had made those promises, what we had done about them, and how we had honestly and faithfully carried them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": " to make it quite clear, not only that the building societies have to compete for funds, but that the present rates which are being charged by building societies are neither out of step with other rates being charged by finance houses for finance, nor out of step with rates obtaining in other countries. Indeed, one hon. Member who is, I think, connected with a building society or is in that field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "HOME OWNERSHIP", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me. I should be guilty of gross discourtesy if, having been unwilling to give way to an hon. Member opposite, I give way to one of my hon. Friends. I come immediately to the problem of the hardship which is alleged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.570.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "orations. We are very lucky this evening to have more time to debate the Air Force than we had to debate the other two Services. This is due to a procedural accident. If the Opposition had not come forward with a Motion of censure this afternoon, I suppose we would have had to conclude our debate at ten o'clock, and the Royal Air Force would have had two hours less in which to discuss its affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "That is encouraging. Perhaps the B.M.A. was disturbed by what the right hon. Gentleman had done. I am glad that he has been able to persuade it to talk to him again. I shall skip great chunks of my speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-19", "file": "debates1969-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "b0846c694737cfea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "DEFENCE (AIR) ESTIMATES, 1969–70, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "he point raised fairly late in the debate by the hon. Member for Mid-Bedfordshire about the aiming of helicopters. In case he should think that I am avoiding the issue by curtailing my remarks, in courtesy to the House, I will deal with this point immediately. We have taken a decision to arm helicopters for the Army. They will be armed with the SS11. The order for the SS 11 is a small one to meet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-19a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend make it clear that he is going to Nigeria as a friend and supporter of the Nigerian Government and not as an emissary of the Biafran rebels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is it not characteristic; of the Prime Minister and hon. Members opposite that they should so bitterly oppose a proposal which it is quite obvious the majority of people in this country want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "uite obvious the majority of people in this country want? [ Interruption .] Is it not particularly foolish to do so on the fallacious ground that the local Press will suffer when it is quite plain that the local Press, having an interest in local commercial radio stations, will stand to benefit in the same way as the national Press is benefiting from national commercial television. In this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "f order. May I direct your attention to this conspiracy on the part of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to prevent me from putting my Question No. Q8? Is it not obvious to you that this is a Question which they find disagreeable and that probably they have no adequate or satisfactory answer to it? I am entitled to put my Question. It was obvious that they were just wasting time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member the shadow to the shadow Postmaster-General will no doubt be aware that his Government opposed commercial television until, in June, 1952, facing an extremely desperate situation with a narrow majority, they gave way to a very strong pressure lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.744.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.758.2", "colnum": "758", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a brief personal statement. I am persuaded that courtesy does not come amiss in the conduct of our business in this House, and I should therefore like to express to you and to the House my regrets at the remarks I made yesterday afternoon which reflected on your conduct of the Chair. My respects, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.758.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "oyed on the Royal yacht were not fully employed but that they were unnecessarily employed. I go a great distance with the hon. Member for Haltemprice and his colleagues. I think there is a place for the Royal yacht, and its scope has been considerably widened. He was stretching it rather far when he claimed in support of the Royal yacht and its activities that it was engaged in trade and commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-20", "file": "debates1969-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "04b76ce2d9d45a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE (NAVY) ESTIMATES, 1969–70", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "o not get any answer. I do not expect one. I refer to the Polaris because I am one of the unfortunate individuals who live near the Polaris base in Scotland. It does not give me any sense of security. Neither does it give any sense of security to all the people living in that area. There has recently been a very interesting discussion about Polaris in a seminar organised by the Church of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-20a.793.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-21", "file": "debates1969-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc4812638bd06b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-21a.998.10", "colnum": "998", "heading": "CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1876 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-21a.998.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-21", "file": "debates1969-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "4ffc4812638bd06b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-21a.998.14", "colnum": "998", "heading": "ROAD TRAFFIC (INSURANCE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-21a.998.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I find it a little difficult to follow the hon. Gentleman through the back door and the dead ducks. We are not trying to get entry through a back door. The question of our application, so far from being a dead duck, is supported by all three political parties in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1042.6", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I repeat, with deference to the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1042.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "int of order. Will you consider another point, Mr. Speaker? With the exception of the Daily Mail , the whole of the Press has not understood the position as you have put it, but has refrained from publishing reports on the subject as a courtesy to the House. You and I and the whole House must, of course, be sensitive to keeping the good will of the Lobby and the journalists who deal rightly by us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": " the short notice available to you, you did not say whether or not Lobby copies of the report were issued? If they were, and if some 200 people got them but did not publish them, then this would seem to be something which might perhaps be better dealt with by a method other than the one of privilege. If they were not, then how can it be explained that I observed somebody carrying one this morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "int aspects of the way in which our affairs are handled in the House is that we have a series of defence debates, amounting to six days, which are not preceded by any declaration of the Government's foreign policy or any debates upon it. After all, it is the Government's foreign policy which the defence forces exist to serve. Today no Foreign Office Minister even takes part in the defence debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "hat we had already run down our forces too far and that we should stop the run-down now. In other words, if the right hon. Gentleman believes that we should continue to run down, let him tell us how much he is prepared to continue the run-down. If he is not prepared to continue the run-down, let him for once be honest and accept that it would cost a very large sum of money, sufficient to wipe out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If I may finish my intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1054.6", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " Her Majesty's Government that they are pursuing a sound European policy? Alas, there are many in the technological, and financial and diplomatic fields—the constant attempt to disengage from E.L.D.O.; the refusal to participate further in C.E.R.N.; the failure to reach in a reasonable time a decision on the airbus, which is still delayed; the lack of enthusiasm which is apparent for the Concorde—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1054.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister speaks later in the debate, he will be able to develop that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " logical reply to those attacks. Of course. We understand that, and, indeed, it is a policy we on this side support. But that it was bound to be misunderstood and misrepresented abroad surely must, have been obvious to all but the blindest Ministers in the Government. It may be that some right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite will deduce that the Government should now advance to force in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What action?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman associates himself with those critics. Perhaps more serious is the point that two Caribbean Governments have disagreed. But we should notice that, not so long ago, at a conference of all the independent Commonwealth States and the Associated Commonwealth States in the Caribbean, a very solemnly worded Resolution was passed requiring us to take action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has said that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that what is most abhorrent to the people of Anguilla is the thought of being put back under St. Kitts? Nothing would restore confidence more than making an unambiguous and clear declaration that this will never happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bash them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " used? It suggested rather more than this rather limited number of soldiers and policemen. I am told that well-informed journalists believe that it could be done with less, but I do not think the House would be happy if I took advice from that quarter. This could have been, as any use of military force can be, ugly and cruel. It is more likely to become so if one makes an error of sending too few.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Far East.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "es all that, and I understand that he does, is he really saying that Britain can maintain and afford the vast defence burden which his policy towards the East would involve? He must do the arithmetic. It was not, as he suggested, bogus. It is what he is suggesting that will not stand up. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of two countries—France and the Netherlands—as having forces in the Middle East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "must not ever do anything that the French do not like. The Conservative Government of the day sent the then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, now our Ambassador in Paris, to W.E.U., despite the French disapproval of his appearance there. I think that the then Conservative Government were justified in so doing. I say very seriously, that it is no part of our policy to isolate the French.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "reement, but what happened after that? Israel and the Arab States were given an assurance, but it was never implemented. It was side-stepped, and nobody knows that better than the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home). He was closely associated with these matters and, in my judgment—I wish to cause him no embarrassment—he was one of our best Foreign Secretaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-24", "file": "debates1969-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "5c1fd45d64ac5be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "This is later in the sequence of events. I am trying to give the House a picture of the sequence of events through the eyes of a young man who knows Anguilla perhaps better than any hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-24a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "WELLAND AND NENE (EMPINGHAM RESERVOIR) AND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1239.20"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Kirk", "preceding_text": "from the Government on this matter. However, my point is a different and far more simple one. I do not think that we should pass this Motion until we have a clear indication of the Government's intentions about the Parliament (No. 2) Bill. It is clear that, once we return after Easter, we shall be faced with the Budget debate and the Finance Bill, which we know takes up an enormous amount of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "d I cannot accept that, but I understand from the argument he put forward that he is afraid of legislation which might be deleterious to sections of the community. He put that very firmly. I take a contrary view and that we should have the short recess proposed in this Motion. I always listen carefully to what the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) says, for he is a distinguished Parliamentarian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "y will find that the majority of the House are in favour of the Bill. We should carefully examine arguments put forward, but I cannot deploy them at this stage. I shall be making a business statement later about the programme for next week, which hon. Members will have to consider very carefully. I believe the majority of opinion in the House as expressed in the Divisions is in favour of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1329.4", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "t to and that if they did not sell it, and quickly, they would lose 40 per cent. of its increased value to the Land Commission. The message came back loud and clear, that I was under a sad misapprehension and they would not pay the 40 per cent. but I would. This was clear from the beginning. It took me a long time to find a dear old lady who was convinced by my argument, and I eventually moved it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1329.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I made clear at Question time this afternoon that I had not reached a conclusion; so the answer to the hon. Gentleman's question is \"No, I have not reached a conclusion\". I am explaining that the provisions of the Act are not the all-embracing callous set of provisions manifestly unjust—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1342.2", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "I made clear at Question time this afternoon that I had not reached a conclusion; so the answer to the hon. Gentleman's question is \"No, I have not reached a conclusion\". I am explaining that the provisions of the Act are not the all-embracing callous set of provisions manifestly unjust—[ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "LAND COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "tone with all the care that I could, but I became extremely confused at several points in his speech to know whether he was criticising the Land Commission or the Kent County Council. On balance, it seemed to me that the Kent County Council had rather more of his strictures than the Land Commission. The House will not expect me this evening to go beyond what I said at three o'clock this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1356.2", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "PLANNING, PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Cooke", "preceding_text": "ort of the local authority and others who can be brought into its confidence to improve that area and then all those areas where it is decided that development should take place. If one can sort out the various needs and requirements, one might get a great deal more; done in the way of dealing with our housing problem, which the right hon. Gentleman assured the nation recently was nearing its end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1402.3", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that I would not make charges of that kind. The Minister will not expect special protection in a debate of this kind. He will not expect us to observe the doctrine \"Speak kindly to your little boy\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-25", "file": "debates1969-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "15c2ff006af57054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND (DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "ures for housing and again in the middle of 1967. He used to say that we would never reach our tarket of 40,000 houses which we promised in the 1964 Election, or that we would not manage it by the date promised. In fact we achieved it by the end of 1967 and again in 1968. Therefore, I suggest that before he decries the Government he should give us the right length of time to achieve these targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-25a.1419.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-27", "file": "debates1969-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "9f3ec2257367dde7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-27a.1797.0", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "To answer the right hon. Gentleman's third question first, I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister would like to inform the House about his visit to Nigeria. It is right that he should, and I sure that he will be anxious to do so. To answer his second question, as he knows, this matter came up in debate the other night. My right hon. Friend will look into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-27a.1797.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman seriously suggesting that as the leading spokesman on agriculture for the Opposition Front Bench he should put before the House the private opinion of one agricultural constituent of his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was not doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman seriously suggesting that as the leading spokesman on agriculture for the Opposition Front Bench he should put before the House the private opinion of one agricultural constituent of his—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"]—as the sole evidence on the question of costs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "nterests of the agricultural industry and of the economy\". That part is an insult to farmers throughout the country. In particular it is an insult to the leaders of the N.F.U. after what they have said. Do hon. Members opposite who represent farming constituencies, including the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland (Mr. Maclennan), actually congratulate Her Majesty's Government on this Review?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "for beef goes up by £1, it will represent a rise of about ¼d. a gallon on all the milk in the lactation. Although we have put the money on beef basically through the end price, in doing this we recognise that it will be helpful to dairy farmers who contribute to our beef supplies by producing suitable calves for beef. This could lead to an increase of £2½ million for calf production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " we have used the Annual Review to look at the condition of the industry as a whole. We must look at the development of agriculture over the years and we must assess the underlying trend. The basic trend of output, income and efficiency is upward. If we have normal weather this season, output and income should recover. I do not believe that farmers will be deterred by those who cry \"Woe\" with Joe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.82.2", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Review. This militates against the industry absorbing its increased costs and expanding its production. There are inherent difficulties in the present system and these will continue unless the system is altered. There has been much criticism from what I believe to be ill-informed sections of the farming industry, about Conservative policy. These critics have tried, wilfully helped by the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.82.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that the right hon. Gentleman still wants to make party points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman referred particularly to France and the Netherlands. But how much protection would there be for our dairy industry if the right hon. Gentleman, as one of the keenest advocates of British membership of the European Economic Community, had his way? I understand that the right hon. Gentleman is totally committed to the idea of accepting the common agricultural policy of the E.E.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.89.5", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I have given way, indeed I even invited one intervention, but now I must get on. The N.F.U.s have made quite clear that they do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's policy on levies. Moreover, I have the impression that responsible and sensible opinion in the National Farmers' Unions infinitely prefer this Review to some important aspects of the policy of the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.89.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "e industry, but the Government's general determination in this matter is preventing him from doing that. Farmers are sending in resolutions from all parts demanding the right hon. Gentleman's resignation. They might as well call for the moon. Farmers do not understand the principles of resignation in the Labour Party. They think that they are the same as those applicable to the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant-Ferris", "preceding_text": "This cannot be decided simply by saying how much one would put on milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "o criticism, but that is to be expected. In the nature of Price Reviews, one is bound to take exception to parts of them. I can think of no Price Review in the years during which I have been in the House when one has not been able to take exception to them. Broadly speaking, however, this is a good Price Review and if hon. Gentlemen opposite wish to be fair and reasonable, they will agree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.100.2", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Baxter", "preceding_text": "what are the effects on an industry of this magnitude? This shortfall on a £2,000 million turnover is equal to ⅔d. in the £. If this will be the ruination of the agriculture industry, I cannot believe that farming is as profitable as it is. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland on what he has managed to achieve in this Review. I shall, however, be critical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": " West (Mr. English) made an interesting speech but omitted to mention what the debate has been all about—namely, the expansion programme. Certainly the Government have not talked about it. Indeed, they have been at pains to forget it. I, on the other hand, will be at pains to remind them of the expansion programme. My right hon. Friend the Member for Grantham (Mr. Godber) made a restrained speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Mr. Stodart) paid so much attention to the speeches that I make, whether at Turn-berry or Aberdeen. It would be far better if he came along some time, when he would not interpret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be the last time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that the hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (Mr. Stodart) paid so much attention to the speeches that I make, whether at Turn-berry or Aberdeen. It would be far better if he came along some time, when he would not interpret—[ Interruption. ] I was invited by the National Farmers Union of Scotland to go there, and I am invited every year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "l. I can assure the hon. Gentleman that I enjoyed myself immensely. I joined the Scottish farmers at Turn-berry in their \"poverty and misery\", as painted by the hon. Gentleman. I can assure him that I have been saving up for years to be able to afford a meal in that hotel. On the day that the Scottish old age pensioners hold their annual meeting in Turnberry Hotel we will have less to worry about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " the phrase \"last year\" anybody listening to the hon. Gentleman would have thought, since this is 1969, that he meant 1968. However, he should have known perhaps better than anybody else that the farm accounts to which he was referring could not possibly have been for the last year. Indeed, the figures on which he based his assessments and on which he lectured my right hon. Friend related to 1966.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "he figures on which he based his assessments and on which he lectured my right hon. Friend related to 1966. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] That is why I took up this point at Turn-berry. I was entitled to start from there to put the hon. Gentleman right. He knew quite well what had happened in some areas during 1966 as a result of the devastating previous winter and the collapse of the livestock market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.148.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "If I am asked about costs, I can deal with them now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.150.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot interrupt if the Secretary of State does not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.152.6", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "entleman has tempted me so I can give him one or two figures. If we take it year after year there are ups and downs. Between 1953–54 and 1958–59 there was no increase in output. If we look at one year's figures against the final year one finds ups and downs. One can juggle with those figures, and that is what hon. Members opposite have done. I will deal now with the question of milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.152.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.152.8", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (ANNUAL PRICE REVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I would have been happy to have seen many more hon. Members opposite present during the debate. The figures in relation to net income, despite the setback in the current year, show that the underlying trend is upward. The annual net income increased in 1966–67 and 1967–68 and dropped last year. The drop was entirely due to weather and the foot-and-mouth epidemic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.152.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TYNESIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " were not able to see the evidence of local unrest which the proposals have caused I would not move this Motion. If the Parliamentary Secretary could produce the cuttings from the Journal. He shrugs his shoulders, but this is a reputable newspaper which has a wide circulation in the North-East. I turn to the Leader it wrote. It could not have done that if there were no substance in the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-03-31", "file": "debates1969-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "9010dbcb23fb618c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TYNESIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT AREA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "will be selected by the appointed members, the full membership, of the local P.T.A. Neither my right hon. Friend nor I will have any say in the issue, despite the backstairs machinations which have been alleged tonight by hon. Gentlemen opposite. The membership of the P.T.A., having decided from among themselves who will be their chairman, will, it is true, have to submit the name to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-03-31a.196.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.250.6", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not want to raise a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.255.9", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Not on this occasion. This matter has not been immediately raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.255.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "ppreciate the very difficult burden the Chair has to carry in presiding over the discussion of such a Bill as this. But this afternoon your attention has been invited to three separate points of order. First, there is the very important point of privilege on which you have obviously found yourself in some difficulty and have said you are unable to help the Committee. There was secondly a point of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.256.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am afraid the hon. Gentleman cannot reiterate what the Committee has already dealt with and the Chair has disposed of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "or the Committee as to what Amendments we are to discuss. The question of what selections are made must surely be a matter for the Chair. It seems to me that when you said you were unable to help the Committee you were putting modesty a little too high, because the Committee is, after all, immensely dependent upon your ability to see fair play; and one goes back to the point of the House of Lords—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "On this point of order, I wholly agree that it is not a mattter which you can decide. In my submission", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " my astonishment that that is the average attendance now, which means that the Government consider the House of Lords as it is all right. But so far only three of the variables—the attendance requirement, the size of the House and the age of retirement—have been mentioned. More important perhaps is the age at which peers will be created. If they are to be created at a reasonable age—say, at my age", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "there could be enormous arguments about definition arising out of the Clause. A member of the other place might feel that in a sense the opening of a bazaar was public business. I submit that that is ridiculous. But it certainly could be considered Parliamentary business, because as Parliamentarians we all get invitations to open bazaars. I am sure we are not invited because people like our faces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Exactly, who should be telephoned? But suppose we finally arrive at an answer to that and he telephones a Government Whip if he is a Government supporter or an Opposition Whip if he is in opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about a cross-bencher?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Exactly, who should be telephoned? But suppose we finally arrive at an answer to that and he telephones a Government Whip if he is a Government supporter or an Opposition Whip if he is in opposition—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman touched on absence of peers on public duty. What about the peer who may have interests in one of the Commonwealth countries and carries out public duties there? Would he be allowed to get leave of absence to look after, say, his hotel in one of his Caribbean estates, or something like that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.313.4", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ms of the same class as those previously described. The modern tendency is to \"attenuate\" the application of the rule, and there is recent authority for the proposition that the rule is inapplicable to a phrase such as \"dogs and other animals\" in which only one specific item precedes the general item. The reasoning behind that tendency in the courts is that one species does not constitute a genus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.313.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.339.0", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "rk had before him a list of the Lords who were expected to attend, and as soon as a Lord came in he was pricked with a particular sign. At that time, they used the same list for several days running and had different symbols. In the more expansive age of the 15th and 16th centuries, they had a different list each day. I have no intention of entering into the antiquarian details in greater length——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.337.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Silkin) rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.350.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.374.4", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "It was very kind of my hon. Friend to say that he had great respect for my opinions. It is not my opinion but the fact, as recorded in HANSARD, that there are 19 Ministers, as defined by the Ministerial Salaries Consolidation Act, in another place. I have here a list of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.374.6", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will give me the list I will give the Committee the information, because up to now we have been debating the Amendment on the figure given by the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne, who said that there were two Cabinet Ministers in the other place and 13 other Ministers. Now my hon. Friend says that there are 19 Ministers there. The Committee should get this clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.374.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "nder-Secretary of State for Scotland. Then we come to Her Majesty's Household, and this is where I disagree with the criticisms that have been made about there being too many. In Her Majesty's Household we have the noble Lord, Lord Cobbold, the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Cobham, the Lord Steward, and the Duke of Beaufort, who is Master of the Horse. All three are in fact sinecures under the Crown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.377.7", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "Could my hon. Friend go through this list again for the benefit of the Committee, pointing out the other offices of profit—and substantial ones—held by these various noble Lords? It will be within the recollection of the Committee that the noble Lord, Lord Hilton of Upton, formerly represented the National Union of Agricultural Workers in the House of Commons,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.377.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I should help the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.378.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-01", "file": "debates1969-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "90a89f74164293ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.378.6", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I should help the hon. Member. [ Interruption. ] Of course the Leader of the Tory Party in the Lords is the noble Lord, Lord Carrington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-01a.378.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.429.5", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "point which arises out of the recent Divisions which have taken place in this Committee? My point refers to the first of those Divisions, which was abortive, though not to the grounds on which it was declared by you to be abortive. I understand that an hon. Member entered the voting Lobby by the exit door at a time when the other doors leading into the Lobby had already been locked on your orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.431.4", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Leader of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "ir declines to state the reasons why the Division was invalidated? It may be of interest to you to know that it is being said already, in the absence of a clear declaration from the Chair, that it was a Government Minister who went through the Lobby, voted, and thereupon took upon himself the duty of acting as a Teller. I am sure that that is an inaccurate and possibly wild and nonsensical rumour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.431.4", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "sion was invalidated? It may be of interest to you to know that it is being said already, in the absence of a clear declaration from the Chair, that it was a Government Minister who went through the Lobby, voted, and thereupon took upon himself the duty of acting as a Teller. I am sure that that is an inaccurate and possibly wild and nonsensical rumour. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The Leader of the House.\"]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "NIGERIA AND ADDIS ABABA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ican Unity, although very desirable, to handle this matter. I think that even the Biafrans accept that the British may have a contribution to make. I am rather against the Prime Minister probing in person, but the right hon. Gentleman will recollect that somebody like Mr. Malcolm MacDonald might conceivably help in this matter. He is a very experienced fellow when dealing with Asians and Africans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter within my gift.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.509.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELLAND AND NENE (EMPINGHAM RESERVOIR) AND MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": ", an area of 800 square miles, serving a population of 635,000 people, who consume 31 million gallons a day. Its estimate of future trends indicates that by 1973 existing sources will have become inadequate, and total demand is expected in its area to reach a level of 36 million gallons a day. Why is that? The reason is simple. Previously moribund villages in Rutland and South-East Leicestershire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELLAND AND NENE (EMPINGHAM RESERVOIR) AND MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "Derbyshire and taking capacity needed there for areas of Derbyshire which already have inadequate sources of their own. I said earlier that this reservoir would add to the attractiveness of Rutland. If there has been any exaggeration, the exaggeration has come from the agitators on this matter, because the area to be submerged represents only 3½ per cent. of the total acreage of the county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.561.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-02", "file": "debates1969-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6ccc88fae556418b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WELLAND AND NENE (EMPINGHAM RESERVOIR) AND MID-NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Larger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Temple", "preceding_text": "n are of the highest possible importance. Over the years Governments have dragged their feet on long-term research which would have brought answers which might well have made the Bill which we are considering tonight unnecessary. It is a melancholy picture to contemplate in any county on any agricultural land the creation of a reservoir which will occupy an area almost as large as Lake Windermere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-02a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-03", "file": "debates1969-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7995357687c07087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-03a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES BOARD'S REPORT (TOP SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I want to make clear that the figures suggested in the Board's Report for stage 1 are being accepted. It is true that for the chairmen and deputy chairmen in some cases it will mean a 20 per cent. rise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-03a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-03", "file": "debates1969-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7995357687c07087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-03a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "SURREY FLOODS", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Robson Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Robson Brown", "preceding_text": " of property that has been damaged for this sort of period without incurring very grave risks of damage to new decorations by inherent dampness within the fabric of the building. Many of the homes in my area have remained soaked throughout the winter. I was shocked when the Joint Parliamentary Secretary came to attend a big meeting in my constituency, and I will explain why. But first, Mr. Mackie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-03a.739.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.777.3", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear to my hon. Friend that people receive a greater amount of income precisely because the present Government are much more concerned about unemployment than ever any Tory Government were?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.833.7", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "This is a tragedy, but there have not been any legal gentlemen on the Opposition Front Bench either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.833.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "d; he was the Attorney-General in this place. He then went to another place, where he was an ex-Minister. He then resumed practising at the Bar, and for a time I do not think he knew whether he was on one side or the other. I think he switched backwards and forwards and then went on the cross-bench, where I believe he still is. Eventually he went into business and he now has a lot of directorships", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " profession. Let us suppose that we had a Lord Smith. I can imagine him going to another place as an ex-Minister, or even not as an ex-Minister, and saying, \"I have got a month. If I wait long enough and do not offer my vote to either side, as there will be an election one day and as I am a qualified member of the legal profession they may offer the job to me as they are short of legal gentlemen.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "shall claim the benefit of the provision about special reasons and claim my vote.\" I assume that one of the special reasons would be that he never opted to use his vote within the 28 days because he thought that it would be infra dig. He might say that he did not want the vote at the time because it would have interfered with his impartiality as a judge. What happens if 12 or 18 months afterwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.838.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Even more serious is the omission of any voice representing the Church Commissioners because the provision applies to the lords spiritual, too. Will not the bishops come within the special considerations which we are discussing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.851.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.855.3", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "matter ought to be laid down in more detail. This was not the Government's view in dealing with peers generally, and it is not their view when dealing with ex-Ministers and ex-holders of high judicial office. The question should be left to the other place, and it is my view and that of the Government that, in relationships between the two Houses, it is best left in that way between honourable men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.855.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Lord Snow.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I have just said I have taken——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-14", "file": "debates1969-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "29c14496fb968e76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.895.3", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "so the possibility of accepting the extended period if they may so decide. It places them in this very special category, this very honoured category of Chief Opposition Whips, bishops, lawyers, Ministers; and these people make a very big loophole, which was not properly anticipated by the Government. Thus we have a very special category of voting peers plus ex-Ministers and lawyers and ex-bishops—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-14a.895.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.958.4", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "hat really answer the Question? Has not the right hon. Gentleman noticed, for instance, that investment grants are now £100 million above the sum set out in the agonising cuts of 16th January last year, and that the saving on civil defence, which was supposed to be £20 million next year, will turn out to be £5 million? Do not all these examples make it clear that the whole agonising cut operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.982.4", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEPARTMENTS (MERGERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that, despite a number of comments three or four years ago, there is now widespread acceptance of the great job that the Ministry of Technology has done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.982.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.985.7", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The White Paper is a statement of policy. The Government's decision on this matter, which has been taken, will be announced to the House in the appropriate way and at the appropriate time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1014.4", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VII. MINOR MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government have also decided to make certain changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1014.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1014.4", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VII. MINOR MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Government have also decided to make certain changes—[ Interruption. ] My right hon. Friend will answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1014.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1016.5", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — VIII. MAJOR MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Within the existing framework, however, I am constantly urged to produce simplification. I am instinctively sympathetic to such pleas. The present system is undoubtedly complicated. It involves a lot of work for taxpayers and their professional advisers as well as for the Revenue. It also leaves many people mystified as to what they are paying, and why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1016.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IX. OTHER MEASURES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Hope is not a substitute for reality. But nor need we proceed without hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "als, let me say that it required all his lucidity and elegance to disguise some of the other aspects of the situation. Before I come to those, let me also welcome one other major project—that for the increase in pensions. But how could the Chancellor of the Exchequer come to the House on such an occasion as Budget Day and announce to the cheers of all his supporters, and indeed of the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " not be prepared to tell us what the Government are doing about it? We have constantly urged on the Government that they should take urgent action to deal with this. It was after the speech in Swansea last November when I put forward a three-point policy for a simple Bill, that the Government got to work on the White Paper and now apparently they are to implement part of it. This again we welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "is because it has been a failure, as we always said it would be, that the Chancellor has now announced that he is abandoning it. Why—in order to try to improve the climate of industrial relations. But who warned him year after year through the long debates on the Prices and Incomes Bill that what the Government were doing was creating friction and putting extremists in control of the trade unions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-15", "file": "debates1969-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "3c05391a236c5a2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "Bill that what the Government were doing was creating friction and putting extremists in control of the trade unions? [ Interruption. ] I am prepared to share some of the glory with the hon. Gentlemen opposite below the Gangway. I should have given them even more credit if they had gone into the Lobby with us. But would they ever go into the Lobby and bring their Government down? Not for a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-15a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1135.7", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1135.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1154.7", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "I assume that the Chancellor is delayed by the I.M.F. and will presently take his place on the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1154.7", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "sy to the House, and one that all hon. Members of Parliament would appreciate. Yesterday the Chancellor was congratulated on his opening speech of two hours twenty minutes, and I willingly add my congratulations to those expressed to him for an agreeably phrased speech which certainly did not seem to last as long as the clock told us it did. I see that the Chancellor has now come into the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1154.7", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": ". This Budget, which takes £340 million in a full year, is the third heaviest since the war and, I imagine, the third heaviest in our history, exceeded only by the 1968 Budget and, narrowly, the 1951 Budget of Mr. Hugh Gaitskell. In the \"Top Ten\" of Budgets which have put taxation on to the consumer and the citizens since the war, nine places are occupied by Socialist Chancellors of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1154.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "as lamentable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday could not give a clear answer—I am sure that he must know it—on the question of contributions. I ask the Leader of the House—we shall press him on the Business question if he cannot give an undertaking now or at some time in this debate—to make sure that, before this debate closes on Monday, we shall have a statement about contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ould be made early in November. That is just six months away. If that be so—I take it from him that it is—it means that the Bill is already in draft, and that means that the Chancellor knows the answer to the question which was put to him from this side yesterday. We are told that the real purchasing power of the pension will be 20 per cent. higher than when the Labour Government came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "n, with 1s. 9d. for an employed woman, and the employer would have to pay an extra 2s. 3d. for each employee. But this time, the increase would have to be bigger because there are more pensions. The other alternative—this is why we need a statement not just in the future but to fill out one's view of the Budget—is that the employer's contribution will be greatly increased more than the employee's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1167.0", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Seven per cent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "y under the Tories,\" Sam Brittan, referring to the Bank of England at an early period of the 13 years, said that it … did not appreciate how easy it was to attract back hot money by raising Bank Rate and making deflationary noises. That used to be true. When Chancellors of the Exchequer in the Tory years put up Bank Rate to some unheard of figure like 4 per cent., we were in no time at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1166.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": " into 22 commodity groups…We then used input/output data to analyse the effects of a range of different tax proposals and combinations of proposals on the prices of each of the 22 commodity groups…In this way we were able to establish for a large number of tax packages what would happen to each family's expenditure if it continued to purchase the same basket of commodities as before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": " This is the great difference between the two sides of the House. We believe that the social wage is one of the most effective ways of redistributing wealth, far more effective than the wage-price spiral that leaves a worker no better off at the end of it. The right hon. Gentleman told us in The Banker that he had been feeding into his computer details from the National Family Expenditure surveys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether the right hon Gentleman has fed into the computer details of the survey of income after all tax and benefits have been deducted as a percentage of original income and, if so, what conclusions he has drawn from it for tax reform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1174.2", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ides for increases over 3 per cent. in many circumstances. On the other hand they would have us believe—they have deliberately led people to believe—that wages have been frozen while prices have got out of control. If they say the policy has failed, what do they mean by failure? Are they saying that incomes have risen too much? Will their slogan at the next election be: \"You have had it too good\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1174.2", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "while prices have got out of control. If they say the policy has failed, what do they mean by failure? Are they saying that incomes have risen too much? Will their slogan at the next election be: \"You have had it too good\"? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The sober fact is that the policy, in the phase since the 1968 Act, was introduced, has worked broadly as we intended. The average size of pay settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " Report and to strengthen the authority of the trade union movement as a whole. We shall stress that the powers we are taking are reserve powers, and that no one will be more pleased than the Government if, as a result of these new stirrings in the trade union movement, as a result, for example, of giving the T.U.C. greater power to deal with inter-union disputes, these powers atrophy from disuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1206.4", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Gentleman shouting, \"That is not right\". I have taken considerable trouble to ascertain this. The point which the hon. Gentleman very carefully did not explain is that, whether the Labour-controlled L.C.C. followed a prudent financial policy, as I have been suggesting, or an imprudent one, as he has been suggesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1206.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend sometimes asks for it, and sometimes he gets it. I want to make one or two points of criticism of the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Hamling) spent a good deal of his speech in discovering a number of things wrong with it. I think that he was right in his first statement. We are disposed to ignore the fact that even now we still export per head of our population more than any other country in the world, and that we have, as my hon. Friend said, a low strike rate and not a high one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "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": " enamoured of the possibility. Perhaps we ought to discuss this further. The right hon. Gentleman was generous in his welcome of the constructive aspects of the Budget. He seemed genuinely pleased, as did the hon. Member for Walsall, South, to see what we had done about gilt-edged securities. The Government are anxious to establish a gilt-edged market in a state of unique strength as time goes by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "r great skill and understanding, and the host of secret remedies which they tell us are being gathered together at Conservative Central Office against the day of triumph. But apart from that somewhat hypothetical remedy there are only two choices. One is Britain's getting back into balance by taking all the measures of the kind the Chancellor started to take last year, and is continuing this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-16", "file": "debates1969-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "8205fd4963b71087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "s of the floating rate would make it plain to those who read them that what they are advocating is a unilateral contracting-out of the collective agreements which the world has reached under the Bretton Woods system for providing what I call collective monetary security in the world, to underpin its economic prosperity and, what is more, its political stability, not to mention its military safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-16a.1277.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend is perfectly right to draw the attention of the House to the fact that we did not receive support from the Front Bench opposite on this Measure which was agreed by them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1339.2", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tted in these matters, could not deliver support from behind—this is a problem not confined to one Front Bench, for we have been in the same position. But the fact that the 16 leading Front Benchers opposite, members of the Shadow Cabinet, registered between them 62 Divisions against the Government, most of them not on substance but on matters affecting the reasonable forward progress of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1340.1", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If that is the right hon. Gentleman's obituary notice on this Bill, which started on the basis of inter-party agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1342.3", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "For the sake of the record, does not the Prime Minister agree that the White Paper on the Parliament (No. 2) Bill differed fundamentally from the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1366.1", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " grows marginally, as the Chancellor intends it should, will export growth alone be enough, based on the scale which the President anticipates? Remember it will have to cover not just the present deficit but also increased imports. In considering future prospects, it is fair to say that we may succeed and that the Government may be right in what they have said on this score. We hope that they are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1366.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Please tell us.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "B.A. To sum up, this Budget will fail in its objectives because it is not single-minded. It has been compiled with one eye on the I.M.F.—and quite rightly; the first part of the Chancellor's statement was excellent—but with the other eye on the voter. It is like the Church of Laodicea, which was neither hot nor cold, and one remembers what happened to that. I do not think that I should mention it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1403.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-17", "file": "debates1969-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "eaa638c8cc9d9770", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Peter Shore)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. Peter Shore)", "preceding_text": "s the House would want me to do, to congratulate the hon. Member for Walthamstow, East (Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson) on what I think we all thought was a very distinguished maiden speech. We liked the style and the subject matter. The hon. Gentleman can sleep well tonight in the knowledge that he has passed his test with flying colours, and we all look forward to hearing from him on other occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-17a.1451.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "It is the nature of the beast. But the roads are not social services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.7.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "t be sensible. These matters were left to the discretion of the Treasury and have worked very well indeed. I should like to turn now to Selective Employment Tax, which is one of the new taxes this Government have introduced. There have been one or two, of which I have been privileged to be there at the birth. It seems to me that these new taxes have all followed a general pattern of acceptability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.45.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Real or money?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "rowth of public expenditure in 1968–69 to 4¾ per cent. As usual, performance has outstripped promise. According to the latest information, the increase will be just over 4 per cent. For 1969–70, the target was to be a mere 1 per cent. increase over the estimate for 1968–69. The figure which I have given of approximately £16,000 million is within that 1 per cent. target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "d of living and 5s. is for the community-provided standard of living. It is not until his earned income exceeds £250 a week that he pays more than 10s. in the £ in tax on average. Nor can anybody say that, by comparison with other similar countries, the effective rates of tax are out of line. I know that the right hon. Member for Enfield, West now accepts this. He said as much in a recent article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "less. The overall effect of this Budget is to take that redistributive process a step further. It will have the effect of reducing the inequality of incomes by a further 2½ per cent., and in making that statement I of course include the redistributive effect of pensions. I have, in a general way, taken into account the impact of the increase in pensions and of the increase in contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.58.0", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "fect of pensions. I have, in a general way, taken into account the impact of the increase in pensions and of the increase in contributions. [ Interruption. ] I know that the House would like me to be more specific and to go into more detail about the remaining pension, and consequential increases and the great variety of benefits, but I regret that we are not yet in a position to give that detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.58.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I will gladly deal with both questions. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House certainly indicated that he would convey to his right hon. Friends the desire of the House that a statement should be made. I have made that statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "If I may make a few sentences of comment, perhaps I could give way to the right hon. Gentleman shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.107.1", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "en made by right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite not only are economic nonsense in present circumstances, but have dangerous political implications. I am glad the right hon. Member for Enfield, West is here. I listened to his television broadcast. In the present crisis of Parliament and of our institutions it is reckless for any politician now to make promises which he will not be able to fulfil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.107.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "with which the right hon. Gentleman dealt towards the end of his speech—the National Insurance contributions. I can assure him that there has certainly been no desire to conceal the extent of the contribution. I made it clear in my Budget speech that it would be very substantial, and in my television broadcast I stressed that pensioners would not be helped without higher payments by those at work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.154.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I now come to the Budget itself. In answering any debate of this sort, my desire is to help the House by singling out the main line of criticism and meeting it head on. This year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.154.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman came on to that in one sentence. As he knows perfectly well, that is sloganising, not giving a Budget judgment. The right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) did not move in any direction at all. He did not give us the benefit of his judgment—it may be for a very good reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.157.7", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Because, as I have told the right hon. Gentleman and the House clearly, and as he can understand quite well if he wishes to do so, we have to work out the details how, in the transition to an earnings-related pension scheme, this can most fairly be placed on different individuals. I come back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.157.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " I would deal with one of the other recipes of the Leader of the Opposition. He said that Bank Rate should be immediately cut to 6 per cent. He stigmatised the extra 2 per cent. as a premium which a bad borrower had to pay. Let me remind him that the United States discount rate is today 6 per cent. and that a Government of which he was a member twice put Bank Rate to 7 per cent., on each occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "eader of the Opposition. He said that Bank Rate should be immediately cut to 6 per cent. He stigmatised the extra 2 per cent. as a premium which a bad borrower had to pay. Let me remind him that the United States discount rate is today 6 per cent. and that a Government of which he was a member twice put Bank Rate to 7 per cent., on each occasion—[ Interruption. ]—using United States discount rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.159.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-21", "file": "debates1969-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "e3b59d2a4fcca4ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.164.9", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heath rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-21a.164.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (LOCATION OF HEADQUARTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. As my question was not answered by the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.254.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.259.9", "colnum": "259", "heading": "NEW MEMBER SWORN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Bernadette Josephine Devlin, for Mid-Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.259.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.262.7", "colnum": "262", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "preceding_text": "e kind enough yesterday, Mr. Speaker, to grant me leave, under Standing Order No. 9, to move the Adjournment of the House in connection with the situation in Londonderry and the stationing of troops at key installations in Northern Ireland. I should like to take the opportunity of being the first Member of the House to welcome the new Member, my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.262.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": " participate as full, first-class citizens in a part of a nation where, to its shame, they are denied their full human dignity. I can well understand the reluctance of my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to take over police powers in Northern Ireland and put himself, perhaps, on what might be considered the wrong side of the barricades. But as is sometimes pointed out, the Ulster police force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "omething should be said on the other side, too. I found people, in this case in Unionist parts of the city—no doubt we shall hear other stories from the other side—who were living alone. There were elderly women who had been awakened at night by the singing of various civil rights songs outside. Then came the ring of the doorbell. Then pieces of burning paper were pushed through their letterboxes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "r is done in the name of civil rights. This is an area in which the people have shown nothing but a desire to live in peace. They have taken no part in any of these activities. My sympathy goes out to the ordinary people of Londonderry who have not taken part in these things—to the shopkeepers and businessmen whose Saturday trade has been ruined. Some of them are even thinking of leaving the city.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.276.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.5", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman is?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "er of the papers from across the way. I need not recite all the facts and figures. He knows how many jobs have been provided there over the last two years. He knows how many have been provided over the last year. He knows how many more there are in the pipeline. I accept the hon. Gentleman's sincerity. I know that he is as anxious as I am to bring work to that city; I am perfectly certain of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.6", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "his going on—a deliberate attempt to discredit the police. I can only say that what I saw on Sunday convinces me that the conduct of the police deserved the very highest praise. There was the occasional exception. One was shown on television where a policeman who had been pelted among his colleagues for many minutes with stones and other missiles picked up a stone and lobbed it rather gently back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.6", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And civil rights.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "elves. I come down strongly in praise of the work of the police as I saw them. I only hope that those who recklessly pit themselves against the forces of law and order will pause to remember that if they get hurt the policemen are human beings, too. There has been some danger in the last few days of forgetting that. I want to say a few words, too, about the civil rights movement itself, so-called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.6", "colnum": "277", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: What about the Unionist Party?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "as come for the Press and other media to consider whether it is wise, just or fair any longer to use the description \"civil rights\" at all. I accept that at the beginning there were people who sincerely believed that they were joining a movement which would do something for its country, but there have been a great many resignations from the civil rights movement over the last few weeks and months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.277.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.279.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about civil rights?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "ave already given way, and I must get on with my speech. The truth of the matter is that the creators of the civil rights movement, sincere as many of them were, have inadvertently created a monster over which they now have no control. Hon. Gentlemen opposite should ask Mr. John Hume. I no longer believe that this body calling itself the C.R.A. has more than an incidental interest in civil rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.279.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "I hope that I may be wrong, but it may be that hon. Gentlemen opposite will exert pressure for the removal of some grievance, or alleged grievance, of one specific nature—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "individual level, but when a police force are acting under orders—presumably from the top, and the top invariably is the Unionist Party—and form themselves into military formation with the deliberate intention of terrorising the inhabitants of an area, I can have no sympathy for them as a body. So I organised the civilians in that area to make sure that they wasted not one solitary stone in anger.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bernadette Devlin", "preceding_text": "hern Ireland is one in which I feel I can no longer say to the people \"Don't worry about it. Westminster is looking after you\". Westminster cannot condone the existence of this situation. It has on its benches Members of that party who by deliberate policy keep down the ordinary people. The fact that I sit on the Labour benches and am likely to make myself unpopular with everyone on these benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.281.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "It is a privilege for me to follow the hon. lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin). I should like first to welcome her to this House and congratulate her on the speech she has just made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " hon. Lady at her eve-of poll meeting during the campaign. I hope that we shall hear much more from the hon. Lady in the future. The hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) said that no Englishman understands Ireland. That may well be true, and it may well be that I shall fall into that fault. But I can at least claim that I have more Irish blood coursing in my veins than anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.3", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ng the campaign. I hope that we shall hear much more from the hon. Lady in the future. The hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) said that no Englishman understands Ireland. That may well be true, and it may well be that I shall fall into that fault. But I can at least claim that I have more Irish blood coursing in my veins than anything else. [ Laughter. ] I also have a little Welsh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And a little whisky?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "donderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) said that no Englishman understands Ireland. That may well be true, and it may well be that I shall fall into that fault. But I can at least claim that I have more Irish blood coursing in my veins than anything else. [ Laughter. ] I also have a little Welsh. [ Interruption. ] I have no doubt about my paternity, and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman does not, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "oon my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary found it necessary to come to the Dispatch Box to make the statement that British troops were to be used in Northern Ireland. It appeared to me that the Government were more concerned about what would happen to the British troops going into service in Northern Ireland than with one and a half million of Her Majesty's subjects permanently demiciled there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "No. Only this morning I received confirmation that it is a well known Unionist Party trick, every time it finds itself in difficulty and to justify recruiting 1,000 members of the B Specials, to create explosions. There is absolutely no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "on which exists in Northern Ireland. I have tried, in the three years that I have represented my constituency in this House and my other constituency at Stormont, to say that British standards should be made applicable to all citizens of the United Kingdom. If it is good enough for Doncaster, it must be good enough for Derry; if it is good enough for Birmingham, it must be good enough for Belfast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.305.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.308.2", "colnum": "308", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.310.1", "colnum": "310", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": " will bear out the words of the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman is only saying what the news bureau of the I.R.A. has stated. It accuses the Unionist Government of these incidents, and I say that there is no shred of proof in such a statement. The police have made clear that these incidents were organised by the I.R.A., but the I.R.A. have denied responsibility for these incidents. Why is this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I have known the hon. Member for Barry (Mr. Gower) a long time and I regret to say that he does not improve with the passing years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "was advanced in local authority mortgages in Wales. The figure this year is estimated to be nearer £3 million. I will not try to cover the entire waterfront. I want to finish by summarising the position as we on this side of the House see it. Undoubtedly, the Government are trying to help Wales, but Socialist centralisation and Socialist economic chaos is ruining their hopes and their performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.376.2", "colnum": "376", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.376.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-22", "file": "debates1969-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "3f8ea01403780eb1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. White", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. White", "preceding_text": "is constituency will deeply regret that they have been left out of the benevolent activities of the Rural Development Board, and that conversely the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery will find that his constituents rejoice. We shall wait and see which of us proves to be right. I am confident. I am not normally a person who indulges in gambling, but I would take a fairly handsome bet on this.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-22a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.450.8", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Yes. My hon. Friend thinks that this is a good commercial decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paperweights.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "ake it quite clear that we will not hand those islands over against their will, and the second was to achieve, if we can, agreement for the benefit of the islanders with the Argentine Government. That seems to me, although a difficult undertaking, one that it is right and legitimate to try to undertake. Let us push what for the purposes of this debate were the right hon. Gentleman's make- weights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.490.5", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " rule. On this matter the right hon. Gentleman made merry. It was all done by faceless people. It was all very nice, and we were exaggerating it. This is not how people in the Caribbean see it. The facts can be fairly described in this way. The people of Anguilla were being put in increasing danger of being ruled by a corrupt, self-interested regime, supporting itself increasingly by intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.490.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "think that the references to the cases of arson and murder have been public for some time. These were things that it was hoped might during the period of interim settlement have been investigated, but with the progressive breakdown of that settlement it proved impossible to discover who was responsible for these acts. That the acts themselves had occurred was not in dispute. This is the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "preceding_text": "understood. I wish to make it clear that it is untrue to suggest that Mr. Byron, representative of the State Government of Anguilla, was installed by British Marines. In fact, H.M.S. \"Salisbury\" landed territorial police in Anguilla on 15th February, 1967, supported by Royal Navy personnel, to conduct a search in connection with minor disturbances. When that was done, they went back to their ship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "preceding_text": "alled by British Marines. In fact, H.M.S. \"Salisbury\" landed territorial police in Anguilla on 15th February, 1967, supported by Royal Navy personnel, to conduct a search in connection with minor disturbances. When that was done, they went back to their ship. [ Interruption. ] I am not giving way. I have so little time in which to answer the debate. The hon. Gentleman opposite was not interrupted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.544.1", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. William Whitlock)", "preceding_text": "duct of affairs in the Caribbean. The Anguillan affair has dramatised in every way the dilemma which faces so many small islands in that area. Why was it that the West Indies Federation, in which such small islands as this had a place, was allowed to collapse? Were hon. Gentlemen opposite not firm enough, imaginative enough or sensitive enough to understand the feelings of the people in this area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.550.2", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANGUILLA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "intimidation was taking place, that undesirable characters were on the island, and that he and three other members of the elected Council of Anguilla had been threatened with death. Those are the statements which were made by Mr. Adams at the Barbados Conference. Surely it must be evident to the House that once armed forces have dominated the affairs of the island, how then could we influence its—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALSALL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. H. Macdonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. H. Macdonald", "preceding_text": "tary Secretary, who played a leading part in our deliberations on that Act and who expressed not only the Government's view but his own personal view that it was a wise and beneficial Act which he would like to see in full operation. I hope that he will say something today to offer some indication of hope for some declaration that in the reasonably near future we may see the activation of Part II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALSALL CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Wells", "preceding_text": "rs, that view should be considered carefully, not against a background of emotive phrases about Walsall trying to get rid of its responsibilities. Walsall Corporation's main responsibilities are to the people of Walsall. If hon. Members who have spoken in this debate had seen what I have seen of the behaviour of tinkers, travellers and gipsies they might approach this problem slightly differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-23", "file": "debates1969-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "a799146e31984361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.607.6", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST BROMWICH CORPORATION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "ith an administrative vacuum. Article 51 of the Order deals with the matter in this way. It provides that those Acts shall continue to apply to the areas to which they formerly applied or to the new authorities in which they are incorporated until 31st December, 1970. At that moment, Cinderella will lose her clothes, and, unless she makes other provision, she will go naked to the conference table.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-23a.607.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-24", "file": "debates1969-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "51d03b1829f8a91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.649.2", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lee", "preceding_text": "I know that a few hon. Members opposite look with favour on a small charge for borrowing, but I hope there will not be many who do so because we must rule out entirely the idea that we should breach the principle of a free library service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.649.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-24", "file": "debates1969-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "51d03b1829f8a91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman will appreciate that I am giving him a fair answer to his question. I will do my best to inform the House. I hope that if possible it will be just before Whitsun. On the first matter which was raised, I conveyed to my right hon. Friend and his colleagues that I thought that a statement should be made and that I felt it was right to do so. The Chief Secretary made a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-24", "file": "debates1969-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "51d03b1829f8a91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Since yesterday's sterling rate dropped to the lowest point ever and is reaching the point now that a further fall would suggest yet another devaluation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.666.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-24", "file": "debates1969-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "51d03b1829f8a91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "HUNT COMMITTEE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman would make point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-24", "file": "debates1969-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "51d03b1829f8a91b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "HUNT COMMITTEE (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The whole of it to Plymouth will be either completed or under construction by 1975. That is well on the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-24a.681.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.937.3", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "If it will ease my hon. Friend's mind, I can assure him that many determined efforts have been made in recent years and all that can be done by Her Majesty's Government has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.937.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for his second intervention, which was very much more worthy of him than his first. I would also like to thank my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.955.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.957.3", "colnum": "957", "heading": "PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "privilege—that, again, is one of those comparatively new-fangled innovations. The Leader of the House could have done what I want to suggest now, with respect to the Leader of the Opposition, namely, that the House records that there has been a contempt of Parliament and passes on. That is the way to deal with this matter. There is no question at all that this is a breach of privilege. Since 1733—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.957.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They do not do it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "On Friday, I ventured to suggest that the House should not invoke the solemn machinery of privilege, but should leave the offenders to be disciplined by the university authorities, whose job it undoubtedly is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.961.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": "I have received from the Vice-Chancellor a letter expressing regret and also stating that he intends taking disciplinary proceedings, but that he cannot do anything until he knows the decision of the House. I should like to correct the Deputy Leader of the House in one respect. The advice that he said I gave Mr. Speaker was not mandated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.978.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES (INTEREST RATES)", "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": "I do not want to deprive the hon. Member any amusement, but we are debating high interest rates and unless somehow he relates this to high interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "ld to borrow on seven-day money, that is precisely what the spokesman of the party opposite said to me in 1952 and 1953 and right through till 1960. They were still saying it in May, 1964. I was one of those who insisted on building homes, but the Conservatives in those days did not want too many homes built. They put every impediment they could in the way of local authorities who wanted to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITY FINANCES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "then Minister—now Lord Brooke—said, \"Of course, you will have to borrow on seven-day money. You will have to play the money market\". We were asking for access to the Public Works Loan Board. The Minister told us that we could have only our quota and that after that we must play the money market. My authority at that time played the money market. We had about £3½ million on short-term money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.1004.