{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I must disappoint the right hon. Gentleman there. He can infer no such thing from my reply. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services went out of his way to make it clear that he was neither seeking to encourage nor to discourage these schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.32.3", "colnum": "32", "heading": "WALES (LLUEST WEN RESERVOIR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend was in Maerdy all through Monday night, as was the Parliamentary Secretary who is standing by on duty there today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.32.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.32.4", "colnum": "32", "heading": "WALES (LLUEST WEN RESERVOIR)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that on this side of the House we extend every sympathy to all those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.32.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the situation in Nigeria as it has developed over the past 10 days. I apologise for its length, but it covers a great deal of important ground. I am sure that all hon. Members, whatever view they have taken about the rights and wrongs of the Nigerian war, will join in heartfelt relief that the fighting and bloodshed has now ended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The unions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "n, we have to have the second-best. I thought that we could legislate for full preservation not only for the future, but with some retrospection for existing pension rights. From our first White Paper it will be assumed that that is what we will do. That is what I had hoped. But our hopes have been dashed. The people who laud the occupational schemes and say there is no alternative will not dream—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.83.2", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "s, do not give up. They will help themselves to the national cake. The corrupting influences of the capitalist system go with its incentives. It remains to be seen—and I am not sure about this—whether the next generation will honour the promissory notes that we are writing into this Bill. This is my gnawing doubt all the time. The contract between the generations is being signed by only one party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.83.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "untry that they think that we are being too generous to low wage earners who, on the whole, do not have access to occupational pension schemes. The Opposition have been making great play of what they call the vast increase in the burden of taxation and contributions. This is just sheer misrepresentation. Between April, 1955, and October, 1964, slightly less than 10 years, employees' contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ct very favourably to criticism from the other side that in the plans that we are putting forward the Government are not making proper provision for people in their old age. The Government's proposals, which will be approved tonight, are a charter for the under-privileged. They will help to meet the needs of most of those in distress in our society. Let us look at some of the principal provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.165.3", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL SUPERANNUATION AND SOCIAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " This is an enormous stride forward. If the Bill did nothing more than improve the provision for widowhood we would be proud of it. Also, however, it introduces a widow's pension for all women who may unfortunately lose their husbands after they have passed their fortieth birthday. This will remove a serious omission in our present widowhood provisions. Sixthly, there will be three major advances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "We had an inquiry which lasted 44 days. Well before any formal proposal to establish the Board was published, we consulted over 70 local authorities and other interested bodies. We found little doubt about the need for a board in Mid-Wales. The Liberal Party, in its policy statement in 1964, said that Mid Wales would benefit from a rural development board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.187.0", "colnum": "187", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "ater he said: … and Parliament should be very grudging in giving power of this kind.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th November, 1965; Vol. 721, c. 1267–8.] I would also point to the activities or non-political activities of the hon. Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Gwynfor Evans), who at as late a date as 16th October, 1967, said when speaking to the Carmarthen branch of the National Farmers Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "say to him tonight that if he brings in this Order quite regardless of the wishes of the vast majority of the people of the area, I shall assume that he has a hide like a rhinocerous. It would not be a good thing for him in Mid Wales to be considered as Rhino Thomas. That would not do at all. I ask the right hon. Gentleman to reconsider this. Of course, there is politics in this. We all know this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Blackmail.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson-Watt", "preceding_text": "der that one. Therefore, I say one final thing. I give warning now—what I say may shock some hon. Members—to anyone who takes a job with the Mid Wales Rural Development Board that it is still the policy of my party to do away with that board when we come into office. Do not let them complain later that they have not been warned. Meanwhile, I ask any hon. Member who has a love and an understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.190.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "I have the OFFICIAL REPORT here, if the hon. Gentleman wishes to check his own speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.200.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.206.0", "colnum": "206", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": " specific assurances, which we received from the then Parliamentary Secretary, the right hon. Member for Edinburgh, Leith (Mr. Hoy). We asked particularly about public inquiries, and the hon. Gentleman said at col. 1044 in Standing Committee A on 17th November, 1966, that \"there would be powers for public inquiries at which it would be possible to consider not only where the boundaries should be\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Afraid to give way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The hon. and learned gentleman has not behaved well in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-19", "file": "debates1970-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "faf5d8369e058289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.208.5", "colnum": "208", "heading": "WALES RURAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. The hon. and learned Member knows that never before have I made a speech during which I refused to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-19a.208.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Before the right hon. Gentleman allows the glow of self-satisfaction to overcome him, will he reflect that although there has been a very welcome improvement in the balance of payments—and we are, of course, all delighted about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.251.3", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister be very frank in his discussion with the Federal Chancellor and tell him of the opposition of the Scottish Nationalist Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT (SHIPS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ed, and that it was not the usual constitutional practice to say that he had been advised by anybody. I am now wondering whether whoever advised the Minister in Committee has found that the advice tendered is not correct, and that perhaps the Minister is now doing what is often done. It is a sort of constitutional thing. He is trying to protect the advisers because they tendered the wrong advice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.318.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.359.0", "colnum": "359", "heading": "LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "In Scotland.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dempsey", "preceding_text": "e difficult for the Chair to make a choice. I should not suggest that the Chair should make a choice, but I am sure that if the occupant were out of the Chair he would make one all right. For my sins as a Member of Parliament I happen to be blessed with the fact that I am not in the Chair, and I can make a choice, and my view is that if we have any money to spend we should spend it in those areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.362.6", "colnum": "362", "heading": "LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Naïve.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "For my hon. Friends and myself, our purpose in raising this debate was to bring out into the open and confirm what was said by the Minister of State, Technology in Committee. My hon. Friend in replying to the debate today clearly reiterated what was said, and I accept it in good faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.362.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "LOCAL EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "e area and assisting hon. Members who have asked for his aid, are sufficient for me to know that his integrity is beyond doubt, and I accept what he says in good faith. I am not playing politics on this issue, in spite of the attempts made by some hon. Members opposite whose contributions to the debate have been very poor. In the circumstances, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion and Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.362.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-20", "file": "debates1970-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "3679f5a8fa134ff3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (GOODS AND SERVICES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "e a mention of S.E.T. benefits in the accounts. They will probably have to be shown, because for local authorities S.E.T. is a payment and then a recovery of that money; so it must appear in the accounts as a payment and as a receipt. I therefore presume that it will be traceable in the accounts in some form. These are sub-Amendments which would not give the municipal treasurers any great trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-20a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, of course it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman had better watch out. He more than anybody else has been pressing me on housing and he should be delighted that we have announced today yet another record in house-building completions in Scotland. All this, of course, means more civil servants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.497.8", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite should not anticipate what Parliament will eventually decide in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.497.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING CREDIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And by the shareholders.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "lf in unusual places where they have these unusual experiences. I assure him that what has been promised has, according to the custom of the House, been promised on the assumption and hope that the House will sanction the appropriate Bill. As one right hon. Gentleman opposite has said, albeit out of order, this is not Government money. This is a Government guarantee of money provided by the banks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING CREDIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Not by shareholders, but by the banks who have voluntarily undertaken to do so at this rate of interest.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "day. Second, the figures are based, so far as receipts are concerned, on the assumption of constant tax rates at a rate of growth of the economy of about 3 per cent. a year. This is the best working assumption, conservative working assumption, we can make in a presentation which looks ahead several years. But when I come to take decisions on my Budget—or on my next Budget or on the one after that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "n one realises that it is net and many jobs have been provided, and rightly provided, by the help which the Government have given. Of that total of 679,000, about 250,000 between March, 1966, and March, 1969, is an increase in unemployment. The remainder, which comes to 430,000, is jobs which have disappeared. Many people would say that the selective employment tax is one of the main reasons here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.547.1", "colnum": "547", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "ulty is that those 500 are not equal in the service that they give to the House. Far too much the work of this House is operated on the willing horse principle, and there are a lot of willing horses, on both sides, present today. Indeed, it is largely their interest in this matter that brings them here. I think that the Select Committee's proposal will put a considerable strain upon those Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "does not appear in their take-home pay. It is up to us to discourage some of the wage demands that are bandied around with figures of take-home pay. It is up to us as Socialists more than anyone else never to use figures of take-home pay except in exceptional circumstances, because take-home pay will obviously be a declining part of gross earnings as time goes on. The hospital service, education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": " of service for the customer. We are all, I suppose, becoming conditioned to delays in letters, to local calls going wrong, to subscriber trunk dialling errors and to delay in overseas cables. Campaigns have been run in newspapers and elsewhere. It is extremely serious when, after all the enormous investment, as much as 10 per cent. of all mail is admited by the Post Office to be subject to delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "to local calls going wrong, to subscriber trunk dialling errors and to delay in overseas cables. Campaigns have been run in newspapers and elsewhere. It is extremely serious when, after all the enormous investment, as much as 10 per cent. of all mail is admited by the Post Office to be subject to delay. [ Interruption. ] The same sort of comments could apply to the telephone service and telegrams.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "—is that this is a service which lost £3·4 million. If the Minister is thinking of cuting it back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.630.7", "colnum": "630", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "ry. As the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Richard Wainwright) said, there are acute shortages of smokeless fuel in Birmingham, London, Yorkshire and other places and, regrettably, there have been shortages in other fuels as well. Take coking coal. We produce the finest coking coal in the world. There is enormous demand for it which, somehow. is not being met. Dealing with coal, the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.630.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "olitical compromise, but we should not drift into an arbitrary figure and then, having drifted into that arbitrary figure, convince ourselves that the percentage is right. This is done all the time in political life. People decide on a particular line of argument and then go on, day after day, week after week, convincing themselves that that line of argument is right. This is what tends to happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-21", "file": "debates1970-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "d087286d3120b311", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "In the last few minutes of the debate the right hon. Gentleman has taken me into a very wide field, but he cannot prove that case. I quoted certain facts about what will inevitably happen which he has not disputed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-21a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thought that we had spent a large part of 1969 debating just this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.690.5", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What I said and what my right hon. Friend has said, and what the Minister of Agriculture has said, is, of course, that if we secure entry to the Common Market we have to accept the burdens that go with entry. Both of these are burdens, and they would only be worth accepting if the advantages in trade and other matters corresponded with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.690.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.692.0", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"First?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.692.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ith regard to the value-added tax, this was turned down first by the then Conservative Government, and at that time I thought that there was more value in it. We have re-examined it, after the Richardson Report, hopeful that it might be able to solve some of the fiscal problems which the country has faced for many years. We have turned it down and see no case, at any rate in present circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.692.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.698.3", "colnum": "698", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Your Leader.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "nt of order which has several times been made by my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey), who is also my M.P.? You will be aware that we reached only Question Q4 in the Questions down to the Prime Minister. It has been pointed out in the past that my hon. Friends and I feel most deeply about this matter. The reason why only four Questions were answered rests with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.698.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.698.4", "colnum": "698", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Shut up. The reason for this state of affairs is the long-winded, flannel replies that are given by the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.698.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "es of the Nigerian authorities. This is not a description of the kind of situation which we are facing. With regard to Uli, most of us have read the history of the feelings at the end of other bloody civil wars where anything as provocative as Uli was in this war would naturally be regarded as a pretty dirty word. It was through Uli that all the arm supplies came, wherever they may have come from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.723.7", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "sm when the growth was being planned and the talk was of how it would be spent. Now, we come to the dreary final phase when they are counselling that one must not be too optimistic about growth—but it may be 3 per cent. with a little luck. At least, the two hon. Gentlemen on the back benches are at the beginning of the progression. We shall be interested to watch their progress in the next decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.723.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.723.7", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ent. We are told this morning that the Government have agreed to an increase in the building industry of 26 per cent. over the next 16 months. The impact of that increase will be considerable in the public sector. The House should be told more about this aspect of the matter at a time when wages are being increased by such enormous percentages. I am not arguing about the correctness of the claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.723.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "e of our community, and those living conditions go a long way in determining the quality of life. That increase has also enabled the Government to carry out the kind of redistribution of income which is the mark of a humane and self-respecting society. I take pleasure in the fulfilment of my beliefs and pride in the fact that this party and this Government have done what they were sent here to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.744.1", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Many figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "The way to avoid arguments about figures is to have the figures in front of one. The advantage of a White Paper of this size—83 pages—is that it gives every figure which one can reasonably ask for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "hich Government withdrew. There are two broad areas that I identify as being areas from which the Government should withdraw, in whole or in part. They are the investment grants, now running at over £550 million, and agricultural deficiency payments. The agricultural deficiency payment figure is not available in this document, but my guess from Table 2.8 is that it will be about £150-£200 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "eficiency is to set up the Select Committees. Again, I agree with the hon. Member for Fife, West: I hope that it is done before the spring. After the General Election, the Conservative Government will go ahead with it, of course, but I fear that it will not be done quickly, because there will be so much for us to do and this idea will be lost sight of for a year or two after we come back to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-22", "file": "debates1970-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "1d4212b2b5b3b776", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "hon. Members present at the moment. One of the reasons that I am opposed to the setting up of these committees is that an arrogance of expertise will soon develop. They will regard themselves as one set of members, first-class, while others who are not part of their charmed circle will be regarded as second-class members. The hon. Gentleman has played right into my hands in using this terminology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-22a.780.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Assistance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "It is a curious coincidence that on the day after the speech of the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph), in which he said that the Government should move out of industry, we have a further appeal from his hon. Friend for Government money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.974.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1027.5", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "NIGERIA (RELIEF PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": " did not just say, \"Let us use our influence in Nigeria.\" He said that we had the right to intervene. We have not got that right. One of the great troubles in this whole affair has been the extraordinary bias shown by some of the media of communication, in particular, the B.B.C. and to a lesser extent the I.T.V. They have continually painted General Ojukwu as a hero and General Gowon as a villain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1027.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1027.5", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "NIGERIA (RELIEF PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with the relief\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "ess Council, so that one may make complaints not merely to the chairmen of the authorities who run television, but to an independent body which can adjudicate on them. I have complained to Lord Hill and I was told by him that he sees no bias in the B.B.C. programmes. All I can say is that that must be the reason there is so much bias, if he cannot see any. For example, on the \"24 Hours\" programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1027.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "NIGERIA (RELIEF PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "hange. I am glad that His Holiness—and I hope that I have got his title right—then issued a very different statement the Sunday following from the one he issued the previous Sunday. I fear that some of the organs of information have been in the hands of Roman Catholics. It is a serious matter. It does not seem to me to be any conicidence that the Director-General of the B.B.C. is a Roman Catholic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "NIGERIA (RELIEF PLANS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgusting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "e reducing their consumption of champagne. Yet this is the kind of tendentious and unfair reporting which one sees in the newspapers, as though the Nigerian Government were swilling away, eating the fatted calf and drinking champagne which ought to go to the starving children. If one gives champagne to starving children, the result will not be very good, anyway. All this sneering and interference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1067.4", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": "ir anger and frustration everywhere, and they are right to do so when, by so doing, they can bring home to Ministers the serious nature of their difficulties. It is in the argument and presentation of their case that, in my view, they will best further their case, and for this purpose we have chosen to initiate this debate. It is not usual for us to debate the subject just before the Price Review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1067.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1067.4", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": ". Why should the Government cavil at this? What is their record? It is clear enough. In 1969 food prices rose by 6·4 per cent.—that was in one year, not three—which represents £357 million in one year as against our figure of £330 million three years. Since right hon. Gentlemen opposite have had the honour of being Her Majesty's Government, £1,300 million has been added to the cost of food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1067.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1076.1", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try the front door next time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "The sheep are more at home with the hon. Gentleman than with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Waldegrave, received a very hostile reception in Exeter. Many hon. Members from Devon and Somerset will readily confirm that farmers in the South-West are distinctly more impartial than the right hon. Gentleman. I want to take up one or two points on which the Opposition challenged us. In their important Motion they seek to condemn not one measure or another but the whole policy of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1076.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " prices did not wash with the industry. In his latest policy—and he has switched his policies frequently—he has therefore had to reintroduce them, not at the sort of levels which in his own view would provide a reasonable return to farmers but at a somewhat lower level. During the last five years, we have raised the value of the guarantees, after allowing for costs and efficiency, by £105 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "70 the index will have recovered. For cereals we aim for the maximum expansion which is technically possible. Last year was somewhat better than we had the right to hope for in the spring, because of the good summer. But it was still disappointing. But the December census returns just published, which hon. Members will have seen, show that the winter wheat acreage is substantially up on last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1079.3", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about sheep?