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-28", "file": "debates1969-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d3b752037ad45562", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BETTERMENT LEVY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "For these reasons, the Government have concluded that the change proposed on gifts can be applied to all chargeable acts and events dating from the introduction of the betterment levy. In the same way, the Regulations we have already made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-28a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. That is happening because of ill-informed comment such as that I have heard in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1131.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1159.2", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to restrict the sale of fireworks to those in possession of a licence. It is important that the House should understand the magnitude of the firework injury problem. During each of the years for which I have figures, from 1962 to 1968—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1159.4", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "y pleased that an hon. Member opposite has chosen to oppose the Motion, because that will give the House the chance to show that it puts people before profits. It is in this spirit and the hope that, even if the Bill does not make any progress, the Government will, between now and next 5th November, decide to take some drastic action in this respect to prevent another 2,000 accidents on that date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1186.2", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "possible to find a form of discipline to take the place of the pressure of shareholders. The Government may say that it is inadequate, but it is a form of healthy pressure on privately-owned companies which is totally lacking in nationalised industries. The sharp financial objectives about which the right hon. Gentleman spoke will not cut very deep. I will not weary the House by dealing at length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1186.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1194.3", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "ate enterprise monopoly, which I do not envisage in the near future, there are other dangers. Some hon. Members opposite will be prepared to admit that. One of them said with great glee that Standard Telephones had opened a factory in Ulster. Why did not a British manufacturer open a factory there? Standard Telephones, which is an American company, has factories everywhere under the name of I.T.T.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1197.3", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman did not pay 5s.?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "al of my vacations in the United States, because most of my family are there. In the United States I did what I do here. I called the telephone service and asked to be rung at 6 o'clock the following morning because I had to be at John Kennedy Airport by 8 a.m. and wanted a shave and breakfast first. I was rung at 6 o'clock the next morning, but my hosts had to pay 1½ dollars for that call.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "cessarily an ideological one. It was that, under the Bill as anticipated, the Post Office Corporation would have certain powers. We were arguing that somewhere along the line discussions and negotiations had taken place that had changed what most of us assumed would be the position in the powers of the new Corporation. I regard what the Government are doing as going back to the original intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Yes, I sympathise with that, but at present we are looking at the Bill without the new Clause 6, without any guarantee that that Clause is to be in the Bill. We have to accept the position as it is. If the Postmaster-General were to give us an undertaking now that he is going to accept his hon. Friend's", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1298.2", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "speech I largely agree, who wanted to know why we put in the phrase … other than those of day-to-day administration. If we had not, we should have been asking for a greater degree of accountability to the House on the part of the new Corporation than is given to it, with the agreement of both sides of the House, by the Railways Board, the Steel Corporation, the Gas Council and all the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1298.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1304.2", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "aid of such a monopoly if it is taken into public ownership and there is no accountability. As I see it, the consultative councils have been pretty hopeless, and if my right hon. Friend proposes to argue later on that something similar is to be established in respect of the Post Office he need not bother, because what has been done along these lines in other industries has been a complete failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "—I came to the conclusion that we suffered two acute disadvantages from the system that the Labour Government embarked upon in those days. On the one hand, the nationalised industries were exposed to the misrepresentation of the Press, and sometimes of hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I am encouraged by my hon. Friend's intervention. In recent months back benchers have shown the valuable job that they do in that the Executive can no longer feel confident of getting a Measure through without listening to the voice of hon. Members. There has been a collective voice on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " encouraged by my hon. Friend's intervention. In recent months back benchers have shown the valuable job that they do in that the Executive can no longer feel confident of getting a Measure through without listening to the voice of hon. Members. There has been a collective voice on this issue. [ Interruption. ] I appreciate that hon Members want to hear the Postmaster-General's answer to our case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-29", "file": "debates1969-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "034b665b3a392c4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "FIREWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman is misunderstanding the point I am making. I remember that when I was talking about monopoly powers he made a very eloquent speech about the film industry, which he knows something about. He then spoke sympathetically on the case I was making but failed to support me in the Lobby. I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-29a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " the root of the matter. It is broadly that they should be bereft of Parliamentary control and that they should be dealt with on an utterly autonomous basis, and only on very infrequent occasions and on major issues should their policies and finances be subject to scrutiny in this House. I have always rejected absolutely that Morrisonian concept. It was born of early Socialist and Fabian theories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1351.7", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ve things, as they have been and are doing, and if my right hon. Friend can give such an undertaking it will take a load off my mind. At the moment, however, reluctantly as I would do so, I would have to support the Clause. I hope that my right hon. Friend will seek to intervene in order to curtail this discussion—it appears that he will not. We shall have to try to give him a further opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1351.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1356.4", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I said that I was not concerned with the hon. Gentleman personally. A number of his hon. Friends, however, would not be prepared to table such a Question if a Tory Government were in power and they thought that the Question might embarrass them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1356.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " I would have given a different Answer\". So he will probably completely change the negative reply that he had previously given, both in writing and orally, and he will say to the Member, \"Thank you for raising the Question. I now have this new information. I will completely change my approach to the matter\". That situation would arise because Mrs. Smith was responsible for letting her Member know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Yes. At £300 to £400 per lorry, not many lorries are needed to make an enormous sum, especially when they are in arrears for 10 years. On the question of the evasion of television licence fees, at the moment the Postmaster-General sends vans around to detect evasion. I do not know how many vans there are at the moment. I am not sure how much at the last count—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "This has been a fascinating debate, which lasted two hours last night and two and a half hours this morning, of which time my hon. Friend the Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) has spoken for more than an hour and a half.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which right hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "I did notice that. There is the danger, I fear, of this instinct gradually coming through concerning any member of the Executive, however well-meaning he is. This brings me back to a remark made by the last Postmaster-General but one, when we were discussing the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1390.2", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend bear in mind that I talked at length about the fuel and power industries, or as much as the Chair would allow. There is this fundamental difference between the two. The Post Office carries out all kinds of agency duties for the Treasury. The Coal Board does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has mentioned the question of how the two-tier system was raised in the House. If the Bill as drawn is exactly parallel with what we have in the case of the other public corporations—for instance, the National Coal Board—the two-tier system could have been raised many times most effectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1409.7", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "I have no doubts that a Labour Government will be responsible for legislation in the 1970–71 Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1409.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1425.2", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should try not to let his imagination run away with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Lady withdraw what she said about my hon. Friend's imagination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Joseph Slater)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Assistant Postmaster-General (Mr. Joseph Slater)", "preceding_text": "I have known the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) for a long time now and I am grateful for his felicitations, but I shall not be closing the debate: my right hon. Friend will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "amount of work, it has given lots of money to the Treasury, it has given employment to hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the country, and it has helped our exports. It may happen that when the Postmaster-General gives up day-to-day control, the director-general of this new board, or whatever he may be called—who knows, it may be the Radio Doctor or somebody like him who will get the job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " Telegraph writes excellent articles on rare occasions, and this is probably one. I agree with you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I would not impugn the honour of the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South. I think that I said I could never imagine him doing such a thing. I could never imagine him being persuaded to give his friends such lucrative licences to print money. But there are some who have done it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1493.2", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "s not do what he thinks. Perhaps we can have some legal opinion from the Government as to whether it could include trade unionists. This industry has very good labour relations and I am concerned that there should be the right of appeal under subsection (7)( b ). New Schedule 120 intrigued me. The hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Mawby), whose name appears on the new Schedule, is a good friend of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "eman went on to talk about the A.T.L.B. which is being subjected to review by the Edwards Committee at this time. We do not know what will come out of that, but what is true about the A.T.L.B. is that it operates in a field where there is not a monopoly by B.O.A.C. or B.E.A., but where there is a mixed economy situation where B.O.A.C. and B.E.A. are operatingg in competition with private airlines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1553.7", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member gave himself away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1553.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1561.2", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "This shows a crass lack of ignorance about the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1567.6", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "ght-out new Clause and makes it a non-starter. The hon. Member spoke of industrial democracy and of workers having a share in management. If there be anything in that argument, this is not the way to achieve it. The best way to help industrial democracy is to make sure that promotion in the Post Office is clearly open from the very bottom to the top. There, one would get real worker participation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1567.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-04-30", "file": "debates1969-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "07d48aa0e3a41988", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1570.0", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "he representatives or members of the Post Office unions in this House. It is, as my hon. Friend the Member for North Fylde (Mr. Clegg) said, a \"Tribune\" Amendment. It is none the worse for that; \"Tribune\" is an excellent paper. I see the managing director is here, and I am wondering, since he put his name to the new Clause, whether he would consider running \"Tribune\" according to these principles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-04-30a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-01", "file": "debates1969-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "97ec6eeb55c89ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1605.6", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "Could the hon. Gentleman now say where his right hon. Friend stands? When he came to Scotland last December he said that we would have a review this year. When he came south again he seemed to withdraw that. Now, apparently, he has reinstated it. Could he drum into the thick head of his right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1605.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-01", "file": "debates1969-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "97ec6eeb55c89ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Since the I.M.F. is insisting on a drastic economy campaign in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1618.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-01", "file": "debates1969-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "97ec6eeb55c89ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "SCOTTISH ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "egional employment premium. Some of my hon. Friends will no doubt say something about the areas suffering most from S.E.T., because they are most heavily dependent on the service industries. Angus is fortunate in that it has a high proportion of manufacturing industry. But the result is not to alleviate the situation but to increase the distortions with which firms operating in Angus have to deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1657.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-01", "file": "debates1969-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "97ec6eeb55c89ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "SCOTTISH ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ur wishes, Mr. Speaker, I will now draw my remarks to a conclusion. I hope I have made the point that we have nothing, or very little, to apologise for as to what is happening in Scotland. It is not a prospect of a country in the depths of despair and misery and poverty. On the contrary, it has a great future ahead of it, due largely to the activities of the present Government since October, 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1686.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-01", "file": "debates1969-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "97ec6eeb55c89ed6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1687.3", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "SCOTTISH ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "he increased transport costs arising from last year's Budget, to be increased again this year; the tight credit squeeze; and Bank Rates remaining, as they have, at the highest levels for a longer period at a time since the end of the 17th century. Arising from the latest Budget smaller firms can soon expect to be told that their National Insurance contributions for their employees are to be raised", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-01a.1687.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.4.2", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Before we leave the Anguillan question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.4.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must have been in the House for a long time without listening to anything if he has not grasped by now that commercial transactions are often carried out between Governments which strongly disapprove of each other's political systems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I recognise what my right hon. Friend has in mind, but it will be very difficult—indeed wrong—to ask the House to look in detail at the management problems of any of the firms with which we deal. That would be asking too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.45.5", "colnum": "45", "heading": "SPECTACLE LENSES AND DENTURES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am not sure to which occasion my hon. Friend has referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.45.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "SPECTACLE LENSES AND DENTURES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "May I remind my right hon. Friend of Labour's election pledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.46.4", "colnum": "46", "heading": "SPECTACLE LENSES AND DENTURES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "May I remind my right hon. Friend of Labour's election pledge? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It was to abolish all charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.46.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "SPECTACLE LENSES AND DENTURES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for reminding me of that quotation from the election manifesto. I am sure that we all do hope that in due course all charges could be abolished, but I should be deceiving·", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.47.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the failure of the Minister of Technology to give a decisive answer today\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.50.5", "colnum": "50", "heading": "UPPER CLYDE SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "preceding_text": "—namely, the failure of the Minister of Technology to give a decisive answer today as to the amount and terms of support which he will give to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. The matter is specific in that the money sought is required this week to fulfil the company's commitments for wages and essential materials. It is important in that the labour force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.50.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "hough we have sympathy with him, because plainly he is a man of judgment who does not wish to have any more than a very discreet minimum of association with so ill-judged a Measure. However, this new Clause affords the hon. Gentleman an opportunity, if not quite to break his duck, at least to hit a boundary over the top of the pavilion by saying something which is quite certainly not in his brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.68.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.70.0", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where does it stand?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "constituency, against my sound advice—to invest money in what have since become known as \"Dirty Daltons\". I can remember that deep voice full of charm and patriotism saying, \"Help your country in its hour of need. I advise you all to buy this stock. It is sure, sound stock, and you will get your money back.\" Get your money back, my left foot! Where does that 100 per cent. stock stand today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.69.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the increase in contributions towards spectacles?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": " Bank Rate and high interest rates. However, when it does not suit their political purpose they demand something otherwise. This is not the proper way to run a business or even to run the finances of the country. It is doing the investment elements of this country considerable damage to indulge in exercises in political inconsistency, such as we have been treated to today. It is a well known fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.72.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "is is not always possible, because we are not always the master of our own house. But in this respect we are, and it reflects credit on all Governments that they have been able to maintain the Savings Bank interest rate and thus reduce costs in this country because our people know that their money is secure. One of the finest interest-bearing attractions a man can have is that his money is secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.73.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.73.3", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "e of the finest interest-bearing attractions a man can have is that his money is secure—[ Interruption. ] If hon. Gentlemen opposite look at HANSARD they will see how the pound has fallen year by year from 1951 to date. In reply to a Question which I put to the Chancellor, we were told that the pound fell during the Conservative Administration by nearly three times more than under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.73.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-05", "file": "debates1969-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "285cc8ea9bc85a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": " has not paid the various licence fees. How much is this costing? This cost should be identified—perhaps this service is costing more than it is collecting—and the Amendment would result in it being identified. Some time ago this House passed legislation which has resulted in men being sent round to suppress pirate radio stations. I regard that as a squalid activity on the part of the Post Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-05a.214.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I emphatically reject that suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.259.6", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman regards as a moderate statement and what the rest of us regard as moderate are not exactly the same. The paper which was castigated by my right hon. Friend is a document calling into question all the advances in education policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.259.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Opposition are so split and squabbling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If there was one thing which was predictable it was that we would get that supplementary question and the right hon. Gentleman has been anticipated by 36 of his brighter back benchers in putting it on the Order Paper. The answer is that, at the time I said that what we shall do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "re was one thing which was predictable it was that we would get that supplementary question and the right hon. Gentleman has been anticipated by 36 of his brighter back benchers in putting it on the Order Paper. The answer is that, at the time I said that what we shall do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The right hon. Gentleman is talking about what I said in 1963. I said that what we shall do is to extend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.5", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "At that time I said what we shall do is to extend grammar school education to everyone, through the comprehensive system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (SECRETARY OF STATE'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is entitled to wonder. What we are concerned to do is to get a system of education for everyone, not on the basis of future Cabinets half of whom went to one single school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.261.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.262.9", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARIS (VISIT BY PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend place high on his agenda, some time during July when the new French President will have been elected, a meeting with his opposite number? Will he start afresh?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.262.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.262.9", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARIS (VISIT BY PRIME MINISTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend place high on his agenda, some time during July when the new French President will have been elected, a meeting with his opposite number? Will he start afresh? [ Interruption. ] Does he not think that this is a good moment to reaffirm the fact that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.262.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (COPIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "oon to give a Second Reading to a Bill which many hon. and right hon. Gentlemen, of whom I am one, who have applied at the Vote Office for a copy of the Bill, have been told that it is not available. Is it right that in those circumstances we should be asked to approve a Bill the details of which are not generally available to the House, and when, therefore, we are being asked to vote in the dark?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (COPIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am advised that 600 copies were sent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (COPIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "The present instance is a special case, because we are debating the Finance Bill. You told us, Mr. Speaker, that 600 hon. Members obtained copies of Bills in the normal way. But many hon. Members pass copies of the Finance Bill when they arrive to professional people outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.272.3", "colnum": "272", "heading": "FINANCE BILL (COPIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Many of us rely on advice from people outside the House. Many of us rely on the advice of our constituents, and many other hon. Members rely, for instance, on advice from trade union organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.272.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.289.7", "colnum": "289", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": "ise only too well the difficulty and inconvenience in which some hon. and right hon. Gentlemen are placed and recognise that they will be paying me undue courtesy if they allow me to proceed with a Bill of which not all of them have copies. In other words, I shall try to adjust my comments in such a way as will make the absence of the Bill less inconvenient than might otherwise have been the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.289.7", "colnum": "289", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Diamond)", "preceding_text": "e dividends have been restrained. I have paid tribute to those who have co-operated 100 per cent. in achieving that, and that is still the present position, but the restraint on dividends does not mean that profits have not risen. Indeed, they have. In 1968, they were £500 million, or about 11 per cent., above the previous year. In 1969–70, it is expected that profits will be higher still.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.289.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I do not think that my hon. Friend would expect me to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "There will be no difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "not need to declare 100 per cent. If it declares 60 per cent. that satisfies the standard laid down in the Act. The situation is that the full needs of the business, both current and development needs, are fully taken into account. The arrangements, as far as I am aware, are sensible and working well. Certainly, the arrangements are much more lenient than they were in the pre-corporation tax era.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.300.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "in that way as opposed to services, and if we are asked why we differentiate between the two, the answer is that the two industries do not function in the same way as regards production and arriving at prices. Putting this in its simplest terms, I remind the House that a manufacturing industry fixes its prices by reference to its prime costs—labour and materials, adding a percentage for overheads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "e when pay-as-you-earn was introduced. I also invite the House to consider the cost of purchase tax collection, where the wholesaler must keep special records purely for the purpose. I invite the House to consider the cost in regard to income tax, where agreement on the tax payable by a company or an individual of substantial income takes hours of his time and often hours of his accountant's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "much more serious and in which we are not likely to be able to ask for some sort of capital inflow; or some method like the imposition of import quotas where we can take direct action ourselves. The first matter that we need to consider is whether we should put growth as the major unquestionable priority. Certainly I think we should. This Finance Bill makes no great contribution in that direction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Haseldine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Haseldine", "preceding_text": "Purchase Tax or the other excise duties.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1969; Vol. 781, c. 1028–9.] Almost every authority in the retail distributive sector disagrees with this estimate. The retail consortium estimated that the full effect of the Budget would be that prices charged by efficient retailers would be increased by 2½ per cent. That is five times the Chancellor's estimate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.346.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ax by applying a 13¾ per cent. rate to three major items of household expenditure all of which are essential in character. I propose to tax for the first time bed linen, blankets and towels.\" He left the trade to stumble across it a few days later. That is very deft, devious, bordering on dishonest behaviour. The right hon. Member for Gloucester (Mr. Diamond) would not do a thing like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "cause the maximum of inconvenience and extra work to wholesale and retail traders. The imposition of the extra purchase tax, like the imposition of the selective employment tax, is all highly inflationary. I do not wish to go through every measure of increased taxation. I will deal with them all seriatim and I hope penetratingly in Committee. In a Second Reading speech, I content myself by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "bject in joining the Insurance Scheme was to save for retirement. I shall be over 63 years of age when the loan is repaid. I have been unable to obtain a building society mortgage on my home because it is not of a high enough standard. It is a 1914 stone built cottage … If the whole of Britain worked hard, lived frugally, and saved like we do there would be no balance of payments problem.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.386.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Dick Taverne)", "preceding_text": "anking sector. It is impossible to predict how this will come out in the year as a whole. We must bear two things in mind. The first is that the large surplus, which the hon. Member correctly said is a surplus of £800 million, would put us in a very much stronger position this year than last, and the second is that many holders of maturing stock will want to replace it with other Government stock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "It was explained at the start that there were three purposes to S.E.T.—first, the collection of taxes; second, the broadening of the tax base and an evening of the tax distribution between manufactures and services; and, third, to produce a new pattern in the distribution of labour. It is precisely because there is a resource—releasing effect about S.E.T. that it is a particularly suitable weapon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "of restraining consumer spending. First, it is clearly a sensible corollary to a savings scheme. If there is tax relief on saving it is logical that there should not be tax relief on borrowing for the purpose of spending. Second, it is reasonable to expect a considerable effect from the disallowance of the tax on consumer spending. One has only to have regard to the total amount of personal loans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.406.1", "colnum": "406", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask for guidance about the future? We are being asked to vote on a procedural Motion which names certain Clauses of a Bill which is not currently before us. This puts the House in a very difficult position indeed. I think that you, Mr. Speaker, are aware of a tendency today for the Executive to humiliate the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.407.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "I oppose the Motion. The Chief Secretary spoke of the convenience of the House, but there are more important things than the convenience of the House. This is the most important Bill of the year, and it affects all the constituents of every hon. Member. On Finance Bills of all Bills, backbenchers often wish to speak, and even vote, differently from their Front Bench spokesmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.410.4", "colnum": "410", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "So far as I can understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-06", "file": "debates1969-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "304831511ff8d1cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Splitting the Bill gives us the worst of all worlds. It turns the parts taken down here into generalised debates. Upstairs it cuts up the natural divisions of taxation, which is into families of taxes it picks the eyes out of each part of the Bill. There is no Re-committal stage, and therefore the Report stage is simply a ritual—a series of Press statements made by back benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-06a.412.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-07", "file": "debates1969-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "e78c42aec58eb38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " I welcome the statement which you have made, and the emphasis which you have laid on the fact that you would not be put under pressure to take action which might only exacerbate the current industrial dispute. I hope that every hon. Member, however he feels about this issue, will recognise that it is an industrial dispute and that it can be settled only through the normal industrial negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-07", "file": "debates1969-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "e78c42aec58eb38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": " pay on cigarettes, and most people could well afford to pay them. I tried to interrupt the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Dewar) during his speech, but he would not give way until somewhat later on a less important point concerning Scottish nationalism. The hon. Member referred to the right of the Government to interfere with the local authorities. We accept that Parliament must be supreme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-07", "file": "debates1969-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "e78c42aec58eb38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON RADIO AUTHORITY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "e on advertising, with consumer representation, to deal with misleading advertisements. There is also to be a medical advisory panel to deal with questions of medical advertisements. Schedule 2 provides distinctly that advertisements must not be excessively noisy or strident and must be confined to the beginning and end of the programmes or to natural breaks. If hon. Members had taken the trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-07", "file": "debates1969-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "e78c42aec58eb38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON RADIO AUTHORITY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "edical advisory panel to deal with questions of medical advertisements. Schedule 2 provides distinctly that advertisements must not be excessively noisy or strident and must be confined to the beginning and end of the programmes or to natural breaks. If hon. Members had taken the trouble—[ Interruption. ]—to inform themselves of what is in the Bill, we should have been spared many of the speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-07", "file": "debates1969-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "e78c42aec58eb38d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.599.1", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "nt Whip went out to fetch other Labour Members in, because we were defending an important principle: the right of appeal which parents had enjoyed. Certainly, the Minister has accepted our view by reintroducing the right of appeal. It is reasonable that having put our names to the Government Amendment, we should explain why we believe it to be right that the Clause should be removed from the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-07a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Since Lindsey County Council is utterly opposed to the building of this bridge until the main trunk road from Grimsby to Immingham has been completed—it has a much more important priority—will the right hon. Gentleman listen to what the Lindsey County Council has said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " continuous touch with the President and his Administration on this question. The right hon. Gentleman will know of the talks which are going on almost from day to day between our representatives at the United Nations. He would not, any more than I would not, underrate the difficulties they have to face, but they are continuing to discuss every aspect of this question in the frankest possible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.652.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.654.4", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — IMPORT SUBSTITUTION (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ntral to the report of the Select Committee and the E.D.C. But import substitution in this case has to be paid for either by increased subsidies involving Government expenditure, which hon. Gentlemen opposite are pledged to reduce, or by the Conservative proposals about levies which will be paid to an unacceptable degree by the consumer and which the National Farmers' Union itself totally rejects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND (VISIT TO LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister accept that we on this side of the House fully support the reforms which the Government of Northern Ireland are pledged to carry through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.658.2", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "—to respond to the request repeatedly made from this side of the House to try again, after the failure of his \"Fearless\" efforts, before the referendum became imminent? Was he not aware that Prime Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.658.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.659.4", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, however great the criticisms that may be levelled against him, there are those of us who marvel at the dexterity of those who, on the one hand, support Mr. Smith and, on the other hand, reconcile their support with the oath of loyalty that they have taken in this House to the Crown?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.659.4", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, however great the criticisms that may be levelled against him, there are those of us who marvel at the dexterity of those who, on the one hand, support Mr. Smith and, on the other hand, reconcile their support with the oath of loyalty that they have taken in this House to the Crown? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Is he aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I should hope not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "H.M.S.O. PUBLICATIONS WAREHOUSE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "A number of copies of the Finance Bill were printed and distributed to all right hon. and hon. Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "H.M.S.O. PUBLICATIONS WAREHOUSE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "he number of copies ran out at the Vote Office. There were clearly some hon. Members—it does not matter how many, because it is great inconvenience, as I explained when I moved the Second Reading of the Finance Bill—who suffered inconvenience. That position is now changed. A number of copies have been recovered. Arrangements have been made to distribute them to every right hon. and hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.674.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.689.2", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "On the subject of borrowing, I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.689.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.693.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I said that the industry was not perfect before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ding names, particularly before the new organisation to take their place has been decided, without seriously considering the damage that might be done. It looks as if the Government are encouraging B.S.C. to centralise as much as possible and to dismantle all potential for decentralised enterprise before the day of judgment, before the next election. Will this Bill and the policies behind it help?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e new organisation to take their place has been decided, without seriously considering the damage that might be done. It looks as if the Government are encouraging B.S.C. to centralise as much as possible and to dismantle all potential for decentralised enterprise before the day of judgment, before the next election. Will this Bill and the policies behind it help? [ Interruption. ] Will this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman would be good enough to interrupt me as much as I interrupted him, he will find that he will not interrupt me at all. I invited my right hon. Friend to leave it to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ore the House and gave the right hon. Gentleman repeatedly the right figure in the White Paper. The right hon. Gentleman was asking my right hon. Friend for a lot of niggling detail seeking to reconcile one figure with another figure for a different period. It is not my fault if the right hon. Gentleman had not read it and had not done his homework and, therefore, could not appreciate the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "rofessional point of view, on that score, but, as Chief Secretary, I would regard it as a gross waste of money to do that. My right hon. Friend has, therefore, invited the House to be good enough to do it in the cheap and expeditious way, and this will get rid of the shells. This procedure does not affect the organisation one iota. It does not reduce the goodwill or the right to use that goodwill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "ar as my responsibilities to this House are concerned. If the prices are high one would expect where there is a large share of the market open to the industry a larger return than if the prices were low. I am unable to understand why the hon. Member does not agree with me in that simple proposition. The higher the price the larger the net return in respect of those assets. It is as simple as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.789.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.791.4", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I was not asking my professional colleague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.791.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.792.3", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " at risk from the shareholders. The company would have found it impossible to raise money on the market and it would have been at risk of being taken over. The Chief Secretary is dealing in half truths in all that he has said. He seriously misleads himself as well as the country if he imagines for a moment that public enterprise is subject to any of the management discipline of private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.800.3", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "er the Money Resolution, to debate the question on the Committee stage? We are asking whether the Money Resolution is drawn widely enough to permit debate on capital acquisitions on borrowed money. The second question is whether in Committee the Money Resolution permits us to discuss the point which the Government have not answered, which is set out at the bottom of page 43 of the Annual Accounts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The Parliamentary Secretary might not be in a position to answer the procedural question, but the House ought to have an answer. The Treasury Bench is full and the Minister himself is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-08", "file": "debates1969-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c712148bbb8c4f75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, surely even a Member of Parliament is entitled to an obiter dictum. I know that we are not entitled to very much. We do not even get the papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-08a.802.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1208.2", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "—as well as the best public services in their experience. The answer to the second part is that it was not a secret visit. It was an unannounced visit, which is quite a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1208.4", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "e wireless to which the right hon. Gentleman referred, although it does not sound to me like a precisely accurate transposition of the words that a Treasury spokesman would use. I therefore do not consider that any undertaking is required in that respect. I have already given a pledge that the House will have the letter of intent and that it will be published as soon as it is appropriate to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1208.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "er of intent. I am, of course, not free to discuss the discussions which are being undertaken with the I.M.F. These are, and always have been, confidential and could not be satisfactorily conducted on any other basis. I can only add that nothing that takes away from the Chancellor's judgment has been or will be undertaken to any outside body and that the supremacy of Parliament is not in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1212.3", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that the recycling arrangements will be to the advantage of this country as well as other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "figures and they give the lie direct to the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne, who seemed to contradict the Tory propaganda—propaganda based on fact—that the Labour Party is eternally the party of increased and increasing taxation, whereas Tories have demonstrated, over all the years that they have governed, that they are the party of reduced and reducing taxation. Of course, throughout all those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That one cannot take the hon. Member seriously is illustrated by his reference to a Treasury document which, on a previous occasion, he described as a Budget leak. His exaggeration does however help to expose the irresponsibility of the Opposition Front Bench, the occupants of which have expressed views which are not only irresponsible but dishonest and economically disastrous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "should be unthinkable, and I am not thinking merely in terms of the breach of faith which the Government's action in raising taxation has constituted. One attaches perhaps a little less importance to that than one would otherwise do because only a very naïf elector would have believed such a pledge, considering the source from which it emanated and the background against which it was given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Selective quotation is an old trick of the Chancellor's—I have known him long enough to realise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Selective\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": ". the British rate becomes substantially above the United States' rate. I am sorry to put these figures to the Committee at some length. I do not think that they prove the whole position; they do not prove that we have nothing to worry about as regards tax, but they show that we have listened to many selective figures from the other side of the Committee, and that one might put some other figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1319.5", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, terrible. A few weeks ago, a famous public corporation offered me a seat on its board in an advisory capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1319.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "l. I hope that this anomaly will be dealt with by a Tory Government at the first opportunity after they secure a majority in the next General Election. The second anomaly is the wholly bad system of aggregation of incomes, in this case professional incomes, between spouses. The Daily Express is always spot on in these matters. The most patriotic and switched-on of newspapers is the Daily Express —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " astronomical tax bracket in which they pay such a high level of surtax that it is no longer attractive for the female spouse to return to the profession in which she was qualified before her marriage. I do not know why hon. Gentlemen opposite appear to be pointing in the direction of my hon. Friend the Member for Petersfield (Miss Quennell), who is a spinster. She nevertheless knows all about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1332.5", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "t to him. He deserved the key to No. 10 Downing Street and all that went with it. His colleagues honoured him; they held on to his coat tails. They would not be in the position that they are in without him. Why should not the same principle apply in trade industry? Why should men who have given of their best and worked for their fellows be regarded as evil-doers? Why should they be taxed to death?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1332.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1335.2", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "his on from the President, from page 15: Now there must be some economic limit to the taxation of individuals in any free society which relies on monetary gain as an incentive. If hon. Members opposite condemn the profit motive, which is the mainspring of the capitalist system I say that they must produce a better motive. So far they have failed to do this, but have given us far too much taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1336.1", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I agree with what the President of the Board of Trade says. No one on his side has read it, and that is why his sales are so poor. I have the support of the President of the Board of Trade. I want to drive this home as hard as I can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1345.2", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I remember the Socialist Iron Chancellor, Mr. Philip Snowden, who during the 1931 General Election said, in effect, \"I have always been in favour of taxing the very rich, but if you tax them too much you will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and then you get no more eggs and, ultimately, disaster\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1345.2", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "who during the 1931 General Election said, in effect, \"I have always been in favour of taxing the very rich, but if you tax them too much you will kill the goose that lays the golden eggs and then you get no more eggs and, ultimately, disaster\". [ Laughter. ] I am surprised that hon. Gentlemen oposite find that amusing, particularly when I am referring to a man who was a fine Socialist Chancellor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-13", "file": "debates1969-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "23d358bb4bf18b4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that the hon. Gentleman has asked me that question, because it is necessary for a number of factors. My point is that it is a number of factors which enter into this. The hon. Gentleman's argument is that there is no point in chairmen of nationalised industries asking for this higher remuneration or being paid it. That is the hon. Gentleman's argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-13a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1385.2", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is exaggerating when he says that large-scale supplies are coming from our minor suppliers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1392.5", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that during the past year I have seen two rookeries in Warwickshire completely destroyed because, as I believe, many farmers blame the rook for the sins of the crow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1392.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1394.4", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, like any other hon. Gentleman, can be very selective in the years he uses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1394.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1399.6", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS TELEVISION (WESTMINSTER HALL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Why so? Is my right hon. Friend seized of the absurdity of a situation in which hundreds of people, especially in the summer, queue outside, hoping to see the House in action, while there is an enormous hall standing empty which could be used for the purposes suggested in the Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1404.3", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (STAND-BY CREDIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must not try to compete with his hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro). I will not be put in the position of having either to deny something or confirm it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1404.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "has passed a law, that law should, stand unless and until it is repealed. Unless there are overpowering reasons for saying, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman said in his peroration, that justice demands that it be made retrospective, the starting point must be a prejudice against retrospective legislation simply so that citizens will know where they stand in the arrangement of their affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1462.3", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "y or may not be able to sell now, but the point is that they took that decision which may have been important to them at that time. They may forgo benefits which they would otherwise have received because they thought that the liability which they would incur would make it not worth their while to sell. They would feel, \"This Parliament cannot make up its mind; it is constantly changing its mind\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is taking too commercial a view of the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hardship.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is taking too commercial a view of the matter. [ Laughter. ] I know that hon. Members opposite always think of everything in commercial terms, but there are other factors which enter into these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1516.3", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMEBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "igure. Cases in which the market value was £1,500 or less have accounted for over half the assessments made in the first two years of the levy's operation. I think that the figure is nearer 55 per cent. Those cases have accounted for less than one-tenth of the total amount of levy assessed during the period. An exemption limit of £5,000 would have exempted not 50 or 55 per cent., but 80 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1516.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport (Knutsford) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.2", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on this side.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I had not intended to intervene at this stage, though I had it in mind, perhaps, to speak to the Question on the Clause as a whole. I have one word to say to all my hon. Friends on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.2", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And that is you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "RS: \"And on this side.\"]—yes, I have quite a lot of hon. Friends on the Government side, too. I pay tribute to the excellent speech just made by my hon. Friend the Member for Acton (Mr. Kenneth Baker), but I warn all my hon. Friends that it is an absolute waste of time talking about hardship cases to the concrete lobby-fodder opposite. There is only one hardship case with which they are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.3", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Robinson", "preceding_text": "s to the Amendment itself, the provisions of Clause 38 are intended to apply solely to owner-occupiers. Although there are, I agree, certain special features in the particular case to which the hon. Gentleman referred, I do not think that it would be appropriate to amend the Bill to cover this very narrow category. Generally, we must equate trustees with landlords rather than with owner-occupiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1548.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1559.0", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ed of senior and experienced Members of the House on similar lines to the membership of the Select Committee on Parliamentary Privilege. Naturally, as with all Select Committees, not every senior and experienced Member can serve, bearing in mind the need for the Committee to be of manageable size and proper party balance. But I am confident that the names I propose will be acceptable to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1557.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1570.6", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "n saying that the first paragraph as drafted does not give the Select Committee opportunity to consider certain important points which are raised by the question why Members have outside interests at all. For various reasons—I shall not go into them all—there are hon. Members on both sides, possibly more on this side than on that, who have to have outside interests because they just cannot manage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1570.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am pleased that it is, but they have been looked into for 25 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1572.0", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "d out postage, living expenses and the expenses of their wives. If I go to my constituency I can take my wife, and there is no extra expense. The other hon. Member has to take his wife and meet the fare. They may have to stay overnight and there are hotel expenses to meet out of his so-called salary. This is unfair. If I go to my constituency with my wife and we open a bazaar or do whatever we do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1572.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1574.4", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker? When my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House moved his Motion, he referred not only to the principle outlined in the first paragraph but also to the composition of the Committee. You indicated, I think, to the hon. Member for the Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. John Smith) that by speaking once, he precluded himself from speaking again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "eing paid, £3,250 a year and most of us know that it is not a salary in any sense of the word. We ought to reform the method by which hon. Members are paid and there have been various suggestions about that. I do not accept that I am a bad Member of Parliament because I have outside interests. I have to have these interests because I cannot live without them and my bank manager would not allow it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1580.4", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We are full-time Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House is very persuasive. It is a pity that we did not have this debate earlier in the day instead of after midnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-14", "file": "debates1969-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "c40c9a6b585f0757", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1598.3", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS (DECLARATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"These are back benchers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "status quo people. My right hon. Friend said that they were a true cross-section of the House. That was as though he were to appoint a board representing industry and say that a true cross-section of industry consisted only of directors and managers. This would be absolute nonsense, as he would be the first to admit. I realise that all Governments always have and always will despise back benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-14a.1598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1614.9", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "That may be so. I cannot say", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1614.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1615.3", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Slater", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Jopling) for the Question that he has tabled, because it gives me the opportunity of saying that, thanks to the skill of our sorters, most letters are delivered on time, but about ½ million a day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1615.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I see that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is not present on the Government Front Bench. Perhaps he will be along soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1632.2", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1632.6", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Is it not the case that if members of the Conservative Party who put Questions on the Order Paper had the decency to attend the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1632.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1633.3", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "We are about to pass legislation to ban unofficial strikes. I am wondering whether the legislation might apply to this House. Since it is quite clear that some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1633.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1633.8", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Mr. Speaker. May I ask Question No. 55?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1633.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1649.3", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot give a specific date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "Has the Leader of the House seen the speech by the Secretary of State for Social Services saying that the increased money from the charges for teeth and spectacles will be used for comprehensive schools? Is he aware that this is clean contrary to what the Secretary of State said on 5th May? In view of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "ed his usual strictures on the Government's option mortgage scheme. I cannot say that I was surprised. He had said before in the House that the failure of the scheme was shown by the fact that 90 per cent. of the people with mortgages refused to take advantage of it. I submit that the success of the scheme is shown by the fact that 10 per cent. of the people with mortgages do take advantage of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": "Act. I could develop the true argument and show him the statistics and facts which demonstrate that where freedom of rent applies houses are in surplus, and where it does not there is no surplus. Those are the facts of life. I think tonight of the people who are still wanting houses, and I deplore the way in which the Minister has turned this into a political debate, not a debate about production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should grow up. He ought to realise that it takes 18 months from the planning stage to build a house. The only success which the Labour Government had came at the beginning because they took advantage of the flywheel momentum of housing starts under the previous Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "ate. When it began I almost failed to recognise the hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker); he was so subdued. It has been impossible to realise that this was supposed to be a great attack by hon. Members opposite upon this side of the House; indeed, at one stage I took pains to count the attendance of hon. Members opposite who felt so strongly on this issue, and I found that there were six—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": "ed us to consider the way in which the price of a house had risen in the five years during which this Government have been in power. He traded on the short memories of the public, but I shall remind them of the true facts. It so happens that this rising trend in prices began not in 1964 but a long time before that. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite gave it a good start, well before we came into power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. George Thomas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. George Thomas)", "preceding_text": " figure was 7 per cent. That is too high, but it is lower than the previous annual rate; it is beginning to move in the right direction. The cost of second-hand or older houses increased from 1960 to 1964, the last four years that the Conservatives had power in their hands, by 8·2 per cent. each year. From 1964 to 1968 the figure was 6·8 per cent. We have had a lot of humbug tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1716.2", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And still are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "site on leasehold. During the passage of the Leasehold Reform Bill the party opposite told us that we were stealing, that it was confiscation; they were opposed, root and branch to the Leasehold Reform Bill. The hon. Gentleman knows that he was opposed to it, and I well remember the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East saying that Western Ground Rents, about the worst ground landlords in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "efore that it had been two years and six months. We have written in the White Paper the proposal that there should be statutory biennial reviews. Our last review was exactly after two years. What the Chancellor was telling the pensioners was, \"Yes. Whatever happens, you will get it in the two-year period which we have promised and which is a good deal shorter than happened under our predecessors.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "uld not. I am very concerned about the up-rating being one moving towards the new scheme. I want it to be in conformity with the principles of the scheme, in which the Exchequer contribution is about 18 per cent. If we avoided our difficulties in the next two or three years and made the Exchequer pay more now we should upset the balance of the new scheme. The level of taxation is high enough today", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1746.0", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Swindle!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "t is true that we have to listen to the discussion a bit later, but it will be essential that when after the Recess we are considering the full details, the \"across the range\" details of the White Paper and the Bill we should also incorporate a statement on the future. That statement I am not ready to make yet, but I hope that discussions will be completed in time to make it soon after the Recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1770.3", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "would have been entertaining were it not about a deadly serious matter at a desperate time in our national fortunes. Look at what has happened. At first, the total amount was entirely unknown—£250 million plus \"a substantial extra provision\". Today, we have been told that the total is £430 million, and even that includes nothing for war pensions and nothing for increases in supplementary benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1778.4", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"You cannot take it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Exactly right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-15", "file": "debates1969-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc903a3d4838f459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1779.4", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " his speech, at one moment he said that we would have to call forth too much in contributions and the next moment he was saying that we would not be raising enough. That is typical Conservative policy; you put your money and you take your choice. There is no need to take a position; every variation is given. I found it difficult to understand what are the intentions of the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-15a.1779.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-16", "file": "debates1969-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "00a8085860a9c4ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-16a.1945.18", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-16a.1945.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "The amount involved in increasing pensions was made clear by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.49.3", "colnum": "49", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "why these negotiations should be debated in the House before they are concluded. As a participant in a former Administration, he must know that any Government normally resist holding a debate while negotiations of this kind are continuing. He supported that concept in the past, when the Conservatives were in office. He now wishes, for obvious propagandist, shabby reasons, to abandon that position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Those on the Treasury Bench.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "plies to politicians on both sides—the country does not like politicians, but we would do better with a different Treasury Bench. It is intolerable that we should go away for a long period without the country knowing what fresh contributions will have to be paid when the new pensions scheme comes into operation. It is all very well for those with reasonable incomes and a fairly good stand of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Lipton", "preceding_text": "been returned to Dr. Laurence, as have all the other goods which ware taken from the house. So what we are waiting for is the promised statement by the Home Secretary. I hope that my hon. Friend, whom I hold in the highest possible esteem, will bring to the Home Secretary's notice the urgent necessity of an oral statement, which should not be postponed until after the Christmas—the Whitsun Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"HON.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " same day an official statement was issued from our embassy in Washington saying that official approaches had been made. That raises a question which deserves an answer. Someone, somewhere, is not telling the whole truth. I immediately absolve the Chancellor of the Exchequer from attempting to mislead the House. Neither he nor any other Minister deceives or has ever deceived the House at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.60.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " part. It is another subject which, if the Leader of the House were able to agree either to shortening the Recess or not having one at all, we could have an opportunity of discussing. I see, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you have expressed a desire that I should draw my remarks to a close. I will do so, but I say, in sitting down, that I know the attitude of Mr. Deputy Speaker from past experience and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.66.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.80.0", "colnum": "80", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman should not kid himself.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": " far more use getting around and seeing his constituents. When this place is shut up it is still very easy to get in contact with, for instance, the Department of Education and Science or the Foreign Office. As a Member of Parliament one can always contact the heads of Departments or Ministers of the Crown because members of the Government do not go into recess; only this Chamber goes into recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-19", "file": "debates1969-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "ca80f4455a3dfa75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (WHITSUNTIDE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "stituencies, free to contact anybody and everybody, and then come back and put Questions on the Order Paper. This is all part of the process. The trouble is that the recesses are not long enough. If I were to put a Motion on the Order Paper it would be to extend them. I could watch what the Government are doing better from out in the country than from here. My constituents give me their reactions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-19a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I have no desire to obliterate anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.226.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I have no desire to obliterate anything. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The right hon. Gentleman should not exaggerate his disastrous months. January was not a disastrous month at all. My object remains to get a very substantial sustainable balance of payments surplus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I must be frank with the right hon. Gentleman and with the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FRENCH GOVERNMENT (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is slightly wide of the mark when he refers to \"both candidates\". I understand that there are more than two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.233.6", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONTAINER FLEET (TILBURY BERTH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Why has the Prime Minister's approach to the question shown all the restrained enthusiasm of an amorous porcupine?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONTAINER FLEET (TILBURY BERTH)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the junior Minister who met the deputation really was rather restrained because he thought there might be a settlement with the ports concerned, which did not prove to be true? What is the good of a junior Minister? We really want the Prime Minister, so that we can tell him how very inept they have been in dealing with this important question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONTAINER FLEET (TILBURY BERTH)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "e that the junior Minister who met the deputation really was rather restrained because he thought there might be a settlement with the ports concerned, which did not prove to be true? What is the good of a junior Minister? We really want the Prime Minister, so that we can tell him how very inept they have been in dealing with this important question—[ Interruption. ] That is what we will tell him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONTAINER FLEET (TILBURY BERTH)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.234.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.237.4", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHAH OF IRAN (EXCHANGE OF VIEWS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seems to have moved a long way from his last Question about British interests and not making party politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.237.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.240.7", "colnum": "240", "heading": "ABORTION ACT (MEMBER'S QUESTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Will Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) has mentioned me, I should like to say, first, that during the years I have been in the House I have never known such a procedure as has been employed today, inasmuch as I was not informed by the hon. Gentleman that he intended to raise this matter today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS (DIRECTLY EMPLOYED LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that my Liberal colleagues and I wish him all the best in his new job? We are happy to hear his voice, although we are sorry that he has not been able to continue in his former post, in which we enjoyed excellent relationships with him. Would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.246.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS (DIRECTLY EMPLOYED LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Burden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order for the Leader of the Liberal Party, the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe), to call Conservative hon. Members \"mean bastards\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.247.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.247.6", "colnum": "247", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS (DIRECTLY EMPLOYED LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I was about to ask the right hon. Gentleman two questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.247.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.247.9", "colnum": "247", "heading": "MINISTRY OF PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS (DIRECTLY EMPLOYED LABOUR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "If it may in any way be thought that I used the expression as a term of endearment towards the Conservative Party. I unequivocally withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.247.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.266.0", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is plenty of time.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "tues from the Treasury point of view was the poll tax in 1380, which led to the Peasants' Revolt, one of the great popular uprisings in our history. It had the most unfortunate and unpleasant consequences, but it was a perfectly good tax from the Treasury point of view. The window tax was imposed for a very long time. It was cheap and easy to collect, but nobody would propose introducing it again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.272.1", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " opposite, that if he increases the cost of living here he causes more and more wage demands. Is there any greater manifestation of this that this morning's news? The most utterly respectable body of men and women in the country, the professional civil servants, is clamouring—I said \"utterly respectable\" and the Chancellor grins. Does he not accept my assessment of them? He was not grinning at me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.273.7", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s well put up with fee-paying education. It would be impossible to abolish it. There would be no room in the State schools to take in another half-a-million pupils, if we tried to abolish fee paying tomorrow.\" If S.E.T. is not applicable to a State educational establishment I say to the Chancellor why should it be applicable to a private fee-paying establishment, be it Winchester, Eton, or Harrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.273.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Although I shall be critical of the application of S.E.T. on the building industry, I wish to make it clear at the outset that I do not oppose this tax in principle. I assure the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer made it clear when S.E.T. was introduced that it had the major purpose of raising revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend, whom I have known for many years, will want to be accurate, in fairness to the Government. When the present Home Secretary introduced this tax he said at great length that it was a revenue-raising measure in the first place. He said that he had looked at all the traditional possibilities—putting a little more on beer or on cigarettes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall", "preceding_text": " spoken he has given reasons why this is a bad tax. If those hon. Members had a completely free vote instead of feeling that it would a matter of grave embarrassment to the Government, they would accompany us in the Lobby against the Clause. I suggest that those 18 Members and, indeed, every other Member who has spoken out of genuine conviction, should put the national interest first and foremost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.313.4", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why tax retailers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": ", the higher their standard of living, the higher is the proportion of their national income spent upon services rather than goods. In very primitive communities, everyone spends mainly on goods. In more advanced communities, a very high proportion goes upon services. But this inevitable and desirable development means that it is desirable that services should contribute to their part of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.313.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "IAL REPORT, 3rd May, 1966; Vol. 727, c. 1458–9.] The latter argument is no longer propounded by the Chancellor. Therefore, two of the three main reasons for the tax put forward in 1966 have been dropped. There can be little doubt that the tax is damaging and diabolic and is discredited in industry. It is a selective exploitation tax on taxpayers generally in one specific aspect of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.318.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is going.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "Go to the bar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-20", "file": "debates1969-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "668f5055585a63ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.381.0", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Tinn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Tinn", "preceding_text": "Sensitive as always to the feeling of the Committee, I have the impression that brevity on my part would be appreciated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-20a.381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I cannot, without notice, reveal the rate of interest on the loan. In any event, the details are very much a confidential matter in the transaction between the Shipbuilding Industry Board and the company concerned. I hope that hon. Members will not press me to give details in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has got it quite wrong; there has not been a dramatic fall in production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.427.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to know that the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) is aware that Oxford is a centre of motor manufacturing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.428.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.433.6", "colnum": "433", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not here.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.433.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with the points of order seriatim. First, this is not the first time that a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "CONCORDE AIRCRAFT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "preceding_text": "r. The facts speak for themselves. It is obvious that Concorde has become a licence to spend money—taxpayers' money—on a most speculative and uncertain venture. Nothing could be more specific than the facts: an escalation over three years in gross terms of £280 million, on top of an escalation of £220 million between 1964 and 1966, and on top of an escalation of £100 million between 1962 and 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.522.5", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "and have had no real assurance that anything will be done. This debate is on a very narrow problem. I should have liked the debate to have been much wider and to have involved, in particular, the whole question of labour-only sub-contracting. My difficulty is that I could press the Amendment to a Division, but it is not a particularly responsible attitude merely to waste the time of the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.522.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "the circumstances, I feel that I shall have to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment, but I do so, and I want this to be known, extremely reluctantly. The hon. Member for Meriden (Mr. Speed) has referred to the difficulty there is in having a full-scale discussion on the whole subject of the construction and building industry. On that basis, Mr. Gourley, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.522.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about dentures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It is no good the Financial Secretary saying that I have. My memory may have failed me, but I do not believe that I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The manufactured textiles that go into the pram and on the bed and so on. I shall tell the Committee approximately how much the wicked Treasury Ministers propose to extract from the pockets of mothers of new babies by this iniquitous purchase tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.575.