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "must listen to the facts. For beef we are on course to achieve the objectives which I have outlined and the upward movement in the beef herd continues strongly, as the figures in the December census show. We have done well with pigs in recent years but, again, I agree that we have lost a little momentum. On a sober assessment I have no reason to doubt our long-term objectives. On farmers' incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1079.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1082.4", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I must apologise to the House for my inability to give the figures at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1082.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1082.4", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "9. My colleagues and I are very deeply conscious of it, and a charge that I am in any way complacent about it would be totally false. I am deeply concerned about it and to make an analysis of it. The pressures on the industry have been brought home to me not only in the meetings like the one at Exeter but in quieter, perhaps more contemplative, meetings with farmers elsewhere, especially in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1082.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bert Hazell", "preceding_text": "Like some other hon. Members who have spoken, I am somewhat surprised that we should be having a debate on agriculture at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": " part company with the right hon. Gentleman. He has a reputation for being an honest man. I am sure that his concern for the farming community and for farm workers is just as genuine as that of my right hon. Friend or anyone on this side. So it is not his honesty I question, but I doubt if whether the right hon. Gentleman is telling farmers the whole truth. I suspect that he is an innocent abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "are plenty of people in agriculture who can remember all too well disastrous Price Reviews and disastrous Ministers of Agriculture under a Tory Administration. So disastrous were some of them that they were obliged quietly to move on to other things because of great pressure from the farming community to get rid of them. That was the way Tory policy worked. May we come to the meat of the argument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1123.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ced in a set of circumstances in which the distinguished members of the Swann Committee gave one set of advice and a number of academics, such as Dr. Jukes and Dr. White Stevens, produced to a number of us a different set of advice? I do not know whether this is a case for the Select Committee on Science and Technology to look into or a case for the revival of the Select Committee on Agriculture.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are the other Ministers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "preceding_text": " very good association. Its members do not go out with tractors and placards, but they did far better by sending resolutions to the right quarter—not first to the Minister of Agriculture, but to the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and then the Minister of Agriculture. We are gunning for the wrong Minister this afternoon. That is what we found in the Select Committee on Agriculture.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "he \"little Neddy\" and the Select Committee have not fallen on Government ears which are totally and absolutely deaf. On the radio on Saturday morning, I listened to a discussion on the problem of import-saving or export-winning and which was the more important. One of those taking part said: It is really a question of deciding whether Great Britain is to be an agricultural or an industrial nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "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": "w lorries passing through bearing the slogan, \"Peart must go\". They had not a clue who \"Peart\" was. Their concern and the concern of Scotland is always with the Secretary of State. I think that they showed commendable discretion in not saying, \"Ross must go\". A year later there was a General Election and my majority rose considerably. So the hon. Gentleman had better not remind us of these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-26", "file": "debates1970-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "dd44a889afbfffc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£70 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " does not tell us that, but we know pretty well that it will be low. The target price will be on the floor. If it is near the target price that the farmers would like, he cannot make the savings that the Treasury demands from him. This is it. Right hon. and hon. Members opposite have not got over the trauma of 1960–61 when we had a Supplementary Estimate of about £80 million or £90 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-26a.1155.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-28", "file": "debates1970-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "77f724fe6b16a214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-28a.1660.3", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY (RUM RATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "considerable gravity, and I make no apology for raising it in the House today. As a wartime sailor in the Royal Navy who remembers with pride and affection the comradeship of the lower deck, I am glad to have this opportunity, as a Member of Parliament, to bring before the House the views which have been expressed to me in the many letters on the subject which I have received from serving sailors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-28a.1660.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-28", "file": "debates1970-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "77f724fe6b16a214", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-28a.1662.1", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "ROYAL NAVY (RUM RATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "There is some evidence from people who serve at sea in Her Majesty's ships and in the Merchant Navy that a tot of rum can have a stabilising effect upon the stomach, and this is indeed a matter of considerable importance. Imagine, Mr. Speaker, the Fleet about to engage the enemy in a tempestuous sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-28a.1662.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1696.5", "colnum": "1696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that I do not share his complacency in the latter part of his reply? Does he appreciate that today I have had a telephone message to say that another 400 men, in another of the largest employing firms in my constituency, have been declared redundant today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1696.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "t local authority house building to some extent by the subsidy, as we have done, and we can cushion the home buyer both through income tax and the option mortgage scheme. It is instructive, when hon. Gentlemen opposite are apparently blaming the Government for the situation here, to see what has happened in the United States during the last year. I hope that hon. Gentleman opposite will have read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "onths starts of new homes and apartments have dropped by 25 per cent. In the Architect's Journal for 7th January, an article is quoted from the New York Times which says: …it is no longer possible to build homes that most Americans can rent or buy … I think that people in this country will be interested to put the situation here in the context of what is happening in other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "pared with our 123,000, about twice the figure which they achieved. If one takes slum clearance, one of the most vital issues, their annual average was 31,725, whereas ours is 85,570. It is nonsense for right hon. and hon. Gentlemen on the Conservative benches to complain about our record when their record was so abysmal for so long. I shall put the housebuilding figures in a rather different way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1738.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1762.0", "colnum": "1762", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "ad, have been taken, but whenever the Government have attempted to intervene in the financial system there has been strenuous resistance from hon. Gentlemen opposite. So long as we live in a market and capitalist economy, interest rates will be high. One could discuss this issue at length, but now is not the time to do so. The housebuilding figures which we have been given do not mean a lot to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1762.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1781.3", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "he Amendment lists the official excuses. We are told, first, that more houses were built in five years of Labour Government than in the last five years of the previous Conservative Government. I want to examine that claim. The Conservative record from 1952–64 was an average of 327,000 houses a year—well over the 300,000 figure. During the last five years it was an average of 314,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1781.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1783.4", "colnum": "1783", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I do not mind which it is. It means the same thing, I suppose. I am sufficiently naive to believe in the first instance what is said in the House, so I had inquiries made and I give now from those inquiries a categorical denial that any such diktat has been sent out from Conservative Central Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1783.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "as an election year, and it produced a balance of payments deficit of £800 million. In other words, that one Tory housing programme, which has been referred to again and again today, the only programme which even approached the Labour performance, was not only an electioneering programme but it was financed out of a balance of payments deficit. In other words, it was financed by foreign borrowing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1787.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1805.1", "colnum": "1805", "heading": "CALDERDALE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too cheap\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "rounds and will have to be connected to the mains. Nothing is ever said in all these estimates about economy in the use of water. The wastefulness of our toilet arrangements is apparently to continue. Car washing and yard swilling is to come off the mains, even in areas like mine where there is enough water lying about in disused mill dams and canals to wash every car in Yorkshire. Water is cheap—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1829.1", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "CALDERDALE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ginsburg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ginsburg", "preceding_text": "ion and not for opposing it outright. I rise to support the Bill and my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill), but first I compliment my right hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton) on the presentation of his case. If I may say so, his speech and the document which he circulated to us a few days ago constitute a classic in the respectable art of parliamentary obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1829.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "CALDERDALE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " the first forward as being a major reason, but we in the Ministry believe that since the predecessor of the Calderdale Water Authority, Halifax County Council, had its Bill rejected, we would not wish to be accused of being in contempt of Parliament by not proceeding in this way. I do not place too much reliance on that first reason because the local authority had no alternative but to come here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1836.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "CALDERDALE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "he speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby. I am delighted to pay tribute to his passionate advocacy. It was a great joy to listen to my right hon. Friend whether we agree with him or not. He has done an extremely good job on behalf of his constituents. However, he did not quite get his facts right about the recreational use of reservoirs. If there is no sailing, fishing and walking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "CALDERDALE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Laughter l—though not the variety to which hon. Members are accustomed, obviously; another one for walking and sailing—[ Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "on between British water authorities, the regional sports councils and my Ministry. Since we must have reservoirs, and since the greatest shortage in sporting facilities occurs in those sports involving large expanses of water, we are all delighted to see that our reservoirs are being opened up. Already, three of my right hon. Friend's reservoirs have facilities, one for fishing and bird watching—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-01-29", "file": "debates1970-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "c8da4945d3fe099a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1846.3", "colnum": "1846", "heading": "CALDERDALE WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": " Brighouse looks forward to the construction of the reservoir. The right hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) referred to the National Trust. There is no doubt that the Trust is out in force tonight. The Trust and the other interests with which my hon. Friend the Member for The High Peak (Mr. Peter M. Jackson) is concerned, and which are not directly related to supporting the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-01-29a.1846.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.213.4", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We want Walter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Heath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED STATES (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman get up from where he is now sitting and, with his hand on his heart, give his solemn word of honour—for what that is worth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.217.7", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Here is the right hon. Lady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "ect his ability and knowledge, we guess that his knowledge may be a little better on this subject than that of his right hon. Friend, but that is not the point. He is not the responsible Minister. There is in this House a tradition, indeed, it is a principle of our system of government, that Ministers are held personally responsible to the House for the affairs of their Departments. I cannot help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.217.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.217.7", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "rs, because I have done some research on this this morning—has failed to come to that Box and stand up for his Department's work and policy when we have had a general debate on national employment. I bet that the right hon. Lady will be speaking when we come to the Second Reading of the Equal Pay Bill. She likes being in the kitchen when the sun is shining, but when the heat is on, she gets clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.217.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "preceding_text": "ent need also, particularly in shipbuilding and heavy engineering, for a lifting of the union restrictions on the entry of trainees which still exists in some cases. The hon. Member talked of our having failed to do enough with regard to industrial training. But amazingly high barriers were placed against us by union restriction of entry of trainees into crafts. Second, it is well worth recalling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.245.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "From the very nature of this debate, I must try to truncate my speech. I want to put right one erroneous impression which has been created, that apparently we in Scotland have solved the problem of unemployment. In Scotland, there are at present 92,000 unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.268.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMOKELESS ZONES AND POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Toryism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "the Ministry of Technology called that \"poetic licence\". I would call it understatement. The Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning seems to have been blisfully unaware that there were any diffi- culties. We had about 1,500 words or perhaps 2,000 of his urbane reflections on the environment in the Sunday Times on 15th January. He referred to pollution, urban sprawl, tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.295.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMOKELESS ZONES AND POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who started it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "ay want to mock the board's efforts to try to find a good alternative solid smokeless fuel, but at what cost have they been researching into this matter? Tens of millions of pounds have been expended. It is impossible to find out how much money has been put into research and development by Bronowski and others on behalf of the Coal Board. The Bronowski \"bullet\" story is a miserable and costly one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.332.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-03", "file": "debates1970-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "b232f36b623b475b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.377.2", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AWARDS AND SETTLEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-03a.377.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I cannot give financial details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.400.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "The managing director is responsible to the Governments which have participated, and if he can give information, surely the Secretary of State can give the information to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.400.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.407.5", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "I know that some general comment was made on this subject matter when my hon. Friend was in Indonesia, but I can only repeat that no specific request for an Op Macc type of operation has been received from Indonesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.407.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "In spite of the ingenuity of some hon. Members as translators, may we not have Questions written in English?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, Sir, but I should be glad if the hon. Member would state how the Opposition would propose to reinforce these forces in the Far East after 1971 and how large a stockpile they propose to hold for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.409.3", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should realise that a serious point has been raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Sir Ian Orr-Ewing) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.409.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.409.4", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ramsden", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should realise that a serious point has been raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Sir Ian Orr-Ewing) — [HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer\"]—and he should not brush it off.How is the worldwide capability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.409.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister of Defence aware of the strength and extent of the resistance to the proposal to move the Shoeburyness gunnery range down to the sand beaches of Carmarthen-shire near to an industrial complex and some fishery and tourist industries? Is he aware of the detrimental effect this move would have on the economic, political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "No one is more concerned than I am to ensure that this new torpedo gets under way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.422.3", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman attended our proceedings more regularly, he would know that I referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.422.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "I guess—it can be only a guess—that this will be the last Administration of Justice Bill which we shall hear the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney-General present to the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Weitzman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"A sacred cow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Weitzman", "preceding_text": "nk, will applaud the decision to abolish imprisonment as a means of enforcing the payment of civil debts. I do not, however, understand the logic of preserving this sanction in the case of maintenance and Crown debts, for example tax and social insurance. I suppose that my right hon. and learned Friend will say that the Inland Revenue is a holy institution and we must do something in regard to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Probert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Probert", "preceding_text": ". This is the kernel of the problem. This is a relic of the days when modes of travel were on horseback, walking, or by stagecoach. It is worth remembering that in Scotland the position is different. The principle laid down in Clause 8 is already in existence in Scotland, and it has apparently caused no difficulties. Therefore, I do not know what the farmers in England and Wales are worried about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tudor Watkins", "preceding_text": "ion has cleared away all the agricultural land which used to be there. There must be something in it. Instinct makes a dog turn round a few times before he lies down. What about the instinct of the sheep? Whatever we may think, no legislation can stop that. By this vulnerable Clause 8, the Lord Chancellor has made valiant attempts to safeguard the farmers' interests, but he has not gone far enough", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ld be entirely uneconomic, although I have heard some hon. Members tonight at any rate semi-advocating that it would be done. As has been pointed out, it would in any case spoil the view of the countryside. Traffic in the country has increased enormously over the last 25 years, and it seems to me that chickens, pigs and sheep have become much more traffic-conscious than they were when I was a boy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the point, Mr. Speaker. But, with respect, there is no more important aspect of amenity in South Wales than that we should have environmental conditions free from the ravages of sheep and ponies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "rtant aspect of amenity in South Wales than that we should have environmental conditions free from the ravages of sheep and ponies. [ Laughter. ] Hon. Members may think that this is diverting and a matter for mirth. If they were inhabitants of some of the constituencies in the South Wales valleys, they would not think it amusing. The blunt truth is that, at last, the Bill puts people before sheep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-04", "file": "debates1970-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "761b88479107a2bd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ANIMALS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "d knock down children even within the walls of the playground. These things are happening now because of the inadequacies of the present situation. Even our dead are not protected from the ponies and sheep. There is no sanctity in our burial grounds because this situation has been allowed to continue, largely through indifference and because too many concessions have been made to farming interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-04a.562.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-05", "file": "debates1970-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "daa288d9c36afd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ere is no part of the United Kingdom where we have seen law and order break down in a more horrifying way than was the case in Northern Ireland last year. The question of equal rights for the citizens of Northern Ireland in relation to equal rights enjoyed everywhere else was studied in the Downing Street Declaration signed by Major Chichester-Clark and myself at our emergency meeting last August—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-05", "file": "debates1970-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "daa288d9c36afd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER OF NORTHERN IRELAND (DISCUSSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "for the citizens of Northern Ireland in relation to equal rights enjoyed everywhere else was studied in the Downing Street Declaration signed by Major Chichester-Clark and myself at our emergency meeting last August—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] I note that hon. Gentlemen opposite always say \"Too long\" when we are talking about human rights for people of whom they do not approve. The Downing Street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-05", "file": "debates1970-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "daa288d9c36afd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "That matter was debated only last Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-05", "file": "debates1970-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "daa288d9c36afd3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GRANTS FOR THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "he pseudo-highbrow columnists, which seem to charge it with being greedy monopolists, when they are taking great risks to keep the theatre alive just as the subsidised theatre people are doing. The point that the commercial people make is that they have made the great names, the Oliviers, the Scofields, the names we mention with awe. By and large they were employed first by the commercial theatre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-05a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RACE RELATIONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "should. What appears to me to be undesirable in principle, however, is to ensure in advance that only people of a specialised nationality or descent could have the requisite skills or qualifications. Surely, the heart of the present anti-discrimination legislation is that a man or a woman shall be judged by his or her competence and not ancestry. Does this amendment not reach this very principle?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.777.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.865.0", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "By-elections.