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "he perambulator. It costs £1 17s. 6d., tax will now be 3s. 4d. For the blankets, at £1 15s. two of them, the tax now will be 3s. 2d.; rugs at £3, two of them, the tax will now be 5s. 6d.; the sheets at 30s. three of them, the tax will be 2s. 6d.; take pillow cases at a guinea, three of them, the tax will be 2s.; take a \"Mattrillow\" at 18s., two of them, the tax will be 1s. 8d.; take rubber sheets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-21", "file": "debates1969-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6a8ab24a65f3082c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "preceding_text": "ever other reply may be made to this Amendment, I hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will give further thought to this request from The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. I believe that in this instance, whatever else may be thought about this tax, it will result in real hardship which I do not believe the Chancellor could have considered when he introduced the tax in his Budget speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-21a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.681.4", "colnum": "681", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I thought that my reply was sensible in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.681.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "e judgment regurgitate the money, let us give compensation. After all, the mistake is ours. It is the State's mistake. We have placed these people in this position. We have made people sell their leases and have to give the money back again. In those circumstances, let us compensate them for the injustice that we have done. Mr. Speaker, I beg your forgiveness if I have taken longer on this Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was set up by the Government\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Examine the results of the rent assessment committee in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.796.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.806.4", "colnum": "806", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "se. The analysis goes on to say: And the proportion of individual landlords who are elderly ranges from 39 per cent. to 63 per cent.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 10th February, 1969; Vol. 777, c. 972–3.] The majority of landlords are those owning only one house and between 40 per cent. and 60 per cent. are elderly. These are the people the hon. Gentleman is saying should subsidise low-income tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " he has no time to go out to work—perhaps he works at different times of the day from Members of Parliament. I point to this exceptional example to demonstrate the dangers of laying down in legislation these kinds of precise figures. The hon. Gentleman's new Clause would mean, in the case of this gentleman, an income of £36 a week, which is a very different thing from what the hon. Member intends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Rigor mortis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "ho is called upon to deliberate on this Clause will find his hands tied. This is a wrong principle, because the judges are perfectly able to consider all the facts. It is wrong that they should be debarred by a Statute passed in this manner. The Minister must admit that his party is a party of rigidity. This is the cause of much of the trouble which has dogged right hon. and hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-05-22", "file": "debates1969-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "74f656902c53f1a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murton", "preceding_text": "e. I understand the views of the hon. Member for Salford, East on housing. In many ways, he is quite a character—he will not mind my saying that—in housing matters. He would, no doubt, talk about the wicked landlords and the other things which delight his heart. But I know that behind that facade there is a warm heart. I understand the way he feels—and I have told him that many times. In my youth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-05-22a.814.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-09", "file": "debates1969-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d1a54f4266538d92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-09a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that by focussing attention on the figures at peak weekends he may give the impression that driving standards are markedly different then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-09a.933.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-09", "file": "debates1969-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d1a54f4266538d92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-09a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (MR. PHILIP GOLDING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now you know.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longden", "preceding_text": " and for the co-operation which I have received from his Department during the last few days, but it is not enough that the Consul should be allowed to visit this man. It is essential that a charge, if any, should be made and that people should know why he is being held. This behaviour is common in certain quarters of the globe, but one had hoped that it was not so in the Republic of South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-09a.965.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-09", "file": "debates1969-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "d1a54f4266538d92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-09a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Not singing \"Rule Britannia\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "preceding_text": "t by the results. For example, one could think of a child setting fire to the Albert Hall at midnight, when there is no one there. Some of us might necessarily regard that not as an offence at all but as a basis for architectural innovation and acoustic improvement. But if that act of arson were committed on the last night of the Proms and we saw whole legions of the young decimated inadvertently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-09a.1079.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1218.10", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Gentleman is talking about the National Consultative Council and the E.D.C.s. If he looks at the constitutions of both bodies, he will find that they deal with entirely different facets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1218.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1223.5", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that gas workers who come out on strike are in law guilty of a criminal offence? In view of his reply, with which I wholly agree, does not this show how ridiculous it is to impose penal provisions against those who come out on strike?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1223.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1223.7", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Does the Parliamentary Secretary think that a compulsory cooling-off period would be appropriate to the gas industry and, if so, will he say whether it will be brought in?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1223.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1228.6", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "may say about it, is it not the case that his proposals provide for a multi-racial Parliament? May I ask the Prime Minister, since he cannot impose principles on Rhodesia, whether it was worth while for him to let the \"Fearless\" negotiations, in which he was supported by this House, fail because of the external safeguards? Did he fully explore the possibility of a treaty between the two countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1255.2", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "LABELLING OF CIGARETTE PACKETS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "—as they are to the non-smoker—the pipe and the cigar, are far more noxious for those who do not want the benefit of the activities of the smoker. The hon. Gentleman should have brought that within the scope of his proposed Bill. I am not entirely happy about the wording which he proposes to put on the cigarette packet. We should strive to see that people do not indulge in this stimulus to excess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1255.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1283.6", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATON (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "e colleges, the people who administer them, the teachers who teach in them and the students who work in them. And if he does not like them, he can abolish the lot. There is no requirement in the Clause or in the Bill that there should be consultation with the colleges. Indeed, the Bill goes out of its way to remove the requirement for consultation which exists in Section 144(2) of the parent Act.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1283.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1290.3", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATON (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "It is from the principal of one of the central institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1299.2", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATON (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman spoke for nearly half an hour. I have hardly started, and I have not the slightest intention of speaking for anything like that long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1299.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1304.2", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATON (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "e consultation had taken place. Despite the assurances given by the Government at the meeting last November—I gather that that was the meeting to which the Under-Secretary referred—the colleges are not content with the position and want this protection written into the Bill. While I do not wish to detain the House, it is interesting to note what some of the letters that we have received have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1304.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1340.0", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATON (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "ly a consequential matter—to have another few thousand teachers driven out of employment to the detriment of our institutes of further education, instead of our schools. If he calls that a purely consequential matter, I cannot agree with him. There is nothing to match the obstinacy of some members of the present Government when they have made a mistake and lack the honesty and courage to admit it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1340.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATON (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Miss Herbison) was seeking to imply that those teachers, whether in further education or in schools, who were not prepared to register were doing so, perhaps, because of bigotry or unreasonableness, or because they were being difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1381.4", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " so for 30 years. We are getting on to some false points. This was something to allow it so to be arranged that people could withdraw their children from religious instruction without any effect on their secular education. It was for their consideration that this was done. But there has been no demand for this provision, because parents have not withdrawn their children from religious instruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1381.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "ut-dated privilege. I have made long speeches about this in the past, but now I would only congratulate the Government on at last having grasped the nettle, on at last trying to introduce at least into the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh a system that is fair and meets the needs of modern society in which we live. We cannot have a modern system of education in Edinburgh unless we make this change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1394.6", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": " all sort of areas. We delude ourselves if we say that the fees matter; they do not. Fees could be abolished tomorrow without reducing the problem. The real problem is selective education which the Bill is to abolish. That is what the Government are after. They will create more rigid class divisions in our society. This is what we must battle against. We must oppose the Bill with all our strength.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1394.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "d, means that we will get one area where there is a low education tradition and where only a small percentage of children are likely to go on to higher education and that a school in such an area may become an unfashionable comprehensive. This kind of demarcation may be built in by unfortunate zoning policies, or perhaps inevitable zoning policies, but this fault could be eradicated in many areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-10", "file": "debates1969-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "c6da8c16eefb8511", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1415.1", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Schedule 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "wish of the Minister and his Department to arrive at a neat blanket coverage of the whole United Kingdom for license duty, but nine-tenths of these roads were built by the inhabitants and no public money was involved. Only a small fraction of the roads in the islands may be classified as public roads, and if the Amendment is carried the inhabitants will not be able to keep their cars in Hugh Town.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-10a.1415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-11", "file": "debates1969-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "423fe6a06fa91fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-11a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "ROYAL COMMISSION ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT (REDCLIFFE-MAUD REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, for example, the Redcliffe-Maud Report proposes to amalgamate South Worcestershire with Herefordshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-11a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-11", "file": "debates1969-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "423fe6a06fa91fac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-11a.1550.2", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or in regulations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "It was raised because we were concerned about it. The hon. and learned Member for Pentlands raised this one morning in Committee in a very astute way on a subject we were then debating not concerning the Pentland Hills. I took action that morning and we have since referred it to the Commission. It is not necessary to have references in statute to do these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-11a.1550.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (MINISTER OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "preceding_text": "osition than to the Government and that some of the reported statements of the Leader of the Opposition while he was in the United States fell deplorably below the standard expected of him? Would my right hon. Friend agree that the right hon. Gentleman should have had the statesmanship to refuse to be drawn into anti-British Government remarks of that kind with the aim of exploiting the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1669.2", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (MINISTER OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think, as I said last week, that it is really a matter of taste and standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1670.1", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (MINISTER OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend arrange for the Opposition to co-ordinate statements on major policy, particularly statements made from time to time—bitterly resented by many—by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1671.0", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (MINISTER OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " With regard to what he said in Washington, I acknowledged in my statement that the right hon. Gentleman might have been misreported. He now says that he was misreported. Either he was or he was not. The Opposition Chief Whip had better sort it out with the Leader of the Opposition. I said last Saturday that he might have been misreported. I said that, but a fortnight has gone by without a denial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1671.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1671.3", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (MINISTER OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "As I have said, that report is completely untrue. I have offered the Prime Minister the complete transcript of what I said. Why does the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1671.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT POLICY STATEMENTS (MINISTER OF INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the second point, the Prime Minister reported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not next week.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "When will the Government's long-promised Bill on industrial relations be published?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I note carefully what my hon. Friend has said. I am rather surprised at the Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1700.1", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROMOTION OF EXPORTS (ESTIMATES COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "or unhappiness, of confidence or of uncertainty, from the resultant balance of trade. But I suggest that there is a case for taking more into account the value to this country of invisible exports. I have been a Member of the House for five years and I have not found this to be a matter which appears to be discussed too much. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have not got a monopoly on this subject, either—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1800.1", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "I do recollect 1938, as the hon. Lady obviously does. Returning to Standing Order No. 15, there are these two alternatives, Government business and private Members' business and no third kind of business—hermaphrodite, bastard, whatever we like to call it—but that is what this Government, and I agree previous Governments, have allowed to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1800.3", "colnum": "1800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "Very well, we shall get on with it. The Standing Orders of the House of Commons are being twisted to get the Government out of difficulty. I shall not speak at great length.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1800.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker; I do not think that anybody wishes to debate it. Most people would regard it as fairly obvious in view of the results which it has had. That was the Abortion Bill. There have been other Bills—and Mr. Speaker will not want me to refer to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker; I do not think that anybody wishes to debate it. Most people would regard it as fairly obvious in view of the results which it has had. That was the Abortion Bill. There have been other Bills—and Mr. Speaker will not want me to refer to them—[ Interruption. ]—on which the same thing has happened. I shall leave the other aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1801.3", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": "is a speech introducing a Motion of great importance. I shall leave other aspects of the matter to my right hon. and hon. Friends. I earnestly ask the House to realise that this evening we are engaged in a very important discussion. I only remind the House that the power of the Government to interfere with private Members' business is a very recent thing. One hundred years ago, the difficulty was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1801.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1804.3", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "That is a separate part of the argument, to which I am coming in a moment. I cannot put all the arguments I wish to present in one sentence. I was dealing with the claim of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, who said that it was not a wrecking Motion. I think that on consideration he takes a different view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1804.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1805.0", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " that they say that, that has not been a principle which has previously been accepted in the House. It was not accepted in the case of a previous Divorce Bill, which is extremely apposite to this matter. In that case it was not considered by a Conservative Government of the 1930s that there was only Government business or private business. They blurred the distinctions for a very important reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1804.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.2", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "But my hon. Friend must consider the circumstances in which Parliament passes legislation. If a Bill goes through as a Private Member's Bill, no member of the public is entitled to blame the Government, but if a Bill goes through because, and only because, the Government have used their power to secure its passage procedurally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.5", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could complete my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Chippenham (Mr. Awdry). Perhaps I went a little too far when I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.7", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The argument is so strong that it is not necessary to claim that the legislation would pass only because the Government have used their power under Standing Order No. 15. It is only necessary to claim—and this no hon. Member of the House can deny—that the passage has been greatly facilitated", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.7", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "wers. In those circumstances, the public ought to be able to say—and it is the meaning of responsible Government that the public ought to be able to say—\"We know where the blame lies. This Measure is in effect because of action taken by the Government.\" But the Government slip out from under that responsibility. They do not come to the Dispatch Box and justify one clause after another in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1810.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1811.1", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman does not justify his policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1811.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1811.6", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that any hon. Member here doubts why we are having this debate and why we will sit tonight. It is because the Government have done for this Bill what is not normally done for a Private Member's Bill. The probable effect, and in many cases the intended effect, of that being done is to secure its passage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1811.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1821.0", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "s mind on important matters which affect the community, which are not of a party kind, which are moral in nature, which may be of a religious kind, and on which opinion is divided not only in the House but in the country generally. It is right that the Government of the day should enable the House to reach a decision and that the Government should exercise neutrality, as we have done in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1822.3", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "cement to the House, as I did in this case, at business question time. Even the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West admitted that there were precedents, although he argued, cogently from his point of view, that we shoud not be bound by precedent. I am merely saying that the principle has been established. There is no doubt about that. I have looked into this matter extremely carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1822.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1837.3", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": " Gentleman, \"to make up its mind on great matters which affect the community\". That is all very well if what is given is time, but some of us feel that to make it possible for \"a great matter affecting the community\" to be the subject of a debate starting at 10 o'clock and going on through the night makes very little sense and does very little, if anything, to restore the reputation of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1839.1", "colnum": "1839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": "sising my point. We all know that when such matters are discussed during the night, any member of the public coming in here at 4 o'clock in the morning and seeing the number of Members taking part in the debate on this great matter affecting the community would think we were daft and would wonder how on earth we felt that with such a small attendance we could do justice to their needs and desires.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1848.1", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "w, like the asterisk perhaps, in a curious way. The convention which has grown up and eventually been accelerated under the Labour Government is a convention that when public opinion sufficiently shows itself on an issue, the House, each hon. Member, should have an opportunity of expressing a view and coming to a conclusion. This is something for which this Parliament I believe will be remembered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "No one listens to the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) with more avid attention than I on most occasions, but I must say that I found his levity a little out of taste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "I am an authority on the boys and girls in Liverpool. We all have our ideas about what marriage is for and most of them get married in the proper way, in a rather old-fashioned way, and, thank God, they court in an old-fashioned way as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "re with the people who have been married before, and this Bill will affect them tremendously. If we do not get retrospection thousands of people will be divorced under the new legislation and it will affect thousands of children. 2.30 a.m. I have a good idea that we may feel rather ashamed of ourselves within 12 months of passing the Bill, just as we are ashamed of ourselves over the Abortion Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1877.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1897.0", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Read them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "etcetera as is judged to be appropriate or suitable to the circumstances or purpose. That can be of no value. The last heading in the Oxford English Dictionary is simply the word \"proportionate\", and that cannot help either. So one turns to the legal dictionary, as lawyers have for many years. Perhaps the most famous is that edited by Sir Roland Burrows. He begins at page 478 and ends at page 500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1903.2", "colnum": "1903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"By the court\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "In the name of common sense and good English prose, they ought to be thrown out. The paragraph says \"cannot reasonably be expected\"—expected by whom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1903.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1941.1", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "I do not understand that sort of language. It is a bit too much of the double talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1941.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1941.3", "colnum": "1941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Then sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "I do not understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1961.1", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Will you please bear in mind, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that if these matters are not dealt with now, reserving the right to repeat them further on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1963.2", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The conference was very much concerned because the divorce will not be able to be prevented from taking place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1963.2", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "e was very much concerned because the divorce will not be able to be prevented from taking place—[ Interruption. ]—It is only fair that this point should be raised now. If I raise this matter under Clause 4 I shall be told that I should have raised it under Clause 2(1)( e ). I a msick and tired of people trying to muzzle those of us who have important points to make from bodies outside this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1963.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1965.0", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "n without going on any excursions to do something else. Why do we not tell the truth? The Government know that they have to make a massive financial contribution towards getting this Bill across to the people of this country. Without that financial contribution this Measure will be a dead duck. Everybody knows that. There has been some collusion between the sponsors of the Bill and the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1977.4", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "May I now proceed with the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker? In view of the very narrow margin of the vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.1977.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2000.6", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I trust that on a matter of that kind I would not be guilty of a slip of the tongue, although I know how easy it is to do that sort of thing. I did mean \"introduce.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2000.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2002.1", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "I put three points to my hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General and he has answered but one. We are entitled to know whether the financial provisions of this Clause, which he estimates will be considerable, will come from social security and, if so, whether any estimation of the sum involved has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2003.3", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are the Liberals?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ral children and the old wife who is perhaps 50-plus, has children who are all grown up. The best that most men earning an average income could arrange in those circumstances would probably mean that the forcibly divorced wife was left in virtual penury. We heard about the prisoner—let us call him Convict 99. He was introduced by the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock), who is not now present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2003.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2003.3", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Where are the Liberals?\".] The hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Simon Mahon) paused in mid-speech, as it were, to accept that there was a case perhaps for the prisoner which he had not thought about too much. We then had Convict 99 brought up by two other hon. Members. I cannot see how Convict 99 comes into this matter at all. If he is incarcerated, surely he is not likely to contract another marriage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2003.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2005.1", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "Unless I intervene the hon. Lady will not hear my reply to her speech, since she makes speeches and does not wait for the answers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "iation of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Royal College of Nursing and National Council of Nurses in the United Kingdom, the St. John Ambulance Association, the St. John Ambulance Brigade (Nursing Corps Division), the Salvation Army, the Toc H. Women's Association, the Trades Union Congress, Women's Advisory Committee; the Women's Advisory Council on Solid Fuel, the Women's Gas Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House appreciates that the only women who have not supported the resolution are the Conservative women", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2038.1", "colnum": "2038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Campbell", "preceding_text": "lly do not realise what the Bill will do. It introduces unilateral divorce, which is the facet which has had perhaps the greatest publicity, but it also abolishes the doctrine of connivance. To take an extreme example, from the day it becomes law—if it does—a husband will be able to encourage his wife to commit adultery, send her out on the streets as a prostitute and live on her immoral earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2050.1", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "el constituency engagements. We have not had a proper cross-section of Parliamentary opinion devoted to this matter as a result of the Government's handling of the Bill, and I regard this as scandalous. Coupled with this, the Government have given priority to the Bill without accepting responsibility for it. There must be something wrong about that. There has been a good deal of backstage support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-12", "file": "debates1969-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "e4a350150928cb2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2050.1", "colnum": "2050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVORCE REFORM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Beamish", "preceding_text": "egard this as scandalous. Coupled with this, the Government have given priority to the Bill without accepting responsibility for it. There must be something wrong about that. There has been a good deal of backstage support—[ Interruption. ]—and I judge, from my observations during the night, when the organisation was very good, that the Government machine was not wholly inactive behind the scenes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-12a.2050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitlock", "preceding_text": "That question should be directed to the Beeching Mission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": ". Nevertheless, despite the events in Czechoslovakia last year and the tone and preconditions of the Warsaw Pact statement, the N.A.T.O. Council has instructed its permanent representatives to work on precisely that kind of arrangement. If I may refer to the supplmenetary question previously put by my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, East (Mr. Frank Allaun) which I could not answer at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.24.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not? Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has very carefully considered what was said in the House on this matter last week and understands the concern of very many hon. Members. However, he is not able to make a statement which would go beyond what I have said this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.30.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "ARMED FORCES' PAY (N.B.P.I. REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "May I say, first of all, how much we regret that this statement could not have been made by our late colleague, Mr. Gerry Reynolds, who did so much work on the subject and who, as a brilliant young Minister, won the respect of the House for his courage and devotion to duty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.51.6", "colnum": "51", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": " year. At present-day costs, at present-day rents, these difficulties are really devastating. That is why we have brought this subject before the House today, and I am quite sure that some of my hon. Friends who will be seeking to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will be able to reinforce what I have said about the size of the problem. Of course, we do not blame the Government for the weather.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.51.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "d properly. An immediate increase in bank credit facilities is probably one of the most important steps which could be taken. It is no good the Minister telling us, as he has for the past twelve months, that he has spoken to the banks. A letter should be published so that every farmer knows what the banks have been told. Whether the letter comes from the Prime Minister or from the Bank of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.78.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Mackie)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Mackie)", "preceding_text": "hat there are many farmers who grew only grain this year. I have met a few of them, and so has the hon. Member for Gainsborough (Mr. Kimball). They admit that, if only they had had a yard full of bullocks or a flock of sheep or cows, they would have had something to fall back on. The reason for the farmers' difficulties is the imbalance which was created by the Opposition when they were in power.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "hat is a general point, but we will look into that, as we shall look into all general points, before the next Price Review. It has been difficult for me in the time available to reply in all the detail I could have wished, but I will make sure that hon. Members are kept informed. I should like to point out that over the past few Reviews we have probably done more than ever before for agriculture.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.120.3", "colnum": "120", "heading": "COASTAL POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "I would prefer to proceed with my speech. I prefer not to give way at this stage. Local authorities have the experience, expertise and resources to adapt themselves rapidly to deal with these troubles, and very competently they deal with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "COASTAL POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "rchy of the Conservative Party, that it would be a good thing to give the general impression that the Opposition were active and keen about pollution problems while the Government were being lazy and inert over them. Thus censure. If this is not the truthful explanation, why should we be faced with a Motion of Censure, since the substance of what has been produced so far has been purely frivolous?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "COASTAL POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "e of what has been produced so far has been purely frivolous? [ Interruption. ] We have merely had a devaluation of the whole system of the Motion of Censure because nothing substantial has been said to warrant the use of one of the most serious acts by an Opposition in our Parliamentary democracy. I am, therefore, led to the conclusion that this is nothing but a squalid political manœuvre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-16", "file": "debates1969-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "70f059e8e4ba7edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "TELEVISION PROGRAMME CONTRACTORS (ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Postmaster-General (Mr. John Stonehouse)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Postmaster-General (Mr. John Stonehouse)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move That the Television Act 1964 (Additional Payments) Order 1969, a draft of which was laid before this House on 21st April, be approved. I understand that the Opposition are concerned about this draft Order, but I believe that it can be attacked only on one of two grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-16a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.228.2", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman in future please take more seriously the complaints that are made by my hon. Friend the Member for Warwick and Leamington (Mr. Dudley Smith) and not deal with such matters lightly or make unnecessary comments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.228.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the cost of smokeless fuel is high in Scotland and that as long as we have the United Kingdom we should at least have the benefit of prices that are no higher than United Kingdom prices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.240.6", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF POWER", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Why is the Minister conspiring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.240.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. REPRESENTATIVES (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "t the White Paper on industrial relations now believe that a new situation exists, and that the Government have persuaded the T.U.C. to take action on unofficial strikes, and that a satisfactory settlement can be achieved, provided that the General Council will not only circularise member unions with new proposals on Rule 11 but agree to recommend those proposals to the full Congress in September?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. REPRESENTATIVES (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Obviously, the right hon. and learned Gentleman has not read the statements of his own leader, who called for an urgent Bill on this before last Christmas, despite himself having turned down a Royal Commission on the question in 1960 when he was Minister of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. REPRESENTATIVES (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman regards as a test of earnestness is not relevant after his record in this matter. The date to which he refers was after about 8½ years in office, and nothing had been done. After the date to which he refers, which I believe was early in 1960, if we can believe the report in The Times on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — T.U.C. REPRESENTATIVES (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "troduce legislation on one outstanding case, Rookes v. Barnard, and we did so. We were right to do so. Had we not done so, the atmosphere in industry would have been a great deal worse. We also said that we would set up an inquiry, and we set up a Royal Commission in 1965. If he says that he has now learned after 15 years and everybody else has learned, I do not know why he did not learn anything—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.254.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.259.8", "colnum": "259", "heading": "LIBYA (ARMS SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.259.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "LIBYA (ARMS SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not allow my hon. Friend at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "LIBYA (ARMS SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Jackson", "preceding_text": "ions is biased: it is decent policy, and those who wish Israel to survive in peace would be well advised not to press the Prime Minister of Israel to follow a hard line. The friends of Israel would be well advised to require that country to meet the obligations of the United Nations; they would be well advised to say to Israel, \"Stop blowing up buildings in Jerusalem, and obey the United Nations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "osion through rising prices. This is the same sort of inflation-proofing which will be applied to all pensions—flat rate and new scheme pensions—under the new scheme. This will mean a better deal for 20 million workers who have been contributing to the graduated pensions scheme introduced by the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames. The 1961 scheme—we have said this many times—was a swindle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "ly the relevance to this argument is that if one wants to avoid inflation one reduces the contributions. I began to wonder whether this was seriously what the noble Lord was proposing. He was not suggesting any other method of paying for the increased benefits. Then at last it came. It came a little by a side wind, but what the noble Lord was saying was that he did not want the increased benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "The difference between the scheme introduced by the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames and the scheme sought to be introduced by the Bill is that the former is arithmetically watertight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Worsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Worsley", "preceding_text": " be followed in future. We have had, as we always have in these debates, a very full discussion about the phrase \"the contributory principle\". The basic element in the contributory principle is the simple proposition that the finance of the State pension scheme is kept wholly separate from the general body of Government finance. This is the separation which Sir Paul Chambers would wish to abolish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-17", "file": "debates1969-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "96556cf7f399421a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Worsley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Worsley", "preceding_text": "per cent. and, for a £30 a week man, 84 per cent. In other words, the Government have whittled away the rôle of the contracted out element of the occupational schemes in the provisions of pensions. This is a very alarming precedent, not only because of the right hon. Gentleman's record and what he said on this subject in the past about his general hostility towards the occupational schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-17a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.465.4", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.465.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "That only means that there must be a lot of incompetent builders who may soon find themselves out of business, with the result that my firm will have more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.544.4", "colnum": "544", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I wish the hon. Gentleman would not be stupid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacColl", "preceding_text": "The trouble about members of the Opposition is that they are in a very aggressive and dictatorial mood at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "eed to know what their entitlements are and how families in houses where grants are to be made and improvements undertaken have to arrange their own affairs. The Parliamentary Secretary, in his paradise of bachelordom, does not understand what is meant by families re-arranging their lives. I know a little better as I heard during the last debate that I have become a grandfather for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.605.6", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clegg", "preceding_text": "enshrined in the Bill and given statutory authority. This is one more attempt. We have adopted a similar system to that concerned with road traffic. The Highway Code is well known and here we suggest a house improvements code. It would be more than a pamphlet, an authoritative document which would have the sanction of a Statute behind it. It would be a document required by Statute to be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.605.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "fectly reasonable. The Parliamentary Secretary absolutely baffled us with legal jargon. I am afraid that this is the way in which things are carried on, but we should avoid that. He said that the matter was fraught with difficulty and much more complicated than it looked, but is it so fraught with difficulty? Lawyers always make a difficulty. They are paid 7s. 6d. a time for creating difficulties,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-18", "file": "debates1969-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "b19b9ba7ddab632e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": " the house is subsequently sold the money would come back to the Government. At a very modest temporary cost to the Government we could improve the nation's housing, maintain the image of the building societies and the spirit of good will of private mortgagees, charitable trusts and other bodies of that sort. I deprecate the tendency of Ministers to try to baffle us with jargon. I am a simple man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-18a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scandalous!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman's right hon. Friend appreciate that the reason for which some of the Conservative councillors were sitting in at the meeting is that the majority party has disbarred any member of the opposition on the council from taking his place on any standing committee?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.696.5", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNION OF IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that these two new Prime Ministers have introduced new ideas and given an opportunity for toleration and unity in the whole of Ireland, will my right hon. Friend not invite them both here, so that the three heads could be put together to the benefit of Ireland?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Friend the First Secretary of State I again met the General Council of the T.U.C. yesterday. The House will recall that in the previous discussions the First Secretary and I made clear that the Government would not proceed with their proposals for legislation on industrial relations in this Session of Parliament if the T.U.C. took steps which the Government regarded as equally effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that that is all the right hon. Gentleman could manage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that that is all the right hon. Gentleman could manage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If that is the sum total of 13 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman could manage—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If that is the sum total of 13 years—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Perhaps I can enlighten him. The T.U.C. has given us this binding declaration. On Tuesday, the right hon. Gentleman said that the reason his Government did not even introduce a Royal Commission was that they were negotiating with the T.U.C. They negotiated with the T.U.C. for 13 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ears—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Indeed, I will. We have negotiated with the T.U.C. for two months. In the declaration, which I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would have read, he will see that in cases where the T.U.C. believes that strikers are unconstitutional and wrong in remaining on strike, it will place an obligation on the union or unions concerned to get them back to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ated with the T.U.C. for two months. In the declaration, which I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would have read, he will see that in cases where the T.U.C. believes that strikers are unconstitutional and wrong in remaining on strike, it will place an obligation on the union or unions concerned to get them back to work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am trying to answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ".C. believes that strikers are unconstitutional and wrong in remaining on strike, it will place an obligation on the union or unions concerned to get them back to work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am trying to answer the question—[ Interruption. ] In cases where the unions flout the instruction of the T.U.C., action will be taken under Rule 13. This is what has come out of two months' negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "igation on the union or unions concerned to get them back to work—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am trying to answer the question—[ Interruption. ] In cases where the unions flout the instruction of the T.U.C., action will be taken under Rule 13. This is what has come out of two months' negotiations—[ Laughter. ] I am surprised that right hon. Gentlemen, who secured nothing out of their negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rk—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am trying to answer the question—[ Interruption. ] In cases where the unions flout the instruction of the T.U.C., action will be taken under Rule 13. This is what has come out of two months' negotiations—[ Laughter. ] I am surprised that right hon. Gentlemen, who secured nothing out of their negotiations—[ Interruption. ]—who refused to take action because they said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has the answer I have given. In the cases I have mentioned, the T.U C. will place an obligation on the unions concerned to get their members back to work. It will then be the duty of the unions concerned to do this, including, where appropriate, the use of their rule books—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.702.5", "colnum": "702", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition has the answer I have given. In the cases I have mentioned, the T.U C. will place an obligation on the unions concerned to get their members back to work. It will then be the duty of the unions concerned to do this, including, where appropriate, the use of their rule books—[ Laughter. ] I have heard enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The first part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question is hypothetical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.703.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—I quite deliberately used the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.6", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"]—I quite deliberately used the word—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—which I knew to be outside the normal rules of the House. I did so because I felt it right to draw attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.8", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. For the last time, I ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the word \"lie\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.10", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "In response to your request, and yours alone, Mr. Speaker, I withdraw the word \"lie\"—and replace it with the phrase a terminological inexactitude in respect of something which the Prime Minister knew to be untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.12", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that, unfoundedly, some hon. Gentlemen opposite are casting doubt on the ability and veracity of the T.U.C.? Would my right hon. Friend agree that we should pay tribute to Victor Feather who, during these discussions, has proved the ability of the T.U.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.705.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.707.0", "colnum": "707", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that congratulations are due to him for the greatest confidence trick of the century?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Opposition have no Supply day next week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I accept, of course, what the Chief Whip said and I have confirmed that there is no Supply day next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.5", "colnum": "711", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, and it was said by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor that if we had an adequate alternative from the T.U.C. we would accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.7", "colnum": "711", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have the text of it. I myself said on 17th April during the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.7", "colnum": "711", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have the text of it. I myself said on 17th April during the debate—[ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman can sit back now. The right hon. Gentleman got out of the question of a debate on industrial relations by referring to the Letter of Intent which has nothing to do with the case and now he drags in the Budget debate. If the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.711.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Hon. Members must be willing to hear what they do not agree with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is necessary to follow a rather difficult path to deal with the right hon. Gentleman's wriggles on what he said—on his refusal to deal with the question of a debate which led him by a corkscrew path, via the Letter of Intent, to my right hon. Friend's Budget speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must insist that the Prime Minister be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.713.0", "colnum": "713", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is there any point in the Prime Minister being heard further?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.719.6", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I regret that the hon. Gentleman should have walked out of a private meeting yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.719.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "p our implementation of the existing law, changing the rules during the match either by flouting the law or by legislating retrospectively to alter it, on the excuse that local government boundaries may be different, though we do not know how different or different in what respects, if or when the Redcliffe-Maud proposals are carried into effect or other proposals are implemented in place of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "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": "e Commission of Wales to be available next week. The right hon. and learned Gentleman made a mild complaint about the time-able for publication. When I remind him that on this occasion the Commissions took four years to complete their consideration, as against 15 months on the previous occasion, he perhaps will not think it unduly long for me to take two months to consider and print these reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "bate this. I can promise the hon. Gentleman that. So they are unable to delay reporting any longer, although they are aware of, and have taken into account, the fact that the local government Commission is reporting at present. So the immediate question arises, whether, in all circumstances, Parliament wishes to adhere to November 1969 as the unalterable date for redrawing constituency boundaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.741.0", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " I am considering, and that I put before the House. The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) conceded that there was a problem, but, as I understand it, his view, and that of the Leader of the Opposition, is that any other solution but their own amounts to gerrymandering. There can be no other solution, I understand. We have to ignore all the practicalities of the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.741.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.742.0", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "onducting elections would be necessary on a big scale, although that is important in itself. It is not in the interests of the constituencies that there should be constant change. Constituencies are not merely areas bounded by a line on a map; they are living communities with a unity, a history and a personality of their own. If hon. Gentlemen will try to forget their party prejudice for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "posals. For the convenience of hon. Members I have arranged that when I sit down notes will be available in the Vote Office setting out these proposed divisions of constituencies and the proposed changes in the constituencies which straddle the Greater London boundaries. The proposals will, of course, be contained in detail in the Bill which I propose to publish tomorrow. Apart from these changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " by arrangement with the Opposition. Apart from these changes—in London and the biggest constituencies—the legislation will provide that no proceedings should be taken on the current reports of the Boundary Commissions for England and Wales. The right hon. Gentleman opposite need not fear. No boundaries will be changed except by Statute. Mr. Gerry Mander can continue to sleep quietly in his grave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "of two, redraw in a major sense the political map of this country. Therefore, the Labour Party will not, as the right hon. Gentleman fears, be administrator, judge and jury. It will be for Parliament and the Boundary Commission to carry out the job between them. The Bill will not attempt to make any changes in abnormally small constituencies because they are not amenable to this kind of treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " to carry out the job between them. The Bill will not attempt to make any changes in abnormally small constituencies because they are not amenable to this kind of treatment. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I regard over-representation as far worse than under-representation in these cases. There will still remain some constituencies with electorates very much smaller than others. But this will always be so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.747.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-19", "file": "debates1969-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "68f05d7cb1d9af68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.769.1", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "points. The first is that my hon. Friends take a perfectly simple position on this issue, as we say in the Motion, in that we call … upon the Secretaries of State … to implement in full, and without further delay, the recommendations of the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions. On several occasions the Home Secretary described November, 1969, as being what he called an artificial date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-19a.769.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1189.8", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "its housing programme and removed almost all restrictions on future building programmes, is my hon. Friend aware that the city council has undertaken an extensive and lengthy review of housing which has resulted in a diminution in the number of houses to be built in the future, a great slowing-down of the programme in spite of the fact that we have 27,000 families on the waiting list in Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1189.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH-EAST ASIA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not think it necessary to go out there and clarify the ambiguous impression which has been given by his right hon. Friend and Lord Shepherd? The Secretary of State for Defence has told a Press conference at S.E.A.T.O. headquarters that no British forces will be available for S.E.A.T.O. contingency plans after 1971, whereas the noble Lord, only a month ago, told S.E.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1213.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "of such a settlement until there had been a real change of attitude on the part of the Rhodesian Europeans. One important aspect of the referendum result is its implications for the position of the Governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs. Everyone in this country has felt the highest admiration for the courage and dignity with which he and Lady Gibbs have steadfastly upheld the cause of legality in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "We must remember that, despite what has happened, and despite the decision which I have announced, the legal sovereignty over Rhodesia is still vested in Her Majesty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "That is not so. I have already explained three times that there will not be the smallest difficulty for anyone in Rhodesia who accepts the principles on which alone a settlement could be made getting in touch with Her Majesty's Government. We have throughout—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1243.0", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "nch—I am sure that we are all very much obliged to him. If he can give some indication of his willingness at least to listen to the arguments, they might be a little shorter. It is an act of singular discourtesy and disregard for Parliamentary opinion that the Government, despite their reverse in Standing Committee, should so lightly revert to their own wording. I realise that one would be hoping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1243.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1306.3", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I shall be at pains to remain carefully within the rules of order. I put my name to Amendment No. 134, in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton), because I do not think that it is the business of any public board to be buying up equities in a private company, a hotel or anything else. I do not understand why my own Front Bench is not ardently espousing this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "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": "We have all been enjoying the knock-about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "This is a matter of opinion. I had not given way. The hon. Member may get in later if he behaves himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1389.5", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "in sceptical about these powers being in the Bill, although we did not vote in Committee on the matter, but, perhaps, that was only because of the geniality of my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr. Chataway) or because we were weary of well doing. In all seriousness, however, while none of us is against overseas aid, as such, and particularly if it can be carried out by private enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1389.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-24", "file": "debates1969-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "b449ec78e7d6e93b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1468.4", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW OF PROPERTY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "May I say, Mr. Probert, that we are all greatly indebted to you for the skill and courtesy with which you have conducted our affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-24a.1468.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1490.9", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend also take note of the fact that honour and decency are involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1490.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1505.3", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ink that I can deal with the point of order without the help of the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls). If an hon. Member attacked another hon. Member's integrity that would be something of which the Chair would probably have to take notice, but the hon. Member for Peterborough suggested that the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) was inaccurate. This is not an unusual charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "INTERMEDIATE AREAS (HUNT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "7s. 6d. additional payment per head, and which now will suddenly find these firm price contracts perhaps turned into losses for them? Will the right hon. Gentleman say what saving will be made next year, and also whether there is to be an excess over the cost. If so, whether he intends to pass any excess to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services for teeth and spectacles?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "INTERMEDIATE AREAS (HUNT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "r he intends to pass any excess to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services for teeth and spectacles?—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps, as last time, the right hon. Gentleman does not know the financial figures involved. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the grey areas which are not scheduled as intermediate areas will now be even worse off than they have been in the past?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Yes, it does. The right hon. Gentleman has fallen into an error into which some others have fallen. The balancing item stands outside the balance of payments, as conventionally defined, as conventionally recorded. Therefore, the movement, the change, affects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1548.1", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " what was to happen to industrial relations and related legislation? We are debating the Letter of Intent and I am trying to show, as I undertook, documenting my speech as I went along, that this is not a Letter of Intent. The Chancellor was merely allowed to hold the pen. This is a charade but what is one more charade among so many? This is one more humiliation that is dressed up as a compromise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "tism, but of xenophobic nationalism. Moreover, the right hon. Gentleman strikes a sympathetic chord in the ears of extremes on both sides of politics in this House. He has the hon. Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen) as one of his supporters. He probably has the support of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Northampton (Mr. Paget) and my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which they know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": " questions. I have always been against import controls. I believe they are very dangerous, but when we are in a situation like this where we owe vast sums not only to the I.M.F. but terrifying sums to other central banking organisations with the sort of interest we are paying on swap arrangements and special arrangements, the Government should come clean and tell us what the true balance sheet is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1578.3", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "I put my opening gambit in that way in order to get a slightly favourable response from the Opposition, because I always find that this gets me off on the right foot. We must face the facts. On balance, I welcome this Letter of Intent, beause I think that for the first time we are on the verge of pursuing policies which I regard as realistic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Biffen", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale from the acusation that he had attacked bankers. I will attack bankers, and I hope that no one will rise to protect me or to suggest that I am misunderstood. It is a perfectly reasonable occupation. I say that even in the presence of my hon. Friend the Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. John Smith) whom I hope and trust we shall long have with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1596.1", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " plans seem to have been revised downwards and the replies may presage a downturn in investment next year. That does not augur well for the bland confidence expressed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that all is well with investment. What the Chancellor of the Exchequer always fails to understand, for he is one of those characters who have never done a day's work in industry, trade or cornmerce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1600.0", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "th April, 1969—an aggregate increase in taxation in the three Budgets of £1,500 million. That is an astronomical figure. The reason why our economy is not growing in this country as it should be growing—the major reason—is the penal effect of direct taxation. Nobody works hard enough in this country because the incentives to work hard are not there. Everybody who can fiddle on tax account fiddles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1620.4", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "been appointed to try to find a solution, and all have failed. All that we have had has been a welcome but relatively small increase in family allowances, with next November a 1s. cut in insurance contributions. Only yesterday there were in the Lobby a large number of disabled people who have been asking the Government for four years, since the remarkable late Mrs. du Boisson started the campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1629.1", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman. I want to get on with my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I will rest on the statement that I have already made and try to pursue the theme of my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I was expecting that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1633.0", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1633.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1634.0", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (LETTER OF INTENT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about unemployment?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "nt prospects? Are we, as some of the pundits say, on the eve of a recession or mini-recession or are we, as the Chancellor says, going to expand and continue the expansion of last year. I am confident that the analysis offered by my right hon. Friend—which was for a growth rate this year of 3 per cent. and not of 2 per cent., as the right hon. Member for Enfield, West suggested—is nearer the mark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1641.2", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION (AIRPORT STANDARD CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1969 (S.I., 1969, No. 510), dated 1st April, 1969, a copy of which was laid before this House on 9th April, be withdrawn. The Statutory Instrument imposes an increase of 50 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1641.2", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVIATION (AIRPORT STANDARD CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Civil Aviation (Navigation Services Charges) (Third Amendment) Regulations 1969 (S.I., 1969, No. 510), dated 1st April, 1969, a copy of which was laid before this House on 9th April, be withdrawn. The Statutory Instrument imposes an increase of 50 per cent.—[ Interruption, ]—in the navigation service charges on civil aircraft using—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-25", "file": "debates1969-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "23550ec1a70606c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1666.4", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY (SCRAP METAL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "I want to draw attention to the problems that are arising in the steel industry and in the national economy from the unsatisfactory supplying of scrap to steel works. It will be well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-25a.1666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make yourself clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "I did not ask about the higher courts. I was asking about the lower courts where the vast majority of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1702.5", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL POLICY STATEMENTS (CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Why this sudden display of modesty from our erstwhile economic overlord?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1702.5", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL POLICY STATEMENTS (CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Why this sudden display of modesty from our erstwhile economic overlord? [ Interruption. ] Is it that the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1702.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1703.6", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made a number of contributions to the debate, both in his own speech, and outside his own speech, and now that the Bill has been laid he will have more opportunities.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1703.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1704.2", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSIONS (RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The 95,000 members of Huyton are obviously much more satisfied with their Member of Parliament than are the members of Bexley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I could not give a precise date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1716.3", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me to state the business for next week. That I have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1717.4", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " to the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mr. John Smith) my hon. Friend will not embarrass him. I am sorry that the hon. Member has made a decision to leave the House. He has made a great contribution, particularly in the matter of amenities and his desire to improve them. The Services Committee has been, and is now, considering this and there will be a report on one major matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1717.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1718.3", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More than that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " Chamber, is the Leader of the House aware that we consider it is not good enough for him to say that this is not a matter for him? Will he make representations to the Patronage Secretary—whom we are all delighted to see is now coming back into the Chamber—that we expect a statement from him next week? The electors of Swindon have been without an effective Member of Parliament for nearly one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1720.9", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members made their speeches shorter and with moderation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1720.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1721.4", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "That this House supports the application of the Heathrow Campaign Committee for a public tribunal to inquire into the aircraft noise in the vicinity of London Airport.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed a new Motion on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1721.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1728.9", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The consensus of opinion between the two Front Benches and the two sides of the House, I am reminded, ignores the fact that Amendment No. 111 is a Liberal Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1728.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-26", "file": "debates1969-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "8cc9c629d882c5cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "oken but as a device to evade their responsibility for housing the people of their areas. I have grave fears on this score. I have forwarded to my right hon. Friend information about the establishment of what I believe to be spurious housing associations. In an intervention I spoke of Conservative councillors forming themselves into groups for this purpose. They have no experience of this problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-26a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-30", "file": "debates1969-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "59157c06551032ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.35.3", "colnum": "35", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "Would the Secretary of State care to reply, in his absence, to the statement made by the Leader of the Liberal Party yesterday on the radio?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.35.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-30", "file": "debates1969-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "59157c06551032ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "FOREIGN TRAVEL ALLOWANCE (£50 LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "way in which the £50 travel allowance fails to work and he made many ambitious, inaccurate and misleading references to the way in which Britain had been a travelling country, quite overlooking the fact that it is only since the war that foreign travel has been extended to the great mass of the people in this country, thanks to the cheapening of communications. Moreover, it strikes me as a little—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-30", "file": "debates1969-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "59157c06551032ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "FOREIGN TRAVEL ALLOWANCE (£50 LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "side resorts, the British hotel interests and certain other interests to which I shall refer. To suggest that we have always been a nation of seafaring travellers since time immemorial, is a load of nonsense. We are a nation which has certainly developed foreign travel for the purposes of colonisation, for exploitation of the native people whom we went to visit, and whose culture we went to study.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-30", "file": "debates1969-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "59157c06551032ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "FOREIGN TRAVEL ALLOWANCE (£50 LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How does the hon. Member know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "d to travel all over the world. I have never found it a great embarrassment to have a travel allowance of £50, neither do the overwhelming mass of people. We were told when the £50 travel allowance was introduced that it would mean a great restriction on our people going abroad and meeting the French, the Italians, the Spaniards, and so on. The fact is that just as many go now as ever went before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-30", "file": "debates1969-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "59157c06551032ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "FOREIGN TRAVEL ALLOWANCE (£50 LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here we go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " seaman. He did not travel the world enjoying the sights and the luxurious nightlife that my hon. Friend the Member for Wandsworth, Central (Dr. David Kerr) found in Berlin. He went not on the basis of his own money, but as part and parcel of the Armed Forces or as a seaman. The hon. Member for Eastbourne is talking about the minority of people. I accept that there is a case for lifting the limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-06-30", "file": "debates1969-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "59157c06551032ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.114.0", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that, as the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. David Steel) said, this is a matter of balance; there is no principle here. The Government have accepted a responsibility, and the only point at issue—there is no vital principle here—is simply the amount of the Government's contribution. I have no doubt at all that my hon. Friend will be able to give excellent reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-06-30a.114.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.237.6", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF FRANCE (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that even in advance of any such meeting it must be made abundantly clear that there is no question of nuclear sharing with France?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.237.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "CIVIL LIST (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The whole House will, I am sure, wish me to say how much we regret the reason why the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes) is not here to move his Motion, which, therefore, falls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "WELLAND AND NENE (EMPING HAM RESERVOIR) AND MID -NORTHAMPTONSHIRE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradley", "preceding_text": "ers, while they recognise that they cannot break the law, are willing to bend it as far as possible in being generous with financial compensation to the few farmers and others displaced by the reservoir. I profoundly hope that this is the last time that any water authority will have to ask Parliament to sanction the inundation of agricultural land to provide future communities with adequate water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Esmond Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Esmond Wright", "preceding_text": "parents. I shall not develop the point that it threatens the academic integrity of some old and important schools. I want to make five points to show why Regulations represent a thoroughly discreditable piece of educational propaganda—to use the words of the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Manuel) speaking in a seated position about half an hour ago. I believe that these are bad Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": "by the Regulations which we are debating tonight. It seems proper, when the Government are making substantial cuts in public expenditure, that grant-aided schools should pay an appropriate contribution. It seems to me to go rather further than that, because I do not consider that the grant-aided schools, wherever they may be, are an economically under-privileged sector of Scottish education today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": " opposite ask, \"It is right that the grant-aided schools should bear a dispropionate part of the burden?\" I am not necessarily accepting that description of what has happened, but I am happy to defend a situation in which the grant-aided schools would be expected to bear a disproportionate part of the burden because that would be a legitimate use of Government priorities in the educational sphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.377.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-01", "file": "debates1969-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "e1ad3b8a0ec7b9bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "SCOTLAND (GRANT-AIDED SECONDARY SCHOOLS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "Now will the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-01a.381.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": " of commodities? Does the right hon. Gentleman also agree that the reason for this is that we must strengthen our bargaining position and save £200 million to £300 million per year? I should be most grateful if the right hon. Gentleman, in answering this question, could also assure the House that imports from Rumania, which have been agreed very recently as part of a larger deal, will not include—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.399.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.408.2", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "Although I twice made official visits, I have also made unofficial visits, and the improvement since my last official visit is quite remarkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.408.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend should not use such extreme epithets and language as \"unsatisfactory\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "FAR EAST DEFENCE (FIVE POWER CONFERENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the hon. Member, I have always made it clear that we were not withdrawing all our forces east of Suez.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.436.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.443.4", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.443.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.443.6", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.443.7", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "what I said on that occasion. The House has rejected the view advanced by the Opposition that Parlia- ment should do no more than rubber stamp the Commission's recommendations. It was right to do so. It would not have been commonsensical to have implemented them. Indeed, it would have put Parliament in a position that it was not intended to be in at the time that the original Bills were discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.443.