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ions in other countries is not always the most democratic. For instance, the United States has a two-year system for the equivalent of this House, the House of Representatives, and it is in no way superior to ours. I submit that it is far inferior. Within 12 months, America turns to electioneering, and it does so on the first day of the second year. I do not think that anyone disagrees about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.864.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.865.3", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": " intend to come to the Bill without delay, Mr. Speaker, but it has been argued as a general principle that it is desirable to have a fixed date, and I am adducing general arguments of principle before turning to the details, which I think it is perfectly legitimate to do. The Bill involves the same principle of a rigid date, because it would impose a limit by which the by-election must take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.865.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "tails about the state of health of any hon. Member. I am talking about what applies in 629 constituencies, as I know it and have known it for a lifetime. I repeat that it is of the essence of the democratic process that not only the constituency Labour Party but all affiliated organisations should have plenty of time—as much time as they think they require—to go through their process of selection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ality for everybody concerned. There is no real difficulty about this. Although one side or the other may complain from time to time, taking it over the years the process has allowed for all the organisations concerned to have the time they need for this procedure. In the end, we have the full expression of the point of view of all the affiliated organisations entitled to make their contributions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.868.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.869.9", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE DISPUTES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.869.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.869.13", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 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/1970-02-06a.869.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.869.17", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER HUNTING AND 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/1970-02-06a.869.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.869.21", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.869.20"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-06", "file": "debates1970-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4c1ee8493d25523", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GENERAL RATE ACT 1967 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-06a.870.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.929.2", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What has this to do with the Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "the Dispatch Box today moving the Second Reading of the Bill. Since she referred to the matter, however, let me also reiterate that we were equally genuine last week in being censorious that she should be the first Minister responsible for labour, certainly in modern history, to fail to speak and defend the record of her Government and her Department in a major debate on unemployment in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.929.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The garden of Eden.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can be very well informed on the historical facts of the matter. The Conservative Party commitment to equal pay goes back about a quarter of a century to \"The Industrial Charter\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.935.3", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " to opportunity is a much more serious barrier than inequality of pay. The fact is that access to good employment is the greatest need for women and, where this happens, law is hardly necessary to attain the achievement of equal pay. One can look at Vauxhall's to find one good example. Another example is the wire industry, where it is interesting to note that women wire-pullers earn more than men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.935.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " Union, which has ¼ million women workers, I believe, out of a total membership of 1½ million, but which has no female executive members at all. In the A.E.F., there are, I understand, seven women members on the National Committee, the central policy making body, but they are there only as observers and have no vote on decisions. I do not give those examples in any malevolent spirit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "We have just listened to a petty-minded speech from the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Mitcham (Mr. R. Carr).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Whom do you dislike most—coloureds or women?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I cannot go back with great authority into the party warfare of the last century, but I have the impression that it was my party which tended to pass legislation limiting that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "I have to plead guilty, Mr. Speaker, to giving away to an unreasonable extent, but when one is subjected to this kind of treatment it is difficult not to give way. I will not give way in future. It is because of interventions that I have continued to this extent. With statutorily enforced equal pay, that effect will be exaggerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "the courts about everything with injunctions and damages and prescription spreading even wider through the community, until eventually freedom is wholly destroyed. For those reasons I oppose the Bill and it is in general my intention tonight to divide the House against it. If I do not do so it will not be through any weakening of my opposition to the Bill but because I fear that on a Monday night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "That is a red herring. If that had been the only obstacle to equal pay, we should have had a Bill of this kind a long time ago. Negotiations must take place to resolve all these problems. I have always regarded women as a threat to men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": ", or memorandum of dissent, as it is properly called, was written largely by the Principal of Somerville College, at which, I think, the right hon. Lady was a student at one time. So was I—so, with the three of us, it must have been right. I do not think that anyone could resist the three of us all together. I sense even that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition almost agrees to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.1019.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-09", "file": "debates1970-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "91dbc16d22822b4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EQUAL PAY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "cement, prejudice, convention, preservation of sex privileges—problems which have for far too long been an excuse for inaction. Let us now see them as challenges to be met in giving women the social, moral and economic justice so long due to them. The Bill meets the longest standing wage claim in the history of the trade union movement, and fulfils yet another of the Government's election—pledges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-09a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1051.4", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "In the first place, I do not think that this feeling that I have let the industry down is shared by the industry. I have had regular discussions throughout, and it is well aware that all representations made to me have not been exactly kept to myself. I am bound to say that this new concern of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1051.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1068.9", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S.S.R. (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that, apart from the benefit of being seen in high society, these global scurryings really serve no practical purpose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1068.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I welcome the hon. Gentleman's clear dissociation from his party's policy. Since we now understand from the Leader of the Opposition, bearing his electioneering posters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ", bearing his electioneering posters—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] It is obvious that hon. Gentlemen opposite cannot take it. Like it or not, they are going to get it. We see a change in policy on the part of hon. Gentlemen opposite, who now say that they will not cut all taxation but only direct taxation. Indirect taxpayers have been warned. We also have their V.A.T., levies on food and their desire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not like it when they get it back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1071.5", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition and his hon. Friends would wish to take part in any educational programme such as my hon. Friend has in mind. Hon. Gentlemen opposite would no doubt wish to explain why the cost of living last year rose higher in America and Japan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1071.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, certainly. In fact, the cost of living record of Labour compares more than favourably with the record of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.0", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir, certainly. In fact, the cost of living record of Labour compares more than favourably with the record of hon. Gentlemen opposite—[ Laughter. ]—because from 1961 they had the advantage of a very big fall in world prices. They frittered that away and left us with a balance of payments deficit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.2", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We understand that the right hon. Gentleman has now announced deliberate Tory policy on indirect taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.6", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked questions about the £ in one's pocket before. I see that he is still using it in his party propaganda.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.6", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has asked questions about the £ in one's pocket before. I see that he is still using it in his party propaganda. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I now ask him to put in his party propaganda what I said in that broadcast, which was that prices would rise. I challenge him to put that in his party posters and advertising, and if he does not do it he will devalue himself to the same level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1072.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1073.4", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (MINISTERIAL CO-ORDINATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With respect to my right hon. Friend, I agree that the use of the stocks does not fall within the co-ordinating powers of Ministers concerned with prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1073.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he party opposite did not even refer to it following the Selsdon Park meeting—or hon. Members opposite were not reported as having done so and that is inconceivable with the Tory Press as it is. As to pollution of the countryside, in my Swansea speech I referred to the fact that from 1960 to 1964 the Tory Government provided plans for site clearance of derelict areas of just 8 acres in four years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it following the Selsdon Park meeting—or hon. Members opposite were not reported as having done so and that is inconceivable with the Tory Press as it is. As to pollution of the countryside, in my Swansea speech I referred to the fact that from 1960 to 1964 the Tory Government provided plans for site clearance of derelict areas of just 8 acres in four years—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In Wales.\"]—in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " were not reported as having done so and that is inconceivable with the Tory Press as it is. As to pollution of the countryside, in my Swansea speech I referred to the fact that from 1960 to 1964 the Tory Government provided plans for site clearance of derelict areas of just 8 acres in four years—[An HON. MEMBER: \"In Wales.\"]—in Wales—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] These are the official published figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "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": ". Speaker, I would point out that once again we have got only as far as Question No. Q4 to the Prime Minister. This question was originally raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey), who has consistently pressed the matter. With great respect—always with respect—is it not a fact that today the Prime Minister spent 75 per cent. of his time avoiding answering Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak up!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "once again we have got only as far as Question No. Q4 to the Prime Minister. This question was originally raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir A. V. Harvey), who has consistently pressed the matter. With great respect—always with respect—is it not a fact that today the Prime Minister spent 75 per cent. of his time avoiding answering Questions—[ Interruption. ] Kennel-up there!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.6", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Personally, I thoroughly enjoy the Prime Minister's Answers. It is not that I mind what he says, because there is little of any value in it, but we do mind that we cannot have more Questions answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.9", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has not answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. A Minister answers Questions in the way in which he likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1075.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was fair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m sure that my right hon. Friend will feel, when he has studied the document, that he displayed less than his usual standard of fairness in these matters. I noticed that he selected—and I emphasise \"selected\" —a number of businessmen who support his case, one at least of whom I know to have been a passionate supporter of entry into Europe over a longe period. Possibly he got the other four right.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-10", "file": "debates1970-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "e2b0d0e549a871fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sfactory terms has been in any way inhibiting to hon. Members on the back benches of both major parties, to say nothing of the third party. I think that there has been, and will be, a continuing and lively debate. I have not seen any repression of, or inhibition on the part of, those who take a different view from that taken by the Government, or the Official Opposition, or the Liberal leadership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-10a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-11", "file": "debates1970-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0610df85349eac1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "INCOME TAX REDUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I wish to oppose the Motion for leave to bring in the Bill because I regard the speech of the hon. Member for Acton (Mr. Kenneth Baker) and his proposition as a gross abuse of the procedures of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-11", "file": "debates1970-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0610df85349eac1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "INCOME TAX REDUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "sophisticated part of the public well understand already, that they were not serious proposals at all. This proposal is designed entirely, as the hon. Member was candid enough to explain, to cause embarrassment, that is to say, he will be able to parade around the country saying that he had proposed a ls. reduction in taxation and that wicked Members like myself had gone into the Lobby against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-11", "file": "debates1970-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0610df85349eac1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "INCOME TAX REDUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " I think it was Mr. Augustine Birrell, once said that the procedures of the House are like the trunk of an elephant: they could fell an oak, or they could pick up a pin, but if an instrument designed to pick up a pin were used to fell an oak, or vice versa, that would bring that instrument into ridicule. Therefore, I oppose the Motion. Not because I distrust the merits or the demerits of the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-11", "file": "debates1970-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0610df85349eac1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "INCOME TAX REDUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It could be.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] All of us know perfectly well that the merits and demerits of such financial questions have to be discussed at length, and nobody has insisted more upon that or more strongly fought for it than the present Opposition Front Bench, who have complained that there has been insufficient time for the discussion of Finance Bills and such matters. This matter will not be discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-11", "file": "debates1970-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0610df85349eac1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1275.2", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "rts and profit do not go together in the motor car industry. If the industry is to have a sustained future, it must have a fair home market on which it can make profits. On top of this disastrous home market, the motor industry, with others, has had to sustain rising prices. It now faces a great increase in steel costs. Industrial relations have deteriorated substantially over the last five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-11", "file": "debates1970-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "0610df85349eac1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1275.2", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MOTOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "the down-payment and the repayment terms. Even if the \"Little Neddy\" forecast is fulfilled, with exports at the best possible level, the industry will be operating at only 75 per cent. of capacity. So we ask the Government to make the changes today and not wait for the Budget. The first impact will be on stocks. Motor agents and distributors are desperate. The sustained effect of credit squeezes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-11a.1275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1422.9", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "Was it not that sloppily drawn-up legislation, passed by the party opposite when they were in office, which permitted hundreds of gaming clubs to open in this country, many of which had close connections with organised crime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1422.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "arty opposite when they were in office, which permitted hundreds of gaming clubs to open in this country, many of which had close connections with organised crime? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Will my right hon. Friend continue his policy of ruthlessly cutting down the numbers and thereby maintaining law and order in a manner which the party opposite was clearly incapable of doing when in office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1422.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1423.2", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. There were attempts by foreign influences to take over many gaming clubs which had become so profitable under the regime of the party opposite. There was a considerable growth of criminal elements, including foreigners coming here to run these clubs, but the Act has repaired a lot of the damage of the potential criminality as well as excessive gambling left behind by the party opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1439.0", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "In view of the vulnerability of cricket grounds and the fact that cricket matches take several days, does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that to apply proportionate charges to those which he told me a moment ago were applied for rugger matches would make these cricket matches financially unviable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NIGERIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "light air lifts of relief. The latest figures of food in the area show a very big improvement. There will be 47.000 tons of relief food available in February and March, including 17,000 tons already stock-piled in Nigeria, 18,000 tons of locally produced food and there will be over 12,000 tons on the way in the next few weeks. The supplies suggest that the Nigerian Red Cross, within a week or two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1450.3", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "man, in answer to his question, that when he has sorted out the disagreement between his two right hon. Friends on each side of him, the right hon. Members for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) and Enfield, West, if he proposes to abolish investment grants there will be much more unemployment than there is today. We have noted that his policy far development areas is to cut down on what we are doing for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1452.7", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I think that this is a very serious point of order. During the exchanges in Question Time the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Mr. Tilney), who is a very reasonable man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1452.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1453.6", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ted him—and those matters concerning the real privileges of the House, our rights and duties and obligations, so that we will not be in fear of Clerks carrying tales to various bodies because we treat them as close colleagues of ours. So this matter, which was passed \"on the nod\" just after 2.30 p.m., at a time when very few hon. Members were present, only those interested in agricultural matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Edward Short)", "preceding_text": "s themselves who decided that the 11-plus must go. No normal parent will ever accept the judgment of however apparently fair a test that his child, at only 11, is a failure, and that he should go to a second-class school. Let us remember that the present tripartite system which the party opposite wishes to maintain has labelled 80 per cent. of the adult population of England and Wales as failures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1463.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1466.1", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "nd a minority of school governors are either ignoring or openly flouting national policy as laid down by this House. It is against this background that the Government have decided that the time has come to impose on local education authorities a duty to end selection for secondary education and to prepare plans to that end. I wish to make it clear that we are not imposing a rigid national pattern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1466.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1473.1", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": " to see that 26 years on we are now returning to what we then advanced from, namely, founding a whole education policy on social reasons—at any rate, the Minister is returning to it. I have quoted from that book by Tyrrell Burgess as an independent commentator—independent from the point of view our side, shall I say, although I think I am right in saying that at one time he was a Labour candidate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1480.6", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " salaries, but to destroy the lives and the life work of such men as I have spoken of we must be mad. If one had some grammar schools such as this alongside a substantially comprehensive system or alongside some other system not necessarily geared to the 1944 Education Act, there are some boys and girls in poor areas who would have greater opportunities than they will get in neighbourhood schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1480.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1483.1", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "At the option of the parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1492.3", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "reasonable to intervene to prevent the development of comprehensive schools in South-East London. I am thinking of Kidbrooke. So it seems to be all right for the Government to intervene to prevent comprehensive schools but not to ensure that the system is fully comprehensive throughout the country in the eyes of right hon. and hon. Members opposite. May I mention certain misgivings about the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheek.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "atever the local circumstances. It is sometimes helpful for hon. Members to contribute the experience of their own constituency. In my own we have certain special circumstances. We have an ancient grammar school, whose high record over three centuries of academic work is marred, if marred at all, by the fact that it was responsible for the education of one right hon. Gentleman now of Cabinet rank.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "intained grammar schools in the country, with an extraordinarily high standard, and we have several of the very best secondary modern schools. The other day I attended the speech day of a secondary modern school there which showed a high standard of success. Those who were there that evening would have been very surprised to hear the Secretary of State sneer at schools of that sort as second-rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows that Birmingham Council is elected, just as Parliament is, and that in local elections recently the electors in Birmingham have voted overwhelmingly for Conservative candidates. As this was an issue in all those local elections, it can only mean that the people of Birmingham approve of the actions of Birmingham Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Marks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He still is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Marks", "preceding_text": "lding programmes for 1951, 1952 and 1953. That pattern went on through the 'fifties. The Ministry of Education, as it was then known, was regarded by local education authorities merely as something which got in their way. I admit that in the early 'sixties there was a change of atmosphere, due largely to the right hon. Member for Hands-worth, who was a power of influence in the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": " this side of the House have clearly recorded—though the Secretary of State seems determined not to know it, or does not read of it, that we have accepted without question the movement away from the age of 11 as the appropriate early age to make the kind of final decision of which the House has been speaking this afternoon. It was recorded quite clearly in our Manifesto. The difference between us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1570.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1573.4", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I have given way generously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I have given way generously, but I have a duty to the right hon. Lady. The Bill is purely political, but since no one now believes the promises of the Government which produces it, they need not be cowed by the threats contained in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I have given way generously, but I have a duty to the right hon. Lady. The Bill is purely political, but since no one now believes the promises of the Government which produces it, they need not be cowed by the threats contained in it—[ Interruption. ]—and nobody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Miss Alice Bacon)", "preceding_text": " not available, I should remind the hon. Lady that the Robbins Committee found that the percentage of working-class children who entered university in 1960 was only 2·6 compared with 1·4 in the pre-war period. This hardly represents an enormous increase in educational opportunity for working-class children which the hon. Lady seemed to imply in her quotation from the Daily Telegraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1574.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1575.1", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "Another point raised by hon. Members concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1576.2", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": " in a case like that than if a parent of a child in a secondary modern school went to the courts to say that his child was not being educated according to ability and aptitude. In the Watts v. Kesteven County Council case in 1955, the Court of Appeal held that the duty imposed by Section 8 of the 1944 Act, on which Clause 1 of the Bill operates, was enforceable only by directions under Section 99—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not good enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am sure that, in Committee, we shall have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "ited to the needs of the children of the area? If so, I fail to see why the children of Sheffield are so different from the children of Birmingham, why the children of Blackburn are different from those in Bolton, or why the children of Devon are different from the children of Norfolk. Or it may be that hon. Gentlemen opposite think that we should take the wishes of the parents into consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1577.1", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "hich strongly disagrees with him. The right hon. Gentleman certainly does not speak for that association, and I am reasonably certain that he does not speak for the majority of parents and teachers in the area, either. The letter went on: I would add that many Conservatives oppose the council's policy and that we have members of this Association who are paid-up members of the Conservative Party.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-12", "file": "debates1970-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "bdd000cac7fbe618", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "I stressed \"on this issue\". I have another letter from Plymstock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-12a.1582.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-13", "file": "debates1970-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0021980476db6719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-13a.1661.2", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION LAW (REFORM) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Irvine", "preceding_text": "and the hon. Member for Wandsworth Central will still, I am sure, agree that that is well within their competence. My hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dame Joan Vickers) wants to know where these gynaecologists are. I am afraid that I cannot tell her, though I can tell her that if my Bill is accepted there will be an arrangement to enable any deserts of consultants to be dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-13a.1661.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-13", "file": "debates1970-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0021980476db6719", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-13a.1682.1", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION LAW (REFORM) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are in a mess.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is very significant. Even one death is important, even the death of a foetus is important, though the hon. Lady may not think it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-13a.1682.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister concerned about the declining standards of the postal service? Has he seen the survey by Aims of Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.21.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.29.6", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Chancellor of the Duchy?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooks", "preceding_text": "asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether he will make a statement on his policy on the proposal of the Maud Commission to abolish Lancashire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "nd Wales, Scotland built more houses last year than in the year before. In 1968, 41,988 were built in Scotland, 33,269 in the public sector and 8,719 in the private sector—and that was a record in itself. But in 1969 this was increased to 42,629–34,302 in the public sector and 8,327 in the private sector. I am not satisfied even with the pro-press which has been made in housing in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": " Builders do not have vast sums of capital lying around and so, if they have to pay 15 per cent.or 16 per cent. interest on some of the capital they borrow, as they do, that puts up the cost of houses. If they cannot borrow at all then they have to build fewer houses, so the effect of the credit squeeze was once again to strike at the building industry and particularly the house building industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": "\"— [0mciAL REPORT, 3rd November, 1964; Vol. 701, c. 149.] From that day to this, the Parliamentary Secretary and his predecessors have been accusing my hon. Friends and I of exaggerating the situation. Is it not right that, having referred in 1964 to the congratulatory articles in the Press about the work of the former Minister of Public Parliamentary Private Secretary who sits Building and Works—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. P. Costain", "preceding_text": " of petrol and taxation for lorries and the import duty on material such as copper, lead and timber which we cannot produce in this country is taken into account, about £250 is added to to the cost of a house. To that sum can be added the interest charges over the period, giving a total of an extra £500 in the cost of a house for a young married couple due to deliberate taxation by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " the building and construction industry can respond quickly to an upturn in the economy. In a way, we are arguing with hon. Gentlemen on the Government Front Bench today who are our friends, and who understand the position as well as we understand it. Why did my right hon. Friend himself go to the Treasury to argue about the position? We really ought to have the Treasury represented in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "the economy. In a way, we are arguing with hon. Gentlemen on the Government Front Bench today who are our friends, and who understand the position as well as we understand it. Why did my right hon. Friend himself go to the Treasury to argue about the position? We really ought to have the Treasury represented in the debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"] We really ought to be saying to theChancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "eak, including the hon. Member for Poole (Mr. Murton), and so I shall be brief. All is not the fault of this Government. Let us look at the housing question for a few moments. Local authorities built up very strong direct works deparment which were building houses consistently, Manchester was a very good example if this; Liverpool also had a good works department; and other local authorities also.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ask the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "any thousands of houses do they propose they will build if they get back into office? They keep deadly quiet about that. How many schools are they proposing to build? Do they propose that the present rate shall continue? What about interest rates? Do they say that interest rates for local authorities will be altered or, as has leaked out from time to time, that housing subsidies will be abolished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. John Silkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Public Building and Works (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "he debate fell under one or two headings. The first was the effect upon the industry of the Government's economic and fiscal measures. To say that the economic and fiscal measures of Her Majesty's Government have had an effect upon the industry is to state the obvious. The problem has been related not only to the industry but to the whole country—the problem of converting a deficit of£800 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take it away!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "e is the effect of the selective employment tax. That allegation has been made very frequently by hon. Members opposite, and it was made finally and very forcefully by the hon. Member for Crosby and by my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer). It has been pointed out that S.E.T. adds nearly 4 per cent. to construction costs. Here again, we have to ask what are the alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " the same rate as it appears to be running in other countries where it is imposed, so far from builders being better off with that tax instead of S.E.T. they might find themselves worse off. In any case, the tax applies to only one section of the industry; another section—that which is concerned with manufacturing materials—is exempt from S.E.T. at the moment but would pay under a value-added tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": ".E.T. at the moment but would pay under a value-added tax—[ Interruption. ] It is an idea being floated among the hon. Members' Friends. That section would then be forced to pay it, and we would have an idea of what the effect must be on the cost of building. Basically, all hon. Gentlemen were saying that, apart from house-building, the industry was doing reasonably well, and I believe that it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Common Market?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ted Kingdom costs today are 118 and those of West Germany are 115, so it is doing three points better than we are. But there is a very different picture in other countries. The figure for France is 118, for the U.S.A. 118, for Belgium 127 and for the Netherlands 128. I would maintain that the costs of construction in this country compare very favourably with those of most other industrial nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the Government in this respect, but they talk about the rate of house building as though there had been a tremendous decline. The noble Lord, Lord Brooke, when Minister of Housing, said on 20th March, 1961—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "hed the end of their commercial life before vesting date. The Corporation has made virtually no change and as a result of Government price control and of bad industrial relations in the industry the public has suffered a loss in steel in 1968 and again in 1969 despite a record world boom in steel. The actual investment programme has fallen below what it was in the last years of private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "w not to be so blind or so bland. There are some real problems here to be faced. When will the Corporation embark upon rationalisation? When will it try to bring productivity per man-year up to that of our rivals? What is to be the effect of the movement to product groups, and what is to be the return which they are to earn on their capital? For our part, we shall not go back to the old companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": ", most of the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends, and many of his industrialist supporters outside, merely complained that the increase had taken place at all. The right hon. Gentleman should tell his industrial supporters and others outside what he is complaining about. Is he complaining that we are increasing prices now, or is he complaining that we ought to have increased them a long time ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.117.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.123.3", "colnum": "123", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "I will take that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Mr. Lever indicated assent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.123.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "the Iron and Steel Consumers Council, which seems to me a singularly toothless body. I believe that the British Steel Corporation has quite sufficient means to look after itself without being protected by such a body, and for the council to say that it is concerned with the health and strength of the British steel industry seems to me to indicate that it may have got its role slightly upside down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "ng over all this ground, and today we do see not a happy, successful, industry, so much better, as we were promised, than its predecessor, but an industry which has serious problems to face, and these cannot be laughed off merely by saying that my right hon. Friend and his hon. Friends are making electioneering speeches. These are serious matters which should be looked at by the Paymaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": " that we are husbanding public money here. That is the aspect which has caused us great concern. One of the ways in which the Steel Corporation will be able to show a better return on the capital invested in it is by more realistic pricing policies. I agree with the right hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Marsh), but there seems to be a divergence between his views and those of the Paymaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.153.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "No. I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.156.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.156.6", "colnum": "156", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "The most remarkable series of claims made on behalf of the industry——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Alan Williams)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Alan Williams)", "preceding_text": "t for all the previous years. Yet, again this background, having taken over in a loss environment, having taken over with inadequate investment, the Corporation found itself faced with an unforeseen and, as I think most people would agree, an unpredictable upsurge in the world demand for steel. This was unforeseen by the previous owners, and unforeseen, I will accept, by the nationalised industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-16", "file": "debates1970-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "6f1488f3b103c954", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Alan Williams)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Alan Williams)", "preceding_text": "tion. ] The hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) is showing the same capacity for irrelevancy as most of his colleagues who have spoken this evening. As world prices rose, previous importers switched to domestic supplies. Not just Britain but many other countries have been faced with tight supply conditions. We recognise that there has been an unfortunate labour record this year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-16a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.205.3", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "As the Government have recently affirmed their total opposition to any federalism or supernatural—supranational—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.205.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.206.6", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As to whether they are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.206.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.206.6", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to decide. I hope that the hon. Gentleman is not suggesting that he would, for example, de-schedule Merseyside as a development area. To the extent that it is not de-scheduled, they are entitled to S.E.T. refunds and R.E.P., and we have justified these. I am glad to be able to tell him that while unemployment in his constituency is a matter of concern seasonally, the difference between Blackpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.206.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he would be most welcome to visit, when he next comes to Merseyside, which I understand will be next weekend, all the Merseyside constituencies and see the new hospitals that are being built since Labour came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he would be most welcome to visit, when he next comes to Merseyside, which I understand will be next weekend, all the Merseyside constituencies and see the new hospitals that are being built since Labour came to power—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the new roads that are being built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he would be most welcome to visit, when he next comes to Merseyside, which I understand will be next weekend, all the Merseyside constituencies and see the new hospitals that are being built since Labour came to power—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the new roads that are being built—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the new houses and flats that are being built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "visit, when he next comes to Merseyside, which I understand will be next weekend, all the Merseyside constituencies and see the new hospitals that are being built since Labour came to power—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the new roads that are being built—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the new houses and flats that are being built—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—the new factories that are being built—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I was asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.208.7", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will understand, in view of his experience—I know the part that he and others from Bootle have played in the work of the Merseyside Development Association—why hon. Gentlemen opposite do not understand that it is a continuing battle on Merseyside to find jobs for the area as a result of, for example, the high birth rate on Merseyside, not to mention immigration from Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.208.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.211.4", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "physical surplus on visible trade in this country. The fact that we now have had one for six months suggests that the trend is in the right direction. As for the right hon. Gentleman, I must leave this to him, but even the Conservative Daily Express has as its main headline \"Great Great Britain\". Even the right hon. Gentleman might decide that his sour-puss philosophy is not right for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.211.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the Amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "nts talk about putting up special warning notices for the benefit of oncoming motorists. However, that does not obviate the difficulty raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfermline Burghs (Mr. Adam Hunter). In the case to which he has referred, all that the contractors need do is put up a notice, and they can carry on for another three or four years cluttering up the road with mud and water—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willis", "preceding_text": "a tractor on the edge of a road every 20 minutes in order to clean the wheels and under-carriage to prevent mud being taken on the road. Neither can I imagine that the police, who would have to operate it, would consider that it was reasonably practicable to do so. Thinking about the problem more and more, I tend to come down on the side of the Government and the Clause as it is, strangely enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": "This is the point. It is totally unreasonable to expect a farmer to hose down his tractor wheels at all moments of the day. A farmer may drive his tractor on to a road and drop a small amount of mud which could not cause danger to anyone. But, according to the wording of the Clause as it stands, the lady who stubs her toe in the mud and damages her stockings is suffering inconvenience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacArthur", "preceding_text": " is totally unreasonable to expect a farmer to hose down his tractor wheels at all moments of the day. A farmer may drive his tractor on to a road and drop a small amount of mud which could not cause danger to anyone. But, according to the wording of the Clause as it stands, the lady who stubs her toe in the mud and damages her stockings is suffering inconvenience—[ Interruption. ]—if she suffers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.319.1", "colnum": "319", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE REBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "have written to me saying what a different kind of life they are having now. These non-pensioners are getting a supplementary pension and they are getting it for the first time because of the changes brought about by the present Government. All of us should show the very greatest concern for old people in our community, and anything more than can be done to help them is of the greatest importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.320.4", "colnum": "320", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE REBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "The same old people could say to the hon. Gentleman, \"Lead an old horse and you will get corn\"—and that is what they had to do with hon. Members opposite. Does not the hon. Gentleman who interrupted really know the very great help in pensions as a right that these over-80s are getting Many of them under this Order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.320.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-17", "file": "debates1970-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "e448909662c2b2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "SCOTLAND (RATE REBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "odsend in his area. His is not a town which one associates with slums. It is one which is associated with people who have gone there to retire. They live on and on, and their incomes tend to remain fixed. They are the sort of people who have benefited from the scheme. Many of them are owner-occupiers. That is one reason why hon. Gentlemen opposite should be a little less grudging about the scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-17a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.396.8", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "—but we intend to find out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.396.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "In view of this welcome improvement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Surely I am entitled to say that I have made public in every debate on the police in which I have spoken that I am the honorary consultant of the Scottish police, similar to the position previously honourably held by the right hon. Gentleman who is now Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.408.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mahon", "preceding_text": "leled success and would not have deserved some of the criticism that has been levelled at it this afternoon. Even in the days of the availability of cheap money there was no possibility of the millenium. There is no possibility today under any other set of circumstances or under any other arrangements. Out of the long experience I have had, I can put my hand on my heart and advise that this is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ticle on local government reform in yesterday's Financial Times in this way: Mr. Heath has not done his job. While he has been Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Wilson's Administration has been redesigning our form of government, yet, apart from a few odd speeches, the Conservatives have avoided responsibility for contributing to any form of serious national debate about this half-obscured revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I have plenty to say about the Conservative Party, but none of it could be said in the House. I reserve it specifically for the platforms of North Cornwall, where the people do not have such delicate constitutions about these matters. As I have already made clear, this is the view of a responsible newspaper and a responsible commentator about the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "le for district committees to operate; but where they are medium and compact, as they are in North-East Lancashire, we hold the view that that might not be so necessary. Those are the four points upon which there are certain misgivings. They are by no means major points, but we sincerely hope that heed will be taken of them. The hon. Member for Worcester, who thinks that this is a laughing matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "He did not say that. What he said was that the whole of the North-West should be looked at again. There is a great deal of criticism, from that side as well as from this, of the current proposals, and quite independently of forming a metropolitan area for Manchester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-18", "file": "debates1970-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "cf4203c74f845e6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND (REFORM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not that Opposition, anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": " White Paper, had a good deal to say about this. I thought, incidentally, that the hon. Member for Middleton and Prestwich was unreasonable to chide my hon. Friend for not producing not only a detailed plan for the whole North-West, but boundaries for the local councils as well. He asked us to say how many local councils there should be. This is exactly what an Opposition cannot and should not do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-18a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.582.2", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "We deem it inappropriate to take steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.582.