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.447.3", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A significant year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "avoid changes in constituency boundaries while local government changes are in prospect. On their own, the effect of the provisions of this Clause would be that the earliest date on which the Commission would submit their next general review reports would be 1979—that is, in 10 years' time. If these provisions were taken on their own, without any fur-there addition, they could leave it until 1984.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.447.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No. A statement was clearly made by the Prime Minister on the day, and there is nothing that I can add to or subtract from it. If I were to attempt to put an interpretation on it this afternoon the hon. Member would no doubt compare it textually with what the Prime Minister said. I rely on his words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "\" Certainly, several hundred constituencies will be involved at the end of the day. No fewer than 400 have been involved in this review, and it would mean tearing it up and starting again before the new constituencies had started a composite life of their own and before the new Members had taken the new parishes, wards and rural districts into their own organisations. Leaving politics on one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.450.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not again.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.456.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.456.4", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We are not.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Knox Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "e—unconstitutionally in the Septennial Act, constitutionally during the war. Even if the right hon. Gentleman were referring to what is a statement about British law as a guide to constitutional propriety, which it is not, I could wish that he could have remembered a little more about the authority of Parliament when he was truckling to the T.U.C. the other day. Or even when he and his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "iffe-Maud to state his opinion about it. I challenge him to do that. Let him get Lord Redcliffe-Maud's opinion, because by no stretch of the imagination are the Redcliffe-Maud proposals relevant in the light of the kind of time-scale which we are about to produce. Here again, although I know hon. Members opposite do not like it, I put the impartial view of the author of the article in New Society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.466.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I thought that we should get that. Again, the right hon. Gentleman has tripped up, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " about parliamentary boundaries and the condition of elections from the partisan fight. I acknowledge that if that could be achieved it would be a very desirable end. Therefore, it is an important argument. I do not believe that anybody can say that I have misrepresented or tried to wrench a quotation from its context. I have taken the substance of the case of right hon. and hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ticipated. Take, for example, the debates in 1954 following the last major redistribution of seats proposed by the Boundary Commission. What was the view of the legal authorities on that occasion? There was a constitutional authority in this House. He would be accepted by hon. Members opposite. We were a bit dubious about him at the time, but for this purpose I am quite content to acknowledge him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Whether or not the Home Secretary has made the decision to pass his own judgment on these matters, certainly we in the House of Commons could have insisted on our right to do so, just as the Conservative Party quite rightly insisted on doing so in 1954. If Sir Kenneth Pickthorn's authority is not accepted, if it may be thought that he was a man who lived in too elevated a legal sphere, what about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "inet has been approved by the right hon. and learned Member for Marylebone. Perhaps a member of the Shadow Cabinet may tell us what are the party's intentions about the House of Lords. It would be an extremely serious matter if the Conservative Party proposed to use its majority in the House of Lords to try to fix or interfere with the fixing of the constituency boundaries of the House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "mes and myself appeared on a radio programme the other day. In that programme I put a specific question to him and I would like to put it to the Opposition tonight, because it should be answered. Do they—yea or nay—believe that there is a good administrative argument for postponing the implementation of the Boundary Commission's report until after the Redcliffe-Maud proposals have been considered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "exercise would have to be gone through again. Another Boundary Commission would have to sit and report back to the House of Commons and another report would have to be considered. Frankly, it would be administrative nonsense to go through that sort of exercise twice within a period of five to seven years. I wish that the Opposition could for once raise their eyes a little above the level of votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "1949. Nevertheless, it would be a very confident and optimistic—not to say generous—person who made any ready assumption that right hon. Gentlemen opposite were not at least considering the possibilities of taking some such action. It may be the reason for their idiosyncratic interpretation of the sovereignty of Parliament. After all, this Bill, grave as it is, may be in the nature of a dummy run—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "preceding_text": "claim it for the local authorities in my constituency, which have plenty to do as it is, without having to cope with two upheavals. Then there is the cost. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite constantly talk of the need to check public expenditure, and some of those arguments carry weight. Yet they now suggest this duplication and even greater public expenditure would unnecessarily be involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boston", "preceding_text": "n on which Parliament has passed legislation on the length of a Parliament because, before that, there was the Act which it amended—the Triennial Act, 1694. Later, there was the Parliament Act, 1911, bringing in the five-year Parliaments which we now have. One of the advantages of our unwritten constitution as against a written one is that of flexibility as opposed to the disadvantages of rigidity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.509.5", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Henry Kerby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Henry Kerby", "preceding_text": "in or around the Crawley area in what is at present the Horsham constituency? It looks as if the Commission may be driven into this as the only possible solution. In this event, how could the three constituencies, my hon. Friend's, the new one which is to be carved out, and mine, possibly conform to the approximately equal electorates which the Home Secretary himself calls for in Clause 3(1)( b )?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.509.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Max Miller of the Opposition.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he spoke to the wrong man. He could not have spoken to a better man. The hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds has only just come in and he does not know anything about it. He is the sort of Tory Party cheeky chappie who comes in and does not know anything about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.532.3", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The Max Miller of the Opposition. However, I do not wish to be led astray. I want to wind up. I appeal to this honourable House—I know that I do not often appeal successfully, but not always in vain either—that when we have settled the Bill, which I shall support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.532.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.532.5", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "p the debate for the simple reason that I expected that this would be mainly an English debate. That has proved to be so. There has been only one Scottish speaker. Although there is a Motion on the Order Paper signed by seven right hon. and hon. Gentlemen of the party opposite, apart from the hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger), only two have even shown their faces, which shows the lack of interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.532.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Incompetent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "r's defeat in 1951. Let the House not forget that when we lost the 1951 election we polled more votes than the Tories, but got 30 fewer seats. The right hon. and learned Gentleman was then talking about our gerrymandering. Goodness knows how one can gerrymander constituency redistribution and then lose an election. We polled more votes than the Tories, but got 30 fewer seats. Fine gerryman-dering!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ovements in its application, made through Representation of the People and Distribution of Seats legislation, here is the Home Secretary deliberately causing a setback in this course of events. Is this the picture of a party of reform of the kind painted by the Secretary of State for Social Services? After this, does the Home Secretary think that the Government's reputation can remain untarnished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.549.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Copper-bottomed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ountries about their constitutions, voting rolls and related matters? This is putting the clock back. One has to go back nearly 200 years to find political morality at this level. The Government, by their \"Callamandering\", are breaking the law for their own electoral advantage. No doubt the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity would describe it as a compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Rees", "preceding_text": "n (Mr. Gordon Campbell) came to the point that my right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Attorney-General referred to, that what was being done was not illegal. He did not take the explanation of the Attorney-General, and I put the point to him again. In the first part of the Bill we relieve the Secretary of State of the obligations, in Section 2(5) of the 1949 Act that \"as soon as may be\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Rees", "preceding_text": "n as may be\"—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen got it wrong last time, perhaps if they listen they will get it right now. What we have done is to relieve my right hon. Friend of the responsibility of \"as soon as may be\" after a Boundary Commission Report having to lay the Report, and we have provided that no proceeding shall be taken under this Act in consequence of these reports. This is good law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "d by the hon. Member for Meriden (Mr. Speed), subsection (1) also provides that no further interim reports for a particular constituency under Section 2(3) of the 1949 Act shall be made before the next general review report. The hon. Gentleman is concerned about the long-term future in constituencies like his. We have to deal with the situation as it is now and Parliament in its wisdom has had to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should get one thing right. He has a fixation on the Prime Minister. Huyton is not in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " have to accept the Boundary Commission Report. In 1958, Parliament in its wisdom gave a final date for the proposals. Now, Parliament in its wisdom must face up to the implications of Redcliffe-Maud. Only on 11th June, when the Commission's Report was published, it made a number of highly detailed and revolutionary proposals which are bound to affect the electoral map. There are 58 unitary areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Huyton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I must say, it must be marvellous living with the right hon and learned Gentleman. There are great changes to be made in local government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "addling constituencies. At present there are 98 constituencies wholly in the Greater London Area, including seven that straddle. There are minor changes in Sevenoaks and Reigate. There is a reduction from 107 constituencies to 98 and from April, 1970, elections will be on a single-member basis. Sadly, a number of by-elections pending in the London area will be based on the existing constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " The question of abnormally high electorates has been mentioned. The Boundary Commissions will look at the four pairs of constituencies and also deal with Cheadle. Their report will need an Order in Council. What about the other large constituencies? If they went down to 80,000 many other such constituencies would be contiguous and it would be necessary to look at several groups of constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " 6·3 per cent. The figure does not vary much from the average of 6·1 per cent. A figure of 8 per cent. has been referred to. In certain areas the percentage will be higher, I agree. As for small constituencies, the right hon. and learned Gentleman made the point that the small size of some constituencies did not concern the Government as much as the large size of some constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "53; Conservative 47; Liberal 1. That adds up to 101, but in 1964 there were only 98 seats in the London area, so this great prophet which the hon. Gentleman quoted was three seats out before he started. I did not read any further, but it is wrong. The hon. Gentleman says that it is right. The only thing right about it is that it says that the Leader of the Opposition will lose his seat in Bexley.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-02", "file": "debates1969-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "954d5fcb10d7a19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRI BUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "advantage before constituency changes. I invite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-02a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.631.7", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POST OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The House knows that the hon. Gentleman is opposed to the Giro. He knows the loss that has been incurred. It is £1·7 million in the last financial year, and a loss of £4 million is expected for the current financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.631.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.635.5", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE (FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "While I welcome very much the action taken by my right hon. Friend, in view of the fact that this organisation was founded by the great Socialist, Albert Thomas, and that my right hon. Friend himself is one of the few Socialist Prime Ministers in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.635.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (STATUE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Ramsay MacDonald?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that that is another question. It will be understood that under the 10-year rule which is normally applied the commemoration of Lord Attlee's undoubted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "terms of insurance policies at present remain unaltered. It is not customary to invoke these regulations or these changes in relation to a strike of one day's duration and which, at the moment, is not having the catastrophic effects which were suggested. The Metropolitan Police Force is using additional policemen to keep the traffic moving. There is no evidence at the moment of serious congestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "ving the catastrophic effects which were suggested. The Metropolitan Police Force is using additional policemen to keep the traffic moving. There is no evidence at the moment of serious congestion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] Hon. Gentlemen opposite seem determined to be gloomy, but they might recognise the facts. The position at the moment is that a third of the London Transport services are operating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.0", "colnum": "644", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "rce is using additional policemen to keep the traffic moving. There is no evidence at the moment of serious congestion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] Hon. Gentlemen opposite seem determined to be gloomy, but they might recognise the facts. The position at the moment is that a third of the London Transport services are operating—[ Interruption. ] A third of the London Transport tube services are operating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "believe that it was suggested that they would do so on subsequent Thursdays. The National Union of Railwaymen's full-time officials are now hard at work putting over to the men exactly what the position is. The men, through their union, have negotiated an agreement with London Transport. I hope that, whatever else is said in the House now, it will be borne in mind that this is a delicate position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "The undertaking was that the trade union movement would involve itself in seeking to solve problems of this type—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That this House supports the application of the Heathrow Campaign Committee for a public tribunal to inquire into the aircraft noise in the vicinity of London Airport.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order. I am seeking your guidance, Mr. Speaker. Precisely who is responsible for moving a by-election writ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.657.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " not as yet issued invitations for such a meeting and his letter gives no indication of when he intends to do so. If the right hon. Gentleman had acted, if he had set up the Donovan Commission in January, 1960, we should at any rate have had its report by the time the Conservatives left office. In the exchanges of 17th June, when I reminded the right hon. Gentleman of his omission in this respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.675.2", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ster of Labour, right through to the day when he was translated to a Foreign Office post. This new apostle of urgency retired from the Ministry of Labour after eight and a half years of Conservative government, not only having done nothing but having blocked any action, even an inquiry. But, of course—we have the right hon. Gentleman's own words, in the House a fortnight ago—the problem continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.675.6", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about today's strike?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have never been windy of that right hon. Gentleman. The hon. and learned Gentleman is confusing me with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath). In February, 1963, when the party opposite had chalked up 11 years and four months in office, we got another development. The then Minister of Labour, now in another place, was addressing the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.675.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.675.6", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What have you done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "go on as at present. My view is that we cannot.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th February, 1963; Vol. 671, c. 1509.] He referred to public opinion on this question and then, having looked the problem in the face, passed on to a consideration of Clause 2 of the Bill which the House was discussing, and left the matter once again in the hands of the trade union movement. That was in 1963. Another year passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.675.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Fair enough. He made that proposal, but if he decided in March that an inquiry was necessary, since they were in office another seven months after that, why was it not set up before he left office? It was suggested by the right hon. Gentleman that I rejected such an inquiry. Yes, I rejected it in the context of Rookes v. Barnard. The text is on the record. I am prepared to put it in the Library—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.677.1", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", to be reminded that in 13 years they produced nothing at all, unless it was the abolition of compulsory arbitration under Article 1376, and the refusal, when there were far more signatures on the Order Paper, including many of my hon. Friends, to deal with the scandal of the Foremen and Staff Mutual Benefit Society. It is not necessary to take the House further into the record of those 13 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ealing with those four different types of dispute. The T.U.C. has now laid down clearly—and this has been accepted by the vast majority of individual unions—first, that it is its right and duty to intervene; second, the basis of its intervention; and, third, its clear determination to deal effectively under Rule 13 of the T.U.C. with any union failing to accept the General Council's binding award—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s. Few perhaps have had cause to be. Yet he was reported in The Times last Wednesday as having praised the agreement between the Government and the trade unions for dealing with unofficial strikes as One of the biggest industrial break-throughs in the United Kingdom in years\". He said that of course time would tell whether the agreement to allow the unions to tackle the problem would be effective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.683.3", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "actionary employers in other industries who might express a desire to teach their workers a lesson. But that would not be the best recipe for industrial relations. My second point for throwing doubt on the proposals of the party opposite is expressed for me in words better than any that I could choose in the Conservative campaign guide for 1964 which I quoted earlier: It is problematical how far\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.683.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aling with something that his legislation could never touch. But the right hon. Gentleman made one very fair point in his statement which I have just quoted. I recognise that this was all off the cuff, but he made a good point. He said: If you can get a union to use its best endeavours, we believe that a large proportion of these troubles would come to an end … This is exactly what we want—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.692.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is helping me, because that is the only power which the T.U.C. will have when these proposals are ratified at the autumn Congress. Let us recall one of the last occasions on which the T.U.C. threatened a union with disaffiliation. It threatened to disaffiliate my union, and it really frightened it to death!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.696.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman does not want to be unfair. I recall my right hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr) welcoming the settlement at the outset of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.700.2", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " as the future of the prices and incomes policy. What the Government doubted at that time was whether they could get the T.U.C. to go far enough to remove the need for action by the Government. The settlement of 19th June produced assurances, to which I attach great importance, from the T.U.C. which enabled the Government to drop the interim Bill. The Motion, by inference, condemns the settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.700.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "t into industry, and I would have thought that hon. Members opposite would agree with this. Much has gone wrong over the years. Too many people in professional management have accepted the practice that they hire their labour through the trade union. This might be one of the problems in the printing trade. In too many instances the trade union determines whether or not a man should gain employment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "egislative provisions for industrial relations. I do not quarrel with the Conservative Opposition on that. I think that we do need new legislative provisions. But the new legislative provisions which I and my hon. Friends would like to see are very different from what the Conservatives would like to see. Therefore, we are in a dilemma, because it is difficult for us to support them on that Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "ative provisions which I and my hon. Friends would like to see are very different from what the Conservatives would like to see. Therefore, we are in a dilemma, because it is difficult for us to support them on that Motion—[ Interruption. ] I see that hon. Members opposite realise that in the end we shall arrive at the logical conclusion that we cannot support either, nor can we vote against them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ke (Mr. David Mitchell) closed on a very strong note of criticism of the First Secretary, but he spent little time criticising the proposals which his right hon. Friend put forward this afternoon, which are designed to create a legal framework and a straitjacket around the British trade union movement. For a considerable time the Opposition have urged the Government to introduce penal legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.757.3", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister sending his Chief Whip round to get the signatures of his party against selling arms to South Africa in order to \"do in\" his own Foreign Secretary and Minister of Defence, especially when both were serving their country abroad. If there was real pressure for a Royal Commission while I was Minister of Labour, where would we look for it? Surely to the Labour Opposition of the day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.757.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ry a name for unreliability in delivery dates, is the unofficial strike to such a large degree. Going abroad, one knows full well that there is no complaint today about British prices. There is very little complaint about British design. There is complaint about unreliability of delivery dates; and the industries which are so much affected are, of course, the motor industry and the dock industry.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Is the right hon. Gentleman sure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "y dates; and the industries which are so much affected are, of course, the motor industry and the dock industry.—[ Interruption. ] There is no point in accusing me of giving things away. This is known outside the country by the people who are waiting for deliveries. The second broad proposition on which I hope we can have agreement is the importance of trade unions in the modern industrial State.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "f doubt. I know that when a trade union asks its legal advisers whether or not it will be breaking an agreement, it gets clear advice and may be told that it will be breaking it. This, again, is another strong pressure for orderly industrial life and this, I believe, is advantagous to freely negotiated enforcible agreements. If a union breaks an agreement, it knows that its funds will be at stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "om this provision? But, of course, the Prime Minister and the right hon. Lady have been asking: what is to happen when individuals break agreements? The right hon. Lady was proposing that the courts should be able to intervene and enforce a penalty. The Government went wrong in allowing all this argument to come down to fines for individuals, whereas the pressure should be on the unions themselves", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.761.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.765.5", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.766.4", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "me Minister and the C.B.I. about employers enforcing contracts. I say so quite bluntly. I believe that the difference between the Government and ourselves and the C.B.I. is not a question of having enforceability of contracts but how they should be enforced. If a union wants to see a contract enforced it should allow the employer to dismiss a man who breaks it and back up the employer in doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.766.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.766.4", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " Are we to accept that in a closed shop for one offence a man should lose his livelihood? Some unions have out-of-date rules. The Prime Minister has strongly condemned the rules of the A.E.F., and understandably so. Is he to insist that men should be treated like this rather than by a court of law, which he himself proposed, or a board? Of course not. Many unions have no power in their rule books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.766.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.6", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.12", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House has given a fair hearing to all the speakers so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.12"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.16", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman spoiled his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.18", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "her side. The right hon. Gentleman again reiterated tonight one of his favourite themes that he has been producing throughout the country on this matter—that there has been an abdication of government. There is only one of his purple passages that he forgot to include, the one with which he regaled the Tory faithful at their rally in Dorset a few days ago, when he declared that we had surrendered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.769.18"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.772.8", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " masterpiece of double talk, that nobody has yet got clear just exactly how the Tory policy will operate. One minute it is \"both\", the next it is \"either\", which ever word they think of using. Nobody knows what is in their minds. But we, for our part, have already produced a change of attitude. It was our willigness to face up to this problem, to throw down a challenge to the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.772.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.772.8", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "the Government are putting the party before country. The Prime Minister should ignore this danger. The Conservatives' own industrial proposals will do the country and its industry more harm than good. The Financial Times put the matter slightly more moderately. After having paid tribute to the great progress made by the T.U.C., and having said that this was not merely done to ward off legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.772.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We have seen the leadership given by Vic Feather, the activity of Jack Jones in the recent strikes, the courageous feat of Hughie Scanlon at the Confederation annual conference, the letters which have been pouring out from the General Council to the membership calling for the setting up of firefighting organisations for the strengthening of resources and the overhauling of rules", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-03", "file": "debates1969-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "87f85726f4af0e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "al Council to the membership calling for the setting up of firefighting organisations for the strengthening of resources and the overhauling of rules [ Interruption. ] Of course hon Gentlemen opposite sneer. We now face a situation in which hon. Members opposite will have a vested interest in an increase in the number of strikes. Day after day they will raise in this House every unofficial strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-03a.776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-04", "file": "debates1969-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "217e3e57d200e664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-04a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "do not think that lawyers really understand history. This Report has come before the whole House. In fact, my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House was speaking to 16 Members with a special interest in the' matter. I know that this is an esoteric subject, but my right hon. Friend can hardly say that he is taking the view of the House when the Report is brought up on a Friday before 16 Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-04a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-04", "file": "debates1969-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "217e3e57d200e664", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-04a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "was doing something arising out of a proceeding in Parliament. If the matter had ever been taken into court, my right hon. Friend could undoubtedly have pleaded qualified privilege, and probably won. My right hon. Friend will not mind my saying that he is in a position to defend himself. I could not be, not on that financial scale. The chairman of the Electricity Board, probably with public funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-04a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Why did a Foreign Office spokesman say last night that agreement had been reached when today that was denied by the Red Cross in Geneva? Secondly, why did the Government ignore the offer of the Biafrans, subject to international supervision, to put forward something which I suspect they know is unacceptable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRTH OF CLYDE (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Anderson", "preceding_text": "I stand corrected. But my point still remains that half the population of Scotland live in an area of minimum amenity value but are within reach of an area of maximum amenity. Ironically, because of rising wage rates this area has come within reach for the first time ever in recent years. We are considering the balance of interests for the whole of the industrial complex in central Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRTH OF CLYDE (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "vital consequence to the whole of central Scotland. What does this conception of vital consequence and well-being really mean? I hope that I will not be misunderstood if I ask some probing questions, as I was misunderstood when I did the same thing on the Shipbuilding Industry Bill. Had my questions then been heeded, perhaps the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders would not be in the position they are today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FIRTH OF CLYDE (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Maclean", "preceding_text": "nd back to his noble Friend the minutes to which he referred. I did so immediately, and sent his noble Friend a personal letter with them, so he should have been aware that they had come back and that I had read them—and, naturally, that I had taken a copy. What does the Minister expect? If I were to read out the rest of the whole lot of minutes this would cause the Minister greater embarrassment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " Mr. Gaitskell's decision, the Secretary of State said that the people … will have to submit to a national means test in order to be able to get free spectacles and free services … What we are doing here is to extend the principle to men in work, and that seems to me a grievous violation of principle. It is not my job to act as agent-provocateur for the Left wing of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1024.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I can only laugh at the joke of one of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1047.0", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Does not the hon. Gentleman see that if there is a limitation on the supply of doctors and if one increases the private sector, which is able to demand a better service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1047.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "wonder the Press speculated about the outcome of the operation because of the success of Government back benchers in deflecting their Government from the task in hand. The Press were bound to wonder whether, once again, the Government would climb down and run away. I congratulate the Secretary of State on being the first among his colleagues to stand firm against the pressure of his back benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "s had to come to terms with the truth. Perhaps the tragedy of the party opposite, and particularly those who support the hon. Member for Willesden, West, is that it is always too late. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have had some noble aspirations. They have been noble in the past, but their efforts have always been frustrated by economic circumstances. They always will be because of the economic muddle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "e was not advocating increased charges but was putting forward the view that they could be significant. That went down badly with the Daily Telegraph. Then we had the hon. Member for Hertford today saying that he believed passionately that charges were the important thing. We can take our choice in the Opposition, as between Powellite and Heathite, not knowing on which side we shall find anybody.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1080.0", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": " resist this individual selectivity principle which is so urgently demanded by hon. Members opposite? I replied: If my hon. Friend is asking me whether I expect further charges to be imposed on the Health Service, the answer is 'No.' It is clear that when I am asked the question, \"Did I think that the selectivity principle would be extended to other charges?\", I said that, of course, it would not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-07", "file": "debates1969-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "8d176e44b8063568", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DENTURES AND SPECTACLES (CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we could go further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-07a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "unt. Even on the invisible trade account, does the hon. Gentleman suggest, for example, that the earnings of the two air corporations should be on public or private account? If on public account, should payments the other way to air companies belonging to other companies be on private account while the other is on public account? There are great complications of this sort. On a more general point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " certain economic problems in the Treaty of Rome or to various political developments in the countries concerned. On economics, I have referred, as the House knows, to the serious difficulties within the Six on agriculture. After all, many in all parts of the House among those who most strongly wanted to join the Common Market have warned about some of the agricultural developments for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "TATE GALLERY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "he second gift I am happy to announce this afternoon. To mark the centenary of the birth of its founder, the Calouste Gulkenkian Foundation has just decided to give £1¼ million to the Tate for the construction of a gallery which will house temporary exhibitions and will bear its founder's name. This is the largest single grant that has ever been made by the Foundation in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": " Tewkesbury was able to point out that the changes gave no electoral advantage in his constituency. That, I freely admit, is 'a weakness in my case, because the creation of a totally new seat, as the Boundary Commission recommend, would give an additional Tory seat in Berkshire, but I am sure that the Home Secretary can look at this in a broad way and not allow himself, at least outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) 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": " Commission since 1964, because the general review was going on. Therefore, these arrears have mounted up substantially. The hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. van Straubenzee) and others were quite right. We have substantial arrears on our hands now. My view and that of anyone who has studied the matter is that nothing short of a general review can overtake those arrears: it cannot be done piecemeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In ten years?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "in the Government's view, other than a general Boundary Commission review. The House has already decided that principle, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman acknowledged, but it will not have a general review until the Redcliffe-Maud proposals, or something like them, have been put into operation. As to how long that will be, there have been a number of views, and this is a matter of judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Never?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "eview. The House has already decided that principle, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman acknowledged, but it will not have a general review until the Redcliffe-Maud proposals, or something like them, have been put into operation. As to how long that will be, there have been a number of views, and this is a matter of judgment—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In ten years?\"] It could be much sooner than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1221.1", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "nton) wind up the debate. The point which I put to you, Mr. Irving, is that there is no precedent for a Government Chief Whip, however new in office, moving the Closure before there has been a chance for the Opposition to reply fully to the debate. I submit that it is wholly unprecedented, and I trust that the Government, having gerrymandered the constituencies, do not intend to try to gag debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1221.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1225.8", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it not a fact that there are many precedents of this sort? But in any case the Chair is the recipient of the will of the Committee. My right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary moved the Closure, Mr. Irving, and you accepted the Motion, and whether or not you saw anybody on the other side of the Committee rise is not relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1225.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1231.6", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Bence", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Since, during the last three hours, only about a third of the hon. Members opposite have been here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1231.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1241.4", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I accept that the right hon. Gentleman was here then. My comment was that he failed to be here during the speech of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for St. Marylebone when he moved these Amendments. It is surely part of the normal courtesies between both Front Benches that that should happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1241.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1254.1", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I am endeavouring to represent my constituents, which I appreciate is rather an unusual performance for some hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with boundaries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "the new towns, and places like East Anglia which is growing rapidly and will continue to grow more rapidly than any other area. I live and work in East Anglia, I represent an East Anglian constituency, and I have served in local government for 20 years. In this area there is a continuous movement of population. In the recommendations of the Redcliffe-Maud Report, Norfolk remains as a unitary area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Squalid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head. It is disappointing to think that we shall not hear from him. The right hon. Gentleman has a fine record in much of the other work that he is doing. He should not lend himself to this highly dubious Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1278.2", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": ". I hope, therefore, that he will not fall into the gerrymandering way of Lord Stow Hill and be pushed along the corridor. Amendment No. 5 suggests that the Commissioners should be consulted once every calendar year. The mobility of the population has received much attention from hon. Members. Houses are springing up throughout South-East England and some constituencies are being greatly enlarged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "The only disagreement that I have with my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths) is that he used a phrase with which I proposed to start my speech. The expression is that justice should not only be done but be seen to be done. I regret that this Bill does not do justice and particularly that, unless these Amendments are allowed justice will not be seen to be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member, since he has asked a question which leads precisely to my next point. It is to indicate how serious to my constituents is the delay and the inability of an annual review to rectify the matter. In many parts of the town of Tavistock the unemployment level is 5·5 per cent. and represents 8 per cent. of the total unemployment level in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1285.4", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ry Commission could review the South Devon area year by year so that if it were found to be necessary to redraw the Parliamentary boundaries within the Plymouth area it could do so without waiting for the delays which were implied in the hon. Gentleman's intervention. I am appalled with the prospect of three, five or even 10 years' delay before any redrawing of the boundaries can take place there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1285.4", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "hey will have to command some respect in the country. I am not saying that there should be any form of compulsion upon the Home Secretary to make him review the situation of the boundaries. I am merely asking that there should be somebody who, every year, can nudge him in the ribs to tell him that there is a real problem which he is ignoring and indeed shelving by refusing to accept the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1285.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain W. Elliot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is there any significance about the simultaneous arrival of yourself in the Chair, Mr. Irving, and the arrival of the Patronage Secretary on the Front Bench?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1287.7", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "I will speak for the hon. Member, as well. If the hon. Member wishes to contribute he can follow me and make a powerful case to refute my arguments. He need not intervene from a sedentary position, which seems to be his favourite posture", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1287.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "You took the words out of my mouth, Mr. Irving. At exactly that moment I ceased my tributes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1293.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1293.5", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "ddressing the Chair. I come to the meat of the Amendments. I said briefly before the Division that I thought that it was very dangerous for any political organisation to give the power of boundary and constituency changes almost—[ Interruption. ] Order, order. May I have the attention of the Home Secretary? It is very dangerous for any political party to allow the reorganisation of constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1293.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1294.2", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "With respect, given the opportunity, I shall be delighted to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1295.1", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "at the bulk of constituencies will not have been changed for 30 years. Therefore, it is only common prudence for Parliament to put into the Bill a Clause which will give the Commission some power and ensure that the Home Secretary of the day will have to take cognisance of the changes that will go on in the next 15 years. That is the whole basis of these Amendments. Take the Prime Minister's seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1300.4", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "No. I am not in one of my more generous moods tonight. If the hon. Gentleman wants to take the matter seriously, instead of just sitting there laughing, he will no doubt have an opportunity to make his own speech when I have finished. Is the Committee suggesting that the Home Secretary should not have any advice except of a biased political nature?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1300.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1301.12", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Probert. Would it not assist the progress of the Committee if the hon. Member for Ormskirk is not to give way kindly to look—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1301.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "t more and more difficult, because apparently the party opposite is not seized of the importance of this constitutional matter, to make a speech on an important constitutional matter. It is entirely wrong for this sort of power to be put—not in the hands of the Cabinet, for in the Cabinet there would be some safeguard because there would be disagreement—in the hands of the Home Secretary, one man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1302.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1321.7", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The Motion has been tabled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1321.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1321.9", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1321.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1321.11", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order Mr. Speaker. Is it not within the possibility of your office to reprimand a little more forcibly than you have done?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1321.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to hear the hon. Member for Smethwick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.0", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I want to hear the hon. Member for Smethwick—[ Interruption. ]—in defence of the order of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order Mr. Speaker. Has not the Chair inadvertently allowed the House to be led astray? A moment ago the Home Secretary begged leave to report Progress and ask leave to sit again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.2", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ogress and ask leave to sit again. [ Interruption. ] It will be within your recollection, Mr. Speaker, that this side of the House did not vote against it because the general impression at this stage was that we should continue with the Bill in the normal way tomorrow. If the House had been told that the proposition was to be followed by a Guillotine, we might well have voted or acted differently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.4", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The Motion has been tabled and will be taken as first business at tomorrow's sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.6", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not a matter of sharp practice for the Government to indicate to the Opposition that we would be sitting again in normal precedent tomorrow and, without any indication at that time that there was likely to be a timetable Motion, then, the moment they have obtained the reporting of Progress, to move the Guillotine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1322.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " the procedure which they are employing, are engaged in what the late right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale would have described as a \"squalid party manoeuvre\". But his successor, the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot), has sat there throughout the day without saying a word. He and his colleagues are the first to lecture those in Ulster about the proper boundaries and proper voting procedures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e of Parliamentary procedure which the Leader of the House has just announced. What about the Secretary of State for Social Services, who has rapidly beaten his exit? He was the man who would reform Parliamentary procedure to enable back benchers, the Opposition and minorities to influence the Executive. What has he done? He has connived in the worst use of the Guillotine in Parliamentary history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1324.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.2", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The real nature of this Government is exposed. There are no depths to which they will not resort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.4", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.9", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "For eight long weeks the Prime Minister and his colleagues, against the wish of the Home Secretary, were prepared to go on discussing important questions of industrial relations. I did not begrudge them that. But for rights affecting the votes of 36 million people in this country they are not prepared to go on for eight hours before imposing the Guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1325.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—are gerrymandering the constituencies and now they are trying to abuse every right of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.1", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—are gerrymandering the constituencies and now they are trying to abuse every right of Parliament. [ Interruption. ] However hard they try, they will come to regret this day because the electorate will surely dismiss any party which has so little respect for our traditional history and the rights of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-08", "file": "debates1969-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "640beddcd8d70113", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.5", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " to debate these matters, but I think it would have been a good idea if the right hon. Gentleman had reserved these very powerful arguments he claims to have made for the debate which we shall have tomorrow on the Motion. We must be grateful that at last he has plucked up courage to mention Ulster. People have had their heads bashed in there, and people have had their civil rights taken from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-08a.1326.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.2", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "f Seats) (No. 2) Bill to an end on or before 14th July and to invite the Business Committee to propose an allocation of time accordingly. I do not propose to try to emulate the degree of heat engendered by right hon. and hon. Members opposite last night. As Leader of the House, I think that some of the occurrences of last night did credit neither to the Members concerned, nor to Parliament itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.4", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think that, on reflection, those concerned will take a similar view: at least, I hope so. One intervention which I particularly deplored was that of the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg), in referring to my right hon. Friend the Patronage Secretary as he did.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.4", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will affect the Government more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": ", towards the probability of two major upheavals in the political map of the country in the short span of about 10 years. I think that this is clearly right. There are differences, of course. Widely varying estimates have been made of the effect on existing constituencies of this decision, and still more widely varying estimates of the effect on the electoral prospects of the parties in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.4", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gerrymandering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "men opposite who supported that Administration must accept this—they moved five guillotine Motions. We have moved only two so far, and this is the third one today, in the life of two Parliaments. I could go further to show that, over and over again, when a Conservative Administration have thought fit to programme their business in the way that we are doing now, they have done it, and they know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1363.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1370.8", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House has, from time to time, acknowledged—I doubt not with complete sincerity—that he owes a duty to the House which transcends his duty to either side of it. I beg him to ponder what I have to say carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1370.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must not have points of argument disguised as points of order. That is not a point of order at all. Mr. Hogg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1371.9", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1371.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1371.10", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I propose to use no kind of provocation at all, and I propose to respond in no way at all to provocation offered to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1371.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot be heard it is the fault of hon. Members on the Government side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ion that I wish to address myself and to address, through you, Mr. Speaker, the right hon. Gentleman. In considering the validity or otherwise of a Motion of this kind—as I hope the House will agree—we have to look to a variety of different factors. One of these is the nature of the legislation proposed and the necessity for it. The right hon. Gentleman—if I may command his attention for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.0", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "t shortly. Another of the factors to be taken into consideration is the length of the discussion which would be required by that legislation unimpeded by any artificial barrier. The third, I take it, would be the urgency of the legislation, to have it by a particular date; and, perhaps, fourth, the extent to which, if at all, the Government have legitimate cause to apprehend organised obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "The House concluded its proceedings shortly after midnight last night, and two hours of its time today are being taken up by the Motion we are now discussing. I would have thought that, by now, had we continued to sit without the guillotine Motion, and with the addition of the two hours we are taking up now, we would have got a considerable distance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was not what was said last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "iscussing. I would have thought that, by now, had we continued to sit without the guillotine Motion, and with the addition of the two hours we are taking up now, we would have got a considerable distance—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"]—a considerable distance through the Committee stage, with or without the assistance of the Closure proposed, no doubt, at legitimate intervals by the Patronage Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "said to be the Prime Minister's. One would think, in the light of these questions, that the right hon. Gentleman, as trustee for the interests of both sides of the House, would almost fall over backwards to establish his own integrity in the matter. This brings me to the second of the points which I have enumerated, the question of urgency. Again, the right hon. Gentleman must accept this from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.5", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEM-bers: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "eir action to the last possible moment. It has not so far been disputed that this legislation could have been brought forward at least as soon as the terms of reference of the Redcliffe-Maud Commission were made known, but certainly not later than when the report was in the hands of the Government. But, in truth and in fact, the Government not merely delayed action, but concealed their intentions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1379.5", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "If I had been approached in any other way than I have been approached by the other side this afternoon, I would have said that, if I had caused the smallest personal offence to any Member of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1379.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1379.6", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "If I had been approached in any other way than I have been approached by the other side this afternoon, I would have said that, if I had caused the smallest personal offence to any Member of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—I would be deeply sorry. As it is, I can only repeat my remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1379.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ry expression to describe other hon. Members, or even right hon. Members, as hypocrites, which is quite Parliamentary, one must not describe them as humbugs, so I forbear. But never have I listened to such humbuggery as I have today. I may be accused of indulging in escapades and adventures during a long experience and I have witnessed scenes in this House far more serious than occurred yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for all contributions received. But when those incidents occurred, they at any rate were in a just cause, were fortified by logic and were upholding the dignity of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "t what dignity did we experience yesterday? I am well aware of the traditions in the House and of the procedure in debates in which one must not refer unduly to events in the recent past. But I was here yesterday when the Chairman of Committees was in the Chair and witnessed the behaviour of some hon. Members opposite. I do not refer to all of them. There are some decent Members on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.5", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "He may not be the kind of person to have alongside one in any crisis or emergency. He may be after the job of the Leader of the Opposition. After all, let us not forget that he left the other place. Why? He did very well there. It was because he hoped to become the Leader of his party. This is the simple point. The Government want to get their Bill. I am not concerned about the merits of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1383.0", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Must?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "part from this assembly. It will be a severe wrench. However, I may not be very far away—one never knows—if only to keep an eye on the Tory Party. That is the reason why I say that I am not concerned about the merits of the Bill. Whether there is merit or lack of merit in the Government's proposed legislation, the Opposition must understand that they are only the Opposition and not the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1381.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1388.5", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1388.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1388.8", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1388.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says \"Test it\". I am coming to that. If this timetable Motion goes through—I hope in the interests of Parliament it does not—we should challenge this Government on the precedent of 29th June, 1950, to refer that specific matter to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ecifically to repeal those Sections of that Act he could justly say, \"We are changing the law\", but he has not done that. There is no reference to the mandatory obligation which this House and Parliament as a whole has placed upon him. Therefore he is in breach of an Act of Parliament which this House, indeed his own party, passed when they were the Government. That is why we believe that on both—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "eighty considerations before the House. We have had a Second Reading of the Bill and the debate on the Motion introduced by the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg). If the right hon. Member for Devon, North felt so deeply on these legal questions he had plenty of opportunity to raise them then. I want to deal with some remarks made primarily by the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "plenty of opportunity to raise them then. I want to deal with some remarks made primarily by the Leader of the Opposition. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] In view of the fact that he made some very fierce remarks last night and some of his supporters prevented hon. Members replying to him on that occasion, he might at least have done the courtesy to the House of remaining for this important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ls which were being made by the Government at that time and went into the Lobby on about half a dozen occasions against the boundary proposals of the Conservative Administration. Who was the Lords Commissioner helping to shuffle through those hon. Members on a three-line Whip to vote for measures under the Boundary Commission recommendations? Of course, he was the present Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "The time I have in which to sum up is short. Therefore, I will not on this occasion reply to the remarks of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot), which were as inaccurate as they were irrelevant to this discussion. I can sum up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": " be so easily subverted by a short, sharp act of folly. We have something here that we must not jeopardise, but I fear that the Government are doing so. Our system of government is unique, in that it gives almost unfettered power to the Government of the day, power that they may achieve by a very small majority of votes indeed at an election. Ours is a system of dictatorship of the majority party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "elieve that much of this has been forfeited already by the introduction of the Bill. What is in issue, without a shadow of doubt, is the honour and the standing of Parliament. Let us not under-estimate the cynicism about Parliament which has prevailed in Britain in recent years. We know perfectly well the cynicism that abounds in the Press, in speeches. on television, and amongst our constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "ally worth quite a lot. I, therefore, suggest to him that he should take an early opportunity to make amends in the way that he knows. In this afternoon's debate, the right hon. and learned Gentleman and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition have spoken of their reasons for not being willing to accept the guillotine Motion. One figure has been strangely absent, not just the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": " or dead? Why did not the right hon. Gentleman turn up? Is it because he fears that he has given too many hostages to fortune, and, not only that, he has in the past even put two Bills in one guillotine Motion? There is productivity. The right hon. Gentleman did not come because he knows that he could have been challenged on a great many of the Motions and statements which he has made in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "To the best of my recollection, they were a Transport Bill and a Scottish Housing Bill. That was one occasion. As for the second occasion, I do not recall at the moment; the hon. Gentleman can go and look it up for himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hurry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " do not propose to give it to you\". That is clear enough. We understand where we are when he says it. The Motion is brought in under Standing Order No. 43A. Under that Standing Order the first duty laid upon the Government is to make a formal approach to the Opposition and say to them, \"Can we get the Bill by agreement?\". The answer, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman has indicated, was \"No.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1396.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1399.5", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The holidays.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "od his ancestors did by attacking us when we try to repeat it now. So, I answer both the second criterion of Lord Butler and the challenge of the right hon. Gentleman by the simple facts of the situation. The third question that was posed by Lord Butler was, is the guillotine essential? This is a question that I should certainly try to answer. We think that it is essential for a number of reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1399.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1508.3", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Member that if he goes through the debates he will see that, rather than speaking from briefs, some of us have tried to think seriously about these matters. It is an absolute tragedy for the country that when we discuss these important matters there is only a handful of Lobby fodder opposite who cannot understand the seriousness of the issues involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " Surely, when about half of our productive resources seem to be under the control of the Government, we have a special responsibility to ensure fair play and that no special privileges are given to the public sector as opposed to the private setor. Many of us feel that the dice are heavily loaded in favour of the public sector and that the burdens on the private sector are increasing all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Osborn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. H. Osborn", "preceding_text": " the problem. The question now is how the Corporation should deploy its assets, how many in this country and how many overseas. How can we make more money available to the Corporation? How is it possible to provide increasing funds from overseas without having to go through the paraphernalia of Parliamentary control, Ministerial control and Treasury control and increasing our foreign indebtedness?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-09", "file": "debates1969-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "398b9808d112bd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1532.9", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborn", "preceding_text": "I could go over the ground again for his benefit—we would make more reasonable progress. It is utterly wrong to impute to my hon. Friends or to me a desire to attack the Corporation. It is at present in a mess, not necessarily of its own making, but as a result of political decisions taken in the last few years. This Amendment would help to resolve some of the problems which the Corporation faces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-09a.1532.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1561.2", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister's statement was perfectly clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1564.3", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "We know that the right hon. Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr) does not like statutory powers over prices and incomes when they apply to rents. Hon. Members opposite have never wanted any interference with the rent increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1564.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I think there is one thing that we should make clear. I believe that the general body of unemployed are as honest as any other citizens and that if we were to try to make out a case that the unemployed in general are fiddlers or bigger fiddlers than anyone else, it would be unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1568.3", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SPAIN (RELATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole House will join with my hon. Friend in his denial of Spanish allegations about Gibraltar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1601.1", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "swer those questions, because so many conflicting reports which are difficult to verify come in. On the point of the feeding of Biafran troops, I do not think that I can go further than I did on Monday, of last week, when in answer to a question by one of my hon. Friends, I said that as far as I knew there was no rationing system in Biafra, and I should have thought that that was to be regretted.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1605.1", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "s conference this afternoon it proposed …that relief go direct from agreed points outside Federal territory\". Parliament was misled the other day when Lord Shepherd said in another place that both the Red Cross and Joint Church Aid had been present at the Lagos conference. Neither was present and both have since denied being present. It has been said today by Mr. Stacey, on behalf of Oxfam—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ere. They were not. This was a well-known error on the part of Lord Shepherd and I need not develop the point further. A more serious matter which worries many people concerns the statement made the other day in reply to a Question about the shooting down of a Red Cross aircraft. It was suggested by the Government that it had been an error. I much regret to tell the House that it was not an error—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1608.1", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "of daylight flights are the conditions under which they will be allowed. Perhaps hon. Members have read the statement made today by Joint Church Aid to the effect that the proposed terms are unacceptable to it. As a former Air Minister, paratrooper and guerrilla organiser who has made a study of some of these matters, I know that there are aircraft being dressed up to look like Red Cross aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "otten, and they are vitally important. It was the Federal Nigerians who carried out the two massacres of Ibos in 1966, who drove 2 million of them out as refugees into the East. Refugees do not leave their homes and their possessions unless they are in deadly terror. I have seen it happen in Greece. It was the Federal Nigerians who tore up the Abori Agreement, of which the Foreign Secretary spoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1621.2", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "'état, with something like £900,000 worth of arms a year, far more than to Nigeria. There was a rising. It so happened that it was swift and Nkrumah was despatched. Supposing that country had been plunged into a condition of civil war. Would we have said that it was our duty, because Nkrumah had been the de facto and de jure leader, automatically to ship in arms and maintain the status quo?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1627.1", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "This is the kind of inference that I find extremely objectionable. The inference is that the Government have connived at the death of one million people and are conniving at the death of hundreds of thousands more. I refute that absolutely. I would not belong to the Labour Party if I believed that there was a single member of the Labour Government who had connived in any way in this tragedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "f one looks at depth into both sides, how legitimacy can be ascribed to either. Colonel Ojukwu came to power by military means. Colonel Gowon came to power as the result of the assassination, by different forces, of two previous leaders. There is, therefore, no legitimacy in either case. Neither is representative of the people. There is no talk of democracy or Government by consent in either case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-10", "file": "debates1969-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "645d376e27fcc461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1690.3", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": ". Those were the words of the right hon. Gentleman. I listened to what the right hon. Gentleman said today. I accept what he said completely and without reservation. But I thought that he gave the distinct impression on Monday that a sensible plan had been drawn up and that all that remained was to secure General Ojukwu's agreement. Unhappily, this does not appear to have been the position at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-10a.1690.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that it would be suicidal to do anything other than stop at most \"Give Way\" signs, as many people have unfortunately found to their cost? In the circumstances, can the hon. Gentleman say what are the advantages of the \"Give Way\" signs? Why cannot we go back to the older and much more safe \"Halt\" notices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why not say 'Halt'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the survey is anything to go by, clearly motorists have not got the message that in many circumstances it is suicidal to do anything other than halt at \"Give Way\" signs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marsh", "preceding_text": "I think it would be a source of depression for everybody here present to give the programme of hon. and right hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Clegg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tainted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Clegg", "preceding_text": "learned friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Sir D. Renton). In essence, we have had it before, and no doubt we shall continue to have it throughout the debate. Unless the Amendment is accepted the Bill leaves the initiative for instituting boundary reviews with the Home Secretary. The right hon. Gentleman is a political animal. That being so, his decisions must be tinged at times with politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " the view of the Government could be given at an early stage—a stage at which it would be possible for us to seek to analyse and discusss the arguments which the Government put forward. The technique of sitting back until a late stage, making a speech and arranging for the Closure to be moved immediately thereafter, so that the speech cannot be answered, is a negation of good Parliamentary debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Clause 1", "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": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "at much easier. It seems to me that, soon after the new local authorities are established, the Boundary Commission, I think, will want to produce its report and then hear the representations made to it by local authorities and others and then to produce its final recommendations. So I do not think that we need assume that we have automatically—indeed, it is clear that we shall not wait until 1983—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.55.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Mr. John Mendelson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "A long dissertation about amalgamating police forces would soon put me out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks a strictly relevant question and I welcome it. I do not accept what he says about this being a wide power. That is a propaganda term which has grown up during the last five days of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.87.8", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson) comes into the category once described by Disraeli as those who are friends of every country save their own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.87.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "not determined by the number of electors he represents. There are other factors and qualities which come into the question of deciding whether a Member is a good Member and gives adequate service to his electorate. As I say, the case for these Amendments has not been made out, in my opinion, by the Opposition. I must observe that there was no attempt to suggest gerrymandering in Scotland. Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.129.0", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "ned Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Mr. Wylie) was moved, in a most unaccustomed manner, to say something quite insulting at the end of his speech—it was rather like being bitten by a butterfly. If one examines these proposals, it is fascinating to find that none of the political arguments of the hon. Member for Moray and Nairn against the Government holds water in relation to Scotland and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.129.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "preceding_text": "and then, elaborately and hurriedly and usually without humour, destroying them. He condemned the Secretary of State for something which he has not yet done. That illustrates the dire straits of the Tory Party in Scotland. They have to create an issue where none exists to make a political battle. I should have thought that there were far more important matters in Scotland to fight about than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is your Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Willis", "preceding_text": "ing which he has not yet done. That illustrates the dire straits of the Tory Party in Scotland. They have to create an issue where none exists to make a political battle. I should have thought that there were far more important matters in Scotland to fight about than that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Why not do them? Why waste the time of Scottish Members with something which has not yet happened", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.146.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.149.0", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "t I strayed, but I was sorely tempted by the speech of the hon. Member for Cathcart. As I read the Bill, my right hon. Friend says, \"The Boundary Commission has issued a Report. Within a few weeks we shall have the report of the local Government Commission. Both affect the electorate. Surely in these circumstances it is common sense to consider the two together?\" Is there anything wrong with that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.150.0", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "Thank you once again, Mr. Jennings. My right hon. Friend says that in these circumstances the wisest thing is to wait until we have both Reports, to consider them and then to do what is best in the interests of the people of Scotland. That should commend the support, not the indignation, of hon. Gentlemen opposite. Do they want my right hon. Friend to do what is best for the people of Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.150.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "II is tempting to follow the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North (Earl of Dalkeith I into his flattering remarks, but as I said when we last debated this matter, I prefer the abuse of hon. Gentlemen opposite to their flattery—I always think that it sounds very much more sincere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.155.3", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "It is not possible for the Government to announce when any Royal Commission, while it is still deliberating —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.155.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "Big rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.160.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should realise one simple thing about that. If we had intended to do that, there would have been something in the Bill to enable us to do it because we are governed by Statute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.160.6", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ave been something in the Bill to enable us to do it because we are governed by Statute—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We had better be careful about this. There are many hon. Members representing English constituencies who may have been listening to me in respect of the electoral quota in Scotland and who may be thinking about this, but it is not the Government's intention to reduce the 71 Scottish seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.160.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boundary Commissioners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " about drafting errors. He said that no one who did not have the resources of a great Department at his disposal could be expected to draft Amendments without drafting errors. How well I know that! I tried to do it for 13 years. But these are more than drafting errors. Both right hon. and learned Gentlemen have tried to do redistribution, and to do that maps, among other things, are needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ore than drafting errors. Both right hon. and learned Gentlemen have tried to do redistribution, and to do that maps, among other things, are needed. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Boundary Commissioners.\"] I absolutely agree. Hon. Members come to my point with a quickness and percipience which I can hardly hope to emulate. It cannot be done from the Opposition Front Bench., and one needs Boundary Commissioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I agree. The hon. Lady is right. She has had this overspill effect in her constituency for a very long time. The House has decided to ask her to put up with it for three or four years more. She has already put up with it for 20 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.205.6", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " do not think the hon. Lady's example is one of the major cases. There are far bigger cases in which the effect would be quite important. The Opposition want to include all constituencies with electorates over 80,000. That is not the principle of the Bill. It cuts against the principle. When I hear their full-throated cheers at the mention of Huyton, I see the political cloven hoof coming through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.205.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Gardner", "preceding_text": "ment reform this must be put off because we could not have two upheavals one after the other. I am sure that the hon. Member for Ormskirk would not be one of those leading the argument. I think that my right hon. Friend was wrong not to announce, when the decision to set up the Royal Commission was made, that the boundaries decision would be put off until after the local government reorganisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.216.