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.587.6", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Campbell", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister wishes to help Scotland, which is so dependent on transport, will he cancel his own Government's damaging proposals for imposing an unwanted P.T.A., for taking away decisions and responsibility for Scottish ports from Scotland, and for imposing restrictions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Since that answer shows that the staff of Downing Street has increased by 43 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Since that answer shows that the staff of Downing Street has increased by 43 per cent.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and that the salary bill has increased by 105 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the debate, when this matter was fully discussed and fully answered. The House is aware of the reasons why I and others are disappointed about progress in housing. However, I am more concerned at the fact that it is Conservative policy, if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite ever get in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware of the debate, when this matter was fully discussed and fully answered. The House is aware of the reasons why I and others are disappointed about progress in housing. However, I am more concerned at the fact that it is Conservative policy, if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite ever get in—[ Interruption. ] This is their declared policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ly discussed and fully answered. The House is aware of the reasons why I and others are disappointed about progress in housing. However, I am more concerned at the fact that it is Conservative policy, if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite ever get in—[ Interruption. ] This is their declared policy—[ Interruption. ] While we are not satisfied, it appears to be their declared policy to cut back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r, I am more concerned at the fact that it is Conservative policy, if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite ever get in—[ Interruption. ] This is their declared policy—[ Interruption. ] While we are not satisfied, it appears to be their declared policy to cut back—[ Interruption. ] I know that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite do not want to hear it, but they are going to hear a lot of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e policy, if right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite ever get in—[ Interruption. ] This is their declared policy—[ Interruption. ] While we are not satisfied, it appears to be their declared policy to cut back—[ Interruption. ] I know that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite do not want to hear it, but they are going to hear a lot of this—[ Interruption. ] It appears to be their declared policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the object of the policy of this side of the House is to concentrate local authority building on those who most need it, especially old people and those who are not able to pay the sort of rents that they would have to pay outside? That is the purpose of the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.593.3", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the object of the policy of this side of the House is to concentrate local authority building on those who most need it, especially old people and those who are not able to pay the sort of rents that they would have to pay outside? That is the purpose of the policy—[ Interruption. ] He has no right to draw the conclusions that he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d. But since I understand that it is his policy to cut the council house subsidy by £100 million—that is, by about three-quarters of the present level—and since his spokesman on housing, whose statement he has been asked to repudiate, and he has not done so, has made very clear that there will be a sharp cut-back in council house building, I am not impressed by what he is trying to tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I completely reject the Prime Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. V. Harvey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. You referred this afternoon, Mr. Speaker, to the fact that we have only 15 minutes for Prime Minister's Questions. This is the third consecutive occasion when the Prime Minister has been confronted with questions which he does not like, on which he has started referring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.4", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have never known a Prime Minister in my 20 years in Parliament who was afraid of Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.5", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "me, the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell), who was then acting as Man Friday Ito Mr. Henry Brooke, said that once a free market in housing was restored by the removal of control there would be no shortage of housing? That was 13 years ago. If we had taken notice of the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West this country would be in deeper water than it is today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.596.0", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "they gave a firm pledge in 1955 that they would not alter the rules in the way that they did by the Tory Rent Act. However, they have another opportunity. In view of their declared belief in a free-for-all for housing, I have asked the Tory leadership to confirm that they will not reintroduce—if they ever get the chance—the Tory Rent Act of 1957, but will accept our repeal of it in 1964–65.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.595.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Taverne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.613.2", "colnum": "613", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "t think that my hon. and learned Friend the Financial Secretary will feel any embarrassment in what he will have to say later, or, indeed, in what I may say now. Whether or not the right hon. Gentleman chooses to withdraw his Motion is, clearly, for him alone to decide. For the moment, however, I must say \"Wait and see\" on the issue of whether he should believe all that he reads in the newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a cornerstone, not a leaflet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lubbock", "preceding_text": "I should like to ask the hon. Gentleman about the leaflet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": " about the sixpence. The Post Office has decided that, when the coin-operated machines in its call boxes are converted, they will take the 2 new penny piece and the 10 new penny piece instead of the present sixpences, shillings and florins. The minimum cost of a call will go down from 6d. or 2½ new pence—as it is now, to 2 new pence, with a compensating adjustment of the length of the call.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.619.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Free vote!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must be free, and is, to decide what is the proper course. I believe that, on reflection, he will realise that the future of the sixpence should not be a party matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And New Zealand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": " The more he used the phrase \"Let me make this clear\", which he did abundantly, the more opaque became his thoughts. The truth is that the Government have got themselves into a muddle over the 6d., and it is a muddle of their own making. It never would have been necessary to abolish it if the Government had chosen the 10s. unit. Both Australia and South Africa chose the 10s. unit and kept the 6d.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not everything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": "me, I understand since 1551. It is a small and unassuming coin, and one is always glad to have it. It is not as valuable as it was. One cannot go and buy up Woolworths with it as one could before the war, but in recent years it has become increasingly useful as a token of value. It is light. One can carry a lot of them about and it has become the staple coin for anything you want to do in a hurry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "ike him did not have the courage of their convictions when this matter was put to the test. Although the Government could not allow a free vote, if there had been a few more rebels on this issue as there have been on some others, we would not now be having this debate. On a free vote, I am convinced that the 10s. system would have won the day. It is attractive to the vast majority of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "Of course, the Government recognise that there is a strong wave of support for the sixpence, but the Government have to combine and reconcile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.7", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Anne Kerr rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.11", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "Mrs. Anne Kerr rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.15", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. If an hon. Member who appears to be very concerned about a particular question rises three times, and attempts to put a point to a Minister on a very crucial matter, does not this amount to a point of order? Would it not be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.17", "colnum": "668", "heading": "DECIMALISATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": " a Government decision, not the decision of the board. The charge comes down to one of vacillation. I am urged to believe that the Conservatives have always been unanimous on this issue, but I will quote the right hon. Gentleman himself. In his speech in 1967, when he was discussing decimalisation of the £ and considering different systems, he rejected the Bank of England case on the very grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.668.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "ntioning the long list of Amendments that have been put down, his speech contained little about the Bill. But the hon. Member for Lewisham has decided to open the G.L.C. campaign here in the House of Commons. If he wishes, so be it. No doubt he will see that his local paper next week will print his speech in full, and his constituents, or his few supporters among them, may or may not be impressed,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-19", "file": "debates1970-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6eeac8ec9a9b39c5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "view of the 1968 judgment to which I referred. I am, of course, referring to walkways, and the 1968 judgment was to the effect that although paving stones may be 1¾ in. to 2 in. proud, that was not unreasonable and should not cause people to fall over. The problem in my constituency is that people are not in an earnings scale which enables them to employ lawyers to take up their grievances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-19a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-20", "file": "debates1970-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "7674a97f148e88d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-20a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "PROTECTION OF PENSION RIGHTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Yes, she did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rather less so. There is a real problem to be dealt with here, and the Government will be well advised to listen carefully to the representations being made from both sides of the House as to how to tackle it. As I said at the outset, I have no great expertise on these matters, and I sought a lay version of what the hon. Lady was seeking to achieve in her Bill. I suspect that she did not draft it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-20a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "mid-1970s, mostly males. There is the Inland Revenue Computer Centre at Washington, which will mean 3,000 jobs by the mid-1970s. The National Savings Save As You Earn Department at Durham will provide several hundred jobs. That is not a bad record for a Goverment who have been in office for only a short period of years; and I have forgotten to mention the Land Commission headquarters at Newcastle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "preceding_text": " weekly now, as the housewife in the North-East, this distressed area, realises every time her shopping bill goes up again. We have crippling interest rates, higher than at any time in our history, and we have the present deplorable level of unemployment. A deficit of £800 million in 1964 is a very bad argument, a dishonest argument. In 1964, our balance of payments position was rapidly improving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliott", "preceding_text": "tinuing problems. I will sum up. No one doubts for a moment—and the hon. Member for Sunderland, South is certainly right about this—that the Northern Region has problems which are still immense. Nevertheless, I deplore his Motion, particularly that part of it which refers to the wasted years. I am certain that the vast majority of people in the Northern Region would like to go back to those years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rhodes", "preceding_text": "t with the last point made by the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North (Mr. R. W. Elliott). I wrote an article in the Evening Chronicle based on a detailed experience of Europe in the last few years, for, with the possible exception of my hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Blenkinsop), I have probably spent more time in Europe in the last two years than anyone else in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell); and what he says today the Leader of the Opposition says six months later. The workers of Tyneside should be warned of the smooth, glib Tory policies which, hon. Gentlemen opposite say, would mean a cut in Government expenditure. In fact, they would mean cuts in the enterprises which are today making Newcastle increasingly prosperous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.859.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.866.1", "colnum": "866", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shipbuilding?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": ", therefore, suffer. We do not intend to make any such abrupt withdrawal. There will be general notice of the phasing out of R.E.P. Some firms in some industries come perilously close to receiving in R.E.P. something equivalent to their gross profits before taxation. I could happily quote other firms in the same industries whose gross profits before taxation are many times their income from R.E.P.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.866.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-23", "file": "debates1970-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "01dce8741d094265", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.889.2", "colnum": "889", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Urwin", "preceding_text": "—in what the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-23a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.961.6", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that most of us on this side of the House are very well satisfied with progress?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.961.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "We do not say that. What the hon. Gentleman has to take into consideration is the fact that percentages do not tell the whole story and that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.970.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "This Government always tell the whole story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I cannot give a date when we expect things to improve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.971.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.982.6", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This is a matter for the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.982.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.984.7", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not heard anybody muttering behind me about my speech last Saturday, which received the full support of all my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.984.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.990.6", "colnum": "990", "heading": "BRITISH AIRLINES (MIDDLE EAST FLIGHTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. What is going on in this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.990.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Comonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Comonwealth Affairs (Mr. Michael Stewart)", "preceding_text": "ssumptions. I think, therefore, that the judgment of the Financial Times was probably right when it pointed out that if one attempts to be precise and to try to measure to the last £1 million or £5 million what the cost will be, the more precise one attempts to be the further one will depart from the truth. The more one attempts to give a truthful picture the less precise necessarily one must be.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1013.1", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "reases are based on inadequate premises. Then there is the calculation of the cost of our contribution to the agricultural fund, which is put at a range of £150 to £670 million, a colossal sum across the exchanges. But these figures are not meaningful, because the Community itself has since agreed to a limit by percentage contribution, which means that the figures in the White Paper are now wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1017.5", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am saying nothing of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1017.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "e in our exports, because of the rise in labour costs which we should suffer, it follows that the total net burden on the U.K. balance of payments must be about £1,000 million a year in 1970 values, and this without allowing for the drain on capital account, which here the White Paper frankly admits would be \"sizeable\". Even at £1,000 million a year, which I personally regard as an under-estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "y involve us in a heavy chronic deficit. Both the C.B.I. Report and the White Paper, however, establish inescapably another conclusion which has apparently been realised by few, but which I wish to emphasise particularly to the House. This is that on the E.E.C.'s present policies, joining the Community would, in the long-term, narrow, and not widen, the total world market open to British industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he generalisation that unless one is irretrievably prejudiced one way or the other one cannot pass a final judgment until there have been negotiations which have produced the likely terms. In answer to the point the Prime Minister made to the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling), I have always been opposed to the publication of the White Paper, and have said so in the House. I will say why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "judices; if the Tories, espousing the cry of law and order, said, \"We shall bash the criminals and demonstrators more than Labour\" and if the Labour Party, as the great defenders of the Daily Express readership, said, \"We shall be tougher with the Europeans than the Tories\". Nothing would make it more likely that neither issue would be settled rationally and in the best interests of this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he will hold up real progress in the negotiations until after the General Election, and there will be nothing worse than for him to be thought to have cast himself in the role of Mr. Facing-Both-Ways. Obviously there is a price which is too high to pay. If the figure of £1,000 million referred to by the right hon. Member for Battersea, North is correct, I agree that that would be too high a price.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Barnes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hardly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Barnes", "preceding_text": "he United States and of Russia, a Europe which gets away from old, cold war attitudes in the way that Herr Brandt in West Germany is getting away from outdated attitudes in his approach to Eastern Europe. We think that it could be also a Europe secure in its growing prosperity, offering us more prosperity than if we stayed out, and yet at the same time outward-looking towards the developing world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "are the member nations of the Six when they entertain our application. This is not a debate on the political implications, so I shall end by saying this. We want co-operation with Western Europe, but we now have, and can have, co-operation without the rigidities of the Treaty of Rome and without going into the framework of political federation. I urge no negative or insular position. I never have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Hertfordshire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith) used economic arguments against going into the Common Market, whereas it became clear from his speech, from the speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) and my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay), that their main argument against was political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "uld be arguing when we discuss these matters with the Common Market countries is not exclusively the cash label to be attached to entry. There are wider issues involved which can be discussed in the context of changing exchange rates which are adjusted automatically. If some of the institutions in the Common Market need to be altered to accommodate these matters, then altered they will have to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "They are obviously in their infancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "They are obviously in their infancy—[ Interruption. ] What institutions have we in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1076.7", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " cuts across our party and Parliamentary system by which the Government of the day has responsibility for what happens. However, on this issue if, irrespective of the issues which decide the next election, the two Front Benches are of the same mind, a way must be found for the views of ordinary people to be taken into account. In this instance Parliament does not represent the voice of the people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1076.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "years ago a third or more of hon. Members opposite were against entering the E.E.C., and that the Government Front Bench has not deviated even a little from its determination to take us into the Common Market, and drag with it the ancient nation of Scotland. Scotland is the first country in the world to make the boldest of international experiments? She entered a treaty which set up a partnership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "ld be ahead in the technological race because of the brains we produce as our best export, as we always have done. We were first in the Industrial Revolution, before a central Government put their greedy hands on every one of our activities without carrying out promises to devolve power to where it belongs, which is where the people are and live. Even England, for which I have a sneaking sympathy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": " its faults, it is a democratic forum. It is constantly trying to be democratic. Fancy giving that up for an unknown arrangement. Even one of its admirers had to admit that the institutions of the Six were in their infancy. They do not even have a name for some of them. We do not know how they will be made accountable, and we do not think that they will be accountable to us. Luxembourg, with half—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I would not mind my hon. Friend the Member for Rochester and Chatham (Mrs. Kerr) living in splendid isolation from time to time. We must see the world as it is and not as we like it to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1106.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "planned for pollution control over the next four years is to be spent: specific standards of air cleanliness, tight control", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1121.4", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "I have only just begun. I am sure that I shall say something even more provocative later, at which stage I will gladly give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henig", "preceding_text": "European countries individually. We must do it together. The history of the last 10 or 15 years has shown that a country of the size of Britain despite its past, is unable on her own account to play an effective rôle in world affairs. We have a choice. The choice is whether we will shut ourselves off and be a little Britain, a little England, or, indeed, a little Scotland or a little Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "tiating. I am glad to have an opportunity to intervene in the debate, because, when we last had a major debate on the subject about three years ago, I was abroad at a Commonwealth Conference with a right hon. Member on the benches opposite. We did not get back for the debate. If we had, the majority would have been increased by two, as we both supported the majority view of the House in May, 1967—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "arguing a case to set out the difficulties plainly in deciding how they can be overcome. The Government have done just this. I hope that the process will continue and that tremendous efforts will be made to overcome the difficulties set out starkly in the White Paper. It was courageous of the Government to set out all the difficulties. I believe the British people want to go into the Common Market", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": " how they can be overcome. The Government have done just this. I hope that the process will continue and that tremendous efforts will be made to overcome the difficulties set out starkly in the White Paper. It was courageous of the Government to set out all the difficulties. I believe the British people want to go into the Common Market [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, I see no evidence to the contrary", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-24", "file": "debates1970-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "ad75d0bb4ae60411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1145.3", "colnum": "1145", "heading": "BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "vercome the difficulties set out starkly in the White Paper. It was courageous of the Government to set out all the difficulties. I believe the British people want to go into the Common Market [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Well, I see no evidence to the contrary [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"] There may have been slight movements of opinion here and there. An odd part of the vulgar Press may show this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-24a.1145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "years. The reason why these details were not given in the Defence budget, as I explained last June, is that the amount of work necessary to do the job evaluation exercise and then convert the scales into detailed rates and computer-programme them made it impossible to complete the total exercise earlier. This is why they were not put in the Defence Estimates, but the Defence Estimates White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before the debate begins, may I inform the House that, when the general debate begins, no fewer than 40 right hon. and hon. Gentlemen, including nine Privy Councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1213.7", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "t plan and by bringing about a reduction of the level of intervention prices. These are excessively high and have encouraged over-production. I would have thought that they could reasonably be reduced. By bringing down the price levels of the Six this will also reduce the level of agricultural activity. These lower prices would still mean that a great response was possible by our own agriculture.