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "What evidence has the hon. Gentleman for that last statement that carrying out the recommendations would be of political disadvantage to the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.223.1", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "mskirk - Bootle - Kirkby - Huyton area. He said that it did not matter that there were various local authorities in his constituency. As the hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Graham Page) said, we do not represent local authorities. But we would need much more money and many more secretaries if we had to deal with county boroughs and county councils as well as the smaller authorities on any large scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.223.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "preceding_text": "y reason why we have been talking so much of that part of England, namely, to draw attention once again to the constituency of Huyton. I will not dwell on that subject, except to say that I have noticed during this debate that the merest reference to Huyton seems to draw spite—I would even say malevolent spite—from hon. Members opposite. It is spite of which I did not think that they were capable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pronounce it properly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "ud Report are accepted by hon. Gentlemen opposite, it is ridiculous to suggest that we should now immediately start carving up constituency boundaries. If we accept the philosophy behind that, we would again have to redraw constituencies. This would be a waste of time and would lead to great confusion among the electors. I want to refer to the Amendment which deals with the constituency of Huyton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.240.3", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Huyton.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "resents Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) did not defy the law. He sought to have it changed. I hope that in future the right hon. and learned Gentleman will try to follow the good example of constitutionalists on this site and not sit there \"chuntering into his beard\" and periodically accusing the Government of gerrymandering. To get back to that more commonsense corner of Lancashire called \"Hoyton\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.240.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.250.5", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "preceding_text": "n, but wanted things fixed by the Government of the day. At least that was an interesting argument, and I am not surprised that hon. Members opposite should use it; and I say that because the excuses put forward from their own Front Bench have not exactly persuaded the country. I have yet to see a single independent commentator who has even begun to believe what the Front Bench opposite is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.250.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.254.4", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Because there must be a pattern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "evelopments; we have the development which is taking place in the constituency of my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Exchange, and in my own, and within many other central areas of population. What my right hon. Friend is doing is implementing proposals which necessarily need to be implemented at present. He is saying that the Redcliffe-Maud Report should be implemented as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.257.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.257.6", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I rose in what I understood to be a proper manner. If, Mr. Jennings, you are complaining because I allowed a sound to emit from me in response to a noise which came from the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg), across the Chamber, and if I am required to sit here and to utter nothing in reply, then I shall have to consider the position very carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.258.6", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "n and implementation, will press for the early implementation of the report or will it hold it up and filibuster it, as many of his hon. Friends will try to do. I believe that my right hon. Friend and the Government will be under pressure from this side, in the interests of local government and efficiency, to ensure that the Redcliffe-Maud Report is implemented as quickly and as fully as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.258.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Maud proposals or the principle of them. I believe that it will be possible to implement these proposals in a much shorter period than has been envisaged. The uncertainty that will be created in local government and in the large conurbations which many of us represent will be very frustrating both to local authorities if we as a Parliament do not get down early and quickly to resolving the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.258.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "ipping up a campaign of hysteria, using words like \"gerrymander\", with the help of some newspapers. There has never been such a one-sided presentation of an issue than there is at present in the Press. It is as if hon. Gentlemen opposite are frightened to mention the case in its entirety and hear it properly argued. We should not be put off by these attacks. We have nothing of which to be ashamed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "I think that there is a slight misunderstanding here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"At last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "he Commissioners, working on the details of constituency boundaries to make a decision for Parliament three years in advance as to what is good government and good constitutional practice. 1.30 a.m. I cannot see how serious hon. Gentlemen could oppose this argument. They have always advanced it in the four Parliaments of which I have been a Member, and it is common ground. My third and last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "whereas in London, as a result of the work of the Boundary Commission which my right hon. Friend is implementing, there will be many constituencies with more than 70,000 electors. One vote, one value? There will be many constituencies in London with an electorate of fewer than 45,000—St. Marylebone, 48,000; Surbiton, another Tory seat, 45,000; Bromley, Ravensbourne, 44,500, Bexley, Sidcup, 43,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "ecause we do not like the scheme in London. We think that this is gerrymandering in favour of the Tory Party. We think it is unfair to the Labour Party, and I do not believe in being unfair to the Labour Party. It is poetic justice now and again to be unfair to the Tories, because the electoral system has been unfair to us for so long and it is a bit of a change to have the boot on the other foot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.279.4", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was Chuter Ede.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "Can we now come back to Herbert Morrison? I was saying that he was attacked by the party opposite for gerrymandering in 1948, and yet everyone knows that he was blamed for our electoral defeat in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.279.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who is this phenomenon?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "think of places like Epping—a great many large constituencies represented by only one Labour man or Labour woman and where, if there were redistribution, we would profit by an increase in the number of our seats. I am glad to have one Member of the Opposition agreeing with me and showing that he is an honest man in this debate. There he is, the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nicholls).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Even if I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman, the sense of what he said was said by several hon. Members opposite during the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "n are not to be implemented. If the Home Secretary were genuine in his expressions to the Committee he would have allowed a free vote tonight. If he were genuine in what he is seeking to do he would have accepted the findings of the independent Boundary Commission and he would have accepted and been bound by the proposals of the other side. The Home Secretary is also Treasurer of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.283.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.283.4", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite may not like it. I will give an example from my local paper for last week, where the chairman of the local Labour Party is reported as saying that he anticipated raising his own constituency next time—and that is in the same week as the Home Secretary is gerrymandering the Boundary Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": " We were concerned to show two things. First, that a gross injustice was being done to certain of the electors of this country, whichever party gained, by not implementing the Boundary Commission's Report. Although I feel as strongly as any of my hon. Friends that we are being cheated out of a number of seats, the ground on which we base our case is not the disadvantages to the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "they will lose seats if the Boundary Commission's recommendations are not accepted. That is all that they are interested in and that is what the whole debate is about. Everything else is sheer camouflage, except when it is not a personal vendetta against the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-14", "file": "debates1969-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f006442095cca5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The plain truth is that we have established our case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-14a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "ile the Assistant Commissioner was sitting. But this was the final tribunal. This is not the way in which decisions should be taken. The suggestion seems to be that there should be turmoil in the streets and that only then could a historical name be preserved. That is not a rational argument. I make this final appeal to my right honourable Friend. The other place may be able to come to the rescue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "These are matters which go through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.0", "colnum": "328", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "These are matters which go through the usual channels. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I did not wish to be drawn into discussing this matter. An approach was made to the Opposition in 1966.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "rliamentary democracy in this country is not all that secure and firmly rooted and that there are elements —for example, the students who told one of our Select Committees that it was \"bloody irrelevant\"—who are cynical about our Parliamentary institutions. He does not seem aware of the enormous strength that he is giving to such elements if he introduces the concept that our elections are rigged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " Gentleman says that he does not know what the electoral consequences of this will be. I believe that he is Treasurer of the Labour Party. I wonder whether he is really telling us that he never asked the chief agent, that he ignored the reports submitted to officers of his party. The right hon. Gentleman knows that those who are unbiased in these matters—the commentators; the expert psephologists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "us that he never asked the chief agent, that he ignored the reports submitted to officers of his party. The right hon. Gentleman knows that those who are unbiased in these matters—the commentators; the expert psephologists—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—not necessarily friends of my party—are all unanimous in the view that the result of these changes must be between eight and 20 seats for the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert Murray", "preceding_text": "red to \"loaded dice\". I want to thank my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary because, apart from delivering to the House a very good Bill, he has given us an opportunity to see the best one-man show in town, plus supporting cast of paper tearers. The right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered a series of what might be described as \"monohoggs\", none of them with any serious argument to support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": " the usual channels. I understand that such an approach was made, but let us consider its character. It was a suggestion that we, the Opposition, should in effect connive with the Government in ignoring the statutory procedures laid down for the Boundary Commission, procedures on which it had already embarked. In other words, were were asked by the Government to join with them in breaking the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "t boundaries, with all the anomalies, along after the next election. In this connection, I cannot help drawing the attention of the House to a revealing slip of the tongue made by the Home Secretary—I hope that it was only a slip of the tongue and that it did not reveal the true state of his mind—when he said, somewhat naїvely, \"Conservatives believe that there is bound to be an election\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.362.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He should withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "sed on local government boundaries which were liable to be altered as a result of the recommendations of the Royal Commission. On 8th August, 1966, the Opposition Chief Whip informed the Lord President of the Council that the Shadow Cabinet felt unable to agree to a standstill. To say that my right hon. Friend acted in had faith in the face of that ill becomes the right hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I am extremely sorry but I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.385.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They sound like uniforms for members of the party opposite.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "While we all want to see operatives properly protected, does the hon. Gentleman really think that it is the function of the E.D.C., with all its civil servants, to issue documents to builders telling them that donkey jackets should have seams six inches in front and ten inches behind the shoulder and should be single-breasted with buttons right up to the neck?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "ught that there ought to be a re-examination of our attitude to statues. But I do not think there is a wide demand for a review of the kind that the hon. Gentleman indicates. This is a complicated problem. It involves the approval of this House in some instances, it involves legal problems, and it involves an examination of the circumstances in which a statue was put up. It is a difficult problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "what was said by … the Shah,…it was impossible for me to have incorrectly reported him.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 12th June, 1969; Vol. 734, c. 1671.] He said, and was reported as saying, after the wide circle of talks in Teheran and elsewhere: I have no doubt about what their view is ', said Mr. Heath, ' and I do not know how the idea has got about that Persia does not want us to stay.' \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.402.3", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on to the next Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ewhere: I have no doubt about what their view is ', said Mr. Heath, ' and I do not know how the idea has got about that Persia does not want us to stay.' \"— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] The right hon. Gentleman is denying that there is any confusion in this matter. Having said after his talks with the Shah that he did not know where the idea had got about that Persia does not wish us to stay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.402.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "To finish the Answer, I said that it was, therefore, no surprise that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ry policy. The hon. Gentleman is right, of course, to refer to inflation in this context. However, there are problems about hon. Members being able to do their job, and these are being examined. There is the question—the hon. Gentleman referred to those living in poverty—of the poor, and there has recently been announced a further increase in retirement pensions and other social security benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "on. Friend aware that it is not a question of increasing hon. Members' salaries but a question of providing assistance to enable hon. Members to do their job; for example, assistance with secretarial work, postage, out-of-town expenses, and so on? Is he aware that many hon. Members who, like myself, have been shop stewards are wondering what we have been doing in this place for the last few years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that I do not regard hon. Members as public servants and that I do not agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro) on this issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.408.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.417.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "If it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "If—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.8", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Abortion (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "as aborted. It was later found that this foetus was alive, it was brought back, and attempts were made to resuscitate it. The child, unfortunately, died. But from this deplorable incident, the papers in which are still being examined by the Secretary of State for Scotland, to conclude that 108 babies—the wrong figure in any case—may possibly have been burned alive is to make a montrous suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.418.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "If he ceases to be a borrower in a close corporation he will presumably sell his shares or exchange them for other shares in a public corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Very good of him to be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend was sitting here for about an hour and has had to go off to a Cabinet Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "I will try again, because I am anxious to get the wholehearted and full-throated support of my hon. Friends on all occasions. A proprietor must have a stake in the business or he would not be a proprietor. The question, therefore, if we are to have a percentage, is what it should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "As his hon. Friend says, if the board knew what would get by, the board would take steps to see that it complied with what would get by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.488.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.520.5", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman will lose it now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that heroic attempt to obtain an audience for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.520.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "der which, before the Finance Bill was published, the borrower was already obliged to pay interest. The Amendment would relieve the close company in the case where liability was incurred before 16th April, 1969 and interest continued to be payable in respect of the loans. We have heard from the Chief Secretary that new Clause 28 is intended to relieve those who have entered into a firm commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.522.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-15", "file": "debates1969-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "efeb4f31f8fefafa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "There are two separate arguments. One does not want to put charities in a position where they can buy properties more cheaply than others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-15a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.608.4", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. I am quite sure that the information I have given him verbally and also in writing will bear fruit when he visits this hospital, and I hope that at the end of the visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.608.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.617.4", "colnum": "617", "heading": "\"SUN\" NEWSPAPER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the announcement by the International Printing Corporation of the proposed closure on 1st January. 1970, of the Sun newspaper \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "New Clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "re is no misunderstanding. The hon. Member for Bristol, West (Mr. Robert Cooke) thought that I was equivocating, but I thought I had made it clear and there was certainly not any equivocation. It may have been stupidity or obtuse language of mine, but I want the House clearly to understand that there is no question whatever, and never has been, over Spastic Society contributions in the past years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "New Clause 31", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Lever", "preceding_text": "oblem. The Customs and Excise are now completely satisfied that these contributions are volunary, that is, they conform to Section 7(2). We need net quibble about what \"voluntary\" means. The Customs are completely satisfied that they conform with Section 7(2) of the Act and hence are completely free from any question of pool betting duty. If any hon. Member still thinks there is cause for anxiety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.745.6", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "It will also be convenient if we take Government Amendments Nos. 17 and 18. This Amendment deals with multiple penny machines and it makes consequential changes in the subsection dealing with multiple machines generally. For the purposes of the holiday season licence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.745.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.762.4", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Come off it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "entleman whether he has read the letter, because when he replies to the debate I hope he will tell me whether the cars were en route to export markets. That is the point. In this case, a dealer in Reading was forced to recover nine vehicles on account of the non-payment of sums due under hire-purchase contracts. Of the nine vehicles, seven had not been taxed. Were they export vehicles? I doubt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-16", "file": "debates1969-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "737e14cfd749580f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "preceding_text": "I find it hard to take from the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-16a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. McKay", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that hon. Members and members of national bodies have studied the evidence made available by the Minister and are completely dissatisfied; and that the people who are dissatisfied are people outside London? Even from York, people have protested against this move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.881.4", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.881.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "could have mentioned Kinross and West Perthshire in his list. But I am deeply touched by the concern he showed about my constituents and which so many hon. Members showed for so many hours the other evening. I recognise, on their own admission, that their spite is not against the constituency but is against me. I have realised that for a long time. But the hon. Gentleman will be delighted to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "that their spite is not against the constituency but is against me. I have realised that for a long time. But the hon. Gentleman will be delighted to know—[ Interruption. ]—this was an admission of more than usual frankness—but the hon. Gentleman, with the deep concern for my constituents which I fully understand, will realise that all of my 95,000 constituents are happy with the Government's Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.5", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.882.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.883.6", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Are we to assume that the lightness of the Prime Minister's postbag on the question of the redistribution of boundaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.883.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION (PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I quite accept what you have said, Mr. Speaker. All I wish to correct is the number of voters. It is not as I said it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.893.8", "colnum": "893", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The Bill was reported to the House only on Tuesday. Perhaps I might add that, in view of the late stage of the Session and the fact that the Bill has to pass all its stages in another place, I doubt whether it has any prospect of completing all its stages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.893.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-17", "file": "debates1969-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7a524af651ae9a00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.1049.0", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "ith investigating changes in taxation should have opportunity to consider the matter and make pronouncements. It will be within the recollection of the House that the many long and agonising hours which we here and others affected outside spent in considering his proposals for the disallowance of interest on borrowing were concerned with exactly that sum of £7 or £8 million in this financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-17a.1049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-18", "file": "debates1969-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b1b868fcc54127a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-18a.1116.6", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "hifalutin argument that goes on in this Chamber, but they certainly understand the taxes they have to pay. They regard this Finance Bill as imposing upon them the greatest burden of taxation which they have ever had to bear in war or in peace. On their behalf I protest against these enormous taxes which are being imposed by the Government on the ordinary people whom I have the honour to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-18a.1116.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-18", "file": "debates1969-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "b1b868fcc54127a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-18a.1116.6", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member can say that again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir C. Osborne", "preceding_text": "lf of our constituents, especially when we have such an incompetent Government. The total tobacco tax under this Bill amounts to £1,125 million—a colossal sum. Last year it was £1,105 million, and in 1964 under the Conservatives £982 million. It is an enormous increase over that period of time. Let us take the whisky drinkers as a further example. They have no idea how much they are having to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-18a.1116.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": ". There is a further conference towards the end of the year which I hope will give the definitive agreement we want. I should like to endorse very strongly what the right hon. Gentleman said about last night's achievement. I am sure that it is the wish of all parties in the House to extend to the American Government our warmest congratulations at the tremendous achievement of those men last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1217.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1223.1", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. As there are a large number of free-ranging Members—if I may call them that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1223.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1235.6", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1235.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1374.1", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We are not debating a free Health Service. We are debating certain increased charges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1385.1", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "damage done to the National Health Service by the prolonged pretence that he would stick to his principles and his reluctance, in face of pressure from behind, openly to abandon them. This debate is to enable the hon. Member for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt), whose sincerity I once more acknowledge, to express his disapproval and that of his hon. Friends without having to agree with the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1385.2", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is nothing to do with you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "rinciples and his reluctance, in face of pressure from behind, openly to abandon them. This debate is to enable the hon. Member for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt), whose sincerity I once more acknowledge, to express his disapproval and that of his hon. Friends without having to agree with the Tory Party. [ Interruption. ] I hope that I may be allowed to intervene in what looks like a private debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "den, West said that it was a small step which could lead to an infinite number of changes which could later alter the whole direction of the National Health Service and undermine its whole philosophy. Someone suggested that it provided evidence of the Government's conversion to the principle of the use of charges for financing the Service. All these impressions are without any foundation whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Richard Crossman)", "preceding_text": "merely children up to the age of 15 but all children under 16 and, beyond that, all those who are receiving full-time school education, with dental treatment up to 21. Anyone who would suffer hardship through paying the charges can secure a refund, and there is a voucher scheme the effect of which is that anyone who cannot afford to pay and then obtain a refund can be exempted altogether; that is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1393.4", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " what hon. Members thought wrong with the charges. I will deal with the principle second. I had one complaint which I take very seriously. It was a letter from the children's officer of Oxfordshire County Council. In the letter, which I received today, she pointed out that one of the problems about exemptions from the charges and the voucher scheme is the failure of people to realise their rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1393.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.1", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "There was no election pledge, I remind my hon. Friend, about the charge for teeth and spectacles, it was on prescriptions only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.2", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must protect the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "r get on without your protection. My hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Exchange, suggested that the increased charges would deter patients from securing glasses and dentures which they should have. There is a good deal of evidence about this and, on the basis of experience when the charges were last increased in 1961, I frankly believe that my hon. Friend exaggerated what is likely to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I doubt it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " deterred from securing spectacles or dentures which they should have. That concludes my remarks about the details of the charges. I will now present the increased charges for teeth and spectacles against the background of the Government's views about the part which charges can and should play in financing the Health Service. First, I will define—I may reach agreement with my hon. Friends on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.3", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "y provided by the Opposition—if the healthy are to pay, why not rely on the insurance principle? The answer is clear. It is that a service which covers everybody, not only insured workers but every citizen, and which is paid for by the healthy is only possible if it is financed mainly through taxation. There is a rôle for contributions as well, and a minor rôle, at best, for charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1394.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1396.1", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Be honest.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lena Jeger", "preceding_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1396.2", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "As I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1396.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall the name of a person called Aneurin Bevan, whose friend he once pretended to be? Would he have dared to address this thin pragmatical argument to that great man?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1397.3", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We told you so.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "hing happened to change the view that prescription charges should go first and those on teeth and spectacles later? There have been no changes. Rather the reverse, for when my right hon. Friend's letter was written we did not know that because of the objections from the medical profession, we were not going to be able to exempt the chronic sick from prescription charges to the extent we had hoped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (CHARGES FOR APPLIANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Moreover, their yield of £25 million a year, which we felt we could not spare when we abolished prescription charges years ago, we certainly cannot afford to give up today. Let me, therefore, sum up as temperately as I can the case that I am putting to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISHERIES (INSHORE VESSELS AND HERRING SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. H. K. Baker", "preceding_text": "n without all the information that one requires. For instance, the latest information in statutory form that the House is able to read is the Fisheries of Scotland Report for 1967, Cmnd. 3800, dated November, 1968, and now nearly two years out of date. I appreciate that the Ministers in framing the Order and deciding what the rate of subsidy will be have the information, but we certainly have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-21", "file": "debates1969-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "3eb2b7bcbe65a3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1425.3", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEA FISHERIES (INSHORE VESSELS AND HERRING SUBSIDIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Member", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Hoy)", "preceding_text": "I am sure that I express the wish of the whole House when I say that I hope that our hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor) will soon recover from his illness and will be with us well again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-21a.1425.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-22", "file": "debates1969-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0dee73c47126a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-22a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POWER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is a generalised slur.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "And so have hon. Members. To some extent there is a stirring up of difficulty by hon. Members who are not prepared to make a little more effort in spreading full information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-22a.1462.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-22", "file": "debates1969-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "0dee73c47126a0b8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-22a.1496.7", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AND COMMON- WEALTH AFFAIRS (STATE- MENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would I be right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-22a.1496.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1711.4", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend yesterday did not extend depreciation to the textile industry. He said that there would be consultation on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1711.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or in any way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "As to the first point, it is clear that a loan is not offset in the same way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1739.0", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "SHIPPING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "The Minister must not persist in misrepresenting my hon. Friend, who made it absolutely clear that this proposal is unacceptable simply because it involves an extension of nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1738.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1813.1", "colnum": "1813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone possibly would decide it on that basis, but spinning a coin is not the fairest way of going about matters. Is it fair to keep a man waiting five years before he knows whether he is or is not being taken to court?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1871.3", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH RAILWAYS (SHIPBUILDING CONTRACT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browns", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We always were.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browns", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I am entitled to defend myself. The hon. Member for Cathcart knows me well enough to realise that if he has any complaint to make, I will withdraw anything which offends him, but I will leave him to decide that. I am coming to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey). He talks about the Conservatives now being in favour of the commercial judgment of nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Dance), to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Lady-wood (Mr. Lawler) on his maiden speech. I am informed by a near neighbour of his that this is probably the first time a Member has made his maiden speech after midnight since J. J. Astor made his maiden speech when he came here to represent Plymouth many years ago. We remember the predecessor of the hon. Member for Ladywood with great affection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M56 (WYTHENSHAWE-BOWDON)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "this quotation from Traffic in New Towns: In London (and no doubt in other large towns as well) road traffic is at the present time the predominant source of annoyance and no other single noise is of comparable importance. Both these factors are now being very sensibly taken into account. The M56 is to pass in a cutting through Manchester but not, unhappily, as yet, through Ringway and Hale Barns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M56 (WYTHENSHAWE-BOWDON)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "6 is to pass in a cutting through Manchester but not, unhappily, as yet, through Ringway and Hale Barns. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] The planning authority for Leyland, on consideration of an application for planning permission for a site adjacent to the M6, made it entirely conditional upon a high screening embankment being provided by the developers in order to deaden the sound of motorway traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M56 (WYTHENSHAWE-BOWDON)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": " a high screening embankment being provided by the developers in order to deaden the sound of motorway traffic. [ Interruption. ] I am coming to an end—hon. Members will be glad to hear. I seek only to obtain similar humane justice and consideration for my constituents who, unless the Minister's decision is reversed, are likely to suffer not only hardship through decline in their property values —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M56 (WYTHENSHAWE-BOWDON)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "ar. I seek only to obtain similar humane justice and consideration for my constituents who, unless the Minister's decision is reversed, are likely to suffer not only hardship through decline in their property values —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—but, what is even worse, grave danger to their health and well-being as long as they remain in their existing homes. Because of my long Parliamentary experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M56 (WYTHENSHAWE-BOWDON)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "e with the Minister, because I appreciate his difficulties. The problems and pressures which confront him are so numerous and complex that he is forced to delegate authority, and because he is unable to investigate personally many matters of detail he has to rely on the judgment of others. Nevertheless, he is the person responsible, and because the lives of so many of my constituents are affected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-23", "file": "debates1969-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "f9814c2b0d26c0e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2085.0", "colnum": "2085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — M56 (WYTHENSHAWE-BOWDON)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on Walter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I appreciate your help, Mr. Speaker. By the clock I have been going on for only 12½ minutes, whereas other terrible bores on both sides of the House have gone on for more than 25 or 30 minutes. At least let me finish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-23a.2085.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-24", "file": "debates1969-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c3597e8285f5f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2123.4", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope the right hon. Gentleman heard what the Home Secretary said. The Home Secretary was saying that if it were the wish of the House—and it is apparently not the wish of the whole House—he would be prepared to circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT what he regards as a valuable letter appearing in The Times newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-24", "file": "debates1969-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c3597e8285f5f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2138.1", "colnum": "2138", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "That is the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2138.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-07-24", "file": "debates1969-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c3597e8285f5f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2141.0", "colnum": "2141", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "ons by saying that this was a matter for the Patronage Secretary. But it is a matter of business that the House is entitled to ask whether the Patronage Secretary intends to move the Writs before the House rises, in the same way as we may ask the Leader of the House whether a Minister intends to introduce a Bill. It is all part of business. In view of the importance of this matter, I do not think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2140.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-24", "file": "debates1969-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c3597e8285f5f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2142.5", "colnum": "2142", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "me to Mr. Speaker, who will advise him on the appropriate form. But I would remind him of a convention which has existed for I do not know how many years—I do not know how many centuries. The notice of a vacancy and the appropriate setting in motion of a by-election is given, by a convention of the House long established—and the House likes its conventions and would not wish to break them lightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-24", "file": "debates1969-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c3597e8285f5f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2143.0", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is on an entirely new point. I had ruled on the point put by the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-24", "file": "debates1969-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "8c3597e8285f5f7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2161.1", "colnum": "2161", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (LEAVE OF ABSENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to inform the House that the Bath University of Technology proposes to do me the honour of conferring on me tomorrow the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-24a.2161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-25", "file": "debates1969-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "11d9ef967c8bc11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-25a.2270.7", "colnum": "2270", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "We have had a traditional debate during which right hon. and hon. Members raised many subjects. I have taken notes and I will try to cover the main points that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-25a.2270.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-07-25", "file": "debates1969-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "11d9ef967c8bc11a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-25a.2275.4", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He has gone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend that even during the Recess I shall continue to press my colleagues who have responsibility for dealing with these areas. We do not underestimate the problems. If my hon. Friend accepts that assurance, I hope that he will support the Motion. The hon. Member for Ormskirk (Sir D. Glover) said that he supported me because he could not take any more Government activity or legislation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-07-25a.2275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.8.5", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The provisions of Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome are founded on principles similar to those to be found in our own legislation on restrictive practices. When we become a member of the Communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.8.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT AND DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "enerosity that he usually displays on other questions to a Department which has tackled a lot of problems which he left undone five years ago. For example, he himself fought hard in two Parliaments and one election against the establishment of the I.R.C. which was one of the creations of the D.E.A. Of course, without the I.R.C. we would not be getting the kind of export deals we are getting today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT AND DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "fectly well. Hon. Members opposite should talk to some of the top industrialists on the I.R.C. who regard it as doing a useful job. They know what has been achieved in our principal export industries—industrialists whom the right hon. Gentleman never bothered to consult on these matters at all. One of the great achievements of the D.E.A. has also been its regional work, including the establishment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "MACHINERY OF GOVERNMENT AND DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. The House has paid tribute, and I have heard other people pay tribute, to my right hon. Friend who is now Minister of Transport for what he has achieved in his initiatives concerning chemical and biological warfare and the Non-Proliferation Treaty. There is still a Minister of Disarmament. The work will be taken over, once again, by my noble Friend, Lord Chalfont—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Let my hon. Friend make that point elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is inexcusable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t fundamental, narrow climate in which we were brought up is now no longer so common in England, although it is still to be found in certain parts of England and Wales today. The Reverend Paisley has a following of good people, in the strict biblical sense of the word, who believe very passionately and firmly and with deep religious intensity that the Church of Rome is wrong, and he plays on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "riendly relationship with the Northern Ireland Government. This has been regarded for some time as a scrap of paper, beneath contempt. It is strange that a country like the Republic, which has played a most creditable part in setting up international organisations and making them work, has such an astounding disregard for international obligations. This must be accepted, in fairness, by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.76.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "ions. This must be accepted, in fairness, by the House. [Interruption.] I said that I do not want to provoke. I have the friendliest feelings in other respects for the Republic of Ireland, but I am trying to explain how those fears started. More than half a dozen people died violently on a night in August in Belfast. That followed a speech by Mr. Lynch, and one can ask oneself in the gentlest way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "has the intention of overthrowing the State in which he lives. That may be hard for many hon. Members to accept, but I am stating the facts of the matter. I am not asking anyone to condone cases where there has been discrimination. I am merely asking that hon. Members should understand; and it is at this point, when they understand, that we can go further. I know that there has been discrimination", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "perhaps not an exhaustive time in which to analyse and unravel the consequences of 350 years of history. However, we must act wholeheartedly on the Report, and where discrimination exists it must stop. To those at home who find it hard to accept that political discrimination in these cases is not justified—and there are such people—I say that they must try to accept that it is no longer expedient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": " is important to the North-West, which has an acute economic problem. In one case, and possibly in both, the decision, on strategic grounds, was, to say the least, marginal, and I do not believe that we conceded then or concede now the arguments that were adduced. In present circumstances the case for retaining these bases, certainly on social and economic grounds, must be absolutely overwhelming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "e case for retaining these bases, certainly on social and economic grounds, must be absolutely overwhelming—[ Interruption. ]—and it is hard to believe that any hon. Member would quarrel with the Government if they were to come to a purely political decision to keep the bases there. Further, the Government should be considering the establishment of other defence establishments in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "refresh the memory of the House about the evening of 13th August, because he admitted on television that the call went out from Londonderry for a diversionary attack on the Hastings Street police station in the Falls Road area, for people there to take the heat off Londonderry, and he condoned that in a subsequent television broadcast. Perhaps at the same time, as he has quoted the Cameron Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.104.1", "colnum": "104", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": "bout it before. The right hon. Gentleman, however, was not equivocal. I for one respect what he did and I thank him for it. So the Union is safer than ever before. This is not appreciated in Northern Ireland. It is remarkable that as a result of all that has happened the two great parties in Britain are now committed absolutely to the preservation of the Union. To a Unionist, that is a great gain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.109.3", "colnum": "109", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "d directly from here. That would not work. If government is made difficult with the support of a Parliament freely elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage, which is how the Parliament at Stormont is elected, how much more difficult things would be if administration were the responsibility of a Secretary of State at Westminster. There could be no better recipe for civil war on a big scale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.124.6", "colnum": "124", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "will keep you happy until we think of something else in summer.\" Let us have State industries in Northern Ireland. It is surprising that it is not the Labour benches but the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) from the benches opposite who has said that we should not have relief schemes but should all start doing something about bringing real industry into Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.124.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "The speech by the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) was negative in content—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "The speech by the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) was negative in content—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—except for the one part which was Marxist in orientation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.128.0", "colnum": "128", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you know the names of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "d their own fares to New York. It is true that I collected about 92,000 dollars. It is not surprising that apparently the hon. Gentleman knows exactly how much I collected. I had these people on my tail saying, \"She is stealing all the money\", \"She is going to run away with it\", or \"She is going to put it to terrible purposes.\" I put that money into banks in the United States where I collected it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And in the Bogside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady spoke at great length about everything except the point which I asked her about. A very big question mark must hang over her fund-raising activities and other activities in America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.131.1", "colnum": "131", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "hould be understood. The hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) talked about the violence which had taken place in Belfast in August. He referred to Bombay Street. I have seen Bombay Street, and I have also seen Conway Street, and I was appalled by what I saw. I was sorry that he, as the Member for Belfast, West, did not take the opportunity, as I did, of going to the other side of barriers and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.136.2", "colnum": "136", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.137.2", "colnum": "137", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "I have been endeavouring to move to a conclusion, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in order to allow another hon. Member to take part.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.137.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.138.0", "colnum": "138", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Oh, shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kerr", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.138.8", "colnum": "138", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Lady is trying to instigate something under the guise of a point of order. Could I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.138.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.138.13", "colnum": "138", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "had those reforms as of right. I hope that we will not keep raking over all these things as we have done in the past. The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) quite rightly said that we are prisoners of the past. One still sees sometimes on the walls in Liverpool \"No surrender. Down with the Pope.\" What a lot of nonsense it all is. The fight for Derry happened 400 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.138.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "aid. The casualties among our troops, heavy and tragic as they were, would have been much higher if those in exposed positions had not been wearing bullet-proof vests. Incidentally I gather that the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) asked if it were true that the Forces in the Shankill Road area were treating all the inhabitants of the area as hostile. This of course is not true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-13", "file": "debates1969-10-13a.xml", "sha256": "f660ec2a980fe00d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.173.3", "colnum": "173", "heading": "LAND, HENDON (ACQUISITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will follow me for a moment, I think I shall convince him that they are not only relevant but extremely relevant. The difference between the Woolwich case and the Hendon case is that, in the former, land was released slowly as the Ministry no longer required it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-13a.173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends will give us help in achieving what is required, although I read in The Sun on 6th October that, speaking at a conference in June, the hon. Gentleman said: I hope Conservative councils will take great care to resist the temptation to go on building council houses\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.192.5", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend agree that no Government reshuffle could be complete without it including the Land Commission?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.192.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.211.2", "colnum": "211", "heading": "YORKSHIRE COALFIELD (UNOFFICIAL STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " which he made to the Conservative Party conference said we must all try to do, is to create an attitude of mind in which the best endeavours of union leaders are thrown behind the use of established procedures. Clearly, the best endeavours are being used in this case. That being so, I suggest that it is a pity that twice in two days we should have had this matter raised on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.211.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.245.5", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and learned Member for Huntingdonshire (Sir D. Renton) moved an Amendment to have a terminal date at 1st May, 1972, for reactivating the Boundary Commissions. My Amendment improves slightly on what he suggested. Do not let us spurn it. What I have suggested ought to be sufficient at any rate to persuade the right hon. and learned Member to walk into the Lobby with me tonight on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"None of them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "convenience, which could no doubt be discussed. I should then, to bring the matter to a conclusion and avoid uncertainty, lay those Orders. That is what I propose to do. I hope that no one will assume that the Government are withdrawing from the position in relation to these Reports which has been established and passed by this House. I should not be able to advise the House to approve the Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "roposed or what was proposed in the first place. We are now, in 1969, in the possession of constituency boundaries which are hopelessly distorted and out of date and, therefore, quite undemocratic, because for various reasons for which I reproach nobody the Boundary Commission, in leaving its Report until 1969, allowed the maximum time permitted by Statue to elapse before its Report was available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": " them out. The Home Secretary's arguments are only suppositions of what may happen. The facts are that 410 constituencies need reforming now and that the right hon. Gentleman has a statutory duty to implement the proposals of the Boundary Commission now. Those are the facts. The remainder is supposition. The right hon. Gentleman must not pour shame and degradation on the proceedings of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman ill? The other place has delaying powers, given to it by the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "of that case. I have not had occasion to do so recently, but in it and in evaluating the speeches made this afternoon from the benches opposite it is worth while recognising that there breathes through them all a deep conviction, which is widely held in the Conservative Party, that their real place, and their only place, is on this side of the House. This is what they firmly and basically believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "eir approbation. The point is that the Conservative Party believes that the whole process of democracy is designed for the retention of that situation and that anything that does not lead to it is worthy of words such as \"cheating\" or other epithets that come to their tongues. The fact is that they are the only party which has ruled in this country against the wishes of the majority of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Psephology.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ong list against the Conservative Party in the operation of the electoral machine. They would have a case for making an accusation of cheating. But that is not the situation. So far as one can judge—and I agree that it is not a matter that anybody can judge for certain—we should take the impartial view of Mr. David Butler, the man who created the science of \"pepsology\" or however it is pronounced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "ng implemented. London constituencies are perhaps more stable in their population than others. Those on the fringes of London, the outer suburbs, such as the one I have the honour to represent, are on the whole losing population rather than gaining as people and factories move out into the country and the new towns. This, I think, is perhaps part of the answer to the hon. Gentleman's intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.289.0", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "nterrupted. All I want to say, therefore, about this immense extension of the electorate is that, apart from the need to avoid premature redistribution which might have to be corrected yet again quite soon, because of these large numbers of young people, the fact that the Government have extended the electorate in this precise way is surely some indication of their good faith in electoral matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.325.6", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ember, but I want to point out on this matter that the Liberals are as confused today about this as on any other subject. I am not saying that they are the only party which has differences internally, but I am saying that the hon. Member for Ladywood must not come to this House and suggest that the Liberals have a clear point of view. Most of what he said was totally irrelevant to the disctrision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.325.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman. I take full responsibility for what I said, but it will become clear to him that I have been misinformed", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. and learned Gentleman, but I am afraid that he is still incorrect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "I accept the intervention once more, but I will not be diverted from the very strong case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "I accept the intervention once more, but I will not be diverted from the very strong case—[ Laughter. ] which I intend to deploy by a slip which I have made on a matter of relative detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "o which I submit the House should direct its mind is whether the magnitude of these changes is so great, whether the situation that I have described constitutes such a massive extraneous factor, whether it is what in the courts would be called a nova causa interveniens, as not only to justify tampering with the machinery of 1949 but to demand that that machinery in this instance should be changed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.336.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-14", "file": "debates1969-10-14a.xml", "sha256": "ffcb5cc3c5819a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.336.1", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": ", whether the situation that I have described constitutes such a massive extraneous factor, whether it is what in the courts would be called a nova causa interveniens, as not only to justify tampering with the machinery of 1949 but to demand that that machinery in this instance should be changed. [ Interruption. ] It is quite clear that the rules that were drawn up in 1949 are in no way immutable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-14a.336.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-15", "file": "debates1969-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "20e29e808fdc338c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State made a categorical statement that no troops in the 3rd Division had been touched. We knew this to be another deceit——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-15", "file": "debates1969-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "20e29e808fdc338c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "VIETNAM (UNITED STATES POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ons in Paris are, to some extent, a substitute for the recall of that conference. We have a direct responsibility, and if Parliament is to have an opportunity to urge a change of course and intervention in this critical situation when the negotiations have broken down it must be done now. Thirdly, there are famous historic precedents for this Motion—and this is the only other point I wish to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-15", "file": "debates1969-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "20e29e808fdc338c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "I owe the right hon. and learned Member for Huntingdon (Sir D. Renton) an apology for interrupting him last night to challenge his statement that my constituency is partly inside and partly outside the City of Cardiff. He is, of course, right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-15", "file": "debates1969-10-15a.xml", "sha256": "20e29e808fdc338c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "The Amendment is about the circumstances under which a child comes before the court. The hon. Member is saying that children's officers are capable of making this decision, but he is also saying that if the child comes from a good home he cannot be brought to court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-15a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.586.5", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I do not know where the hon. Gentleman gets his figures, but they do not tally with those provided by my Department. As a matter of fact, the number of days lost in the motor industry in the period to which the Question refers was lower this year than in the corresponding periods of last year or the preceding year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.586.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GIBRALTAR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "May I take this opportunity of congratulating my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on the fifth anniversary of the great electoral victory to which he led my party in 1964 and on assuming the Premiership of Britain, and may I wish him many happy returns of the day on these two occasions? Can my right hon. Friend now tell me whether he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.596.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The T.U.C. takes this undertaking extremely seriously. We cannot go over the whole debate again. As I understand it, the proposals of the right hon. Gentleman, which we consider totally unworkable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.598.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as not meeting when this instruction was given for these figures to be prepared. I did not think it worth while calling the right hon. Gentleman and other hon. Gentlemen back here specially to announce that fact. However, I see that he shares my enthusiasm for the fact that it was the right thing to do. As soon as the figures are ready in a meaningful form, I will make them available to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will come to \"when\" in a moment. I have not said that it will be one White Paper. It may be several. It will be issued in whatever is the most convenient way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister bear in mind that, whatever the effects of entry in Europe, for Wales to enter while she is still a part of England and without a Government of her own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.603.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTION TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "t your permission to answer Question No. Q 12? I put forward this point of view for a serious reason since the Paymaster-General has often been responsible for the co-ordination of Government information services. We have read in the Evening Standard, in an article from a most responsible source, that not only have 164 extra Press relations officers with strong Socialist views been appointed, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.605.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTION TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheat.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.606.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " can justify it in any circumstances—only if the régime which promulgates such a constitution makes it overwhelmingly clear that it is giving to the less privileged community every possible opportunity to improve its education, to become more prosperous, whether as farmers, as professional men, or as trades people. Let us look at what is happening. At the moment ten times as much is spent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " that anyone who has acquainted himself with the course of the negotiations could argue that what divides us from Salisbury are mere procedural differences. There is, of course, a third basis on which negotiations could be opened. That is the basis that this country has abandoned the six principles. I very much hope that what we have heard about proposals to reopen negotiations does not mean that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.615.1", "colnum": "615", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ions ourselves and that we must use our best endeavours throughout the world to ensure that other nations do the same. Recognising our own special responsibility, we have taken particular care in my Department to watch all over the world for potential breaches of sanctions, to take them up with the Governments concerned, and where necessary to report them to the United Nations Sanctions Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "am influenced by a number of considerations. The new constitution proposed by Mr. Smith has not yet passed the Rhodesian Parliament, and timetables for constitutional reform slip. I need not remind the right hon. Gentleman of that. There is to be a General Election in Rhodesia in the spring, when the Rhodesian people will have a chance to express their opinion of the existing Rhodesian Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "s being placed on our balance of payments, and all this for no practical purpose. The central aim of the Government's policy was to protect the constitutional position of the African population. Yet it has produced exactly the opposite result. The fact that Rhodesia is now travelling fast along the road to apartheid is in no small measure due to the Government's gross mishandling of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What in?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "d politically as the Powell-ite approach to our own coloured immigrants and the attitude towards the white immigrants in Rhodesia. If this was taken to its logical conclusion, some of the speeches from this side of the House would be far more extreme on behalf of the Africans than the speeches now being made. We should carry on. We should not surrender. We should not abandon our responsibilities.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.644.3", "colnum": "644", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ade no suggestion of any such negotiation. In other words, if that be the case, he is proposing that we should abandon the proposals that lay in this Order, that we should wipe this fictitious proposition from the Statute Book and that we should then proceed to a fresh policy from that point. Incidentally, the right hon. Gentleman did not tell us whether he intends to vote against the proposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedfordshire)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedfordshire)", "preceding_text": "ht, at least to some extent. But the losses to the sterling balances and the invisibles will never be computed. Rhodesians know—and they negotiate all over the world—something of the amount by which traditional institutional investors in London have turned away as a result of what they take, rightly or wrongly, to be the incomprehensible reaction of the British Government to a political situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-16", "file": "debates1969-10-16a.xml", "sha256": "ada5f0616387da48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Why should a person not have the right to fly in whatever plane he chooses over any country? I flew out by South African Airways and a jolly good Boeing 707 it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-16a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.739.5", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think I can say that we are not concerned to cut them back in any way. We are putting into force a new pensions scheme, which is for the first time an adequate earnings-related scheme. Such a scheme when in force will require adaptation by the other schemes which are in force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.739.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I was asked whether I would cut them back, and I said that would not cut them back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.740.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.752.4", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend make it clear to hon. Members with no teeth that they are already drinking fluoride in their water?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.752.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "in the debate points which are expressed in the two Amendments which are not selected. The House has two alternatives. Either it can debate narrowly each of the four Motions—Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the Order Paper—in which case we shall have a series of narrow and separate debates on welfare provisions for pigs, cattle, turkeys and domestic fowls, or it can have a general debate on the four Motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.825.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.825.4", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that it would mean a much better and useful debate if we debated the Motions generally. I hope that that commands the support of both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.851.3", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ensor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ensor", "preceding_text": "I accept that they are not made of wire netting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.851.5", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ensor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ensor", "preceding_text": "That is a matter of opinion. I do not believe that these birds are being ill-treated. It is not in the interests of the owners that they should be. These birds live in conditions of the utmost cleanliness and comfort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "We have had examples of it throughout the debate. I have sat through every minute of it, and every hon. Member who has done the same will have been left with a picture of some ruthless and cruel acts committed to animals. I am taking the evidence of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-20", "file": "debates1969-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "3a94cad054da24e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.908.3", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I think that I used the words \"the next Session\". Obviously, one will need to give a reasonable amount of time so that our advisers, the State Veterinary Service and, if necessary, the British Veterinary Association and the R.S.P.C.A., can have an opportunity to see how the codes are working in practice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-20a.908.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-21", "file": "debates1969-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "36f36fd49520be01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS AND TRAVEL ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I take note of what my right hon. Friend says, but it is still my view that there is some substantial saving here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-21", "file": "debates1969-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "36f36fd49520be01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "IMPORT DEPOSITS AND TRAVEL ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It is, of course, the case that the value of the £50 allowance is less now that it was when it was introduced. It is, however, still a good deal more than the £25 which was in operation during quite a part of the period when the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) was Financial Secretary to the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-21", "file": "debates1969-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "36f36fd49520be01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 18 (BUSINESS OF SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austen Albu", "preceding_text": "mbers are to serve on these Committees the Front Benches on both sides must have some more understanding of the work of Select Committees. They do not understand how they work, and this is not very surprising because very few of them have ever served on a Select Committee. I have discovered that since the end of the war only two Leaders of the House or Chief Whips have served on Select Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.995.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-21", "file": "debates1969-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "36f36fd49520be01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 18 (BUSINESS OF SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or effective?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Marquand", "preceding_text": "of government which sooner or later is not translated into expenditure. If one wants to investigate policy, then control of functions over expenditure gives the best possible route to this end. The Specialist Committees live with the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. We know this from the practice of the last three years. If Specialist Committees become obstinate, difficult or obtrusive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-21", "file": "debates1969-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "36f36fd49520be01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 18 (BUSINESS OF SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ittee has thrown some light on that and has not been able to turn its attention to the detailed finances of the Department, I have no quarrel with it. While the hon. Gentleman was speaking, I was looking through the evidence given by the Chairman of that subcommittee, who was pressed to say why he had not been looking at the Estimates and had gone off into such a bizarre subject as student unrest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-21", "file": "debates1969-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "36f36fd49520be01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "MINISTRY OF TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "istorted the link between the firm and those who invested in it, and the high marginal rates of taxation made things worse. They have throttled the shareholder. Labour is apt now to say that investors no longer matter. The limited liability company is one of the glories of British invention, and we say that all parties should do their best to improve the operation of that invention, not change it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-21a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.13.1", "colnum": "13", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Joyce Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Joyce Butler", "preceding_text": "cil and other youth organisations about its future use. The oldest part is round All Hallows Church, adjoining Bruce Castle Museum, which houses a very fine postal collection in commemoration of one of Tottenham's famous citizens, Sir Rowland Hill. My constituents are the people who help to keep London living and moving. They are postmen, milkmen, dustmen, bakers and an army of transport workers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.13.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ng those who keep London moving. I might be permitted the remark that they have chosen a strange way to celebrate this honour. On the other hand, she has achieved great success in her campaign against certain food additives to which she referred, notably cyclamates, on which the Minister has now taken action. As Alistair Cooke said on Sunday—perhaps it is now wise for one to acknowledge quotations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.18.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He got an 80 per cent. rating.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "t we are told is a General Election Session. No resources at the disposal of the Government have been spared to build this up. Let us admit that they are never slow to use the resources at their disposal. This was indeed to be a major occasion towards the end of the life of the present Government. I said that no resources were spared. I mean that not even the Chief Whip on television was excluded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ise can be redeemed once again: that is a matter which only the Chief Whip can sort out. But here is the Queen's Speech—to be a great reward to the British people—and what do we find? First of all, nothing we have not heard before. Not a single new proposal is there to be found in the Queen's Speech. But, secondly, there are some notable omissions. There is no mention of prices and incomes policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " out. But here is the Queen's Speech—to be a great reward to the British people—and what do we find? First of all, nothing we have not heard before. Not a single new proposal is there to be found in the Queen's Speech. But, secondly, there are some notable omissions. There is no mention of prices and incomes policy— [Interruption.] It would be unworthy to think that there was any ulterior motive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "en there are some worthy Bills that we are delighted to see. There is to be a Bill to deal with old friends like the Merchant Shipping Acts which will please hon. Gentlemen below the gangway. There is a Bill for the safety of fishermen, and legislation for industrial health, which I welcome, because when I was Minister of Labour we put in train the first steps towards an industrial health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ing prices in the handling of our economy. Perhaps this is understandable, because the Government are committed to the policy of entry into the European Economic Community, and under that policy they are, of course, committed to the imposition of a value-added tax. They are committed to the imposition of an agricultural policy, the consequence of which the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rhaps this is understandable, because the Government are committed to the policy of entry into the European Economic Community, and under that policy they are, of course, committed to the imposition of a value-added tax. They are committed to the imposition of an agricultural policy, the consequence of which the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary—[ Interruption. ] —have frequently described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " tax. They are committed to the imposition of an agricultural policy, the consequence of which the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary—[ Interruption. ] —have frequently described—[ Interruption. ]—I am sorry—it grieves me to see any disagreement of this kind among hon. Members opposite. I understood that at the Labour Party's Brighton conference there was unanimity on the resolutions passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ur Party's Brighton conference there was unanimity on the resolutions passed. [Interruption.] Surely this unanimity cannot have broken down so soon. So the Chancellor of the Exchequer knows that he is committed to a value-added tax. Indeed, in fairness to him, I think that he would like to have it. And he and the Prime Minister are committed to accepting an agricultural policy the impact of which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ish—had abandoned the Government's original position. It will not be the Bill it ought to be. Perhaps here I may ask the Prime Minister what I have asked him before, without success in getting an answer: can he give an undertaking that, as there are not to be any sanctions against trade unions or trade unionists, there will not either be sanctions against employers or others affected by this Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Health", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Health", "preceding_text": "That was a worthy attempt by the hon. Member; but the figures bear almost no relationship. In the last five years the standard of living—which is real wages—has increased by only 3·9 per cent. That is much less than the increase in the former five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Health", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Health", "preceding_text": "d have been defeated, because he and the Home Secretary said at the time of devaluation that the consequence must be to depress the standard of living of the British people or it would not have its effect. Sure enough, it has had the effect. I turn to the second point in the Queen's Speech which has no relevance to the situation of the British people today—the proposal for comprehensive education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Health", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Health", "preceding_text": "rovided that does not conflict with the dogma of the Socialist Government. If it does then there is to be blackmail by the Secretary of State through finance and, when that is unsuccessful, legislation from the Westminster Parliament to impose it upon them. There are 16,000 classes in this country with more than 40 children and 100,000 with more than 30 children in them. Let us ask the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Health", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Health", "preceding_text": "there is to be blackmail by the Secretary of State through finance and, when that is unsuccessful, legislation from the Westminster Parliament to impose it upon them. There are 16,000 classes in this country with more than 40 children and 100,000 with more than 30 children in them. Let us ask the Government—[ Interruption. ] I know that hon. Members do not like this because it cannot be justified—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.26.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ling authorities. That is why we shall oppose it. I turn to the next question which affects the British people so closely, housing. What measures are proposed by the Government to help those people who are still living in terrible housing conditions, more than 2 million of them? The number of completions of houses is declining rapidly. It is even now 700 fewer than it was in 1964. This is not the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HOM MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "n terrible housing conditions, more than 2 million of them? The number of completions of houses is declining rapidly. It is even now 700 fewer than it was in 1964. This is not the— [Interruption.] — I do not know why the Prime Minister shoud cheer the fact that he is producing fewer houses than in 1964. That does not seem to me a matter for cheering. Nor can he blame Conservative local authorities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " plain to see. First, there are the increased costs of provate house building under the present Government by which the average price has gone up from £3,500 to £4,500, and secondly, up to 1964 anyone earning an average industrial wage could afford a mortgage but today he cannot. The monthly cost of a mortgage is roughly £5 above the average industrial wage. Today there are about 1 million people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.27.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.28.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " living below the poverty line, the 250,000 children of these families? What hope is there for them as foreshadowed in the Gracious Speech? None whatsoever. What about the chronic sick and the disabled wives? What about the old folk, in particular those over 80 with no pensions, in particular those wanting home help, in particular those who want chiropody services and home meals? I am not blaming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " leap into critical attitudes about coal would do well to consider how far these anxieties expressed in these recent strikes reflect the very much greater anxiety throughout the industry over a decade of colliery closures. A policy of intensified closures has been necessary and it has been accompanied by a remarkable improvement in productivity of 9 per cent. in the coal mining industry last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "llion more than the same period of 1968, and £226 million—or 300 per cent.—greater than when the right hon. Gentleman was President of the Board of Trade. But the right hon. Gentleman has irrevocably committed himself over the past three years to the doctrine that we cannot pay our way under a Labour Government. Because of that partisan commitment he has now got to learn painfully to live with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.48.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.72.0", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Unemployment?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "m which I got them. I have the other figures available if anyone wants to cross examine me. I shall content myself by saying comprehensively now that the spectacular success of the present Prime Minister and the present Secretary of State for Scotland is shown by the number of advance factories, by the advances in agriculture and fisheries by industrial development, training centres, unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-28", "file": "debates1969-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "7e49b00d4845ae79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.81.2", "colnum": "81", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "e sums of money borrowed into his invisible exports as a credit. I see surprise registered by two Members on the Front Bench opposite. But this imputation has been made and it has never been answered. I will give the hon. Gentleman who expressed surprise the exact reference. The imputation was made in a column in the News of the World by the hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) a few weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-28a.81.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.166.8", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber (Altrincham and Sale)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Do not be too sure", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber (Altrincham and Sale)", "preceding_text": "at an all-time record. Unemployment has been higher for longer than at any time since the end of the war. And the Labour Government have devalued the £. That is the truth which the Prime Minister so studiously avoided in the speech which he made to the House of Commons yesterday. It is the truth which the electorate will recognise whenever the right hon. Gentleman cares to call a General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.166.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Of course it is not easy to provide convincing evidence of what I just said. But I would like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"He is not the Financial Secretary now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "een included the joint surplus for August and September, splashed by television and newspapers as £66 million, would have dropped by a further amount to bring the surplus not to £66 million but to something nearer £20 million? Those are two absolutely straight questions. I do not say that the computation of these figures is in any way wrong. I am pleased that the Financial Secretary has joined us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.174.6", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the Government as a whole knew what was going to be done and whether there was deliberate deception. I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman, when he replies, will deny it. All that I can say is that on the evidence as it was produced in one national newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.174.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.175.4", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howie", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.175.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "o I will answer what he has said. The simple fact is that when we were in office we did not have a continuous stop for five years. We had relaxations, and the right hon. Gentleman knows it. The Prime Minister, as much as anybody over the last few years, has continually said that we would be in surplus in 1967 and in 1968. Those are the facts. I will now put my question to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman was so quick to intervene, unless he has a guilty conscience. I had not finished what I was saying before he leapt to his feet. Is he worried that his stunt will fail before it gets on its legs? I can promise him that he will have to wait—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS : \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman sinks lower with every intervention that he makes. He knows that this has nothing to do with the by-elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e to withdraw them on Monday, and it would be better if he did it in a decent fashion before being made to look too much out of countenance. I would now like to return to the Gracious Speech, which reflects and builds on the improving economic situation, and I mention some of the proposed legislation against which should be measured the life of our people at work and in their social relationships.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.197.1", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n he was challenged, he said that it was not easy to provide convincing evidence. I should like to give the right hon. Gentleman some evidence which I hope he will accept from me. I have here a schedule of food prices in Europe and the U.S.A. This is very important in deciding what our standard of life is and what the cost of living is. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will rejoice with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I hope that my right hon. Friend will direct himself to the agricultural policies of the Common Market, because if Britain can do this under her present system it clearly seems that the agricultural policies of those countries need very careful study indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.199.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the farmers?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "esent time, and that they have had to give special dispensation to German farmers to try to make it coherent in any way. I should have thought that the right hon. Gentleman would want to ensure that the Common Market countries adopted an agricultural policy which would ensure us the benefit of cheap food, and would not go on trying to take a party advantage, because he has committed himself to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption..", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " million people who now own motor cars and who did not own them when the right hon. Gentleman was Minister of Health. I want only to take the right hon. Gentleman's comparisons. There are 2·6 million people who own television sets who did not own them when the right hon. Gentleman was in the last Administration. The number of new domestic refrigerators has increased from 800,000 to 880,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "when they are in opposition and we are in power? Is it significant only when they are in power and we are in opposition? Let us neglect the percentages and statistics that the right hon. Gentleman quoted and look at the material considerations by which he asked us to judge. The people are better off in respect of houses, motor cars and all those tangible symbols to which he pays so much attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will clear up a point about the figures that he originally gave. Was he speaking of an annual increase of 2·5 million car owners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's insults to my right hon. Friend are beneath notice and beyond contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "her people of the United Kingdom? There is nothing about the reform of government, which I would have thought would have been a very good piece of election window-dressing, if nothing more, and some would have hoped that it would go further and give real power to the people. There is no reference to housing. This is staggering when 3 million people are living in what are virtually slum conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "t the Government will try to put a firm radical stamp on the government of this country. I cannot say that they will exactly do that when they drag in their supporters to vote against the Boundary Commission Reports which they themselves will put forward. This will be another way in which the Home Secretary will say, \"I am in breach of the law, but if you will do this it will get me off the hook.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "ne and market petroleum\"— a sort of mini-Mogul. Has anybody asked the people of this country whether they really want to risk their money on one of the most risky ventures in the world, searching for petroleum? Has anybody asked the people in my constituency whether they want Gas Council garages all over Britain? I believe that this is a gross interference with the commercial life of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": ". ] If hon. Gentlemen opposite wait a moment, I shall develop this part of my argument. I regard this decision to go in for an activity at present perfectly adequately undertaken by commercial enterprise, done by experts, as something which should be viewed with grave concern. I think that the whole concept of politicians masquerading as businessmen is futile, stupid, and thoroughly irresponsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So have we.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) has obviously enjoyed his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "to the impending election and the boundary frictions which have occurred. I cannot help noticing that the less the possibility of an election the greater was the Tory passion in demanding it. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite were rather like people pushing bravely at a door in the confident knowledge that it was locked. Now that there is a reasonable possibility that the key might be turned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The truth will out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "h have occurred. I cannot help noticing that the less the possibility of an election the greater was the Tory passion in demanding it. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite were rather like people pushing bravely at a door in the confident knowledge that it was locked. Now that there is a reasonable possibility that the key might be turned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, we are moving into that area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ay one or two things about this assertion at this stage, although the main detail of it must be dealt with by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I am glad that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is present, because I have often heard him suggest that Conservative Members and Leaders of the Opposition are none too pleased at this happy turn of events in our economic affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "[ Interruption. ] He has never actually said that, but one has felt that he might have some lurking suspicion that there was not undisguised joy in the ranks of the Conservative Party on learning of this transformation in our affairs. I am entirely satisfied that, in their private hearts, every Conservative Member of this House is as delighted as I am at the improved state of our economic affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.298.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.298.2", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "If they are not bogus?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "acteristic of the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone, and it would be unfair, with his long record of distinguished and constructive public service, to hold against him the intermittent turbulence of his weekend article in contrast with the solid issues of achievement and his contributions to the House. In passing, I must say, somewhat immodestly, that if these figures are not bogus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ling with the suggestion that there is something extraordinary and bizarre in these figures. It would have been bizarre if these figures had been achieved not after five years but after 13 years of a Tory Government. I am sure that my right hon. Friend the present Home Secretary would have been very grateful to have inherited a surplus running at the present rate when he entered office instead of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.299.3", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "ause for which was not too obvious, about the nature of these figures. He said that £66 million was flashed, it was £44 million when one deducted something for the advance of neglected orders booked, and £20 million if one took off the Phantoms. Why one should take off the Phantoms since all this was disclosed in the figures when published, since they are not a regular trading continuing activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.299.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-29", "file": "debates1969-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "71ef07fa91a60450", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "nse about winning confidence, because we are the Labour Party and not the Conservatives we set to work to create at home the industrial economic basis for paying our way in the world, and abroad to start to bring sense into our inlet national monetary elation-ship to assist and underpin this effort. I am glad to be able to pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the former Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-29a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "o this with all the more spirit now in view of the voices from the other side of the Channel which say that it is not merely a question of Britain benefiting but of the Community benefiting by our accession. The Foreign Minister of France stated that the enlargement of the Community was eminently desirable. There was a recent statement by Herr Brandt, now Chancellor of the Federal German Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman very courteously gave me notice that he would raise this. I should like just to say to him that the facts and figures on which the Polesden Lacey statement was made were supplied by my right hon. Friend the then Minister of Overseas Development and the exact words I used were checked by him and agreed by him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reg Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We shall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reg Prentice", "preceding_text": " an increase, and my right hon. Friend was entitled to call it such, but it is an increase of 8 per cent. at a time when public expenditure generally, in cash terms, has gone up by 52 per cent. and at a time when every other Government Department except the Ministry of Defence has had a larger increase in its programme. I do not consider that we ought to pursue this sterile argument about figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.387.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "series of figures put out by the Prime Minister and other leading members of this Government which, when we have started to probe them, have proved to be quite false. It is only because we, and the nation, were deceived on the import-export position, and by the Secretary of State for Defence, that we challenged the overseas aid figures since the Prime Minister had said that there had been no cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.418.4", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " it was about time that this was said in the House. Is it not remarkable that the hon. Member forgot what he said in the debate on 17th June? Why not a word about his encouragement to the Government to provide Chieftain tanks for Libya? On that occasion the hon. Gentleman, along with some others—my hon. Friends the Members for Monmouth (Mr. Anderson) and Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew), who is absent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.418.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I had no part in giving hospitality to or receiving hospitality from Senor Castiella or the Spanish Government. That is the answer to that rather irrelevant intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd (Portsmouth, Lang-stone)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd (Portsmouth, Lang-stone)", "preceding_text": "that total the price of butter is less than half of 1 per cent. Are we going to allow a major decision affecting the United Kingdom to turn on an issue of this kind? Yet when one indulges in debate about the Common Market what comes first to mind? What is the first question which is brought up—the price of butter; following that, the price of bread; following that, the price of other food stuffs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Foreign Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archie Manuel", "preceding_text": " Speech about our maintaining our application for full membership. I was astonished to hear the hon. and gallant Gentleman say that he hoped that there would not be too much propaganda from the anti-Marketeers. Certainly we have had over the past three or four years a constant stream of pro-Market pamphlets, leaflets and speeches emanating from some office in London. I do not know who pays for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-30", "file": "debates1969-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "d65519c7b4042910", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "y régime for a Parliamentary one. This is a notable happening, and in many ways a unique one, though I hope that it will not be the only one. We had the opportunity of very useful talks with Dr. Busia, and we told him how important public opinion regards these notable developments in his country. Inevitably, Britain's application to join the E.E.C. has been a recurrent theme in this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-30a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-31", "file": "debates1969-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3f8dbab0e5e5445b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Nor for his children.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "s and those without, because we have a mobile population. People may work 10 or 15 years in a job with an occupational pension and may then change their job, receiving a lump sum; from then on, unless they join a similar scheme, they are entirely dependent on State provision. Nor must we forget that two-thirds of all occupational pensions die with the pensioner and make no provision for his widow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.517.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-31", "file": "debates1969-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3f8dbab0e5e5445b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.519.2", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I can hardly think of a sillier question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.519.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-10-31", "file": "debates1969-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3f8dbab0e5e5445b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.553.2", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Leave it to the electors.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is not answering the question I put to him about my area. What would be his reply if he were Secretary of State for Education and the local education authority was thwarting the will of the people and the teachers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-31", "file": "debates1969-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3f8dbab0e5e5445b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hornby", "preceding_text": "e been doing for many years. They have been trying to avoid what the vast majority of parents believe to be the handicap in our education system of too early or too final selection. Hon. Members opposite rake up criticism after criticism of the Opposition and say that we are standing up for the 11-plus examination. But they should do their homework, because that is precisely what we are not doing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-31", "file": "debates1969-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3f8dbab0e5e5445b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "eal with the strike of London firemen. London will be left undefended from fire for two hours on Guy Fawke's day next Wednesday, and, as far as I know, nothing is planned to meet that emergency. The Home Secretary ought to be not in Leeds, where his is now, but in his office organising a disaster corps, and arranging for the Royal Engineers fire-fighting squads to be brought into London next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-10-31", "file": "debates1969-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "3f8dbab0e5e5445b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.617.5", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "the district valuer for him to determine that compensation has not been improperly paid. There are, therefore, safeguards which most of us in the House would like to see in operation. When the hon. Gentleman says that these local authorities valuers, whose conduct is called into account time and again, whose conduct has been examined by the Lands Tribunal and by the Court of Appeal, whose conduct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-10-31a.617.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "May we be told why work of this kind cannot be put out to private tender so as to ensure reasonable continuity of supply? Why should we put up with this crass dislocation? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that there are no Votes available and that I had no knowledge of Parliamentary Questions which I put down in the last few days?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.653.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.654.4", "colnum": "654", "heading": "GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Have the Government made any contingency plans in the event of obstruction reaching a point when Parliamentary Government cannot be properly carried on? Is it proper that the debate should continue when the official record of the last two days is not in the hands of hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "inal statement spoke of a go-slow. I hope that I have not confused the matter by referring later on to a work-to-rule. I believe that it is virtually the same thing. The effect is that there is no strike but a particular chapel is not producing work as fast as it is sent to them, and therefore there are delays. I had understood that there was more than one copy of HANSARD available in the Library.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.655.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "There is no question of evasion. I should be deceiving the House if I used the word \"strike\" when it was the wrong word. There was an unofficial strike, but after certain negotiations the men returned to work. A number of chapels decided to return to work, but one chapel has decided to go slow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.655.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "But it is not possible to say why people go slow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "editors on page 6, one sees that the last of these notes gives a very different figure from the £26 million, which is the false figure. Instead, it gives the real figure of £11 million. What I said at Swindon was that they —that is, Ministers—knew that the false figure given in the first sentence on page 1 of the Press release would be the figure flashed over the tapes and announced on television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "it omitted by far the most important reference and the one I mentioned in my speech at Swindon. I sent for—I am sure that the Chancellor has done the same—what was sent out over the tapes. There were 10 messages, the first at 12.13 and the last at 1.12. Every one of those 10 messages I will make them available to any hon. Member who wishes to see them—dwelt on the false and not on the real figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "ut over the tapes. There were 10 messages, the first at 12.13 and the last at 1.12. Every one of those 10 messages I will make them available to any hon. Member who wishes to see them—dwelt on the false and not on the real figure. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Shame.\"] That is what I said. It was the figure in page 1. of course, that was flashed out over the tapes. It was on that that the stories were written.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": "rt with the small print and work backwards towards the beginning. If the Financial Times knew all about it, then it is surprising that it stated in large type that there had been a £26 million trade surplus in September, which, in fact, was the false figure. Did Ministers know that this would happen? Did they know that what was put out would go over the tapes and would mislead? Of course they did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.658.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS : \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "The qualification—I will read it to the House if hon. Members wish—does not refer to whether the re-recording was up or down, but merely said, as I said earlier in my speech: Exports in September, seasonally adjusted and before allowing for special influences affecting recording\"— then there is an asterisk were £617 million f.o.b…. The little asterisk refers to page 6—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.662.3", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ll read it to the House if hon. Members wish—does not refer to whether the re-recording was up or down, but merely said, as I said earlier in my speech: Exports in September, seasonally adjusted and before allowing for special influences affecting recording\"— then there is an asterisk were £617 million f.o.b…. The little asterisk refers to page 6—[HoN. MEMBERS : \"0h.\"] and I mentioned this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.663.2", "colnum": "663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "If hon. Gentlemen opposite are arguing that, then they are arguing that 90 per cent. of those who do their work in this sphere are incompetent", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.663.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Because these records are the worst that any Government have achieved since 1940—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS : \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Because these records are the worst that any Government have achieved since 1940—[Interruption.]because our record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " some general matters to raise on Government economic information. There is not a single series now being issued which is not suspect. Hon. Members opposite need not take that from me. The day after the exchange between my right hon. Friend and the Home Secretary the Financial Times —in this field perhaps the finest newspaper in the world—had a first leader entitled \"Collecting vital statistics \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Not for so long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " cent. The United States discount rate is 6 per cent., the French bank rate is 8 per cent. ; the Belgian 7½ per cent. ; the German 6 per cent. ; the Dutch 7 per cent. ; the Swedish 8 per cent. ; the Danish 9 per cent., and the Canadian 8 per cent. Just over eight years ago, in 1961, the British Bank Rate was 7 per cent., under the right hon. and learned Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "h bank rate is 8 per cent. ; the Belgian 7½ per cent. ; the German 6 per cent. ; the Dutch 7 per cent. ; the Swedish 8 per cent. ; the Danish 9 per cent., and the Canadian 8 per cent. Just over eight years ago, in 1961, the British Bank Rate was 7 per cent., under the right hon. and learned Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd). [An HON. MEMBER : \"Not for so long.\"] I agree, not for SO long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about television? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "mption has been necessary, has worked, has been worthwhile, and will continue to be necessary. But to pretend that, even with the need to secure this massive balance of payments turn-round, the period of the Labour Government has meant anything like a frozen standard of living is utter nonsense. Here are some figures for the percentage of households with certain key consumer durables or amenities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Because that is the estimate which I believe should be deducted from the £66 million, being the figure for August and September, and which I believed should be deducted in respect of a large number of export returns which belonged to previous months. I asked the Home Secretary last week whether this was right. He declined to answer me then, although he said he had studied the figures.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.684.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.685.5", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It is my estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.685.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.685.7", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "If it will give any comfort to the right hon. Gentleman, it is my estimate after consulting an individual who used to work in the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.685.9", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "There is nothing more for me to tell the right hon. Gentleman. If he had listened to what I said at the beginning of this passage when I outlined his charge that there was some bunching here, I said, \"Yes, there was bunching, to the extent that we can best estimate of £22 million \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.685.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has been unwilling to tell us where he got the figure. Of course he has been unwilling. But he is right on the narrow point, because he got the figure from the Board of Trade announcement published on 13th October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "No, because the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.686.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "That is why I described the figures as \"excellent \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "June 25th, and I believe again this afternoon, as having been previously abandoned by me. That is the most ambitious target I ever set, and I set it soon after devaluation—a surplus at the rate of £500 million in the second half of 1969. I believe that we have achieved that rate for the middle two quarters of 1969. In other words, we look like being three months ahead of our most ambitious figure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"No advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "er, but on the worth of the jobs themselves. That kind of environment was lacking throughout the period of emergency. The Government have stated that they will bring back Part II of the 1966 Act. A man who cannot drive a coach and horses through that provision must be a half-wit. If any industrialist or trade union wishes to employ me in my present state of semi-employment, I am at their disposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nonsense \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Boardman", "preceding_text": "riod, but it is another thing to make a disbursement to them out of general revenue. There has been much discussion, some of it rather angry, about the trade figures. I confess that I was considerably confused by the explanation put forward by the Chancellor. There can be no doubt that the way in which they were presented fell short of the standard that would be required in commercial accounting.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "cions about the validity of facts and figures which they have given. In my short speech I have been able to show at least four occasions on which the House has been seriously misled by the Government of the day. The Prime Minister has certainly not cone to the House and said, \"When I spoke in June I was more optimistic that I ought to have been. In fact, things have not been going the right way \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "out prices—not one word. Secondly, he said not a word about taxation—not a word. Thirdly, he said that high interest rates were all the fault of other people. Our interest rates, including mortgage rates, rose long before the interest rates rose in France and America. It was this Government who set the bad example. What about hot money? The hot money has gone, thanks to their previous performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : 0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ot deny that proposition—and the Chancellor did not try to deny it—let us see whether they have a better case within the social services. The Labour Party prides itself on safeguarding and improving social services. I do not accept that an index of spending is a proper index of successful achievement in helping people ; so much spending within the social services tends to be wasted or ineffective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Swindon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " 12 months. We have resisted a consumer boom with which the party opposite is now tempting us as part of the policy it puts forward. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) says that there has been per cent. increase in the standard of living over the course of the last five years. That raises three questions in my mind—whom does he meet? To whom does he talk? Where does he go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": "community services, on health, on transport and, of course, more to offset the barbarities of pollution, noise and congestion which modern technology imposes on society. The plain truth is that the price tag on the quality of life is now a much higher price tag than it was, and it can only be purchased by the community collectively. No Government want to collect more in taxation than they have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.771.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STATISTICAL INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Lady has just voted with them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Cullingworth Report states that in 20 years from now there will be just as many slums in Scotland as there are now at the present rate of building. Secondly, the Government have failed to relate their house building to international statistics. They seem happy to relate their statistics to the Tory performance. I do not see that the measure of the barometer of the Tory performance is satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.787.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.790.4", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STATISTICAL INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "n of the expenditure figures. Concerning agriculture and fisheries, Scotland is credited with 16·2 per cent. whereas our population share would be 9·7 per cent. But the Government are not taking into account that the subsidies are for the consumer and not the producer. Secondly, housing. We are again told that we get more than our population proportion, namely, 20·4 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.790.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STATISTICAL INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long ; give the Minister time \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": " hon. Member said, and Scotland will take note of it, too. In all this no allowance is made for the fact that wherever there is centralised Government a certain amount of money is bound to be spent where the Government is situated. A huge proportion of my salary is spent in London, not by any wish of mine. There are numerous other examples of persons in this kind of position. There are the assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STATISTICAL INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "t where the Government is situated. A huge proportion of my salary is spent in London, not by any wish of mine. There are numerous other examples of persons in this kind of position. There are the assets—[HON. MEMBERS : \"Too long ; give the Minister time \".] Hon. Members have taken five minutes of my time with interruptions. The assets of Scotland's financial institutions amount to £7,000 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-03", "file": "debates1969-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfcaa5de8638a0e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.796.1", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (STATISTICAL INFORMATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Dr. J. Dickson Mabon)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"In the black.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Scottish Office (Dr. J. Dickson Mabon)", "preceding_text": "ysical and political facts explain why Northern Ireland is able to have more statistics than we have. I should like to deal with some of the points made by the hon. Lady the Member for Hamilton in her Alice-in-Wonderland arithmetic in which £192 million was thrown out of the window, followed by another £120 million and so on until she ended with the proud boast that we were £44 million in the red—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-03a.796.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.828.0", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I have your guidance on this matter? Is it within the rules of order of this House to designate perfectly respectable hon. Members who hold certain views as being people who hold \"cranky\" views? Is that in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.827.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.829.1", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s never been in question that the aid programme has declined as a percentage of G.N.P. But the House should also be aware that the latest O.E.C.D. statistics show that our official development assistance in 1968, as a percentage of G.N.P., was equal to that of Germany and higher than that of the United States. Of the large donors, only France had a higher percentage. The House should also be aware", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister was asked the Question. He is answering the Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to give the result of my investigations into his allegations. I also said that the basic aid programme has not been cut. However, it is true—and I think that this is his point—that the outturn has varied from year to year. Taking the financial year 1968–69, it fell compared with the previous year. That was due to the fact that certain things which we were expecting that year did not occur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "aried from year to year. Taking the financial year 1968–69, it fell compared with the previous year. That was due to the fact that certain things which we were expecting that year did not occur—[Laughter.] —things outside the control of this country. Right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite can laugh again. The second replenishment of I.D.A. did not occur. That was not due to this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "It is true that the Prime Minister said that he would look into this matter. I hope that he will not pursue the matter of statistical smear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.833.3", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not go as far as my right hon. Friend, because on the benches opposite there are a number of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen who have gone a very long way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.833.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir—[Interruption.] But, as I said last week, the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—that aid had been cut was a false statement. That is the point with which I was concerned. Referring to the right hon. Gentleman's figure for 1964, quoted last week, that was also at a time of an £800 million trade deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RAILWAYS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is still wrong.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—that aid had been cut was a false statement. That is the point with which I was concerned. Referring to the right hon. Gentleman's figure for 1964, quoted last week, that was also at a time of an £800 million trade deficit—[Interruption.] Oh yes, it was. The 1964 figure was at a time of an £800 million balance-of-payments deficit. I accept the Monday Club's correction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman need have no fear. I shall come to our own borough councils in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "eflected in the coming months by the number of people putting their names on council house lists. Those people will have little chance with many local authorities. If they are newly-weds they will have no chance at all, because they will not have a sufficient points allocation. Those who were moved by the film \"Cathy Come Home\", as no doubt the whole nation was, will recall how the family started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.850.0", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ing is completed, the enormous increased cost of land and building and the fact that local authorities must finance it during the building stage is having a considerable effect. I turn to what is needed for the future. I wish to suggest the housing policies which we shall pursue. First, concerning the homeless, disabled and elderly, we shall concentrate the subsidies on those people who need help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"What about Southwark? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "rland had 901 approvals last year while to the end of September this year it has had eight. Kingston upon Hull, to which the hon. Member for Worcester referred, had 3,486 approvals last year and has had 934 approvals this year. West Bromwich had 763 last year and has had 158 this year. Oldham had 1,424 last year and has had none this year. So one could go on through the rest of the 20 authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Effrontery.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "it all the more because I knew very well the campaigns of his predecessor and the great effect which he had in making changes and saving many people from misery. As one of many colleagues whc took part in campaigns against the 1957 Act and some of its predecessors, I am amazed at the courage, if that is the right word, of hon. Members opposite in daring to have housing debates in the House at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.878.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "preceding_text": "g to pay as high as 10½ per cent. Building societies are torn, because another rise in interest rates would cause real hardship. Yet houses and flats are empty because people cannot get mortgages, and the only way for building societies to get in more money is by higher interest rates. It is an appalling thought. Grants for improvements have not been mentioned in the opening speeches today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "preceding_text": "can afford to pay.\" How can the local authority possible do this when it is already operating a virtually bankrupt housing revenue account? If the only way that we can manage the economy is by the example of the present usurous interest rates—hon. Members may not like this very much; nor do I—then we had better face the facts and cut our housing standards. Better slightly less luxurious standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "preceding_text": "e local authority possible do this when it is already operating a virtually bankrupt housing revenue account? If the only way that we can manage the economy is by the example of the present usurous interest rates—hon. Members may not like this very much; nor do I—then we had better face the facts and cut our housing standards. Better slightly less luxurious standards—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"] Yes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "preceding_text": "me members of self-build housing associations, there is a strong case for saying that the Minister should exercise his authority under the Act and give a directive to local authorities so that much more reasonable charges could be made to people who, after all, are only endeavouring to solve their own housing problems by way of self-build housing associations. I do not propose to detain the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.901.3", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawler", "preceding_text": " not mix these things up. Being an official spokesman for the Government, and even a Cabinet Minister, he should know that he still has some responsibility, in some respects, to the people who elected him. I hope that there will not be a suggestion about the respect that I hold for my party, but my own first priority is for those whom I represent in the House. I did want to make one closing point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.901.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " virtually the same thing today—as an incitement to Tory local authorities throughout the country to stop building council houses. By making remarks of that kind the hon. Gentleman is going against the whole concept of the 1957 Act, which lays a duty on local authorities to build houses for people who need them. The public prosecutor should consider his statement because I regard it as incitement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.905.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.946.1", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and the Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and the Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "ontributions made in the debate and to the Gracious Speech itself, for dwelling for a few minutes on this subject. One central feature is the balance of power and influence between Parliament and the Executive, and I believe that in the last two or three years there has been a shift of power back towards Parliament. I welcome this. Sometimes this shift has been deliberately planned, sometimes not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.951.3", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman gave an entirely false impression. These figures show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.951.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.956.3", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.956.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.956.5", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon.Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.956.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.956.8", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I thank the Leader of the House for giving way. Is he not aware that I have said publicly and firmly that I am opposed to compulsion? Where an authority has a sound scheme, we have always said, \"All right—go ahead\". But we are utterly opposed to compulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.956.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-04", "file": "debates1969-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "5b5dc73a71370064", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.963.2", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Anthony Greenwood)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Anthony Greenwood)", "preceding_text": "t the Assistance for House Purchase and Improvement (Increase of Subsidy) Order 1969, a draft of which was laid before this House on 16th October, in the last Session of Parliament, be approved. This draft Order gives effect to the Government's promise, which I made during the passage of the Housing Act, 1969, to make an Order adjusting the option mortgage subsidy. The Order is needed to restore —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-04a.963.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-05", "file": "debates1969-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3541740656e985d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION SCHEME (PARTIAL CONTRACTING-OUT)", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "tment\" quite simply means a cut-back. Is it not clear that the fears of occupational pensioners about the future build-up of their benefits are amply justified? I personally was not reassured by the statement of the Secretary of State, when referring to public service pensioners, that there will be no retrospective changes for them. It is the future growth of public service pensions which matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-05", "file": "debates1969-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3541740656e985d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers (Plymouth, Devon-port)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Joan Vickers (Plymouth, Devon-port)", "preceding_text": " in Plymouth was shown as having risen by 13 per cent. and in the West Country as a whole by 15 per cent. Plymouth now has a total of 3,395 unemployed, whereas last year the figure was 2,240. I shall be grateful, too, if we can have a definite answer to one question which worries some firms in my area. I gather that the date of operation of the Bill when it becomes law is to be 1st February, 1970—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-05", "file": "debates1969-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3541740656e985d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1124.5", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "It was not at all the impression which I wished to create, though it may have been the impression which some hon. Members hoped that I might be thought to wish to create. It cannot be escaped that employers of labour in the low-wage areas are being taxed up to 15 per cent. on their wage bills in order to subsidise areas where wages are much better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1124.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-05", "file": "debates1969-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3541740656e985d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ve the document a great deal of publicity, because it would be the greatest possible help to my party. I find in the document a proposal for … new public enterprise as an instrument of regional development policy. This figured prominently in 'Signposts for Scotland', which stressed that if private concerns are not prepared to go where they are needed public undertakings will be established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-05a.1125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-06", "file": "debates1969-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b80f379a0cb0166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1158.2", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor has no doubt got this point in mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-06", "file": "debates1969-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b80f379a0cb0166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1174.6", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1174.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-06", "file": "debates1969-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b80f379a0cb0166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1175.0", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I always prefer expressions of friendliness to be based on something warmer than a mere bandwagon element—in which, of course, many other people are joining at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-06", "file": "debates1969-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b80f379a0cb0166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not want discussion of their policies. It is not without significance that in the last half century there have been two major Agriculture Acts affecting the land in Britain and the agriculture industry. One is the 1947 Act, which was one of the greatest landmarks in agriculture in any country, introduced by a Labour Government, and the other was the 1967 Agriculture Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-06", "file": "debates1969-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b80f379a0cb0166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Stodart", "preceding_text": ") and no sign even of the hon. Member for Merioneth (Mr. William Edwards). The reason is obvious—they are dead scared that they will be put on the Committee. That is a fate which I dare say the hon. Member for Merioneth appreciates. The momentum of legislation grows while the ability of agriculture to contribute to the national economy declines, and let us be absolutely fair and square about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-06", "file": "debates1969-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "9b80f379a0cb0166", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "ing for a blank cheque on this part. It is true that paragraph 68 of the explanatory and Financial Memorandum states that no change is expected in the expenditure of about £35 million a year, and the right hon. Gentleman confirmed that this afternoon. But the provisions of Part II are entirely enabling in character. It may be that I have got a deeply suspicious mind, but I am not wildly impressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-06a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The Government have already indicated their plan on industrial relations", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "There may be a certain clash of interpretation of what is the primary function, but the one given by my hon. Friend is certainly not what I would envisage as the primary function of nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL RATE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "(Northants, South): It would have helped the House a great deal if the Minister had elaborated on the disadvantages that the Inland Revenue finds with the present methods of valuation for rating purposes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.59.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPLES (IMPORT QUOTA)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "preceding_text": "oday\", a B.B.C. correspondent visited shopkeepers and put this very question to them? Everyone interviewed said that our apples were not nearly as attractively presented as they could have been and that, as a result, many members of the public preferred to purchase Golden Delicious from France? I have had personal experience of seeing apples literally shovelled into boxes. Would he not agree that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPLES (IMPORT QUOTA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman need not worry. He has only to look at the figures for the acreages of cider apples being grown to see what is happening. The growers are grubbing them up because of the heavy importation of cider apples. I am sorry if I made a mistake. I did not mean that cider manufacturers were going out of business. I meant to say that the growers were going out of business.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPLES (IMPORT QUOTA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "they suffer unfair competition, the growers will ultimately go out of business. One of my hon. Friends said that a number of cider apple producers were going out of business. When, two years ago, we debated the Order setting up the Apple and Pear Development Council, there was a schedule of cider varieties which were exempt from the levy. A well-known variety called Jenkins Balls was to be exempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-10", "file": "debates1969-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "57a3e649dc671f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.141.2", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPLES (IMPORT QUOTA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": " not say this lightly. Never since the 1930s has the agricultural industry been so perplexed and worried about where it is going. In today's Eastern Daily Press there is an advertisement by a grower asking for people to come and collect Cox's Orange apples at 8s. for 30 lb. They may not be top quality but that works out at about 3½d. a lb. I am afraid that when we go into the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-10a.141.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.176.6", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Are we not facing what amounts to a new and much more sinister version of the Mafia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.176.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.178.4", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With the redistribution of Government functions, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning will be intimately concerned with the participation question in relation to the follow-up of Maud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.180.7", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I dealt with the oft-quoted figure of 30,000 at Question Time on, I think, 1st May—but I would want to check that. I pointed out the great skill of hon. Members opposite in selecting particular years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.180.7", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "we have had this from hon. Members opposite, we have heard reference to migration. The hon. Gentleman will have been delighted to see—but he has not expressed his delight publicly—that migration, which affects the employment figures, from Scotland this year is the lowest for ten years. He will have seen that net emigration to other countries of the United Kingdom has dropped to 11,000, continuing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.180.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e before 1964, the rundown of our basic industries would not have caused the loss of jobs which has occurred. But certainly I would not be complacent about the figures quoted by the hon. Gentleman for the last two or three years of Conservative rule, because for a whole year, from 1962 to 1963, the unemployment figure in Scotland was higher than it is today, on a proper seasonally-corrected basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept the right hon. Gentleman's latter figure, and I would like to check his memory of the date against mine. He has obviously looked it up and I have not. He may be right, but I will check that one. I certainly regret that I have not sent the document to the right hon. Gentleman which I had to send. It sounds as though his office has slipped up as much as mine in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.186.0", "colnum": "186", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " this Parliament ran its full length, could be in the spring of 1971; in other words, after he himself has stated that the Civil List would be running into deficit. Is not it a fact that because of the time which has elapsed since the consultations must have been held between the Treasury and the Queen's advisers, this matter has now become one of widespread discussion in this country and outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.189.1", "colnum": "189", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A loaded question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l be within the knowledge of the House that Her Majesty's Government are not responsible for tendering advice except to Her Majesty the Queen, and for this we take full responsibility. In the particular case which I think my hon. Friend has in mind, if I have identified it correctly, there was, in any case, no public statement in the sense of a speech. It was an answer to a question on television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.189.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.193.0", "colnum": "193", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I could not disagree more with what the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey) has said, but is he also aware that this is a problem which will not go away? The matter having been started, people will argue about it. The right moment is the moment when people start arguing. Would it not be sensible, therefore, to set up the Select Committee now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "CIVIL LIST", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "I am quite used to noise. It has never hitherto disturbed me. Is my right hon. Friend not aware that, if a serious problem is to be taken out of politics, the right thing to do is to establish a Committee to look into it and discuss it? Is not the right moment now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.197.5", "colnum": "197", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend to give us an assurance that the Services Committee will not discuss alternative supplies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.197.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that I do. However, before coming to that, perhaps I might comment onthe figures for the present year. As I understand, the overall number coming for settlement under the Commonwealth Immigrants Act in 1968 was 59,112, ofwhom 4,691 were voucher holders and 48,650 were dependants. That compares with a total of 61,377 in 1967 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "hat means thatfor every 10 dependants we allow in today we are making a commitment for another 27-30 people to come in at a later stage. We shall, therefore, build up future generations to whom countries such as India, Pakistan and the West Indies will be as unknown as they are to the people now living here. The idea of any form of repatriation for them will become steadily less and less feasible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.212.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.217.4", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should have thought it out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. and learned Gentleman will allow me to develop this point before he answers. He went on to say that the policy of unified control did not involve us in doing anything to a Commonwealth citizen which was not already done to a Scandinavian au pair girl. Here, I must say, he went too far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Sledgehammer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n the same way as alien workers and they would justify this on the hustings by saying, \"Look— we are treating them the same\". I can see no other justification. Consider the facts. We are speaking, I repeat, of something fewer than 5,000 Commonwealth citizens a year coming in with employment vouchers. This is the problem to which the hon. and learned Member for Runcorn was bringing his nutcrackers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "w, for example, that in 11 of the 12 boroughs of central London—that is, the 12 boroughs of Inner London less one, namely, Greenwich—an area in which the present population is about 3 million, coloured immigrant births are running at the rate of one in five. The exact figure, I think, is 19½ per cent. One birth in every five in11 boroughs of Inner London is today a coloured immigrant birth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Jennings)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman (Mr. J. C. Jennings)", "preceding_text": "Order. I allowed the question and a brief reply, but the question was entirely out of order and outside the scope of the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.247.6", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "I can deal with only one point of order at a time. The hon. Member for Smethwick, who intervened from a sedentary position, is being insolent and he should withdraw his remark. I have sufficiently lengthy experience in the Chair for no one in this Committee, or in the House, to accuse me of being partial to either one side or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.247.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.247.7", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Since I recall a four o'clock intervention by the hon. Gentleman from the benches opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.247.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Second point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "d the proportion of those actual births to total actual births. I have made no deduction, and I make no deduction, from those figures as to birth rates, or the relative birth rates of the immigrant and the indigenous populations. I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention at that point, because it has enabled me to make that clear. Now I take these facts of what has actually happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is nat.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "of the 25 years of a generation, we have five years, nought to five, at 25 per cent.; that we know, that has happened. We also have 11 years at 15 per cent.; that is there, it exists. So there remain only nine years to close up the circle. The proportion of births in the next nine years will irrevocably determine the proportion of the population of that town, still considering it as a closed area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ne-quarter or more coloured is not something which lies a generation away; it is very much nearer than that. These cities, including the central area of the metropolis, are only a few years away from a position in which—and here I insert a self-quote—\" there will be whole areas which are entirely occupied by an alien \"—Iam using the word not in the legal sense but in the real sense—\" population \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are a racialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "igration, which will be coloured Commonwealth immigration. We can only debate that matter against the background of the situation which exists as a result of past immigration and the situation which is projected from that. Of course, as the years go by the composition and history of the coloured population change. But the fact remains —and we have had a good many years now of the first generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.256.2", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "We can form that judgment partly, though only partly, on the basis of what has happened elsewhere where similar conditions have prevailed. I have to tell the House that in my opinion, for which I take responsibility, such a prospect is fraught with the gravest danger of internecine violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.256.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "are births to women who have joined their husbands. It is normal and natural for a husband and wife who have been separated to have another child. The right hon. Gentleman never qualifies his statements further by saying that they are births to women who are in their most fertile and fecund period and that therefore they would be expected to have children. After all, they are normal, are they not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.257.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs, Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs, Short", "preceding_text": "es since the early 1950s, when his Government were in office. What he has said in this Chamber after all this time and what he frequently says on platforms in different parts of the country should be directed to his friends. He ought to address his friends before he lectures the Committee in the way that he has today. If the right hon. Gentleman would care to press with me for improved facilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "I will not give way, because a lot of hon. Members want to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"3½1/2 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t evidence from an area where there had been immigration for a long time and prove that it does not lead to the dangers that some hon. Members have described provided that it is dealt with in a sensible fashion. Let us look at some of the figures the right hon. Gentleman gave this afternoon. First, there was what he called the immigrant population, which he said will go up to 2½1/2 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "the question of visitors is a very real problem at the moment. The more details which can be dealt with beforehand the better. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, East (Mr. Robert Howarth) raised the question of fiancees. Men who are resident here can bring in fiancees whereas women cannot bring in fiances. This rests on the idea that immigrants should live in the men's country, not the women's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-11", "file": "debates1969-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "b509231488456bfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "uld be wrong to say that the previous situation is one in which immigration could be controlled and then turn to a situation in which control either could not be exercised or could be introduced only with difficulty. Mr. Deakin calls in aid Lord Simon, when he argued in the other place that the change made control easier. Indeed, that was the burden of the argument in the other place at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-11a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.384.8", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for indicating that very healthy trend. Will he accept my gratitude for showing at regional level what a marked economy will arise when this Land Commission is abolished by the next Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.384.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "stalling until it is too late to alter the plan? Is not the Minister aware that what he proposes and has already published is inhuman in scale and inhuman in purpose and that very many people, including the Royal Fine Art Commission, the G.L.C. and other amenity bodies, have spoken against it? if he proceeds with what he now intends without a proper public inquiry and debate, he will be condemned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.388.8", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gresham Cooke", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister disappointed with the August figures, which showed a drop in new house building of 17 per cent.? Is not that due to the disgraceful performance of the Labour-controlled boroughs, which have dropped new housing starts by 42 percent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.388.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.400.8", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MEMBERS (WORKING CONDITIONS AND FACILITIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Four months ago!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friend will appreciate that there has been no delay in this matter. When the Services Committee reported I circularised hon. Members during the recess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.400.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "During the past two days I have consulted Professor Ronald Edwards, and the chairmen of B.O.A.C. and B.E.A., and we have met the chairmen of the A.T.L.B. and the A.R.B. and been in touch with the unions—I have not met B.U.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.415.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "tly and in all sincerity. Am I, as a Member of Parliament, expected to go back to my constituents and to tell them that this is what has been offered? If we are to have a new force with a ceiling of 6,000 men and if in the beginning we arc to rely on the Ulster Special Constabulary, there are only 8.000 of those men and we shall have the whole Ulster Special Constabulary in the new force by April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "We shall have the whole of the Ulster Special Constabulary in that force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend accept that there is a great deal of uneasiness amongst hon. Members on this side, because it would appear as if to a large extent the new force is really the old force under a new name?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman does. I will have something to say about his constituency a little later. I remind the House that on 19th June last, by a large majority, hon. Members rejected a Motion moved by the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylehone (Mr. Hogg) calling on me to implement the recommendations of the Boundary Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e last, by a large majority, hon. Members rejected a Motion moved by the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylehone (Mr. Hogg) calling on me to implement the recommendations of the Boundary Commission. [Interruption.] That Motion was rejected by a very substantial majority of the House of Commons, and I then introduced a Bill which, I must say, I would have preferred to have seen go through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What does that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "er for St. Marylehone (Mr. Hogg) calling on me to implement the recommendations of the Boundary Commission. [Interruption.] That Motion was rejected by a very substantial majority of the House of Commons, and I then introduced a Bill which, I must say, I would have preferred to have seen go through—[Interruption.] the other place because it would have carried into force the Government's principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If hon. Gentlemen opposite will stop shouting and listen to me for a moment, they will see what it means. It would have carried into force the Government's principle that where local government boundaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If hon. Gentlemen opposite will stop shouting and listen to me for a moment, they will see what it means. It would have carried into force the Government's principle that where local government boundaries—[Interruption.] I hope that hon. Gentlemen opposite will listen to me for half a second without interrupting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "et that the Opposition in the House of Lords has prevented some measure of parliamentary redistribution from taking place. About 100 seats in this country, mainly in Greater London, could have been, and would have been, redistributed by now, and that would have occurred if the Bill had been passed in another place in accordance with the Boundary Commissioners' proposals in the Greater London area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t would have occurred if the Bill had been passed in another place in accordance with the Boundary Commissioners' proposals in the Greater London area. [Interruption.] If it had not been for the rejection of the Bill by another place, that redistribution would have taken place following the Boundary Commissioners' reports exactly, and following, also, the settlement of local government boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, when I have finished what I want to say. The right hon. Gentleman must not be impatient. There is plenty of time. Whether the right hon. Gentleman has been influenced by the effects in Bexley I do not know. After all, he represents a London borough. He knows what impact it would have and he knows what the effect would have been in his own constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Far be it from me to complain. I was not exactly putting the situation in an unprovocative way. The right hon. Gentleman would have been faced with the redistribution in his own constituency. He could, of course, have moved over and no doubt he would have tried to do so, although I did read somewhere about a determined lass who was certain to prevent him from doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.432.5", "colnum": "432", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That remark seems to be more material to a speech than to an interruption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.432.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "onstrated their support for reforming London by voting in favour of the Bill and that would have enabled the redistribution to take place at a time when the right hon. Gentleman, in conjunction with the Tories, was voting against it. As regards the second part of the right hon. Gentleman's question, my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General will undoubtedly be dealing with this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I wish that the right hon. Gentleman would stop shaking his head and would listen. There are a number of constituencies which straddle the board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.433.3", "colnum": "433", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ch straddle the border. Therefore, the procedure has to take the form of a separate Bill. As regards being in breach of the law, that was certainly never the case. Indeed, when counsel, Mr. McWhirter, suggested that I was \"bending\" the law of the courts he withdrew the remark after a rebuke. Therefore, there is no suggestion of that. I remind the right hon. Gentle? man again that the House itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.443.3", "colnum": "443", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ally different organisation for Sussex. I do not remember the exact details, but it is substantially different as between East and West Sussex. The hon. Member's constituency is clearly one of the areas where the Boundary Commissioners would start again. One of the areas looked at by Maud was Brighton and part of East Sussex—I believe they called it Mid-Sussex. They would have to fix the quotient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.443.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of whether the recommendations of the Boundary Commissioners have been outdistanced by time, may have been made irrelevant by other events or may be seen to have become obsolete because of other events which will take place. Nevertheless, the Opposition say that the Government should not mind whether they are irrelevant or obsolete and that we as the House of Commons have still to implement them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " has not had his deserts. If I can do anything for him during the months that lie ahead I will. I only want to say how truly sorry I am to see an old colleague from 1945 announcing his retirement from this House. We have enjoyed having him here. We know that behind that facade there is a shrewd brain—even though he does not always show it to us. I could go over the history of the university seats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " bet that if the popular votes in the next Election are divided equally between the two major Parties the Conservatives will have a majority in seats. If the Boundary Commission proposals were carried out in full it is quite clear that the Conservatives would be assured of a Parliamentary majority even if Labour had I per cent. more of the popular vote. Is not that the reason for their objection?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e to be torn up twice in three or four years. All that is a matter of indifference. They hope to see a situation in which, by getting less votes, they can win the election. That is all that they are interested in and that is, frankly, what the whole basis of their opposition to this particular matter has been about. I have had to listen to a great deal of claptrap and humbug from the Opposi- tion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ar matter has been about. I have had to listen to a great deal of claptrap and humbug from the Opposi- tion— [Interruption.] No one yet, unless the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition does so this afternoon, has attempted to answer the argument of the Redcliffe-Maud proposals and no one yet has attempted to answer the fact that there will have to be two parliamentary redistributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "o him very frankly. Of course, one would have thought that we should hear one forthright, passionate and persuasive voice raised on the other side against this chicanery shown by the Government, and that is the voice of the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale. He is always in the forefront of a fight against undemocratic practices, wherever they raise their heads in any country whose Government he dislikes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ly given and lightly abandoned, solemn pledges just as easily discarded, London borough elections postponed for a year because they thought that it would suit their own purpose—but in fact they fared worse—constituencies left unrepresented for a longer time than ever before in British Parliamentary history, constituencies now in which dubious decisions are reached behind Labour Party closed doors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " pledges just as easily discarded, London borough elections postponed for a year because they thought that it would suit their own purpose—but in fact they fared worse—constituencies left unrepresented for a longer time than ever before in British Parliamentary history, constituencies now in which dubious decisions are reached behind Labour Party closed doors— [Interruption.] —and now Parliament —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.464.5", "colnum": "464", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—mockery by the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.464.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.465.2", "colnum": "465", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heller", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.465.8", "colnum": "465", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " people\". We shall not let the people forget this shabby incident in the life of the Government. We shall not let the Government bury this incident. What the Government Front Bench are offering to young people today is not ideals; it is just the quick fiddle and the small-time cheat. Sir Robert Walpole said of the notorious Duke of Newcastle, who was the most discreditable manipulator of his day —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.465.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.466.0", "colnum": "466", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " Front Bench are offering to young people today is not ideals; it is just the quick fiddle and the small-time cheat. Sir Robert Walpole said of the notorious Duke of Newcastle, who was the most discreditable manipulator of his day —[HON. MEMBERS: \"A Tory.\"]—he was a Whig. He said of Newcastle, \"His name is perfidy\". Let that be the political epitaph of the Home Secretary and his shabby Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.465.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.466.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.466.4", "colnum": "466", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps the debate can now proceed. Mr. Charles Pannell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "as that. The Leader of the Opposition sees these matters in a somewhat different light. He has now acknowledged that it is perfectly proper for a certain number of these recommendations to be rejected or amended in propositions made to the House. I am arguing that there is nothing constitutionally improper in the Home Secretary proposing that 100 per cent. of the recommendations should be allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.504.1", "colnum": "504", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": " into detail about the provision in the Act and then submitted that this surely meant that if the House wished to do so it could reject the orders 100 per cent. We are talking about the reality of the situation. If we say that it is right to reject these recommendations and orders 100 per cent. we are saying that no changes in our parliamentary boundaries are now necessary. We must he saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.504.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Principle.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "g, and that is why there is such a great synthetic uproar. There is no other reason. This is rather difficult to understand. Not long ago I heard the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) forecast on television Conservative majorities of 150 to 250 if the recent by-election results were translated into similar swings in a General Election. So that is why we see this great passionate concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.524.5", "colnum": "524", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "preceding_text": "I wish my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heifer) would accept the fact that those of us who try to make speeches do not do so in order to denigrate other Members. I am not doing that, and I wish my hon. Friend would not assume that his experience in his constituency is the same in other constituencies, because that is not so. He must accept that fact, whether he likes it or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.540.4", "colnum": "540", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is sheer effrontery on the right hon. and learned Gentleman's part to assume that anybody speaking from this Dispatch Box is any less sincere on the issue than he is. Today he is purely playing party politics, as he did in 1948—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.540.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.541.0", "colnum": "541", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "It is sheer effrontery on the right hon. and learned Gentleman's part to assume that anybody speaking from this Dispatch Box is any less sincere on the issue than he is. Today he is purely playing party politics, as he did in 1948—[Interruption.]—when he said exactly the same things and used the same violent language on the same sort of case. I have no time for this sort of talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.540.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.541.5", "colnum": "541", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Elwyn Jones)", "preceding_text": "t the better of him. The debate began with an ugly storm of invective and abuse from the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition directed largely against my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. It had been carefully written and polished before the right hon. Gentleman had heard my right hon. Friend say a word—the kind of contribution to parliamentary debate which should not be emulated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.541.