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1213.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1213.7", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "vel of intervention prices. These are excessively high and have encouraged over-production. I would have thought that they could reasonably be reduced. By bringing down the price levels of the Six this will also reduce the level of agricultural activity. These lower prices would still mean that a great response was possible by our own agriculture.—[ Interruption. ] That is the most important point", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1213.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and hon. Members in the House, who disagree with that concept of a new rôle for Britain, and I respect their views. Some hon. Members opposite, including the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay), believe that it is better that we as a country should go it alone and that we can exercise equal influence. Surely the last few years have shown that this is no longer the case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " manageable from the individual's point of view? We come now to a consideration of the transitional period. Over the past five years, there has been an increase in the cost of living of 25 per cent. That has been much criticised, quite rightly, but, on the other hand, as the Chancellor knows, the standard of living has not decreased. We can say that the standard of living has not greatly improved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This is the man who declared that a Bill was \"essential to our economic recovery\", \"essential to our balance of payments\", \"essential to full employment\" and \"essential to the Government's continuance in office\". He negotiated that, and what did he do? He negotiated it away. That happened to the trade union reform which he abdicated and over which he was toppled by a couple of trade union leaders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Roy Jenkins)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition made what I thought was an extremely thoughtful and constructive speech for the first 45 minutes. He did not continue in that vein for the last seven minutes. Indeed, he ended extremely weakly and ineffectively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1239.3", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ted on several occasions in the past and that their growth of trade, particularly with each other, has made a significant contribution to this growth. I am aware, of course, of the argument to which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy referred last night, that, if we abstract the United Kingdom, E.F.T.A. can be shown to have achieved approximately the same rate of growth as the E.E.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I think that there were about four different conclusions and five premises in the right hon. Gentleman's intervention. I do not regard any of the conclusions as following from the premises. As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said yesterday, I think that the right hon. Gentleman tries to pursue these matters a little too close to the frontiers of reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"½ per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs said yesterday, I think that the right hon. Gentleman tries to pursue these matters a little too close to the frontiers of reason. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I did not say that I regarded it as reasonable to pay for the upper limit. I said that I thought that the upper limit was too much. I did not say that the 1 per cent. increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1245.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anne Kerr", "preceding_text": "Can I ask my right hon. Friend a question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. Turton", "preceding_text": "eeded. Yesterday, the Foreign Secretary manufactured a wonderful bromide when he said: … Western Europe would proceed, economically, legally, commercially and politically to make itself a more compact unit …\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th February, 1970; Vol. 796, c. 1010.] What did he mean by that? My interpretation is that those words mean that Western Europe would become a Federal State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Simultaneously?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ". So, without any question, this is how it is in Britain's interests to create a strong European Community. \"But\", people said yesterday and again today, \"it is a bit inward looking, isn't it? If it were outward looking, would not that be better?\" How much better it would be to make it outward looking when we and Eire and Denmark and Norway join it. That is the best way to make it outward looking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In the Common Market?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will remember that I said that I would like it to be the whole of Europe. But I must start with what is available. I would like the Eastern European States in as well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ot the subjects about which we compare our differing opinions and objects before the electors, seeking to bring them to our point of view? This is what politics is about, what this House is about, what the electoral system of the country is about—how our social services shall be organised, how we shall be taxed, how the development of different parts of the Kingdom shall be managed or not managed,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ce the continental countries are paying a lesser proportion of their national income for defence than we are, that, if we were amalgamated, if there were a central political authority, a central political will, we would all pay more? Is it the proposition that what the individual countries are not willing to contribute they would be made to contribute by a unitary Government? Is that the argument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1268.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There would not have been a war with Germany.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "irs. I want to put this most solemn question to the House, a question which we have a duty to face; for we are asked to say yea or nay, and the country is asked to say yea or nay, on this issue above all others. The question is this: in 1940 we were members of an alliance. Let us suppose that instead of being members of an alliance, we had been members of a political unit with a military function.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.5", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Someone says, \"there would not have been a war\". I proceed, ignoring the foolish optimism of those who think that because there are military preparations there will be no war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.5", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "l and military unit with a single political Government and a single command, a unit much larger in relation to the United Kingdom than the alliance of France and Britain was. I ask: does anyone suppose that the force which saved this country and saved liberty would not have been thrown into the lost battle by that political unit and swallowed up in defeat? That is what is meant by political unity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.5", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "t and a single command, a unit much larger in relation to the United Kingdom than the alliance of France and Britain was. I ask: does anyone suppose that the force which saved this country and saved liberty would not have been thrown into the lost battle by that political unit and swallowed up in defeat? That is what is meant by political unity. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Hon. Members will not face it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1273.2", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "opportunity—I should not be surprised; I may be asked to speak—I shall tell the electors exactly what I have just said. But I shall go further and tell them that, because of my conviction that entering the Common Market represents for Britain a disaster in the long run, I would not vote for any candidate of any party if he was in favour of entering the Market. That is as straight as I can make it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "unities. Our list is not a formidable one. More than ever we hold to our view that it presents no questions to which an answer cannot reasonably be found in our common interest. Practically nothing at all. This has been my suspicion—that there are members of the Government who would enter the Common Market with any conditions. All these statements about terms being acceptable are just double-talk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1277.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Here is the Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "He blows hot and cold, but there it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1277.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "e if there is one thing which the Eastern countries fear more than anything else—and this is a geniune fear—is a new nuclear pact, of which Germany is a full member. However insincere Soviet negotiators and diplomats may be in some matters which they put forward, there is no doubt that they are sincere when they say that what they fear most is a new nuclear alliance, with Germany as a full member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Harold Wilson)", "preceding_text": "hought, partly because of the margin of assumptions. In my own view, not only because the difficulty of making assumptions and calculations, but still more because we cannot forecast the progress of negotiations, I believe that the White Paper has neither added anything to nor subtracted anything from the arguments of those who already felt strongly either that we should enter or should not enter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "l some future date. In my opinion, this would be the worst of all worlds. We have made it clear repeatedly that we are ready to enter negotiations at the earliest moment that our negotiating partners are prepared to start them. Nothing could be worse now that they have taken a clear decision to enter into early negotiations than for them to assemble in a conference and find that we were not there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-25", "file": "debates1970-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "519558dc3bd08643", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1333.1", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "period. Equally, in this part of the transition, we should have to balance against the increases in the cost of living our hopes and assurances from the negotiations of rises in the standard of living which could be got by going in as opposed to remaining outside. Those will be the sort of tests when the time comes. My argument on Saturday, from which selective quotations were read this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-25a.1333.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-02-26", "file": "debates1970-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6e61ea7b84fea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-26a.1394.5", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Prime Minister for that reply, but could he confirm that this is the thirtieth trip abroad he has made as Prime Minister at the expense of the public purse? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] Does he consider that the State has received value for money —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-02-26a.1394.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-03", "file": "debates1970-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "0256118ad1460efd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that rent control bears a major responsibility for the continuing scandal of inadequate housing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.234.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-03", "file": "debates1970-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "0256118ad1460efd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.244.2", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot wriggle out of this one. He has stated on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.244.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-03", "file": "debates1970-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "0256118ad1460efd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "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": "should be very surprised if the United States Government, as loyal members of the United Nations, flew in the face of a United Nations resolution of this kind. I note what has been said about the noble Lord, Lord Salisbury, but, obviously, his example is not being universally followed in this House, and we are still waiting for a condemnation from the Opposition Front Bench of what has happened. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.260.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-03", "file": "debates1970-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "0256118ad1460efd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.260.4", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wake up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "Question No. 4.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.260.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-03", "file": "debates1970-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "0256118ad1460efd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are all Tories.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "hat we should take into account anything other than the actual children in the area. This is not a matter in which the Government say to the authorities, \"You will do what we tell you\". The Government take the general consensus of opinion. It is not a case of a great steamroller of one group of authorities against another. The Association of County Councils has said it is content with the changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-03a.349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.391.4", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "Might it not improve the right hon. Gentleman's reputation for honesty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Secretary of State himself is not answering my supplementary question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.406.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.406.7", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Do Her Majesty's Government intend to take any steps to discount the lies outside this House of ex-Communists and fellow travellers—like the hon. Member who has just laughed—to the effect that a Conservative Government intend to maintain a presence in the Far East by conscription when we govern this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.406.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The House will not expect me to comment again on a statement of that particular correspondent, whose unreliability is notorious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Dismissing the right hon. Gentleman's rather unworthy observations about a distinguished defence correspondent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.410.4", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member's support for the United Nations resolution and the policy of Her Majesty's Government is, of course, well known to the House, but the facts are as I have said. This patrol has been fully effective in cutting off the most direct route—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.410.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "HISTORIC WRECKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to salvage from vessels wrecked within the territorial waters of the Unitd Kingdom before the year 1870; and for purposes connected therewith. In seeking the leave of the House, I should like to acknowledge the support I have received from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " hard to get them. However, if we cannot get such reductions on both sides, then N.A.T.O's dependence on nuclear deterrence is not a matter of political choice but of military arithmetic. Thanks in part to the increased contribution of conventional forces made by the United Kingdom, N.A.T.O. would not now have to use nuclear weapons against anything but a major deliberate invasion by the Red Army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.436.6", "colnum": "436", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Forty per cent. of the British forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.441.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.441.4", "colnum": "441", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "Sir Ian Orr-Ewing rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ry, 1970; Vol. 796, c. 1203.] He repeats that figure twice in a short article today in the Financial Times. This is a completely mythical statistic which involves projecting forward ad infinitum a forward costing exercise based on the continuance of confrontation in Indonesia, about which he thinks we did not sufficiently consult the Chinese Government, and the other factors existing at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.445.1", "colnum": "445", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "y of State regularly quotes, but which takes no account of any political or military changes since 1964, or of the fact that in practice the Conservative Government regularly reduced defence expenditure in terms of G.N.P. It takes no account of devaluation or of the relevant fact that under a Socialist Administration the G.N.P. has risen only half as fast as it did in the days of Tory prosperity.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "nd Britain. Neither they nor we envisage maintaining forces at the level that they were at the time of confrontation, or even today. He said that we do not envisage Britain maintaining the preponderant contribution. We envisage the provision of maritime air support and the sophisticated technical assistance which they cannot provide for themselves. This was the Government's policy also up to 1968.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is most unlikely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Foot", "preceding_text": " expect. I am not putting blame on either side: I say that it is a most unfortunate situation. I followed the right hon. Gentleman to Kuwait a few days after he had been there. I do not, of course, intend to repeat here what was said to me then, but two questions inevitably presented them-serves to the people in the Gulf. The first was whether the Conservative Party was likely to win the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. T. Paget", "preceding_text": "sted its troops to defeat a Russian invasion, and this has been a deliberate decision. I do not believe that it has been a decision which has been imposed because the forces available to defeat a Russian invasion were not available. I think that they probably were available. Sir Basil Liddell Hart, whose death I feel sure we all regret and whose views on these matters commanded very great respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.489.3", "colnum": "489", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Howarth", "preceding_text": "t in language which we should all be able to understand what my right hon. Friend has attempted to do, and how far he has succeeded. I accept, which some hon. Members do not, the difference between tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. As I understand it, there are considerable differences. Some of the tactical nuclear weapons are relatively—one has to use that term—quite small nuclear weapons.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "n defence, but surely over the past twelve months, when we are told that the right hon. Gentleman has been working very hard in spelling out alternative policies to put to the electorate, whenever the General Election comes, we might well have had more details. It is all very well to knock the estimates of my right hon. Friend, which I admit are likely to be on the high side, one cannot deny that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.497.1", "colnum": "497", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "l superiority in the rocket race? To think that is to live in cloud-cuckooland, and the sooner that both Front Benches disabuse themselves of that idea, the happier I and most of Europe will be. These are the simple facts. This is an entirely American weapon, and the man whose finger is on the button far more than our Minister of Defence and the German Minister of Defence is the Mayor of New York—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-04", "file": "debates1970-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "18a7621731cf8c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Scotland (Emigration)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "For example, the net loss to England and Wales in the last six months of 1969 was 2,600 compared with 5,300 in the last six months of 1968. That is a further 50 per cent. cut in the latest available six months figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-04a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "ive that the furnishings of schools should be suitable for adult audiences. Many primary schools are not suitable for those purposes. Will my hon. Friend look at the question of school furnishings in this regard because I am certain that at very little expense primary schools could be made suitable for adult gatherings and audiences? My hon. Friend will agree that the circular is very complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman obviously prepared his supplementary question when he put his Question down. The total size of the Administration, if we allow for Whips—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.619.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "he right hon. Gentleman thinks. To promise cut-price defence for South-East Asia is, as the two quotations I have given rightly imply, to raise hopes that are unlikely to be fulfilled. In the unlikely event of the right hon. Gentleman having an opportunity to fulfil these hopes, he would be asking British Servicemen to accept risks which no party since the war has dreamed of asking them to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ent accept. But it is inconceivable that voluntary recruiting could be extended to meet the demands of the right hon. Gentleman's policy. The Opposition talk as if recruiting is somehow a function of the Government who happen to be in power at any given time—as if a Conservative Cabinet, by its very nature, attracts young men to the colours, whereas a Labour Government drive them into coffee bars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "Of course I do. I accept that and, to a degree, the adjustments that have been made under Labour have had their effect on recruiting. I said yesterday, and I repeat, that to a large degree the denigration of defence by hon. Gentlemen opposite has had a considerable effect on recruiting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"As soon as he made it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "that a new Tory Government would recruit Servicemen more successfully than the old? In times easier for recruiting than now, their Armed Forces were grossly under-strength. On Monday the Shadow Cabinet offered the nation the bland assurance that their policy did not depend on conscription. An hon. Member opposite said that it was a denial \"almost before the Secretary of State made the allegation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I am sure it will be the wish of the whole House that I should extend our sympathy to the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mr. Philip Noel-Baker) on his physical discomfiture and to hope that he will soon be free of his crutches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "nd seems willing to contemplate? The right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Hugh Fraser) yesterday estimated that there are about 7,000 nuclear war devices in Europe, the key to which was held by President Nixon. That is bad enough, but suppose anything happened to President Nixon and the key were handed over to Vice-President Agnew—could anything be more appalling to contemplate than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.742.1", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "laid down by the N.A.T.O. Council at its last meeting for the initial use of tactical nuclear weapons. First may I tell him in the clearest and firmest terms that the decision to authorise the use of these weapons in these circumstances could be taken only by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, as the only Heads of Governments who actually own these weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "lled. I now turn to the major issues which have been raised between the two sides of the House. First of all, I take up again the attempts which have been made by right hon. Gentlemen opposite to wriggle out of responsibility for the cost of the plans which we inherited. It has not been disputed that the total saving on the Conservative long-term costings by 1972–73 will be £5,000 million.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ase it would throw an appalling light on the way in which the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) attempted to control public expenditure in the previous Administration. But it is not true. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition purported to quote a Conservative saving on Labour's long-term costings in 1951. He has made it up because there were no long-term costings in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " way in which the right hon. Member for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) attempted to control public expenditure in the previous Administration. But it is not true. The right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition purported to quote a Conservative saving on Labour's long-term costings in 1951. He has made it up because there were no long-term costings in 1951. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong.\"] Ten-year costings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.743.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.745.4", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member has not attended our debate, and many hon. Members who have spoken and have asked me questions have the right to hear the reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.745.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.745.7", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman does not give way, the hon. and gallant Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish) must keep to his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.745.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman is saying is that the success of the party opposite in power to carry out its defence plans was so imperfect that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite never succeeded in spending the money that they pledged themselves to spend in every Defence Vote. That is proof of bad management, not of good housekeeping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "That is exactly the point I am coming to. The fact is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his right hon. Friend sounded very different from what was predicted for the last two days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. When the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.750.7", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " presence of even about half the size of our present force in the Far East—and they are only half what they were in 1964—that means about 20,000 men; and he must have 20,000 men at home to reinforce them or he is exposing them to unacceptable risks. Now we are beginning to see the real reason for the somersault on N.A.T.O. strategy, because the right hon. Gentleman is himself tumbling to the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.750.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The real issue in this debate on defence is really that of the General Election, which boils down to the simple fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.752.6", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "of the Opposition at this election is a phoney prospectus. No price is given at all in manpower or money for any of the commitments they have accepted, either in defence or anything else, and the fact that they are not prepared even to have the central point made, and the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition is purple with fury that I have made it, is clear proof of what I am saying.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.752.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.753.0", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Neither side is doing Parliament any good at the moment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.753.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.762.4", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The point I seek your advice on is that hon. Members on this side of the House are sick and tired of the drunken behaviour of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.762.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.763.7", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.763.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.764.6", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "point of order, following the exchanges that have taken place, has to do with the conduct of the business of the House of Commons. You are well aware, Mr. Speaker, that there was a concerted effort tonight to drown the final words of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence. I can excuse, and I make no accusations about, the post-prandial exuberance of certain hon. Members opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.764.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.765.12", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I would hope that hon. Members would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.765.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.766.0", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I must ask you to request the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford to withdraw his accusation that this is a drunken House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.765.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.766.7", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.766.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.767.6", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I ask the Leader of the Opposition to appreciate that I accept the view that an accusation was made against hon. Members on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.767.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.767.7", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "ON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I am trying to help. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Erith and Crayford (Mr. Wellbeloved) will withdraw his remark. I have said so already. This is why I hope that we can now proceed. I think that accusations at this time of night, in view of the heat of debate, are sometimes made in anger, and I hope that, on sober reflection, my hon. Friend will withdraw his remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.767.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "The situation before the vote was taken was such that I am clear in my mind that one of two things was taking place. There was either a deliberate attempt to suppress free speech, or the behaviour of right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite can only be excused on the ground that they were \"under the influence\". It was one or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.6", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Under the pressure that you, Mr. Speaker, are putting on me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.6", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Under the pressure that you, Mr. Speaker, are putting on me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Under the pressure that you, Mr. Speaker, are putting on me, provided that it is clearly understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "Under the pressure that you, Mr. Speaker, are putting on me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Under the pressure that you, Mr. Speaker, are putting on me, provided that it is clearly understood—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—that it was either suppression of free speech, or at least the appearance to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.768.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult for me, Mr. Speaker, to withdraw in view of the disgraceful conduct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.769.4", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "I withdraw to this extent, and I am not prepared to go any further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-05", "file": "debates1970-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "734d3fcb2e10a2d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.770.4", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I seek your guidance, Mr. Speaker? You will be aware that I originally lost my Adjournment on this subject when, on Friday, 20th February, the House was counted out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-05a.770.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "CASE FOR A SOCIALIST BUDGET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "f the emphasis upon growth. I suspect that over the coming few years we shall be much more concerned than we have been in the past with a whole variety of environmental considerations. I do not accept the arguments elaborated by Mr. Mishon in his book, but I think it fair to observe that we may as a nation deliberately forgo economic growth on account of greater social and environmental stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "CASE FOR A SOCIALIST BUDGET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": ". Let us be quite clear, since the hon. Gentleman mentioned council house subsidies, that there are substantial numbers of people with family incomes far in excess of that income which makes subsidy from the central Government sensible. It is these types of economies which people want. We live in a capitalist society. In the whole of the free Western world, we believe in capital. We believe in it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.845.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "CASE FOR A SOCIALIST BUDGET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wiggin", "preceding_text": "—to the Communist society which leads to total State possession of all industry, all resources and all commerce. It is no use attacking capital if we wish to see our society remain as it is at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.846.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.851.4", "colnum": "851", "heading": "CASE FOR A SOCIALIST BUDGET", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.851.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "CASE FOR A SOCIALIST BUDGET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "In a moment. I recognise that it still means that in some urban areas and in some large conurbations there will be some shortages, and I recognise that in some parts of the country there will surpluses", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "CASE FOR A SOCIALIST BUDGET", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "nows, also, that none have been started. There is relevance to the Budget debate, because my hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme) woke about expansion of the economy bringing growth through increasing housing programmes. He was absolutely right. I do not accept the dreary argument that one should defeat wage claims by deflation, as the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.862.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-06", "file": "debates1970-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "7420857a6a6590f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.868.6", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HISTORIC WRECKS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-06a.868.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-09", "file": "debates1970-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "459c34cc5fd7fe08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "BRITISH UNITED AIRWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " right. It would be unreasonable to deny to B.O.A.C. or any other airline—we have heard of an independent one today—the right to make a bid. The fact is that B.O.A.C. did not make a bid; B.U.A. approached B.O.A.C. Once that had happened, it was reasonable and right that the Government should take an attitude, and they have done so after the most stringent examination, particularly of the finances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-09", "file": "debates1970-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "459c34cc5fd7fe08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "BRITISH UNITED AIRWAYS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the Government's inaction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman makes a direct attack on B.U.A. If the White Paper is in danger it is because of B.U.A.'s initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-09", "file": "debates1970-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "459c34cc5fd7fe08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "hould contain themselves. I suppose that they will argue that they can find this increased manpower, but I see no immediate prospect of an increased recruitment on a scale sufficient to meet this substantial increase. Does the party opposite claim to be able to increase recruitment to meet this manpower requirement? The only other alternative is conscription. The policy of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.927.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-09", "file": "debates1970-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "459c34cc5fd7fe08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": ". Farr) referred to the defence of the merchant service. The merchant service has been discussed in Committee and on the Floor of the House very often recently, and it will be discussed again on Wednesday. I have yet to meet a captain or a crew member of the British merchant service who is worrying about the degree of defence that the Royal Navy can provide for the merchant service in time of war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-09", "file": "debates1970-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "459c34cc5fd7fe08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am convinced that the right approach of the House to an investigation in depth of the enormous amount we spend on defence in general is by way of Select Committee. Some people who take part in these debates have much more experience than others. I do not claim to be a great expert. My service in the Forces was given under duress: I think that I was probably the worst soldier in the British Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-09", "file": "debates1970-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "459c34cc5fd7fe08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Can the Rt. hon. Gentleman name a reliable defence correspondent?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that, but the right hon. Gentleman will expect us to examine the position carefully, because we believe that this problem of manning will be a very difficult one, although we do not believe that it will be insuperable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-09a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1108.1", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "I have great affection for the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to internal security. While everyone in the House was concerned when CS gas was used and about the circumstances in which it was used in Northern Ireland, when it was used, under proper control, it was because the only alternative in a heavily built up urban area would have been to use bullets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rity. While everyone in the House was concerned when CS gas was used and about the circumstances in which it was used in Northern Ireland, when it was used, under proper control, it was because the only alternative in a heavily built up urban area would have been to use bullets—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I am sorry. My hon. Friends know that the job of the British troops in the matter of keeping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman can say that again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "me and not on the company. That is quite right and I make it clear that it would be wrong for the company or the work force to be blamed for the outcome of the affair. Was it right for the Government to end the support when they did? The hon. Gentleman made a great deal of what he called the 18-month period which had elapsed. I remind him that escalation is not unheard of in the aircraft industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "ot. Yet these are the people who granted credit only because of the Government backing and the flurry of optimism, with statements like, \"We believe in Beagle\", and the Minister's attitude of confidence, which encouraged people, believing that this was a Government industry and that the Government would foot the bill, to put money in. Had they not been paid, it would have been very close to fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1149.1", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "acking and the flurry of optimism, with statements like, \"We believe in Beagle\", and the Minister's attitude of confidence, which encouraged people, believing that this was a Government industry and that the Government would foot the bill, to put money in. Had they not been paid, it would have been very close to fraud—[An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"] The fact that the Minister had never expressed a doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boardman", "preceding_text": "I am talking about creditors subsequent to the taking-over by the Government. There was already an undertaking that the creditors of the former company would be paid in full, but from the time the Government acquired all the capital, the creditors legally were not entitled to be paid in full. The right hon. Gentleman now says that he had always intended that they would be paid in full—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "We have to hand it to the Minister of Technology. He managed to speak for 36 minutes without answering any of the real questions or touching on any of the real issues. It is not a bit surprising to me that some people tip him as a possible Socialist Prime Minister, because he seems to have what it takes for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cranley Onslow", "preceding_text": "echnology and it still had—I suppose unused, unless under this head is covered the borrowing from the pension fund—an authorisation to borrow up to £500,000 from private sources. It seems that there was £900,000 to be drawn upon, unless the Minister has not been completely frank with the House. I notice, with interest, that the right hon. Gentleman prefers to leave us rather than be frank with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a great believer in irrelevancies. I will make my speech in my own way. When the Treasury said to the Minister of Technology that there were no marginal seats to be bought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " in my own way. When the Treasury said to the Minister of Technology that there were no marginal seats to be bought—[HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"] Hon. Gentlemen opposite are naive in the extreme. I must remind them, in case they are unaware of it, that they are in an election year, and if they believe that they will hold every seat in Scotland they are considerably mistaken. My last question to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Moonman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ignore it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Moonman", "preceding_text": "What can one say when following such a nasty little speech?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BEAGLE AIRCRAFT COMPANY", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Neil Carmichael)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Technology (Mr. Neil Carmichael)", "preceding_text": "on. Friend to give all the figures relating to Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, another commercial concern, to be disclosed? I hardly believe that he would. On the one hand, the Opposition are asking the House to censure the Government and, on the other, they are asking for a public inquiry. They are asking the House to support their Motion of censure before they have any solid facts On which to base it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE DERWENT WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "uents to have to pay the same flat rate charge for water supplied to them from Graffham Water as others pay. One contrasts it in one's mind with the principle that applies in the supply of coal. Those hon. Members who represent coal-mining constituencies will recollect that people living in those areas expect to get their coal more cheaply than those who live in areas to which coal has to be sent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1263.3", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE DERWENT WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "t in one's mind with the principle that applies in the supply of coal. Those hon. Members who represent coal-mining constituencies will recollect that people living in those areas expect to get their coal more cheaply than those who live in areas to which coal has to be sent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] They get it cheaper. It is a well known principle which is not contested on either side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1263.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — YORKSHIRE DERWENT WATER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Sir D. Renton) voted for that Bill on Second Reading. Alas, I have to tell the House that such was the unanimity over that Bill that there was no vote. The Second Reading was given by general agreement. At least they were not able, no doubt because they were both members of the Government at that time, to come to the House and argue against that legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITE FISH AUTHORITY (PUBLICITY SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "on the industry an advertising campaign which it hopes will put right some of its former inadequacies. To use an agricultural metaphor, instead of getting to the roots of the problem—which are better organisation in the docks and fish markets and better organisation in getting fish to the consumer—it is giving a top dressing. It leaves everything as it is and then adds a top dressing of publicity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITE FISH AUTHORITY (PUBLICITY SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "All of us would be united in trying to do anything to help the fishing industry to sell more fish. My hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice (Mr. Wall) quoted the reply that I had from the Secretary of State for Scotland. I think I could quote the situation colloquially by saying that the people who are interested feel that putting forward this scheme has got the thing arse over tit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-10", "file": "debates1970-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f894839499bffe7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1288.3", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WHITE FISH AUTHORITY (PUBLICITY SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "re fed up with Government bodies promoting their business out of the proceeds of an arbitrary levy on that business. We on this side should keep a very careful eye indeed on any extension of that practice, particularly so tonight. The parliamentary ink is hardly dry on an Order proposing an increase in the levy to that body, and nobody is feeling very rich in Britain anyway. Five years of squeeze—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-10a.1288.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has obviously just arrived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has obviously just arrived. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"] May I repeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1329.2", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend agree that farmers regard the Conservative Party's new guarantee as being no guarantee at all and consider that as a result of it their incomes would not be secure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1329.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Of course, my hon. Friend is right. The policies recently announced by hon. Members opposite as their official policy for the next election have aroused great nervousness and apprehension among farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take action against the chickens.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "Has my hon. Friend noticed another trend in the egg industry—that eggs are getting smaller?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I am sure the right hon. Gentleman will not expect me to reply to the first part of his supplementary question. It was a very good defence, and I will leave it at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1365.2", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ve two misgivings about these Clauses. First, as a Conservative, I do not like giving the President of the Board of Trade these extensive discretionary powers; but I am advised by the National Maritime Museum, divers, salvage experts, and so on, that probably there is no other body, either private or governmental, which could exercise this discretion so well as the President of the Board of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1371.4", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And an armchair politician, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "was threatened with new Clause 4. That is what woke him, but I hope that we can now be serious again. I hope that the Minister of State will have listened with care to the arguments which were so, persuasively advanced by my hon. Friend the Member for St. Ives (Mr. Nott). I support my hon. Friend in a capacity which a great many other hon. Members could also claim—that of an armchair archaelogist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1386.2", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "imposes its own disciplines. I do not want those disciplines to be harsher or harder than they need be. But the penal Clauses are not the only Clauses in the Bill. There are 98 of them dealing with pay, crew agreements, the discharge of seamen, and so on. The whole gamut of sea life is covered in this excellent Bill. It is regrettable that we are picking out in a pin-pricking way the difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1485.0", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Clause 53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goronwy Roberts", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Dorset, West (Mr. Wingfield Digby) speaks so persuasively that it grieves me to have to say that I do not find a way of accepting the Amendment. But I have every sympathy with what he says, and indicated as much in Committee. The Amendment would create an unfortunate precedent. I am advised that it is against the general principles of our legal system that a person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-11", "file": "debates1970-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "3dc1c3831c617c1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1515.0", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "hey would do, for they have thrown the onus back on to the industry; and if the employers are expected to stand firm against what is a major departure from Pearson, they obviously risk the threat of industrial action being taken against them, with consequent damage to both sides of the industry and to the nation. I fear that this will be seen as a weak-kneed performance by a weak-kneed Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-11a.1515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1548.5", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This was not pornography.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The police must enforce the law as it now is. Two well publicised cases can hardly be regarded as a campaign. But I want the House to recognise, as many hon. Members do from their correspondence, that there is a great deal of concern in the country at the moment about the amount of pornography which is being sent unsolicited through the post—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1548.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1549.2", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I have said to my hon. Friend on two occasions that this matter is before the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that all the time spent in prison by people represents a great loss in terms of national productivity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1555.2", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Could not the right hon. Gentleman give a North-West party, rather like the excellent one he gave the other day at 10 Downing Street when he was kind enough to invite me and other hon. Members of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1555.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1556.4", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "May I say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1556.7", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was quite clear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman, like other right hon. Gentlemen when dealing with this matter at Question time, should quote the whole of what was said and not selectively quote my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1556.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1562.6", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman, whose own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1562.