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Members have heard. I hope that it will be widely circulated throughout the country so that the humbug that has influenced the Opposition in this debate may be appreciated. It was not my intention to follow a course of personal invective, which has characterised much of today's debate. I say that because it seems to me that the issue that the House must decide tonight is one of practical judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I think that it needs improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. and learned Gentleman goes on boring the House with the speech he has written, although we on this side are very fond of him, may I ask him two simple questions? Will the Government gain or not gain under the terms of what they are trying to vote tonight? If they are to gain, by how many are they to gain? Will he answer those two questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.544.8", "colnum": "544", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I was not sure for the moment whether I was giving way to the hon. and gallant Member or he was giving way to me. The answer to the question, of course, is, we do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.544.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.544.8", "colnum": "544", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "f gerrymandering are made on the basis of an unproved hypothesis. We do not know; the estimates of distinguished experts in this field like Mr. David Butler certainly do not confirm the optimism of the other side of the House nor necessarily the pessimism that has existed on this side of the House. The country has to face this real problem, whether to have two major dislocations in constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.544.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " fellow who does something that you do not like. That is a description of the Opposition's attitude now. The Government's proposal embodied in the Bill was a constitutional proposal, and it is only because the Bill was rejected in another place that we have to consider these orders tonight. It has been suggested that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has acted with illegality in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "d in another place that we have to consider these orders tonight. It has been suggested that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has acted with illegality in this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and accordingly, if the murmur of disinterest will subside for a moment, I will deal with the legal problems that have been put to me in the course of the debate. The 1949 Act, as the House knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ment, after I have finished these observations. The proceedings in the courts did not affect this decision at all. I appeared for the Home Secretary in those proceedings, and when the applicant announced that he was withdrawing his motion I made it clear that I would have submitted, had the case gone on, that the Home Secretary's actions had been entirely lawful and free of any taint of illegality", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-12", "file": "debates1969-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "c0a2c56373b4a50b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "uld have submitted, had the case gone on, that the Home Secretary's actions had been entirely lawful and free of any taint of illegality [Interruption]—and I would have had formidable arguments to support that contention. I have been asked why, in those circumstances, bearing in mind the confidence I had in the quality of my case, the Home Secretary agreed to make a contribution towards the costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-12a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-13", "file": "debates1969-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "46b24a5bdfcab818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.602.6", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is totally absurd, for example, that a student wanting to read music at Bristol, Durham or Exeter cannot do so unless he or she has an O-level pass in Latin? Is not the universities' continued insistence on this dreary and archaic language—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.602.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-13", "file": "debates1969-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "46b24a5bdfcab818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Eighteen months.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These illogical analogies create certain difficulties, and I have no personal experience of these matters. I noticed reports in the Press, but I have not been in touch with my hon. Friend. One question I thought of taking up with him was whether he had not got the period of gestation for elephants wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-13", "file": "debates1969-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "46b24a5bdfcab818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Ulster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Since he does not, perhaps he or one of his right hon. and hon. Friends would care to hypothesise the situation in which a force of the sort we have been discussing, the force which existed after 1964, could have played a cogent part in the defence of this country. I do not believe that such a hypothesis can be anything but wildly improbable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.639.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-13", "file": "debates1969-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "46b24a5bdfcab818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "young people and among some older people as well—will anything be done in the way of basic non-partisan education in Parliamentary democracy before these young people, in particular the soldiers of 18, come to vote? Some of them may not bother to vote, but others will. It would surely be a good idea to revive in a modest form something like the wartime A.B.C.A., the Army Bureau of Current Affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-13", "file": "debates1969-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "46b24a5bdfcab818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army (Mr. Ivor Richard)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army (Mr. Ivor Richard)", "preceding_text": "y solution being found. The hon. Member for Hendon, North asked about officer recruiting. I can give him some figures, but I fear that they are not as detailed as he or I would like because records for male officer recruiting do not exist in detail to compare with the other record. Entry is on an entirely different basis, and it is therefore difficult accurately to break down the relevant figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-13", "file": "debates1969-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "46b24a5bdfcab818", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I can answer the point about the 3,000 quite simply. The hon. Gentleman will know what manning means—the difference between establishment and strength. If one compares the manning now with that of 1964, which is the critical figure, the crucial figure—which is between establishment and strength—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-13a.742.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-14", "file": "debates1969-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b792f82c776fd2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-14a.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael O'Halloran", "preceding_text": "units of our defence forces in scattered corners of the world recall the individual and personal interest he took in their problems and responsibilities at every level. His achievements during his 41 years were greater than most will achieve in a full span of years. His untimely death is a tragic loss to his wife and family, to Islington and to this House and the future government of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-14a.772.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-14", "file": "debates1969-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b792f82c776fd2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-14a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Russell", "preceding_text": "ecided wisely to \"break the ice\" early on, as did his hon. Friend the Member for Paddington, North (Mr. Latham), as I myself did, and as I believe that you yourself did, Mr. Speaker, when we first became Members. It gets it over quickly and puts the ordeal behind one. The hon. Gentleman acquitted himself very well indeed, and the House will look forward with keen interest to his next contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-14a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-14", "file": "debates1969-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "b792f82c776fd2d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-14a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (LONDON) AMENDMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "f having to make an excuse for the Bill as quickly as he could. There is no doubt that the Bill is the final result of the inept handling by the Government of their relationship with London Transport ever since 1964. There is a pathetic belief by people like the hon. Member for Nuneaton that the only alternative to raising prices is a general subsidy. There are such things as increased efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-14a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will not expect me to accept the assumption about the majority view of the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "SPRINGBOKS' RUGBY MATCH, SWANSEA (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a class sport.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Gentleman's statement that rugby footballers who wish to see a game have every right to do so. Does not he agree with rugby footballers who sincerely and genuinely believe that it is far better to keep contact with South Africa than to indulge in riots which will only harden opinion there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.855.1", "colnum": "855", "heading": "SPRINGBOKS' RUGBY MATCH, SWANSEA (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coleman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coleman", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there have been complaints that some of those who were arrested were detained for periods of up to nine hours, refused permission to acquaint relatives and friends of their whereabouts and refused any tea or other refreshment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.855.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.856.2", "colnum": "856", "heading": "SPRINGBOKS' RUGBY MATCH, SWANSEA (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that it is not the policy of the anti-apartheid movement either to organise or to get involved in disruptive or violent demonstrations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.856.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.858.0", "colnum": "858", "heading": "RABIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Cledwyn Hughes)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Cledwyn Hughes)", "preceding_text": "On 13th November a dog at Folkestone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.858.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.863.5", "colnum": "863", "heading": "SCHOOL MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "It has not been traditional. The subsidy has fluctuated. It has gone up and it has gone down at various times. As I said before, the cost of the subsidy is now approaching £100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.863.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT (ADVERTISEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Although it seems strange, Mr. Speaker, that the Leader of the Opposition has evinced a sudden interest in Northern Ireland after his remarks last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": ", they are very wide of the mark. Many of those who are importing many things that the country does not need and cannot afford are not manufacturers at all, but commission takers. The import machinery is not run by manufacturers but by agents and corporations who have never made anything in their life, any more than any Member of Parliament has ever made anything in his life, except many speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "d to the next Budget, a pre-election Budget, and then let things rip. If they were to remove import deposits now, the effect would be rather inflationary. It would improve the credit position and improve the money supply. The Government are holding things in the international economy while they wait for a grand slam Budget, a boom of about six months and then an election. Of course I am suspicious", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Alison", "preceding_text": "It cannot be said that the debate this afternoon has shown this Bill to have very many honest long-term friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I have great respect and affection for the hon. Member for Westhoughton (Mr. J. T. Price), but is he suggesting that there must be a preliminary import boom if one is trying to generate an export boom? If an export boom necessitates as a corollary a preliminary import boom, what on earth is the point of having the import deposits scheme? It is the hon. Gentleman who lacks logic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not know the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.971.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.972.2", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon.Members", "cue_text": "Make up your mind.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "e contradicted himself. While being against any increase in the money supply, he was at the same time in favour of import deposits. They are contradictory, because if one introduces import deposits with a view to cutting down the balance of payments deficit to encourage a surplus—the Chancellor will corroborate this only too readily—then a balance of payments surplus tends to decrease—no—increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CUSTOMS (IMPORT DEPOSITS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": " to say that the scheme, as administered, has proved to be an effective and efficient scheme. In these circumstances, surely the case is for retaining the scheme and not for doing away with it, even if the difference it may make is slight, although I would not necessarily concede this. My hon. and learned Friend the Financial Secretary put forward three very good reasons for continuing the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "s rapidly to London. It is possible, within the Metropolitan Police Force, to provide a substantial body of policemen to control any potentially dangerous situation. In Northern Ireland, however—with a country of that size and a police force limited to 3,000—those possibilities do riot exist. The Bill enables the police from forces in England to go to the assistance of the Northern Ireland police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1012.1", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "preceding_text": "ty referred to in this unpleasant graffiti on the walls in Falls Road should also not properly be entitled to be members of a force which is to inspire confidence in Northern Ireland. The question that I want to put to my right hon. and hon. Friends is: are such members of the R.U.C., the present R.U.C., automatically to become members of the new force? Following on that, I believe that the force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1012.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member maintains that there are people who will not accept the authority of this Govern ment, does he not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-17", "file": "debates1969-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "b76c88092e7b8d1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1022.2", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "s in which the police operate in this country. They are not the circumstances in which the police volunteered to serve when they joined the British police forces. That is the relevant point. And it is because the conditions are so dissimilar that there was the revolutionary commune in Londonderry and, for a while, widespread fighting between what I am bound to call urban guerrillas and the police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-17a.1022.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend agree that the central question is agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "NIGERIA AND BIAFRA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition asked for a statement to be made today. Many hon. Members on both sides of the House supported that request. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House did not commit himself. He said that a statement might he made today or before the debate or on the day of the debate. The House was certainly left with the impression that there would be a statement today", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT (QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think that I ought to correct the record. If my hon. Friend the Member for Penistone (Mr. John Mendelson), whose views I always respect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1129.5", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I cannot give all those figures off the bat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1129.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1136.4", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 0h.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " an end by bringing back into protection all unfurnished tenancies of houses, flats and rooms with a rateable value of up to £400 in London and £200 elsewhere in Great Britain—that is, all those which had been decontrolled in 1957, when the Conservatives governed the country, and more. They had to be brought back under control and we took immediate steps to stop what had become a national scandal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1136.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reasonable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "To start with, the Government themselves created this position. The position will not be cured by disallowing reasonable rent increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " reserves to the extent that they have been forced to do by the Minister's policy over rents. We think that this will result in further subsidies by the ratepayers to council tenants and a probable increase in rates, which may in the end, of course, defeat the purpose of the prices and incomes legislation. It is merely spreading an increase over a number of people instead of allotting it to a few—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "rnment, in two years that fair rent may be out of date. In fact, one can go back to the rent officer every three years to have a new fair rent fixed. It distorts the whole system set up under the Rent Acts, which I admit is working very well and fairly between landlord and tenant. I was doubtful about it when it was introduced, but I readily admit that it has worked reasonably between the parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": " fixed. It distorts the whole system set up under the Rent Acts, which I admit is working very well and fairly between landlord and tenant. I was doubtful about it when it was introduced, but I readily admit that it has worked reasonably between the parties. [ Interruption .] The hon. Gentleman wants to know who wrote the fair rent system. It was not this Government, but the property associations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1165.0", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Then it is humbug. It makes it worse.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. W. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman gives the impression that the Prime Minister spoke at the A.M.C. conference before discussions with that association. The discussion took place about these proposals way back in July of this year. Therefore, before my right hon. Friend spoke at the conference, A.M.C. members were well aware of what had gone on in earlier conversations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McElhone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McElhone", "preceding_text": "On 30th October last, I became the Member for Gorbals. I succeeded the late Mrs. Alice Cullen, a woman who was held in the highest respect in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": " know whether a proposition will pay. If it will pay, he takes it.If it will not pay, he tt.rns it in. I hope that hon. Members opposite will make themselves clear about this. If they do, no doubt they will find it harder to be returned to office, but even if they are, in my retirement I shall at least have the pleasure of coming up to London from time to time to meet my old friends in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "dlords has never been an ideal to which hon. arid right hon. Gentlemen opposite could have been said to be obsessively devoted. On occasions, they have boasted of their prejudice against the private landlord, sometimes forgetting, as one or two hon. Members today have forgotten, that 60 per cent. of the landlords own only one house and that 40 per cent. of that 60 per cent. are old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "hat, provided their properties are properly maintained and managed, they will be free from the hazards of political uncertainty and able to obtain an economic return. That was the principle which that report laid down. I believe that a casual pre-election gesture of the kind contained in Part II, postponing still further the payment of fair rents, can do an enormous amount of damage to confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "You will note, Mr. Speaker, that the hon. Gentleman does not deny the accuracy of my quotation and, therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1233.2", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "You will note, Mr. Speaker, that the hon. Gentleman does not deny the accuracy of my quotation and, therefore—[HON. MEMBERS: Answer. ]—he agrees that since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "I am content to settle for that reply. I will read tomorrow's Press reports of his speech and compare it with what the hon. Gentleman now says. In view of that half answer, I will leave over my answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "system or, more particularly, to leave the local authorities alone because Whitehall did not know best. I wonder whether the constituents in Kensington and Chelsea would prefer Whitehall to know right than their own borough council which originally proposed a rent increase, not of 7s. 6d. or 10s., but of 29s. 6d. I wonder whether the electors of Sandy Urban District, which is near South Northants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-18", "file": "debates1969-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "ba74ef375b9b535b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1242.0", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RENT (CONTROL OF INCREASES BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "on. Gentlemen opposite believe that the gentlemen in Smith Square know better than town councillors throughout the country. The Bill is part of the Government's policy for prices and incomes. Hon. Gentlemen opposite have tried to suggest that the Measure has no place in such a context. I do not pretend, being a modest chap, that my hon. Friends have a permanent monopoly of wisdom in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-18a.1242.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1316.1", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "FALKLAND ISLANDS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. While not in any way questioning your Ruling, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1316.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "the headquarters of his unit. This man would not necessarily keep his arms at home all the time, but if intelligence gave reason to suppose that there was a threat of attack against this particular key point it would make obvious sense that so long as the direct threat persisted the man should keep his weapon and ammunition at home, even at times when he was not actually called out for guard duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1326.3", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "nd weapons stolen, perhaps from a police station, it should be possible to man a road block, within minutes of hearing of the attack in order to catch the perpetrators. We envisaged this when I was in the Local Defence Volunteers at the beginning of the last world war, and I think that I am right in saying that on many occasions Home Guard units kept their arms at home for the same sort of reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " of the Royal Ulster Constabulary is quite different from the position of this paramilitary force, because anybody who wishes to enter the Royal Ulster Constabulary is not security vetted—they are not under the control of the Commanding Officer in the Six Counties. If one is a member of an Orange Lodge, there is no difficulty about enrolling in the Royal Irish Constabulary. He is welcomed at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain On", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain On", "preceding_text": " Defence Regiment is intended to do. If the hon. Members do not think there should be a force of such a size, or do not think that there is a role for such a force, it makes sense to argue that the forces should be smaller and cost less. But if one accepts what the Hunt Committee has said, that there is a necessity for such a force, one really ought to see whether we are getting the right numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1423.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1432.5", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis (Rutland and Stamford)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1433.6", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may read his speech in HANSARD tomorrow. That is what he said. I listened to him. There are a number of reasons why I support the Bill and this force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1433.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster (Belfast, East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley R. McMaster (Belfast, East)", "preceding_text": "to the similarity between the force we are discussing and the TAVR. I should like to make a serious suggestion to the Secretary of State for Defence. It would save money if members of the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve could easily transfer to the new force. Hon. Members have much experience of the mass of documentation necessary when joining a force such as the T.A. The Secretary of State", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-19", "file": "debates1969-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "095f71a29373c503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way. Certainly, if our undertakings that arms will be kept at home only in exceptional circumstances are honoured, we need to create some new arms stores in which they can be kept sufficiently securely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-19a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-20", "file": "debates1969-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4770909a063b4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I cannot say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-20", "file": "debates1969-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4770909a063b4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, I cannot say. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am hopeful that there will be a White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-20", "file": "debates1969-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4770909a063b4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.4", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I understand that there have been discussions about the possibility of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-20", "file": "debates1969-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4770909a063b4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.6", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am anxious that information should be given to hon. Members. I will have discussions about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1513.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-20", "file": "debates1969-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4770909a063b4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1514.2", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I said that I would look into the matter sympathetically. I repeat that I am trying to be helpful. I realise the importance of the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1514.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-20", "file": "debates1969-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "b4770909a063b4e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1518.11", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I am to make a statement, but one must not always believe statements in the Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-20a.1518.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-21", "file": "debates1969-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc1cea7501c542e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING OF PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Auberon Waugh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "half dozen fashionable gladiators of a hundred years ago. That can be checked by going into the Library and reading the number of people who wish to speak in any Session. In my teens I wanted to come into the House, 30 years later I came in and, after 21 years in the House, I am not disappointed with it. The stupid things that the Evelyn Waughs have said were said also by greater literary figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-21", "file": "debates1969-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc1cea7501c542e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1668.1", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING OF PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Perform?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "sceptical, as the Leader of the House is, about televising our procedures, but militantly opposed to doing so for the fundamental reasons which I hope to explain. They are in no way associated with exhibitionism. I answer the hon. Member for Cheadle in these terms. It is well known that there are relatively only a few Members of this House who perform a great deal on television and on sound radio—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-21", "file": "debates1969-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc1cea7501c542e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING OF PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " to be brief and I will not give way again. Whether 1·8 per cent., 3 per cent., 5 per cent. or 10 per cent. of our proceedings actually appear on the screen, overwhelmingly the proceedings of this House will not be portrayed. Only a tiny, minimal amount of our proceedings will find their way into people's homes, and this must always be in our minds. I would love the cameras to be on me now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-21", "file": "debates1969-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc1cea7501c542e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1697.3", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING OF PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "I take the point. One would not want to hand to the tele- vision companies a diktat. We would want consultations with them. There have indeed already been consultations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-21", "file": "debates1969-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "dc1cea7501c542e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1701.0", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING OF PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will not think that when I come to my conclusion. If one eschews that full availability, if one regards a daily report of 15 to 20 minutes as riot really adding up to a powerful projection of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-21a.1701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-24", "file": "debates1969-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5de907c47bf16402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "LOCAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot answer the last part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question. The Minister has not indicated to the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.32.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-24", "file": "debates1969-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5de907c47bf16402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "LOCAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. John Stonehouse)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am in the hands of the House. As hon. Members know, my position in the order of answering Questions was put down rather late for today, with the result that, perhaps, Oral Questions that are late in the list are not reached. But if it is the wish of the House, I will now, with permission, Mr. Speaker, answer Question No. 55.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-24", "file": "debates1969-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5de907c47bf16402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.35.6", "colnum": "35", "heading": "LOCAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I am rather reluctant to leave it because we are in a farcical situation in which every evening paper will have it, every morning newspaper tomorrow will have it, and we are graciously to be told about it tomorrow afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.35.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-24", "file": "debates1969-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5de907c47bf16402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (GOODS AND SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Arthur Skeffington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Arthur Skeffington)", "preceding_text": "I have had rather greater fortune in that it has been my task to introduce several short but modest, and I hope equally useful, Bills. I now bring forward this Bill, which is, in that category. I believe that it will commend itself to the whole House since its main purpose is to save ratepayers' money and to enable local councils to work much more effectively by being able to work in co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.41.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-24", "file": "debates1969-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "5de907c47bf16402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.127.0", "colnum": "127", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (SHIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ereas others are not to qualify because they are fixed investments which benefit the country. I can think of many worth while investments which earn foreign exchange and do not qualify for investment grant although perhaps they should. What about the export of whisky which probably brings in more foreign exchange than anything else? Why could investment grants not be given to distillers of whisky—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-24a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.176.2", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which decision?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I think my hon. Friend is a little mistaken. It is not indecision which has upset Newport, but the decision I announced which upset Newport. I assure him that it would have been wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not too much of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Water is essential for life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "LOCAL RADIO STATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Each.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "The cost of developing these particular stations will be £750,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.229.7", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "They have considered it to the extent that I have been briefed en the speech that I am making this afternoon-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.229.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "l Ulster Constabulary. They will find the police there running around the streets picking up stones, gathering them in their shields and charging down streets throwing them at people. Are the policemen from this country expected to fall in with that sort of activity? Is that comparable with what the police in this country must do, leaving aside the feelings they may have for individuals or bodies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "Are the policemen from this country expected to fall in with that sort of activity? Is that comparable with what the police in this country must do, leaving aside the feelings they may have for individuals or bodies? [ Interruption. ] I have described what members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary did on 4th and 5th January. They walked down streets breaking windows and terrorising the inhabitants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forced?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that the hon. Gentleman has the right to state what he believes to be the reason why those stones were being broken, particularly as it is the subject of criminal offences with which I shall in the future be charged. I will only add that it must be a very sick society if an hon. Member of this House is forced into that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "I think that it is very important that an argument which is raised by hon. Members opposite should be to some extent answered from this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.244.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "On Northern Ireland.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "preceding_text": "We have had an awful song and dance about the Amendment and the effect it will have on the efficiency of the police forces in Great Britain if the Bill comes into operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.281.2", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "hese matters cannot be ruled sub judice. It was noticeable with what alacrity the hon. Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) tried to stop this point being brought forward. It has now been proved that those responsible for the explosions would normally have called themselves supporters of the Unionist Party, members of the U.V.F., who have supported the Unionist Party since its inception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER. \"Or lack of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Gourlay I am merely using the incident to describe the initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.313.0", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Temporary Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Lady must resume her seat when the Chair rises. I am being as generous as I can, because I realise that the Committee stage of a Bill is a new experience to her, but I must ask her to try to confine her remarks at least to Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " of the general law of the United Kingdom, but the Government of Northern Ireland, under the Act of 1920, are empowered to make different laws in certain matters. For example, there are the licensing laws. Are hon. Members seriously saying that it is their intention that a policeman sent over to Northern Ireland for the day should operate the licensing laws only as they exist in England and Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.318.2", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " a member of a police force in England or Wales, a policeman would act according to the law applicable to England and Wales. With respect, I suggest that my right hon. and learned Friend's argument might have been more apposite had he been talking about Scotland, because Scottish common law is different from the law of England and Wales. Northern Ireland common law, on the other hand, is the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.318.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Sir Harry, I do not propose to discuss the whole of the Report of the Hunt Committee, but I think that it would be in order to refer to those parts of the Report which relate to the specific matter we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "I would like to see the Special Powers Acts go as fast as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.324.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "table can arrest somebody on suspicion and detain him whereas the British policeman cannot normally do that? This is a real difficulty, and I do not underestimate it. My hon. Friends are quite right in suggesting that this situation can, in the end, only be rectified by replacement of the Special Powers Act with other legislation. With that, neither my right hon. Friend nor I would wish to differ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "cedure to which they are subject when performing their work in Great Britain? I come now to the argument which my hon. Friend advanced in regard to the wording of the Amendment and the reference to offences. She took up a point here from a most dubious source, if I may say so; namely, the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr). I ask my hon. Friend to exercise a little common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"He is 'The hon. Member'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend—and he is my hon. Friend—in many things. Somebody, sometime, somewhere in Northern Ireland has to think and rethink this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "rliament the jurists and the judiciary will interpret the law as it then is. They will not be reading speeches made on Second Reading or in Committee. The fear expressed by my hon. Friend is at the back of everything that we have said today. There may be a change of Government. In Northern Ireland there could be a Paisley Government. There could be a Powell Government here after the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.1", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] At an earlier stage it was agreed by your predecessor in the Chair that Amendment No. 12—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS;: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I did. [HON. MEMBERS;: \"Sit down.\"] Further to my point of order. Am I correct in understanding that you did not see me rise, Mr. Mallalieu?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.5", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Only that hon. Members who have participated in discussing the detail of the Bill had every reason to suppose that a debate would occur on the Question, That the Clause stand part of the Bill. I trust that that debate wall now take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-25", "file": "debates1969-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9169df8f5be5ca2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.7", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Further to my hon. Friend's point of order. You may possibly have been mistaken, Mr. Mallalieu.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-25a.365.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "EXCISE BETTING DUTY (PAYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "Without holding any brief for bookmakers, may I ask my right hon. Friend to do everything possible to meet the bookmakers in this matter if there are not insuperable legal obstacles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "t in hand. When we found that it could not be kept in hand we were back to the old purgative of violent measures, destruction of confidence, and the rest. The result was an all-round lack of confidence in our economy. I do not, and could not, claim that since 1964 we have found an easy alternative. But we have found an alternative which is working and is not having the disastrous pre-1964 effects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": " in the United Kingrom can afford to pay for by our exports. The hon. Member still fails to realise the point about a cut in volume and a cut in the rate of growth. If we had been physically cutting our imports from E.F.T.A. they would be shouting, but all the E.F.T.A. countries know that we are restraining the rate of growth of goods from E.F.T.A. countries and they are happy with that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "he only way in which we can continue to meet the overseas demand for our products is by ordering the very latest, the best, the most heavy-purpose machinery in the world. We can buy the very best machinery in the world only if we are allowed to look around, check on what is the best machine tool produced by the Swiss, the Germans or the French, and buy the very best tool wherever it might be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "ancial Statistics, and he asked the Chief Secretary: Is he aware that that will have considerable consequences for the level of industrial investment?\". The Chief Secretary replied: There is no question of complacency.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th November, 1969; Vol. 792, c. 193.] Throughout some years of watching the Chief Secretary in operation, I have always regarded him as a pillar of complacency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "I cannot say. I do not have those figures. But I do know that these repairs and maintenance are done out of the housing revenue account. Anybody with any sense of responsibility will expect the general ratepayer to contribute to the council housing account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": " that some of them would be in favour of that sort of thing happening. Striking a balance is not easy, but I have never known a municipal housing account to be balanced without contributions from the general ratepayers. Who is the general ratepayer? He is the person who, in due course, will qualify for a council house himself and he will get the benefit of the contributions to the housing account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Chataway) made a number of observations about the position of the housing programme and its prospects, but he must know that the Bill relates to the rents of existing properties and therefore has no relationship —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.556.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.558.4", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "We did. It was not called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.558.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-26", "file": "debates1969-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "0289b3de1eedefa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "cy of a dwelling, or a person who might succeed him as a statutory tenant, becomes the tenant under a new regulated tenancy of the dwelling and, whether before or after he becomes the tenant under the new regulated tenancy, a rent for the dwelling is registered, then, if the provisions of subsection (1) of this section apply—'. This is a technical Amendment, dealing with a very involved situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-26a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Zanzibar Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "I would totally resist that adjective applied to the British Government in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.610.2", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". On the other hand, Colonel Ojukwu has felt that to sit down without a cease-fire would be difficult. So far there has been no agreement by the Federal Government to sit down without conditions and at the same time to have a cease-fire. We know the use to which a cease-fire might be put, and I think that is the real difficulty. The Federal Government have said that if there is to be a cease-fire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "same is true in relation to daylight flights, a matter which we pursued when I was there. I assure my hon. Friend that I am well aware of the deep concern in this country, and indeed in all civilised countries, about the malnutrition, starvation and shortage of food in Biafra. The food is there, much of it in Nigeria, and could be driven in in trucks within a matter of hours, or days at the worst.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.611.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And in Rhodesia.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, like in Nigeria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.615.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Twit…", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House really satisfied that the questions which have been addressed to him calling for a debate on the pensions White Paper have received answers from him which are in any way worthy of the position he occupies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.623.8", "colnum": "623", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has made his point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.623.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.627.6", "colnum": "627", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have said that there is no possibility of a debate before Christmas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.627.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "OVERSEAS AID (FUTURE PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Overseas Development (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Overseas Development (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "preceding_text": " hence. So we shall keep the progress of both official and private flows under review. In any case, the Government intend, unless our balance of payments position should preclude it, to reach the target of 1 per cent. total flow not a moment later than the end of the Second Development Decade. We seek the end of poverty wherever we find it—whether in the Britain we live in or the world we live in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "OVERSEAS AID (FUTURE PROGRAMME)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Overseas Development (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Overseas Development (Mrs. Judith Hart)", "preceding_text": "flow not a moment later than the end of the Second Development Decade. We seek the end of poverty wherever we find it—whether in the Britain we live in or the world we live in. [ Laughter. ] I should be sorry if any hon. Members found this a subject for any sort of amusement. Hunger and disease recognise no national frontiers. No Government has a finer record than ours in the drive to end poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.633.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.639.2", "colnum": "639", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Are you aware, Mr. Speaker, that the hon. Member who arrived first at the Public Bill Office today put in 70 Ten-Minute Rule Bills, thus taking all the possible available time until December, 1970, if the Session lasts that long?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.643.5", "colnum": "643", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "the House against this sort of thing. With great respect, it is not so much a matter of the decision you gave on the best knowledge available to you up to the time my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Derby, North (Mr. MacDermot) spoke, but the fact that, that statement having been made by an hon. Member, we all expect to be believed. In such circumstances, you must surely look again at this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.643.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.645.5", "colnum": "645", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ume that the Opposition as a whole were involved in what is essentially a private Member's exercise. This is a very serious matter. It is bound to lead to retaliatory action. I am inclined to congratulate the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell- Hyslop), as I am sorry that I did not think of it first. But there will come a time, no doubt. Retaliatory action can be taken in this and other fields—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.645.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "rules are changed. On the earlier part of the hon. Member's question, Mr. Speaker was aware of all the facts which have emerged during this discussion, including what the hon. and learned Member for Derby, North (Mr. MacDermot) told the House this afternoon. These things were told to me when a group of Members of Parliament brought their complaint to me this morning. I hope that we can now get on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It must be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This problem will not be solved this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.647.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.647.2", "colnum": "647", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh…", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Parker). I personally arrived at the House at a quarter to six this morning and handed to my hon. Friend my own signed Bill and he handed it in for me. Therefore, it is quite wrong for his integrity to be impugned by hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.647.6", "colnum": "647", "heading": "TEN-MINUTE RULE BILLS (NOTICES OF MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": " House, in due course, because I have asked for it and I think that I have a right to do it. The point is, as I know perfectly well, that the situation is unsatisfactory: the whole House and you, Mr. Speaker, will agree with that. But the House is very much indebted to my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell Hyslop), because, by his activities and his honourable dealings in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.647.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "TILBURY DOCKS (CONTAINER BERTHS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 9, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the consequences of the decision by the Tilbury dockers to maintain their ban on the handling of containers. You, Mr. Speaker, require evidence that this matter is specific, important and urgent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.651.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.652.6", "colnum": "652", "heading": "TILBURY DOCKS (CONTAINER BERTHS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "To continue the specific points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.652.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.652.10", "colnum": "652", "heading": "TILBURY DOCKS (CONTAINER BERTHS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I shall move immediately to the question of importance. This situation has presented a direct and formidable challenge to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.652.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "TILBURY DOCKS (CONTAINER BERTHS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members may or may not read some of their speeches, but I defy them to read a speech which is in note form. It is the duty of Governments to preserve the legitimate and constitutional processes of this country. These have been frustrated by dark and devious threats", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.653.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "RURAL BUS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "nment of £7½ million as a result of selective employment tax. That £7½million loan has to be financed at the enormously high rate of interest imposed by the Government. Rural bus services, as well the Minister knows, do not obtain much benefit from the investment allowances for new buses because, by their nature, rural bus services tend to use the older buses and not the newer buses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "RURAL BUS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "ee Report, of 1961, which analysed all the problems of rural transport and made many recommendations on how to cope with them, including local authority subsidies shared with central government. Although that Act came only one year after its Committee had reported, the party opposite did absolutely nothing in it to help any kind of road passenger transport, although it was a general Transport Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "RURAL BUS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "eve that undertakings charged by Statute to operate as commercial enterprises were going to take a more reasonable view of cross-subsidisation and running uneconomic services than undertakings on the traditional and proper basis of the nationalised transport industry? In addition, we provide infrastructure grants and, under Section 34 of the 1968 Act, the opportunity not having been taken in 1962—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-27", "file": "debates1969-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c17f123e1aca363", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "RURAL BUS SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "onsultations both with the Ministry and the National Bus Company. I am only sorry that when the hon. Member for Tavistock conducts his investigations, as he calls them, he does not do it a bit nearer home, since he would then realise that people actually concerned with these problems are aware of what has been done. If rural people were asked to choose, they would have no doubt as to their choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-27a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-28", "file": "debates1969-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c9d5d1f6d44c97e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-28a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Incredible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Braine", "preceding_text": " I asked about that yesterday. On any estimate, the Minister's figure of £300 million by 1973–74 will leave the British contribution at under 0·5 per cent. Thirdly, I want to make the point, which the hon. Gentleman has really invited, that there is no certainty as to when the 1 per cent. target will be reached, but if it is to be reached the task is to be left to private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-28a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-11-28", "file": "debates1969-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "c9d5d1f6d44c97e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-28a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Boyle", "preceding_text": "e Communist section of the world when considering these problems of aid. I agree with what hon. Members have said about the importance of trade. May I plead that, whatever position we tend as individual Members to take on the Common Market, we shall never forget the interests of developing countries and their export opportunities in Western Europe when we are engaged in Common Market negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-11-28a.859.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How much?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "For the first of three aircraft, manufacture is under way, and I mentioned other aircraft which have been agreed but it is not possible to separate production finance completely from research and development costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.892.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Desirable though it may be for Members of Parliament to visit Australia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Two too many.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ther—it is about time that we had a proper assessment of what industrialists, who have to support the economy of this country and initiate the exports which have helped so much to regain a favourable balance of payments, think about the policies of the three political parties. I hope that the Minister of State will be able to give me an answer. On Tyneside, there are only two Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.942.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Minister to assure me that he will try to get that 12-year period reduced. By the end of that period nearly all the patients in that hospital will have left this life, I hope for a happier one. Something must be done to help them now. What is happening there is not right, and I am sure that hon. Gentlemen opposite who have visited the hospital will agree with me about that. I must not transgress——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.980.9", "colnum": "980", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Squire of Moyola.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "practical examples of how closely the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee have been associated with military style activities in the past. During the first days of the trouble in August this year the Chairman of the Ulster Defence Constitution Committee, the Rev. Dr. Ian Paisley, called on the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Major James Dawson Chichester-Clark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.980.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "that in the past there has existed a territorial force in Northern Ireland. There is no reason why we should now be sitting here discussing the creation of an entirely new body when, if what the Secretary of State really wants is a territorial force, he can use the existing law and increase the existing territorial forces. I have a question which I wish to put to the hierarchy of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "Logically, since the hon. Gentleman's argument is that there is nothing particularly important about the title—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.996.2", "colnum": "996", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "Would the dishonourable and ungallant Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.996.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1002.2", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "n minority will not support any force, no matter what name it has. I want to refer to some of the things the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster said. I am sorry to see that she is leaving the Chamber. She has now sat down again, I am glad to see. I should like to put on record that I and my colleagues do not accept anything that she has said in her wilder allegations about the Ulster Special Constabulary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1002.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not spoken yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "force work. As my hon. Friend the Member for Ormskirk (Sir D. Glover) said, we must look to the future in Northern Ireland. As my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, North (Mr. Stratton Mills) said, this debate about a name is nothing more than a quibble. I am sorry that the hon. Lady cannot stay with us. We have seen in her speech and in the speech of the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Anguilla.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " such a degree that we have to take steps in Northern Ireland which are quite exceptional to those taken in any other part of the United Kingdom—we have had to send troops there to preserve law and order and the common decencies for the people who live there. In that situation extreme measures have had to be taken by a Labour Government, and they do not like sending troops to some of these places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Northern Ireland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Member suggest any other proper name which would be roughly applicable which does not equally raise passions of one sort and another?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Exclusively.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "e Home Secretary is not to reward us with his presence: where did the title \"Ulster\" come from? Is it the result of some deal with Stormont? If so, what authority had my right hon. Friend to pledge the House of Commons to agree to it? Let us know a great deal more about it. After all, to a large extent it is the money of taxpayers on this side of the Irish Sea which will be spent on the operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1022.1", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are the same.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "e of the Irish Sea which will be spent on the operation—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Exclusively.\"] My constituents have already spent far too much in trying to put right the errors which have been perpetrated by hon. Gentlemen opposite. In that I include the Conservative Front Bench. I am never sure what the difference is between Ulster Unionists and the Conservative Party. I suspect that they are the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1022.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths (Bury St. Edmunds)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBR: \"For the wrong reasons.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths (Bury St. Edmunds)", "preceding_text": " was that some people in Northern Ireland feel very strongly that the word \"Ulster\" should not be used in the title of this regiment. I accept from him, and indeed from others, that that is so. Many people in Northern Ireland feel strongly on this subject. But it must be set against that that other people in Northern Ireland feel equally strongly that the word \"Ulster\" should be used in the title.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1026.5", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1026.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1027.7", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ter\" is obnoxious. That is most extraordinary, coming officially on behalf of the Liberal Party. Men and women who have gone out from this country have died for what they had considered to be their country—Ulster—when serving in the Royal Ulster Regiment. The British Army has been proud of them. I therefore resent the audacity of the Liberal Party Whip in describing the word \"Ulster\" as obnoxious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1027.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1030.3", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "When I first heard of this Amendment, I thought that it was a creature of the Race Relations Board. I thought that, since there were difficulties over recruiting Scottish housekeepers, we were going to have difficulties about recruiting Ulster policemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1030.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1032.0", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "of Ireland Act and I sincerely hope that we will never have cause to invoke that Act, because if there is one situation which makes me shudder, it is the possibility of direct rule by Westminster of Northern Ireland. I cannot believe that any of my hon. Friends, however strongly they may feel about such matters as the Title to the Bill, or certain provisions in the Bill, would want to go that far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1032.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1036.3", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not discussing that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "Member for Mid-Ulster and others on the other side has seemed to suggest that, somehow or other, all that is happening here is that the B Specials are to be continued under another name. That is the gravamen of the attack that is made upon the Government's policies. I beg my hon. Friend to let us try to look at it for once in a fairly calm and objective way. There are at least a dozen differences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1036.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "t that somehow, as part of an unholy agreement made between the Government here and the Government in Northern Ireland, this is the title that was chosen and that we should have known better. That is the attack that has been made. All I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale is that it would be worth while for a moment to draw up the balance sheet and look at the one side and at the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I am not attempting to elaborate any of those items. I am merely answering the criticism that, somehow, the Government have entered into a dishonourable agreement with the Government of Northern Ireland. I am showing those who advanced that argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1040.6", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I was hoping to assist the Committee. If it is convenient, I will leave the remainder of the points that I intended to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1040.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ulster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "er, if they accept the words of the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster and her associates, that they are not typical of the vast bulk of people in Northern Ireland, whether they be Catholic or Protestant. For goodness' sake, let us try to get the matter straight. What are hon. Members opposite complaining about? What is the charge? What is so explosive? Is it the word \"Ulster\" or is it the word \"Defence\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": " her associates, that they are not typical of the vast bulk of people in Northern Ireland, whether they be Catholic or Protestant. For goodness' sake, let us try to get the matter straight. What are hon. Members opposite complaining about? What is the charge? What is so explosive? Is it the word \"Ulster\" or is it the word \"Defence\"—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Ulster.\"] Some have one view and others another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The combination of the two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "atter straight. What are hon. Members opposite complaining about? What is the charge? What is so explosive? Is it the word \"Ulster\" or is it the word \"Defence\"—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Ulster.\"] Some have one view and others another—[ Interruption. ] Some hon. Members have said that it was \"Ulster\", some have said it was \"Defence\", and yet others have said it was the combination of the two. Which is it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "pedantic point put forward by the hon. and learned Member for Derby, North (Mr. MacDermot) and by the hon. and learned Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hector Hughes) which comes at about class 2 in a primary school, namely, that soon after learning what is the longest river in the world, children are taught how many provinces there are in Ireland and how many counties there are in those provinces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1045.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Civil servants and soldiers. It was not at all a working party of politicians. No Unionist politician was represented on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time wasting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "No, I want to get on, or I shall be speaking all night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "At least we should not have done so much damage. I agree that we would have spent all the money and the trouble on building up a force of 4,000 men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In uniform?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "essary regulations which, it is hoped—if the Bill is passed—will be introduced for the purpose of giving effect to the new force. For example, it is hoped that eventually this will become part of the regulations of the Ulster Defence Regiment: Officers, warrant officers, N.C.O.s and men not training in camp, etc., will not take part in or attend any political meetings or demonstrations in uniform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "Naturally. When in civilian clothes, they will be like any other United Kingdom citizens. It would be an extraordinary proposition to say that a member of any force should be prevented from attending a political meeting if he is in civilian clothes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "e B.B.C. and Ulster Television, the Vice-Chancellors of both Universities and a number of other private citizens. That seems to have been a wide range of men and they were not all soldiers or civil servants. I do not think that one could get a wider panel or a more comprehensive list of Northern Ireland society. It would appear that having met all those people Lord Hunt still saw fit to say 4,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) again enchanted us with a torrent of bitterness, but we are accustomed to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "party, but presumably the hon. Lady will not accept that. She apparently believes that the working party of senior civil servants from Westminster and Stormont also military personnel were corrupted by the Unionist Party. I gather that that has been her view of the Stormont Government all along and that now she believes the same of the senior military personnel who were on the joint working party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "e Stormont Government all along and that now she believes the same of the senior military personnel who were on the joint working party. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Lady gives the impression that it has all been a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. All the members of the working party were, she seems to allege, seduced by subtle Unionist politicians who transferred certain thoughts to their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stratton Mills", "preceding_text": "eased. Since she came into the Chamber half way through the Minister's speech, she could not have heard the hon. Gentleman's explanation, but she will be able to read it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The Minister gave a full and adequate explanation, to which I shall refer later. She also argued that no force was required because there was no threat. I would refer her to paragraph 27 of the Hunt Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1126.0", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "preceding_text": "One of the notable features of this evening's discussions has been that as the hour has drawn later, so emotion has tended to lessen and logic and reasoned argument have increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1128.1", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "This point is crucial to the argument. This force will be an arm of the British Army. We have been told that the British Army today consists of about 40 per cent. Roman Catholics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1128.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How does the hon. Gentleman know?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "I see that the hon. Lady does not like having the facts stated. I have referred to a group of leading citizens in Northern Ireland who are Roman Catholics. In the police force, two of the Six Counties have Roman Catholic head constables Last year, four out of the Six Counties had Roman Catholic county inspectors. The Deputy Commissioner for Belfast is also Roman Catholic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "endment and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is not qualitative but quantitative. As I understand my hon. Friend, what he really says is that he entirely agrees with the ideas behind the Amendment, and that the Government, too, do not want a lot of old men administering the force. I must say that subjectively I winced when a couple of my hon. Friends described everybody over 55 as old gentlemen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1179.0", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": " axis and thus ensuring that the discontented workers of Northern Ireland instinctively turn against their fellow-workers rather than against the root cause of their problems. This is crucial to any understanding of why the ruling clique of the Tory Party has managed to keep itself in continuous power for half a century, despite its lamentable inability to solve the economic problems of that area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is clear to me that my hon. Friend is not reading her speech. She is merely using notes in the same way that my hon. Friends on the Front Bench put a pile of notes on the Dispatch Box when they make speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1183.6", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Sir Robert. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1183.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members may remember the May Day procession that took place in this country on 1st May. This procession was against the proposed anti-union legislation which was to go through the House. But how many hon. Members are aware that under Northern Ireland law such a march would be illegal in Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I am stressing a rather small point. I put forward one further possibility, which might be even more horrific. Hon. Members may say that I am trying to frighten them, but imagine the Conservative and Unionist Party in power and the Prime Minister of that party having as his Secretary of State for Defence a member of the Ulster Unionist Party. It might be thought that nobody would be so ridiculous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What was the hon. Gentleman doing there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "ere is nobody to be trusted. Among members of the Special Constabulary subsequently identified there was a very familiar face in one of the crowds at one particular point known as McVay's Corner. That was the face of the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clerk) and that of his brother, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. We are not referring to Members of Parliament in this instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are joking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's intervention was amusing. I shall not say much about it. In fairness, he should point out that there was no attack and that a very disillusioned Sanders dragged himself back to Africa without having caught anything, except possibly a chill. Hon. Members will be aware that the hon. Member for Antrim, North is among the most liberal of Unionist M.P.s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Under a hedge.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Clark", "preceding_text": "With due respect to the hon. Lady, what connection is she suggesting I had with the Unionist Party in Easter, 1958?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1195.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1195.5", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "tradition of the paramilitary B Specials assuming police functions. We must make sure that the Ulster Defence Regiment and its members do not labour under the impression that they can, officially or otherwise, do the same. Therefore, I ask the Minister to consider an Amendment which would limit the powers of the regiment and prevent it from engaging in crowd control. We come to yet one more power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1195.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It has been answered.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "s allegation in public? If not, is she prepared to do so? I do not know the gentleman in question, Mr. Kenneth Moor, except by name. I have no brief for him, and I know nothing about him, but—and I am sure that the hon. Lady would do this for one of her constituents—he ought to have the opportunity to answer the allegation. I hope that the hon. Lady will be prepared to make the allegation outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1207.8", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "ULSTER DEFENCE REGIMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "That may be so, Sir Alfred, but it is a sad thing if the House cannot be used to defend a constituent who is attacked under privilege and when he has no opportunity to defend himself in public. I did condemn the behaviour of the people at Burntollet, and I do so now, just as I condemn the folly of that march. I have not changed my view about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1207.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1239.7", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " not really claim to be able to do, here they have a chance. If we claim that unless there is this change in the old B Special force all the other reforms which have been promised are useless; if we say that it is on this issue that the temper both of the Stormont policy and of the good intentions of the Westminster Government will be tested, here, above all, is the supreme opportunity to test it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1239.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-01", "file": "debates1969-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "d2ba8e3fbbfe297a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One from a Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "unity where there is an armed force to keep them apart. But, let us face it, that is what the Defence Regiment is for. Time and again, despite our Amendments, hon. Members on the Government Front Bench have failed to give us clear military justification for the creation of a military force. There have been Amend- ments tabled by my hon. Friends and by me, but none from the other side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-01a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-02", "file": "debates1969-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "733a75bd1d829112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "TEACHERS' PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "etary of State, and the decision is now awaited? As the negotiations are to continue, should they not be resumed at the earliest possible moment, rather than be put off to the original agreed date of 15th December? Will the Secretary of State consider reconvening the meeting earlier, having discussed with his Cabinet colleagues and with his representatives on the Management Panel what is possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-02", "file": "debates1969-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "733a75bd1d829112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "TEACHERS' PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can best help this situation if he will stop, and ask his hon. Friends to stop, playing politics with this difficult matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-02", "file": "debates1969-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "733a75bd1d829112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "TEACHERS' PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman can best help this situation if he will stop, and ask his hon. Friends to stop, playing politics with this difficult matter. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I have the hon. Lady's broadcast of last Sunday if the House wishes me to read it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-02", "file": "debates1969-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "733a75bd1d829112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1314.1", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": " for the Committee stage, and there is no reason why it should not be sensibly discussed there. As I have said, we do not think that it will be necessary for a Board of Trade official to be present at the engagement and discharge of seamen in future, and we hope thereby to save some Government staff. I should add that the character and conduct markings on the discharge of seamen will be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-02", "file": "debates1969-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "733a75bd1d829112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "tute Book amending or adding to the 1894 Act; and also a great number of regulations. But it is true to say that the main structure, certainly as regards Part II of this Bill, and other parts, has remained substantially unchanged. Perhaps, in retrospect, it is astonishing that the industry should have put up with this legislation for as long as it has. Perhaps, it reflects the innate conservatism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-02", "file": "debates1969-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "733a75bd1d829112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1347.1", "colnum": "1347", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Mahon", "preceding_text": "adversely affected the merchant seamen and the maritime fleets of this country. The name of my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) has been a byword in my home, which has a maritime connection of many, many years, during my father's time and since. I am sure that he must be overjoyed that he has been able, in his lifetime, to accomplish so much on behalf of the Merchant Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-02a.1347.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1469.1", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Right hon. Member.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman knows that the Opposition's policy on carriers is a complete nonsense. It is one of the least cost-effective means of ensuring that we are able to have a naval presence. What I tell the hon. and learned Member is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1469.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1486.6", "colnum": "1486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "When considering these offset arrangements, will the Government take steps to ensure that we do not count in these figures stocks bought by the German Government in this country, which benefit the balance of payments this year, but which the next Government will have to repay in the 1970s?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1489.2", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "BROADCASTING (MOTION AND AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "oint of order on today's business, and to ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether the Amendment to the Opposition Motion on broadcasting is in order. In common with other hon. Members, I signed the Motion. At a later stage, when I saw it, I also signed the Amendment. On presenting my name at the Table Office, I was informed that it was impossible for an hon. Member to sign both the Motion and the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "irst, the old arguments which were levelled against commercial television, that it will lower the standards. Where has the real demand for local radio come from? Everybody knows that it sprang largely from the pirate stations. It was when those were abolished, under a European Convention to which we as a Government were a party, that a demand came from the localities to have their own local radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "nd the public must face up to if they want a public service television or radio arrangement. I want to deal next with the question of the programme companies, because this is another aspect of broadcasting as a whole, where standards are undoubtedly being depressed—not at the wish of the companies or of the authority, but by the financial burden placed upon them by the present Government recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1510.2", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman and I both like \"News at Ten\". I understood him to say that he has reason for believing that the companies would say to themselves, \"Let us reduce what we spend elsewhere to enable the people who run 'News at Ten' to run it better.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1510.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1518.3", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I shall come in a moment to the terms of the original Motion. It is a very curious Motion, indeed, having in mind the views held on the other side. But I should say that if hon. Members want to support the original Motion the best thing they can do is to vote against the Amendment. It is as straight forward as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1518.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1524.2", "colnum": "1524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about quality?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "mplacent as to say there is no room for improvement in any corner of the B.B.C, and, of course, the style of a local station will be very different from a national network. So it should be: they are providing very different services. But if by 'standards' is meant those qualities of decency and integrity which we regard as fundamental in the B.B.C, then the local stations can fully hold their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "ur country's public service broadcasting. That gentleman is not exactly renowned for his cultural interests. His greatest gift has been his ability to spread a rather thin talent pretty thinly over a variety of careers. The disappearance of Carleton Greene, who was a giant of a man in every respect, was a disaster for the B.B.C. It led to the appointment of a very much littler man, Charles Curran—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1615.1", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn)", "preceding_text": " minority audiences, he almost implied that was really its sole function. I did not note his words in shorthand, but in effect he said that the quality and the creativity of the B.B.C.'s contribution to minority interests inclined him to the view that the B.B.C. should not bid for the majority interests. That was what lay behind what he said. Yet it was the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1615.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1618.3", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Member wants action, but let me put the argument. A man may say. \"I listen to I.T.V. only. Why should I pay the B.B.C. television licence fee?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After the election\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I will come to that. What have the present Government done concerning B.B.C. finances? We raised the licence fee in April 1965. We raised it again in January 1969. We did an unparalleled thing in announcing an increase in the licence so that the B.B.C. would have security—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ce for colour and television and sound before an election when there were all the temptations to say that we would not look that far ahead, it is an astonishing charge to lay against us. I come to the question of local radio. I have read all that has been said about shoddy and threadbare programmes because the programme cost is low. Why is it low?—because in local radio people do not ask for fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "uestion of local radio. I have read all that has been said about shoddy and threadbare programmes because the programme cost is low. Why is it low?—because in local radio people do not ask for fees. [ Interruption. ] Of course they do not ask for fees. I am talking not about actors but about people contributing to community discussions. Every time an hon. Member goes on the air he gets his cheque—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " local communities need in the world today. I have one or two more serious general points to make about the role of community radio, but I must say a word about the I.T.A. levy. My right hon. Friend has made it quite clear that he is waiting for the I.T.A. to submit figures. It has not yet done so. He has promised to review them. Obviously, in these circumstances, there is no reason to be anxious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "vidence that the British apple growers are ready, willing and able to deliver the goods to the market but that their efforts are completely destroyed by the arrival of foreign apples dumped on our markets, often from France, in unripe condition before the close season prohibits further imports. The French apples come in unripe and are left in store here in order to beat the ban on foreign imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1666.2", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "o reduce the foreign apples quota for the first half of 1970 from 68,750 tons to 20,000 tons, thereby saving approximately £5 million in foreign exchange. I want to give the hon. Lady the latest market intelligence on prices. This, again, is impeccable information and comes from the same sources as her Department uses. Therefore, I forestall any figure she may have been provided with in her brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "with the exception of Golden Delicious, which are not easily obtainable, with the other imported apples and at the moment are about the same price. The housewife has to have the choice. The hon. Member is a loyal supporter of his leader, a great champion of entering the Common Market—and I see that his P.P.S. is here. He is all for increasing trade with the Common Market to ease our entry into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1668.2", "colnum": "1668", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Yes, but it is also a fact that an hon. Member is entitled to challenge another hon. Member who is speaking. If he does not give way then that hon. Member has to make a speech. I am going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Normally, that would be the case, but the hon. Member was—I going to say offensive—most outspoken in challenging my hon. Friend and me to get up and say something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.1", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member's constituents are to him, and if I want to say that my constituents, the housewives, are being fleeced, I am entitled to put that point of view. All I would say in conclusion to the hon. Member is that if he wants to get a good reply, and if he wants hon. Members to adopt the normal courtesies of the House, he should try on occasions to adopt the normal courtesies when he speaks.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody)", "preceding_text": "the heavy United Kingdom crop and the lower prices being fetched by home applies would justify us in intensifying the restrictions which are already imposed on apple imports. We have been examining the case which has been put to us very carefully indeed, but I must say straight away that we have decided after balancing all the arguments that the quota for January-June, 1970, should not be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-03", "file": "debates1969-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "d2be0204f508f3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.3", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "APPLES (IMPORT QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody)", "preceding_text": "n intensifying the restrictions which are already imposed on apple imports. We have been examining the case which has been put to us very carefully indeed, but I must say straight away that we have decided after balancing all the arguments that the quota for January-June, 1970, should not be reduced. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] It will therefore remain at 68,750 tons and importers are being informed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-03a.1669.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nobody in this House would under-rate the importance of E.F.T.A. in this connection. When E.F.T.A. was put forward by the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1704.3", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "White welcoming the statement by the Leader of the Opposition this week, in contrast to his attitude last week, has it not clearly emerged that it is the wish of many hon. Members to have one clear-cut debate on Nigeria—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1706.3", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "It is up to hon. Members to catch Mr. Speaker's eye and, if they wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1710.0", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think that my advice to the House is right. I have examined this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1710.4", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend wishes me to suggest another day for debate apart from the two-day debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1804.4", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " clear now that it does—for additional benefit to be given where a person defers retirement. I presume that on deferment of retirement contributions will continue to be paid and that they will reckon towards the additional calculation of pension. I give special attention to what was said by the spokesman for the Liberal Party, because that is where all the fresh, bright ideas come from these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1804.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1822.1", "colnum": "1822", "heading": "NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Dean", "preceding_text": "With one exception, and that was the Minister of State, every hon. Member who has spoken has agreed that the scheme is complicated. The Minister of State did not agree, probably because he is the one person in the House who understands it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-04", "file": "debates1969-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "98be83fdf3bef408", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "e suggestions that we read in the Press today that tax relief for employees' contributions is to be taken away are completely without foundation. I hope that that will get well and truly on the record. Beyond that the new level of State pension is, of course, bound to raise the question whether the continuance of existing maximum on benefits under approved occupational schemes would be reasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-04a.1836.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GIBRALTAR TALKS (2ND DECEMBER—8TH DECEMBER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "judgment on that is neither cowardice nor moral evasion on our part: it is common justice until the facts are proved. I do not regard it as the right reaction to what this is, an offence against decency, even of this magnitude, to jump to premature conclusions about a friend and an ally. If this is right, it follows that until all the facts are known there is nothing to justify a change in policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is no comparison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d economic warfare in wars between advanced nations bears testimony to this, including recent wars in Europe, but this is a civil war and throughout history, as we know, civil wars have been even more bloody and unrelenting than wars between nations. The American Civil War, also a war between those who fought to preserve a union and secessionist people who sought to maintain their own way of life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "House knows that the Soviet Government are willing and anxious to supply every ounce of ammunition, every ounce of military supplies, which we, by such a moral gesture, would cut off. As my hon. Friend suggests, there are other Governments—I do not necessarily go along with the one which he mentioned—who supply to the other side. I want to come now to the question of an international arms embargo—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "uickly as we can an end of the fighting, that is a further reason why our full backing should be given to the Emperor as chairman of the O.A.U. Consultative Committee on Nigeria in the new moves for peace. Meanwhile, emphasis must be on getting daylight flights following the tragic rejection of the I.C.R.C. proposal. I think that many hon. Members will feel that those proposals should be accepted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "he end of the day. It is an axiom that wars brutalise. However, it is too late in the day for us to begin taking the attitude that we are against wars because they brutalise. There are pacifists in the Labour movement—but, then, hardly any of us in the movement has not been through our pacifist days. Not many of those who are attacking me are pacifists. They just do not think that we should fight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.70.2", "colnum": "70", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ying it—I would condemn that as terrible, as irrelevant to the issue and, as a result, as in every way debasing the currency of those of us who think that we are fighting for freedom. Having said that, I am not prepared to go so far as to say that one should condemn those who are trying to secure freedom of choice because, in their name, some people commit unnecessary and indefensible attrocities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.70.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "es of freedom involved in all this and that the South Vietnamese are, so far, the only people concerned in the conflict who, as pacification has proceeded—not as well as I would have liked, and it is in this respect that I am somewhat critical of the Americans; it has certainly not proceeded nearly as well as we managed to do it in Malaysia—have reached the point at which elections could be held.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "are, so far, the only people concerned in the conflict who, as pacification has proceeded—not as well as I would have liked, and it is in this respect that I am somewhat critical of the Americans; it has certainly not proceeded nearly as well as we managed to do it in Malaysia—have reached the point at which elections could be held.—[ Interruption. ] I remind hon. Members that elections were held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ded—not as well as I would have liked, and it is in this respect that I am somewhat critical of the Americans; it has certainly not proceeded nearly as well as we managed to do it in Malaysia—have reached the point at which elections could be held.—[ Interruption. ] I remind hon. Members that elections were held. [ Interruption. ] They may not have been as free as my hon. Friends would have liked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ave not got anywhere near as close to that yet. There are issues of freedom involved here and there are many people from North Vietnam who prefer it in South Vietnam, however bad South Vietnam may be by the standards which some people choose to apply to it. What are those who are arguing against this one-sided approach wanting? Those of us who are arguing in this way do not deserve to be attacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"Stop weeping and get on with it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ion. ] I wish that hon. Members would give me a reasonable hearing, so that I may slate my case clearly. What is it we are saying? We want an honourable settlement. I have had the recording of the words I used on the radio. It was alleged that I had said that fie Americans should go on and win the war. I never used those words at all. Any hon. Gentleman who wants to check that recording may do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2", "colnum": "72", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "at. That means conditions other than a unilateral American withdrawal. That means conditions other than American policy being decided by the depth of emotion, unhappiness and frustration caused to them by the continuance of the war. I am certain that a number of things would follow a unilateral pull-out so that the Communists were then left free for a take-over. I will just pick three vital areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.72.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": " at that time. If the United States had put in a bit more help then—we were not in a position to do more; we were committed in Malaya— we might have saved some of the subsequent difficulties. In the 1960s we had Malaysian confrontation, and India, Tibet, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Burma—all situations which have been and still are potential Vietnams, where the local people wish to live in peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "oted the very marked difference between the reactions of the two sides of the House—for example, when repressive actions take place in Spain, Portugal or Greece, there is a strong reaction on the Labour benches and a relatively muted one on this side; if there are repressive reactions behind the Iron Curtain, there is a strong reaction on this side and a relatively muted one on the Labour benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnson", "preceding_text": "I did not mention Czechoslovakia and Hungary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Spain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnson", "preceding_text": " went twice to Greece last year at the invitation of its current Government. We were much criticised for going there. I would go anywhere, from Cuba to China, from Haiti to Bulgaria. It would be a sad day if it were ever assumed that Members of Parliament who visited a foreign country were in some way associated with what happened in that country. It was wrong for people to criticise us for going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnson", "preceding_text": "ss there is a very clear indication of a timetable for a return to democratic government. Nevertheless, the question which must be asked here, as in relation to other dictatorships, is: what does one then do? Pakistan, a member of the Commonwealth, is ruled by a military Government. There was a military Government in Ghana. Admittedly, neither of these Governments has been particularly oppressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.109.1", "colnum": "109", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Dingle Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Dingle Foot", "preceding_text": "Certainly, that is part of the resolution, and, if the resolution is to be carried out, as I hope—though I am not sanguine that it will be—there would have to be that recognition. What I say in answer to my hon. Friend is that the Israelis could have had this recognition two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.109.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "e in between the two sides. To give one example, there was a vice-presidential election campaign about 18 months ago in South Vietnam. One of the candidates was a gentleman by the name of Dzu who got 28 per cent. of the total vote. I suggest that even to hon. Members opposite, very soon, in a few months' time, we might find that obtaining 28 per cent. of a total vote is a considerable achievement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "MILK MARKETING SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Milk Marketing Scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-08", "file": "debates1969-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a25d8d9f3b6633ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "SCOTLAND (WINTER KEEP SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "cision unless the earlier decision was wrong. It is open to the farmer to reapply. There is, however, interesting work going on and we may see that kind of rejected application coming forward again, because it is a question of potential of the land rather than the competence of the husbandry of the farmer. On the ploughing grant scheme, Mr. Deputy Speaker said that we were not to pursue the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-08a.195.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.220.5", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend appreciate that the success of the South Wales ports stems from the fact that they are organised as a group, and that Milford Haven could gain from the point of view of profitability and efficiency if it was integrated with the other ports in South Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Why is the Ministry prospecting at this bridge if the hon. Gentleman has nothing to add? Is he not aware that this is the most dangerous railway road bridge in the Midlands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.221.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question is, \"Yes, Sir\". I have always been opposed to using the taxpayers' money to have a Minister of Information, something which hon. Gentlemen opposite did for party purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n. Gentlemen opposite did for party purposes. [ Interruption. ] The answer to the second part of my hon. Friend's supplementary question is that I am more concerned that my Ministerial colleagues should continue, as they are doing, to add to the record of achievement, rather than go on weekend courses. I felt that the publication of the balance of payments figures yesterday gave a fair indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.237.2", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will make it my business to draw the President's attention to that supplementary question, because I know that he always wants to see HANSARD every day to see what the hon. Gentleman is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "nt by the House of Commons, upon passage of a substantive motion before third reading of a Bill that it should be subject to the provisions of the Statuotry Instrument Amendment Act 1969, and to lay down the procedure to be adopted pursuant thereto; and to redefine the period wherein certain Statutory Instruments may be annulled in pursuance of resolutions of either House of Parliament. Each year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.3", "colnum": "241", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "tive motion before third reading of a Bill that it should be subject to the provisions of the Statuotry Instrument Amendment Act 1969, and to lay down the procedure to be adopted pursuant thereto; and to redefine the period wherein certain Statutory Instruments may be annulled in pursuance of resolutions of either House of Parliament. Each year—[ Interruption. ]—the House passes a large number of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.8", "colnum": "241", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.8", "colnum": "241", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I was saying—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—that each year the House passes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.8", "colnum": "241", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I was saying—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—that each year the House passes—[ Interruption. ]—a considerable volume of legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.241.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "I was observing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.242.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.4", "colnum": "244", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.6", "colnum": "244", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.7", "colnum": "244", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.11", "colnum": "244", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENT AMENDMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "I beg your pardon, Sir. I think that the Noes have it. Twice we said \"No\". If necessary, if I had thought it otherwise, I would have risen personally to make a case against the hon. Member's proposal. I do not know whether I can do it now. In my view, we want a Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.244.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.249.6", "colnum": "249", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "her they might be similar to cases that we have known in previous wars, where the hideous strain of war means that the nerves of individuals crack. I doubt if that question can ever be answered satisfactorily by anyone. All we know is that all wars reveal that the veneer of civilisation is paper-thin, and that we had better take care that wars do not occur. Therefore, one must be careful to judge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.249.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.249.6", "colnum": "249", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "say they will withdraw all American troops from Asia, if only they can get in return some international machinery which will help South Vietnam to maintain a genuine self-determination. I prefer that to people sitting at the conference table and making no contribution whatever to the peace plan. I would hesitate for a long time before condemning the United States. I have two more questions to ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.249.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "not want to prejudice the four-Power talks, but at some time we shall return to this question. The second question I might address to the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Duchy who, we understand, is to reply to the debate. I hope that the Government will not go to Strasbourg with a mind entirely closed to compromise on the question of Greece and its expulsion from the Council of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "resent. As I understand, there is now no objection from the countries of the Warsaw Pact to this proposition, provided that East Germany should also be present at such a conference on the same terms as anyone else. I would not object to that, provided it is understood that coming together in such a conference should not be regarded as a recognition internationally of the East German régime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "versation with representatives of the Nigerian Government who are willing to do so. Moreover, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has repeatedly offered to meet Colonel Ojukwu and other representatives of the Biafran authorities, as they are described. We have, through a great many channels—Members of this House and private individuals who have gone to Biafra and back—kept constantly in touch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "best to discover whether that statement reflects the genuine views of the secessionist authorities. On the question put to me by my right hon. Friend, he will know that at this moment there is the possibility of talks under African auspices. I think that he will agree that it would be wrong for the British Government at this juncture to take any action which would upset what can be achieved there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is advocating the argument that if we send a Minister that somehow means recognition of the Biafran régime. But when we sent a Minister to Southern Rhodesia that did not mean recognition of U.D.I.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "Did we do anything about that? Not only did we do nothing but our influence was used in a contrary direction. What occurred on that occasion was the height of folly. Then we must consider what influence we have used overseas to make a compromise possible. We have all along stood on the idea that a totally unitary State could emerge, but I believe that such a state of affairs is no longer possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Eunuchs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": " is buttered on the same side as that of the idealists and the mass of the people of this country: we all want an end to this war. What we have heard from the Government indicates that there will be no change of policy. I am glad that 150 Members have signed the Motion. I hope that most of them will go into the Lobby against the Government. I know that Members of my Front Bench will not be voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.295.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.364.0", "colnum": "364", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "At the last moment.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will bear in mind that the two propositions are quite different. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister offered to meet Colonel Ojukwu in ten different places outside Biafra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.363.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-09", "file": "debates1969-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "7a36d52709840abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "I wish that there had been greater support from a number of hon. Members in this House for that initiative by my right hon. Friend. That is a different matter from sending a British Minister or British emissary inside Biafra.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-09a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "COMMON MARKET REFERENDUM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Campbell", "preceding_text": "y that in some respects she will cease to be a completely sovereign Power. For any Government to take this drastic and irrevocable step without allowing the people, either directly or indirectly, to express their views would be a negation of democracy. Not only have the people never been consulted on this issue: they have never been properly informed about it. Although all three political parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "COMMON MARKET REFERENDUM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "l be done which is contrary to the wishes of the people of those islands. Surely, therefore, when reaching the all-important decision whether Britain should enter the Common Market, a question which involves, at least to some extent, the sovereignty over these islands, the wishes of our people ought also to be taken into account. The issue can be put before the people in a simple and concise form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.444.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "COMMON MARKET REFERENDUM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "ing of my Bill. Whatever view hon. Members may take about the wisdom of referenda generally, however, they will probably agree, when all the debate is over, that the question of the Common Market is such a special and unique question, and the decision so important and irrevocable, that it at least is something which ought properly to be decided by this means. The people want to decide this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman can do better than that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " catches the eye of the Chair, as I expect he will, are both Old Etonians. It is not an offence to mention it, surely? They proudly wear the old school tie. They are rarely without it, although its influence is ever-diminishing. As they see the privilege of the old school tie disappearing in society today, it appears that their philosophy is to encourage privilege for those with the deepest purse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "chool tie\", and so on, it makes me feel that I am in the Chamber in 1919 rather than in 1969. I have never heard such a ridiculous speech, with so much tremendously biased and prejudiced old-hat stuff. Someone must have dug it out of Transport House, and shaken the dust off it that had collected since 1919 or 1920. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman could not have believed what he was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": " it both ways. Does his party take the view that private provision of housing or pensions is equally a danger to the national provision? Are he and his colleagues coming round finally to saying that the State should provide everything for everyone? If we are being told that at the next General Election they will say that no one should be allowed to provide his own housing or pensions or education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": " also relies a great deal on this private provision. If it had to meet the requirements of those who are at present treated privately it would be under much greater strain. The Secretary of State talked of the individual's right. What is wrong with the individual having the right to spend his own money as he wishes? My belief is that the Government should encourage private provision by tax relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": " for their families rather than things which they regard as less important. Would not the Chancellor be glad to see more people spending money on this than on consumer goods? The right hon. Gentleman might ask him one day. There is nothing unfair in this and it is ridiculous for hon. Gentlemen opposite to pretend that people with this sense of responsibility should be prevented from exercising it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wallace", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wallace", "preceding_text": "ndard of service for the great mass of people in the Health Service leads me to the belief that any provision of additional amenities and services for private patients at this time would have to be at the expense of the rest of the patients in the hospitals. There is a supposition throughout the whole of this debate that fee-paying patients can get a higher degree of skilled treatment than others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.517.3", "colnum": "517", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "He talked about people leaving school later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "national monetary difficulties, the problems that have beset and in some cases are increasingly besetting European economies other than our own, both the weak and the strong. Nor are we debating this evening the problems of the British economy as a whole, or analysing the reasons why, with the inheritance to which we succeeded, we were faced from the start with a grim battle for economic survival.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.521.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan", "preceding_text": "They still closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"To South Africa?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Davidson", "preceding_text": "e Inverurie district, because they will not tell the story. Nine out of ten of those men have had to go away from the burgh to find jobs. Some of them—the lucky ones—have found them in Aberdeen, where they can travel back and forth, but many more—I have met them on the station platform at Aberdeen—have had to go down to Derby and further away. Others have gone to South Africa and elsewhere abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "At the opening of my speech I said that the present Government had done better than the previous one, but I am illustrating an example of a very bad failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"There was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Younger", "preceding_text": "osite, and particularly to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Springburn (Mr. Buchanan), I almost began to think that perhaps this extraordinary reversal had nothing at all to do with the present Government; that it was not their fault. We were being invited to believe that by a most extraordinary coincidence, which had nothing at all to do with the present Government, there was a sudden change in 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.555.4", "colnum": "555", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "sarily believe that industries which, in terms of Scotland's long-term economic progress, are likely to contract for economic reasons should be bolstered up. We want to see our modern industries moving forward to ensure a balanced economy in Scotland. At the same time, we believe in training. This is one of the more effective ways in which we can spend our money in developing industry in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.555.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "SCOTLAND (EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member says, \"Nonsense.\" He should look at the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "CONTROL OF ADVERTISEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "atic machine. At present, we have a situation in which the control over advertising is supervised by local authorities who have powers to protect particular areas of high amenity value and to work in close collaboration with the business communities. The remarkable thing about these regulations is that, so far as I can see, nobody apart from the Government has pressed for this type of legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "CONTROL OF ADVERTISEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "le increase in bureaucracy. If it does not do so it will result in considerable delay in businessmen obtaining permission to advertise their goods. The Government have no idea of the extent of this bureaucracy, they have done no research to measure it and have been unwilling to enter a joint working committee to discover what the results of the legislation will be. No one desires this legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-10", "file": "debates1969-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "82076f6d771ef467", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "CONTROL OF ADVERTISEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put the kettle on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "This complaint arises as a result of the regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-10a.588.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.623.6", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "Yes, but my hon. Friend is attacking the whole principle of parental contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.623.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We never base our views on a single month's trade figures, but we have now had a surplus in four successive months. Taking the last three months ending at November, we have had a visible trade balance of an average of plus £15 million per month, as against minus £7 million in the previous three months. I know that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lion in the previous three months. I know that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is not listening.\"]—he is now—who so sourly greeted the second quarter's balance of payments figures and said that we must wait for the third quarter, will wish to express his unfeigned delight at the fact that the figures published this week, which will be before the N.E.D.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have heard that argument before. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite have said for the last four years that it could not be achieved with this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.632.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "gument before. Right hon. Gentlemen opposite have said for the last four years that it could not be achieved with this Government. [ Interruption. ] I am sorry that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has such strictures about the miserable performance of Britain's businessmen when he was the Chancellor and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition was President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.632.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.632.7", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend consider taking the Leader of the Opposition with him to the N.E.D.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.632.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.651.4", "colnum": "651", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that while the First Secretary has apparently declined to make a statement today about the presentation of her prices and incomes policy, which was published earlier, her hon. Friend the Minister of State is apparently holding a briefing conference later this afternoon for foreign Press correspondents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.651.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "d, an extraordinarily strong case has been made out by hon. Members on both sides to show why this Christmas Recess should be shortened to provide time for vitally important matters to be debated. I see the Minister smiling. I know as well as he knows that the Government will get their way and that we will recess for the time proposed. However, this will be an exceptionally long Christmas holiday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "art of the constituency of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Public Building and Works is agricultural, and he must know full well that many of his smaller farmers are getting a poor return on capital. I am sure that he would be delighted to have a debate. I hear a mumur from the other side of \"Tory policy\". I would like to talk about Tory policy, but that is not an urgent matter now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": " The constituents of the hon. Member for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Hooley) would then be particularly affected, so I am sure that he will want to come back here earlier in January so that discussions can take place and decisions be made to try to meet what might happen. There is no time for that to be done this week or next because the Government have made such an infernal mess-up of their programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-11", "file": "debates1969-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "3f8089c9df230cbb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "GAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Atkins", "preceding_text": "e Gas Council being keen to grab the oil. Of course it will be keen to do that, particularly if the oil would otherwise fall into foreign hands. The Opposition have a perverted sense of patriotism. It is true that they would put the British capitalist before the foreign capitalist. But they are always prepared to put the foreign capitalist before the British consumer or the British non-capitalist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-11a.740.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And prices.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "a year because of the amount of salmon eaten by seals. He also said that seals ate up to 100,000 tons of salmon and white fish every year. There is, however, another side to the story. Hon. Members will readily call to mind the controversial cull in the Fame Islands in 1964. But I understand that the earnings of salmon fisheries in the North East area have increased by about five times since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And dyeing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "this provision in the Bill supports my argument and convinces me that I am not adducing an alien argument. A good deal of scientific work has been done on marking. My hon. Friend the Member for City of Chester referred to the great work done by Mrs. Grace Hickling on marking seals on the Fame Islands. There are three methods of making—hot branding, which I do not like, freeze branding, or tagging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.854.3", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Chataway", "preceding_text": "lic, owners of salmon rivers, commercial fishermen and, as my hon. Friend the Member for Holland with Boston (Mr. Body) rightly stressed, the interests of the sealers. They do not get much good publicity, but there is no escaping the fact that the seals around our shores are a natural resource which has for a long time provided many people with a livelihood. The main opposition to the Bill today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "When a body like the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.860.3", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of what has been said, I should like to call two points to your attention. First, the vast majority of hon. Members opposite who are now complaining have not been sitting in the Chamber all day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.862.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.862.6", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "My second point is that some of us who are anxious to catch your eye are very much opposed to this Bill in detail and in principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.862.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.863.1", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "preceding_text": "cular Motion to have a vote shall be rejected. The Chair shall act in this way only if it appears that a vote taken now would be an abuse of the rules of the House or an infringement of the rights of the minority. I put to you two points. First, in reference to the rights of the minority, there is no minority in the House today because there is no one who has expressed any opposition to this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.863.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.864.5", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "uld be the first to recognise that this would be a gross infringement on the rights of private Members, but, being a practical man, you also know that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and that improper action invites retaliation. It will be a bad day for the House if we get to the stage—and we are very near getting to it—when no Private Member's Bill will be passed this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.870.10", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold Shaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has this to do with it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold Shaw", "preceding_text": "he Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I am wondering whether that particular preservation society has been subjected to the blackmail by the British Field Sports Society to which the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been subjected. I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, and that of hon. Members to an article in yesterday's Guardian headed Blackmail accusation on hunting bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.870.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden (Harrogate)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden (Harrogate)", "preceding_text": "es issues in fields of scientific inquiry which have not been widely studied and are not known about in great detail, it is useful for points of view to be put arising from the experience of a number of hon. Members in their various contacts. I propose to raise briefly, because I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Dorking (Sir G. Sinclair) will wind up on behalf of the supporters of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden (Harrogate)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Ramsden (Harrogate)", "preceding_text": "ve not been widely studied and are not known about in great detail, it is useful for points of view to be put arising from the experience of a number of hon. Members in their various contacts. I propose to raise briefly, because I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Dorking (Sir G. Sinclair) will wind up on behalf of the supporters of the Bill—[ Interruption. ] That is a matter for Mr.Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. More", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. More", "preceding_text": "I am concerned with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.875.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSERVATION OF SEALS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. More", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. More", "preceding_text": "I am concerned with—[ Interruption. ]—the provision in Clause 11—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.875.7"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.881.5", "colnum": "881", "heading": "COLLECTIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS (PRESERVATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.881.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.881.9", "colnum": "881", "heading": "FIFTY-PENCE COIN WITHDRAWAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.881.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-12", "file": "debates1969-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "819203a39387aa49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.881.13", "colnum": "881", "heading": "HIGHWAYS ACT 1959 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-12a.881.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": " available and relevant statistics covering the full year 1969. Before I outline the reasons which have led my right hon. Friends and myself to put down this Motion for debate, I should inform the House that I have received a message from the Home Secretary that, although he intends this evening to wind up the debate, he finds himself unable to be present during the earlier part of this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I am not giving way again-", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul B. Rose", "preceding_text": "e, namely, that the Opposition have deliberately decided to table a Motion of censure to embarrass the Government on this issue. The Government's action violates no one's conscience. Much as I admired the speech of the hon. Member for Swindon, I believe that he would damage his conscience tomorrow if he did not follow it into the Lobby instead of yielding to the moral blackmail of his Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It still is\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " of only five Conservative Members still in the House who voted on 14th April, 1948, in favour of Sydney Silverman's new Clause to introduce an experimental period of five years in discontinuance of the death penalty and the only one of those five with the temerity to address the House on the subject on that occasion. In those days, that was an unfashionable view for a Conservative Member to take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "mit to the House on my first question is that the Government's action does not so radically alter the main position as to cause a change in my attitude to that tomorrow night. It is fair to say that, in the context of all the relevant considerations, in my case it is unlikely that a further year's statistics would alter the balance of the main argument. It is unlikely, though it is not impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "er of Parliament and to contribute to that full discussion, which is one of the continuing characteristics and essential prerequisites of the true functioning of parliamentary democracy. But they have been deprived of those rights, and I fear that some will feel that they have been cheated. This was recognised in the powerful and persuasive article of Mr. Ronald Butt in The Times of last Thursday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " Times this morning. Therefore, I submit that the Government's action in this matter is undemocratic, unconstitutional, unbecoming and unworthy, and it comes at a bad time when some people are questioning the sensitivity of Parliament to public opinion. The action of the Government has to be viewed in the context of their bland indifference to public sentiment on matters such as the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "e it is most difficult to discover. Most of the murders that take place are domestic murders. Many of them used to be of the poisoning type, and many of them may still be, for all we know. An Irishman who said that he was always quarrelling with his wife was asked, \"Do you never think of divorce?\". He replied, \"Divorce has never struck me. But murder, yes.\" That kind of murder is a natural murder—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "vities—that the Conservatives tried to stand in the way of abolition while the Labour Party is tied irrevocably to it. I am in favour of abolition and I have defended my views in my constituency. The same can be said of many of my hon. Friends, and we are not ashamed of the stand we have taken. It is undeniable that there is a political motive behind the Conservative manœuvre on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "preceding_text": " know that nothing in the statistics of merely the next few months could possibly alter my considered views on this matter, and I know there is not an hon. Member who could put his hand on his heart and say that they would alter his views, either. Let us be done with this nonsense. Let us go on to the debate tomorrow and discuss the matter on its merits. Let us have a public debate in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwin Brooks", "preceding_text": "nd say that they would alter his views, either. Let us be done with this nonsense. Let us go on to the debate tomorrow and discuss the matter on its merits. Let us have a public debate in the country— [ Interruption. ]. Yes! What makes hon. Members opposite think that people are not going to ask us questions in the General Election campaign simply because we are to take a decision tomorrow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is not a Supply day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "has put his name. They have had all the opportunities in the world to debate this matter without a Motion of censure. As they have been good enough to give up one of their Supply days today for the purpose of this debate, if this were not an occasion for angry taunts, for a great swirl of debate, they could, had they wished, have offered it as a Supply day to turn the debate into a two-day debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "e. As they have been good enough to give up one of their Supply days today for the purpose of this debate, if this were not an occasion for angry taunts, for a great swirl of debate, they could, had they wished, have offered it as a Supply day to turn the debate into a two-day debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"This is not a Supply day.\"] If it is in the Government's time, in that case we have given the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "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": "f debate, they could, had they wished, have offered it as a Supply day to turn the debate into a two-day debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"This is not a Supply day.\"] If it is in the Government's time, in that case we have given the day. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Very well, I withdraw. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is always absolutely correct on the smallest, most pedantic points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "put up a case to convince the country—of what, I do not know; perhaps they can tell me what they are trying to convince the country of—they hide behind a procedural Motion. Whether it was their failure to vote either on Biafra or Vietnam last week which has led them to put down this Motion, so that they can all go into the Lobby together, I do not know, but I believe that we are merely witnessing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-15", "file": "debates1969-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "2f04887cb6244d79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1058.4", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that an assurance was given at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-15a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1110.5", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that he has deliberately misled the House about what I said last night? I was then asking him how the Government intended to hold interest rates down, having regard to the great rise in them over the past few months?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I cannot go into detail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1115.4", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "That is quite correct but I am not anxious to be in any way complacent. There are a lot of people living in slum conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1115.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I can see that the answer is not taken very easily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I can see that the answer is not taken very easily—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] What well-mannered gentlemen hon. Members opposite are!—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I can see that the answer is not taken very easily—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] What well-mannered gentlemen hon. Members opposite are!—[ Interruption. ] If they would keep their mouths quiet for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was courteous enough to write to me about this. I am glad to have this chance of dealing with his point about our balance of trade with the Soviet Union. I agree that he has a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Soviet Union as a percentage of imports from them rose from 41 per cent. to nearly 66 per cent. That justified what I said. However, the hon. Gentleman has referred to the first 10 months of this year. The value figure has risen sharply, but the percentage of Soviet imports covered by exports still runs significantly higher than in 1964. So the hon. Gentleman will agree that I have a point, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "COUNCIL OF EUROPE (GREECE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. We have never considered that Greek membership of the Council of Europe was relevant to Greece's rôle in N.A.T.O. The Council of Europe is essentially a forum which deals with matters of parliamentary institutions, human rights and the rule of law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "preceding_text": "clude certain acts from the scope of the Sunday Observance Act 1677; and to make provision for, and in connection with, the winding up of the Cinematograph Fund. This is a very limited Bill. It is not a Sunday Trading Bill. It does not seek to alter the hours for opening pubs on Sunday. It deals with Sunday entertainments. It excludes Scotland and Ireland, which have different laws on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "ical of the \"Callamandering\" that we had over the boundaries; it has been carried into this issue. The Government are namby-pamby over the handling of criminals. They have not the faintest idea of how to handle the problem of serious crime—not one of them. Not a single measure taken by the present Home Secretary or by his permissive predecessor has sought to deal with the problem of serious crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1232.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1253.1", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": " associated. I want to come back to this because I think it quite important. The other qualification I have for making a contribution is that there is a large prison in my constituency. I disagree strongly with the hon. Member for the Isle of Wight (Mr. Woodnutt), who claimed to speak on behalf of the prison officers there. It is true that in Barlinnie there are no long-term violent criminals but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1253.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "Is it not also true that the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths) is paid for his services in this regard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1263.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Gurden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Gurden", "preceding_text": "The vote tonight will depend on the judgments and consciences of hon. Members and not on the judgment and conscience of the majority of the public, who have declared that they are for retention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1268.7", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Niall MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Niall MacDermot", "preceding_text": "The choice before the House tonight is whether we should abolish capital punishment for murder, or go back to the earlier Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1268.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacDermot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has shown that he is incapable of following an argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "I did not refer to \"improper pressure\". It is known that there will be a completely free vote on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1284.3", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Anne Kerr rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1286.1", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Bentley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. William Ross)", "preceding_text": "eedings that have stemmed from a Statute passed by this House have charged it even further with drama. I remember the kind of thing that took place in this House when there was capital punishment over a wide sphere. I remember Sydney Silverman pursuing almost to the last minute, and using every device of procedure available in this House, to save the life of one man and how we all felt about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1287.3", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1288.5", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "MURDER (ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " wonder whether people really mean what they say about the question of a deterrent. I would have thought that the more barbarous a thing was the greater a deterrent it would be. I sometimes wonder what would be people's reaction if, instead of the act of judicial killing taking place behind high walls, they were taken inside and there saw the whole effect—as could easily be done now by television—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1288.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-16", "file": "debates1969-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "b29b0d23264c53dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1319.3", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "RACE RELATIONS BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "it was not found possible to hedge back, as it were. There was no question whatever of the board or the conciliation committee harrying the advertiser in this case. A reasonable letter was sent to him on behalf of the conciliation committee calling his attention to the wording of the advertisement and the provisions of the Act. The board did not consider that any further action needed to be taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-16a.1319.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Well, what the Question is about, of course, is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend and his Department have made their position quite clear. I do not wish to set up another Select Committee. I have set up so many Select Committees in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1349.3", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "No, it has not been done in connection with this dispute. This is a very minor dispute about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1349.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1355.2", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES (WILSON REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. It was my clear understanding that copies of the report were available in the Vote Office at 11 o'clock this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "n the legislation for the C.I.M. Therefore, in this situation the reactivation of Part II powers is, as the Prime Minister told the House during the debate on the Queen's Speech, a \"bridging operation\". These powers are needed because, as we are systematically de-escalating our statutory control, it is essential not to escalate the national mood of expansionist euphoria too sharply and prematurely", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be the same as now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ion of the policy. As long as these powers have been there under the 1966 Act, industry has co-operated very fully on a voluntary basis, so fully that it has never been necessary to make an order requiring a statutory notification of pay or price increases. But I have no doubt that if these powers were not there, if Part II today were not to be reactivated, the situation would dramatically change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " an order requiring a statutory notification of pay or price increases. But I have no doubt that if these powers were not there, if Part II today were not to be reactivated, the situation would dramatically change. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It would be the same as now.\"] No, it would not be the same as it is now, because we should not have an early warning system and we should not have early warning powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am in this very difficult situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What did that mean?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "f right hon. and hon. Members opposite. I repeat that, of course, the Opposition believe in an incomes policy. The Leader of the Opposition announced his policy in last year's Budget debate, when he said: I am quite prepared for a tough incomes policy to ensure that costs do not outrun productivity, but it must be achieved by using all the aspects of economic policy in a complete economic context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.2", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.5", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ts of the House, a great degree of admiration. She has shown great ability and a large amount of courage. I assure her that in the House this afternoon, in all parts, she has our sincere sympathy. She finds herself in an impossible position and I know that she would like to admit it. It is almost callous of the House to continue with this debate after the right hon. Lady's speech. It would really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.5", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " shown great ability and a large amount of courage. I assure her that in the House this afternoon, in all parts, she has our sincere sympathy. She finds herself in an impossible position and I know that she would like to admit it. It is almost callous of the House to continue with this debate after the right hon. Lady's speech. It would really—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, it is callous of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.5", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " (Mr. George Brown) alone, a wonderful world which began on 15th October, 1964. What on earth does the right hon. Lady, who is responsible for this White Paper, or the Prime Minister himself, think the leaders of the T.U.C. were arguing about all through 1963 and 1964, and obstructing the efforts of my right hon. Friend the Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) if it was not precisely about this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e country on 20th July when he stood at the Dispatch Box and announced the Measures which have been perpetrated since. That is why it will not be the recipe for electoral success next time. The people of this country will always remember the way that they were deceived in the lead up to the 1966 election, and they will always remember the measures of 20th July which followed that General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1389.0", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the trade figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ures which have been perpetrated since. That is why it will not be the recipe for electoral success next time. The people of this country will always remember the way that they were deceived in the lead up to the 1966 election, and they will always remember the measures of 20th July which followed that General Election—[ Interruption. ] I will illustrate the point with figures. On 20th July, 1966—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " the Government's various economic policies, as the Chancellor has rightly emphasised, is to rely on the remaining benefits of devaluation, and these he is loth to see eroded. Today's Financial Times points out that because of dollar inflation there is something left from devaluation in North America, but there is almost nothing left elsewhere. The right hon. Gentleman knows that dollar inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "cause of dollar inflation, though not so much in Europe. I make this point because no one should under-estimate the task which still faces this country of establishing a permanently sound basis for its balance of payments. How much the Prime Minister has enjoyed his fun on the balance of payments figures—all those carefully prepared Answers and all those equally carefully prepared supplementaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "so that they can declare that they are repaying considerable amounts of overseas debt. If it is not correct the Chancellor of the Exchequer can immediately clear it up by publishing the figures and giving an analysis of the repayments which have been made. Once again, in order to reassure the Prime Minister, let us all this afternoon unreservedly welcome the improvement in the balance of payments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1403.1", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They never did before.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walden", "preceding_text": "That is a very good question. I will give a direct answer and then comment on it. The direct answer is that I think that they will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "e months but, clearly, is for one year. That should be remembered. That has not been pointed out in this debate. We are not being asked merely to accept something for three months. At the other end of the three months there may be something of which we do not know. Therefore, we are being asked tonight to vote for continuation, in a modified form, of this policy for one year. That is what it says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "emained low paid. We have not helped them one bit, and they no longer believe us when we come along with a White Paper and say, \"That is in the past. That is all in the past. In future it is going to be different\". They do not believe us any more. I have had telegrams pouring in from the Merseyside area from building workers. Incidentally, I had one from Huyton, Kirkby, and District Trades Council", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not fair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "s we are concerned, we are not going into the Lobby—I am not, anyway, and I am sure that many of my hon. Friends are not—with hon. Gentlemen on the other side. I will tell why —for the reasons that my right hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) made clear: the Opposition are irrelevant; they are only involved in opposing this policy in the way they are, purely for party political game.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " are actually worse off than they were 30 years ago. I think that there is now suffiicent on the record to prove the point. The workers in Fords particularly—an American employer—are only just keeping pace with the cost of living and therefore could not in any circumstances be accused of exploiting their bargaining position, for they are taking no more from the economy than they were 30 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Bank clerks?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "of course, these powers will not be used, and that they are only temporary. If the Prime Minister was correctly reported, he said to the Labour Party yesterday that at least they will never be used except in the most blatant cases. Like what? What are the blatant cases? The teachers? The nurses? The eight draughtsmen in a Scottish factory we remember a year or two ago? Are those the blatant cases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "ntleman and the right hon. Lady know that they were not. The whole thing was a sham, a farce. There is now accumulating evidence that in important individual settlements the operation, or the attempted operation, of the statutory incomes policy is forcing settlements to higher levels than would have been the case had they been left to free collective bargaining. I will give the House two examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": " pay and price increases. Such notification is essential to the operation of any prices and incomes policy\". That sounds pretty compulsory. Paragraph 32 on page 12 states that the purpose of the powers in the order is to enable the Government to delay…implementation while they inquire and have reports made. That also sounds permanent and compulsory. The evidence so far from the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-17", "file": "debates1969-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "7960f36486bd8e5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1508.4", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chichester-Clark", "preceding_text": "ur on county commandants. In view of the fact that no other responsible person, whatever may be felt about the special and general, has so far done this, I thought that the hon. Member would not wish to do so. Because, however, the hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) is not present, I am sure that the hon. Member would not wish to appear to act as her Parliamentary Private Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-17a.1508.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "Does not my right hon. Friend think that it is a slightly odd sense of priorities to divert a large number of policemen from the valuable normal duties which they perform to protect a football team whose presence in this country is unwelcome and obnoxious to many thousands of citizens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1530.0", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "There is a further Question about the Willink formula later today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEME ERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "out building the Rem-ploy factories for those disabled in the coalmining industry, and it is the reason for all we have done to step up the Remploy programme. It is certainly a fact that a considerable number of those thrown out of employment by colliery closures are disabled. The House will have noticed the great contrast between our treatment of those thrown out of employment over the age of 55—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "May I deal with the specific part of the point of order first. This matter was raised yesterday. The Minister made an apology when he said, at column 1355: It was my clear understanding that copies of the report were available at the Vote Office at 11 o'clock this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1552.1", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Business Question. Mr. Heath, Mr. Iain—Mr. Maudling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "We have undertaken to have a detailed examination of the proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1560.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to add to what I said on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I cannot agree to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "Anyone who is familiar with industrial negotiations understands that the fewer people who have to be consulted on each side round the table. the better and easier it is to make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " If they are to be brought into public ownership, that threat will now hang over them. If any of these ports are highly successful, the Government will regard that as being against the interests of the public sector since it will take business away. If this happens, the Government will come forward for powers to stop them. That is the principle. That is why the Minister has left the position open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1634.2", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are still doing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "were afraid that our ports would suffer if the Port-bury scheme went through, so we did our bit of pressurising the other way. The hon. Member for Worcester (Mr. Peter Walker), I remember, made all sorts of party political speeches in the South-West, telling the people how they would have Portbury under a Conservative Government. I think that even the Leader of the Opposition went down there, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1666.2", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ch, but I listened carefully to the part which I did hear. The hon. Member made clear that he believed that the British port system was gravely defective, with a number of serious deficiencies. He was concerned that the British ports could become the bottlenecks of the world—all in fine phrases and graphically expressed. I shall quote from a major docks employer to give the opposite point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "osals, and on legislation relating to the decasualisation of labour. But into this atmosphere of all-party agreement hon. Gentlemen opposite injected a new note of discord by deciding that a new and dramatic change of direction was to take place in the ports industry. I was sympathetic with the Minister at the Dispatch Box today, for this is not his own policy but something which he has inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1678.2", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tell the hon. and learned Gentleman to dredge it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "That is a very interesting question. The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not been present in the debate all day, and he now asks me whether I will dredge the Ellesmere Port canal. If this is what the Opposition case comes down to, whether or not we shall dredge the canal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1678.5", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "ance. Sir Andrew Crichton, Chairman of Overseas Containers Ltd., welcomed the decision that at long last there should be a National Ports Authority, and he said that one thing we could not afford to ignore was the dispersal of investment and effort as between ports. The Times, which is not subtitled the Labour Gazette, called the White Paper as workmanlike a document as could have been hoped for\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1678.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1678.5", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "n for telling people to vote for my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar, referred to a \"rational reorganisation\". Vice-Admiral Hughes Hallett, who will not be unknown to hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, and who when sitting on these benches as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Transport was responsible for the Harbours Act, 1964, whilst criticising what he calls port rationalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1678.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1680.3", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "What is the position if a port—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I cannot cover a hypothetical situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "ished. In a situation in which there is a multiplicity of employers, most of them private, and fluctuating work load requirements, the scheme offers protection against a possible reversion to casual employment. The hon. Member for Tavistock said that this Bill would not get through because the Tories would win the next General Election. I have news for him, and it is all bad. That will not happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1684.1", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "employers, most of them private, and fluctuating work load requirements, the scheme offers protection against a possible reversion to casual employment. The hon. Member for Tavistock said that this Bill would not get through because the Tories would win the next General Election. I have news for him, and it is all bad. That will not happen. [ Interruption. ] We know that there will be an election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is a good Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, NAB 1. The A.A. says that the recognised allowance for that cubic capacity is Is. 8½d. a mile. I am to be reimbursed at the rate of 6d. per mile. There is therefore throughout a net loss of ls. 2½d. a mile. If on the other hand I go out in a Mini—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Travelling incognito?\" No, not travelling incognito. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What's the number of that one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Yes, NAB 1. The A.A. says that the recognised allowance for that cubic capacity is Is. 8½d. a mile. I am to be reimbursed at the rate of 6d. per mile. There is therefore throughout a net loss of ls. 2½d. a mile. If on the other hand I go out in a Mini—[ Interruption. ] I would not look very funny. I frequently come to the House of Commons in a Mini.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1696.3", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the mileage allowances proposed are not good enough. However, I am not sure whether I have a great deal of sympathy for the hon. Member for Worcester, South (Sir G. Nabarro), because not all of us are able to choose from our quartet of motor cars whether we make a profit or a loss out of our journeys home—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1696.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1697.0", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Lawrence principally.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "a position in public and political activity where they receive a very large mail. I am sure that the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South is one of them. The more speeches one makes, the more correspondence one gets. The more correspondence a Member gets, the more it costs to deal with it. The more work a Member does, the less take-home pay he has. That is really putting any vocation on its head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1696.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1697.1", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ld be when they see them perched on seats in the corridors and in the Lobbies trying to dictate to their secretaries. A Member is fortunate indeed if he has a desk, and more fortunate still if he has a room. In the corridor upstairs, where I am fortunate indeed to have a small room, a senior Member of this House told me that he had just obtained a share of a room—and he has been here longer than I", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "It is embarrassing to take up the time of the House and the nation in discussing our own pay. I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Wirral (Mr. Selwyn Lloyd) that this is one of the many things the House should not discuss at all, and that it should be left to an entirely independent body to settle for us—certainly not to the Treasury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1703.1", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "e are shut up here rather like a school on a cruise. As a result we leave the voters floating between rival disillusionments. What is the job—for what is he paid—of the hon. Member in his constituency and what is expected of him? Before one increases a person's pay or alters his terms of service, one must consider his job. The hon. Member is treated nowadays by his constituents largely as a fixer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am amazed to learn that my hon. Friend has never, for example, got one of his constituents a house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am amazed to learn that my hon. Friend has never, for example, got one of his constituents a house. [Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] After all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I believe it. I give one example to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-18", "file": "debates1969-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "2102bfbe07221953", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1718.3", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "MEMBERS (EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I do not deny that, but I do not regard that as \"fixing\". If a Member of Parliament represents the interests of an individual constituent who tries to check bureaucracy and tries to further the interests of a constituent, that is not \"fixing\" in the way I mean. I hope the hon. Gentleman will think about that again. We have had an extremely interesting debate. I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-18a.1718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At the expense of the taxpayer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": " Toulon. On the same day, an unspecified number of delegates attended a conference, which must have been fascinating, called \"European Realities\" in Luxembourg. I hope that did them some good. Two days later the honorary secretary attended a conference of the French council of the European movement in Paris. That is not bad for one month's travelling and junketing at the expense of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1756.3", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "The British viewpoint is the viewpoint of the Government of this country at any particular time, and it is highly desirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1756.5", "colnum": "1756", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "It is highly desirable that contacts of that kind between us in this country and between other countries on the Continent should not simply be between Ministers and professional diplomats, but should be between other people as well—between business people, people in the universities and people in the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1756.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1757.0", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "That is not so. I should like to give an example which disproves what the hon. Member is saying and what his right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith said). For example, this month there were two visits by some of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1757.2", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "Britain's application to join following the outcome of The Hague summit. It is important that as many Members of Parliament as possible should be properly informed on this question. The hon. Member for Banbury seems to me to be using this flimsy argument as a hook on which to hang his well-known views about the Common Market, views which are not shared by the vast majority of Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1757.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1758.9", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "The European Communities paid for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1758.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "riend has raised a point I was about to come to myself in a moment and I ask him to wait. That is the first point, that there is a large number of grants which are given to a large number of organisations to promote exchanges of different kinds, and it would be nothing short of extraordinary if the Government were not to provide public money for visits and exchanges of this kind in Western Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1764.3", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. It is my own view entirely. I have given way already and I shall perhaps be prepared to give way on a future occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1764.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1765.1", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "BRITISH COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN MOVEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": " of hon. Members of this House who are opposed to the British application to join the Common Market have taken part in these conferences and debates—for instance, my hon. Friend the Member for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt), who was here just now but who has now left, who has his own personal view of this particular matter; my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon. South (Mr. Winnick), who at meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1780.0", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (INTER-UNION DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I urge the hon. Gentleman to accept that this dispute was created by the unilateral action of the employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1780.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (INTER-UNION DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Harold Walker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity (Mr. Harold Walker)", "preceding_text": "omfort and strain to the daily lot of many people who use the underground service. The London Transport Board is now anxious to press ahead with getting the service back to normal, but this cannot, of course, be achieved overnight. In this situation a return to normalcy and what we hope will be a continuous improvement will not be helped by the sort of recriminations that we have had this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1969-12-19", "file": "debates1969-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "c08a47d2c7a11220", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1784.6", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT (INTER-UNION DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Those two comments are indicative of the approach of hon. Gentlemen opposite. It is contrary to what one would expect of this House in such a situation. Hon. Gentlemen opposite repeatedly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1969-12-19a.1784.5"}