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1604.2", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1970–71, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has used the word \"redeployment\". This is the first time that we have heard the suggestion that the force that the Opposition would plan to put east of Suez would be taken from the N.A.T.O. area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1604.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1970–71, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I do not want the British Army to withdraw unconditionally as of this moment from Northern Ireland, on the basis that when the British Government take with their Army every last trace of British imperialism out of my country, that is when I want them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1665.5", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1970–71, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman the Member for Belfast, West, might be a vital installation in this connotation. But my point is that it is a military responsibility to protect these vital installations, and if ever there was a justification for the formation of the Ulster Defence Regiment it is this continued series of explosions. I know that the hon. Lady is against the defence of the security of Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1665.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-12", "file": "debates1970-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "172075e6500c5b43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1683.5", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES, 1970–71, VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "for them is to come, from where the transport to take them there and back again is to come, and from where the allowance for the six weeks acclimatisation period which the men have to undergo before they can operate in these climates is to come. I refer briefly to what I thought was one of the silliest parts of the hon. Gentleman's speech when he tried to follow his master's example of picking up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-12a.1683.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-13", "file": "debates1970-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9602020e46f0d474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1720.3", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "GREATER LONDON AREA (CITIZENS' WELL-BEING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful, shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "In the borough which I share with the hon. and gallant Member, whereas we had nearly 2,000 houses in the pipeline then, it is down to 20 in the current year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1720.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-13", "file": "debates1970-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9602020e46f0d474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1746.5", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "GREATER LONDON AREA (CITIZENS' WELL-BEING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " charges the local authority with not doing. I hope he will realise that the sin lies in his Department and not in the local authority which he seeks to criticise. This is true all over London. Has it not occurred to the hon. Gentleman that the fall-off in housing all over the country is national in scope, and therefore national in cause? Has it not occurred to him that the fall-off is nationwide?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-13", "file": "debates1970-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9602020e46f0d474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1746.5", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "GREATER LONDON AREA (CITIZENS' WELL-BEING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "ies in his Department and not in the local authority which he seeks to criticise. This is true all over London. Has it not occurred to the hon. Gentleman that the fall-off in housing all over the country is national in scope, and therefore national in cause? Has it not occurred to him that the fall-off is nationwide? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It has occurred for reasons which are not difficult to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-13", "file": "debates1970-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9602020e46f0d474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "GREATER LONDON AREA (CITIZENS' WELL-BEING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Rossi", "preceding_text": "apturing London in a few weeks' time. For those two reasons, the time of this House is taken up with a Motion and a debate of this kind. What does the Motion really say? It says that all that is good in London, the happiness and the prosperity of Londoners, is due to a Labour Government since 1964 and that all that is bad in London is due to a Conservative Administration at County Hall since 1967.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-13", "file": "debates1970-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "9602020e46f0d474", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1786.1", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "GREATER LONDON AREA (CITIZENS' WELL-BEING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Excellent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "ncil was prepared to help those 80 per cent. of the people to do that. Within a few months of the scheme being announced, 3,000 tenants had offered to buy their own homes, and 70 houses a week were beginning to be transferred. But then what happened? At one week's notice, without consultation, the scheme was banned by the Government and the sale of houses was reduced to a proportion of one in 400.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-13a.1786.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-16", "file": "debates1970-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c092a99c271c60e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.156.4", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE, 1970–71 (AIR), VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "at in the medium rather than the short term the Government are running themselves into a far more costly programme than can be laid at our door, on the grounds which I have given. The hon. Gentleman asks what forces we would retain east of Suez. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and other right hon. Gentlemen on this side of the House have explained this matter over and over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-16", "file": "debates1970-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c092a99c271c60e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.156.6", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE, 1970–71 (AIR), VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks about the commitment. But what about the general capability promised by the Secretary of State to Australia and New Zealand and to Malaysia? These general capabilities are commitments. What he has done is to talk about a general capability which he cannot perform.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.156.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-16", "file": "debates1970-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c092a99c271c60e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE, 1970–71 (AIR), VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "What is yours? It is clear that the Secretary of State will not answer, so I will not put my neck out unless he tells the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-16", "file": "debates1970-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "c092a99c271c60e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE, 1970–71 (AIR), VOTE A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "r that the Secretary of State will not answer, so I will not put my neck out unless he tells the House. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Well, the party opposite comprise the Government, and it is their commitment. As far as we are concerned our commitment to Malaysia, if we understand the Government at all, is exactly the same as theirs. But they are not providing themselves with any forces to carry it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-16a.157.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.189.6", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "Ask President Nixon.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman explain how it is possible for the United States to give figures for the money supply at monthly intervals and for the preceding month while we do not have more recent figures than for last December?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.189.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "I find that question totally incomprehensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "I find that question totally incomprehensible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\".] The hon. Gentleman has clearly not read the Reddaway Report, which makes it clear that the effect of S.E.T. on distribution is absorbed in increased productivity or reduced profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "I did not say it had that effect on the price of food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "t effect on the price of food. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I found it incomprehensible perhaps because I had overestimated the hon. Gentleman's intelligence, which is not always an easy thing to do. I thought that he would have read the Reddaway Report. The Question relates to food, and it is clear that, in respect of food, according to the Reddaway Report, there has not been an effect on prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.5", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman does not like the answer because he does not like the fact that the Reddaway Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.191.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Having dealt with this matter on a number of occasions, I would remind the hon. Gentleman that over 2 million houses have been built by this Government in five years——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.199.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.4", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is it not unreasonably optimistic to hope that the Prime Minister will now try to deal with the point about the pledge which he made? He will recall that he distinguished it from \"promise\". It was a pledge to be carried out in all circumstances, no matter what the difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister this afternoon has succeeded in producing a greater string of inaccuracies, to use a polite word, than even he has been able to produce before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.6", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e to produce before. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Will he kindly give the reference in the alleged Conservative manifesto which said that no legislation about rents would be introduced and which he has so often quoted? Will he also give a reference to the question which the late Mr. Bevan was supposed to have asked? Secondly, it is true that the House is being unfair in blaming the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long. Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " the question which the late Mr. Bevan was supposed to have asked? Secondly, it is true that the House is being unfair in blaming the Prime Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—for not carrying through his solemn election pledge of 500,000 houses, because he broke that pledge, as he says, after devaluation, when he announced that the Government would build 483,500 houses. Will he now explain why——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.200.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first question, it was not in the Tory manifesto", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first question, it was not in the Tory manifesto [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I did not say that it was in the Tory manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n, it was not in the Tory manifesto [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I did not say that it was in the Tory manifesto. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"] I said that it was a statement in the election and that it was in answer to a question by Aneurin Bevan. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman wants to deny that. It was a question by Aneurin Bevan and it was officially denied by the Tory Party at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ".\"] I did not say that it was in the Tory manifesto. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"] I said that it was a statement in the election and that it was in answer to a question by Aneurin Bevan. I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman wants to deny that. It was a question by Aneurin Bevan and it was officially denied by the Tory Party at the time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who by?\"] If hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to deny it, the records can be searched on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman wants to deny it, the records can be searched on this matter. [ Interruption.] With regard to the second question, I stated the position after devaluation. I did not say how many houses would be built as a result. Nevertheless, the right hon. Gentleman will recognise that at that time we could not have foreseen what the Tory councils would do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.5", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " devaluation. I did not say how many houses would be built as a result. Nevertheless, the right hon. Gentleman will recognise that at that time we could not have foreseen what the Tory councils would do—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—nor could we have foreseen that a Tory housing spokesman would chide Tory councils for building too many. But with regard to the figures he has quoted, the Tories in 13 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.201.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that his own Minister of Housing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that his own Minister of Housing —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"]—has never been able to deny that the record of such Labour councils as still exist is far worse than that of Conservative councils in this period? The reason is plain enough. It is difficult for local authorities with high interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.202.4", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Slater", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Slater", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. During my 20 years as a Member of this House, I have never known so much latitude granted to a Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.202.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In all the time that I have been in the House of Commons I have never heard a Prime Minister take so long answering his rotten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.204.2", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There would be inordinate increases in his housing policy. With regard to his question about those in special need, we have done more for each of the categories that he mentioned than his Government ever did. It is clear from what he and his hon. Friend the Shadow Minister have said that they would provide no subsidies for general housing need, that they are committed to reducing our £130 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "REORGANISATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN GLAMORGAN AND MONMOUTHSHIRE AND HEALTH SERVICE IN WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I do not want to be unkind to the hon. Gentleman, but he obviously has not understood the proposal and he needs further time to look at it. I am not proposing to link Newport, Cardiff and Swansea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "REORGANISATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN GLAMORGAN AND MONMOUTHSHIRE AND HEALTH SERVICE IN WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, not for the first time, is given to gross exaggeration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "DOCK STRIKES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.214.5", "colnum": "214", "heading": "DOCK STRIKES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. [ Interruption. ] I have no intention of being intimidated by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.214.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-17", "file": "debates1970-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "21f04a0f19c5a855", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE ESTIMATE, 1970–71 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " Command aeroplane to take you and a group of Members of Parliament overseas on a trip like this\". I had better quote this letter in full because I see that the Parliamentary Secretary has brought up a copy. It says: Lord Winterbottom is away from the office this evening undertaking a political engagement.\"— and that, by the way, is the Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-17a.252.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.373.3", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I please make it clear to the House, since an imputation has been made against me, that I have no connection in any business sense at all with these people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Complacency.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Of course, we are looking at this very closely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "ANNUAL FARM PRICE REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "fect on retail food prices will be felt only on milk. Thy price of milk will go up by 1d. a pint towards the end of the year. At this stage I cannot give a precise date. Apart from that, there will be no effect on food prices. That is the value of this system as opposed to the system of the Opposition. If they were operating their system, with this kind of Review, the effect on retail food prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.402.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.408.4", "colnum": "408", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "1964.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that this is good but that it will have to be far better if we are to retain the 1968 programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.408.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman appreciate that this statement may be an attempt to make an honest man of the Prime Minister and his promises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.409.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "DIVISION BELLS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House is asking me to deal with the matter when it arises. The hon. Gentleman is suggesting that perhaps I will not be able to deal with it because I do not have the necessary power. I think that the House is prepared to give Mr. Speaker the power, in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend said he was now prepared to give time to establish, if they had any validity, fail, then presumably there is nothing to stop the B.U.A. take-over going ahead, as was possible a week ago. I hope that the attempts being made to set up a viable second force will not be on the basis of a carve up of, say, the B.O.A.C. routes in Africa. This was one of the proposals that B.U.A. put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.457.4", "colnum": "457", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "s also the whole question of subsidies on certain domestic routes, and the need for co-ordination between domestic air services and other transport facilities available to the public. I am sorry that the Tory Opposition are so blinkered by their determination to make party political capital out of every issue that comes up in the House that none of these matters have found a place in their Motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.457.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "uncement I believe that the Government have yielded to the people who should not be their friends, and appear to have let down the people who emphatically are their friends—although for how much longer that relationship will last, I would not care to say. Having got that off my chest, let me make it plain that I am not saying, or even implying, that there is not a rôle for the independents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "prestige\" flying schedules which are, again, not necessarily profitable. It is they which have played far and away the greatest rôle in building up British civil aviation to its present level of profitability. And it is they, particularly, which have created and kept the standards of safety and maintenance which we now see and which are far ahead of the standards in the independent section—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": " begin with the kind of smears about \"the defence of private enterprise and of our own interests\" for which we on this side stand. In the year or so before a General Election, I have become used to that kind of smear being put forward by hon. Gentlemen opposite. However, I make no apology for saying that the free enterprise system has not only kept this country going but has saved this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Fortescue", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Fortescue", "preceding_text": "irlines, but it has always seemed to me that the domestic arena could very properly be left to independent airlines which, as we have seen, are able to make profits in spheres where the nationalised industries do not, as B.U.A. did in South America. There is no need for British air passengers to be carried in the United Kingdom by a nationalised airline which loses money at the taxpayers' expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "solutely legitimate as a subject for the knowledge of all those concerned. It is not a legitimate subject for the threat of a strike, not against the employers but against the public interest and the Government elected by the people as a whole. It is an attempt to coerce the duly-elected Government of the people. That is why the President of the Board of Trade is right not to accept such coercion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.521.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about the farmers?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "But we have to ask who encouraged the present situation, who set the climate in which Mr. Clive Jenkins made his threat. We have to ask why first the dockers and now Mr. Clive Jenkins threaten strikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The farmers have not theatened to withdraw their labour. They are spending their leisure time demonstrating, and doing so peacefully. We are here seeing yet another consequence of the Prime Minister's capitulation to trade union pressure last summer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Board of Trade (Mr. Goronwy Roberts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Board of Trade (Mr. Goronwy Roberts)", "preceding_text": "l on the transfer of any significant part of the public air corporations' route network. If any hon. Member has not read that, I emphasise it. We are for a second force on the conditions set out in the White Paper, and the major condition is that it should not rest on a significant transfer of routes from the publicly-owned air corporations. The debate has demonstrated the emptiness of the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "t that evidence from the sources to which my hon. Friend has referred would be among such evidence that the inquiry would need to consider. I turn now to the position at the airport tonight. Heathrow closed at 8 p.m. this evening when the fire officers, as they have been doing for the past few weeks, came off. If the fire officers follow I.P.C.S. instructions the airport will stay closed tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.529.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.530.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.530.6", "colnum": "530", "heading": "CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.530.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "In Lewisham we failed to get a councillor from the G.L.C. to come to explain the scheme to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.535.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "It seems a very odd thing that the right hon. Gentleman should seek in that way to excuse a public authority for not laying before the House the reasons why it seeks to adopt a particular course of conduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Walker", "preceding_text": "ovision for appeals and the career prospects and salary position have been looked into. Therefore, the Minister tonight by saying that he sees no reason in principle why there should not be transfers to the boroughs in the years ahead is now creating an immense area of uncertainty for all staff concerned. Already staff have been transferred to the London boroughs and rent rolls have been prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.546.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "No, there is very little time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under pressure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "ercentage than Barking. That was one way of doing it—dividing according to housing needs. The second alternative was to allocate in accordance with the value to the G.L.C. itself of the houses it was holding. The third was to allocate to each borough council pro rata according to the G.L.C. housing stock in that borough. After discussions between the Greater London Council and the London Boroughs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "y duty imposed by Parliament. If there was any pressure it was that of the statutory duty, and no other. The Greater London Council tried to do the best it could to carry out this duty, and at all times, the Minister's observer and adviser was present and able to see what was going on and indicate if the Minister had anything to say about the method of approach. But he who keeps silence, consents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenwood", "preceding_text": "The truth is that the G.L.C. made this policy decision in 1967. It was only in the middle of January, 1970, that we knew what the scheme was going to amount to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-18", "file": "debates1970-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "632000f9795a0be4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.560.3", "colnum": "560", "heading": "LONDON AUTHORITIES (TRANSFER OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": ". All that remained was ways and means, administrative procedure. That is all we are talking about, not policy. They discussed administrative procedure for two years with the knowledge of the Minister, who raised not one word of protest, an utterly discreditable and disgraceful action on the part of a Minister of the Crown. If he had the courage of his convictions he would hand in his resignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-18a.560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-19", "file": "debates1970-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f6529d2caba07444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.591.7", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is wrong about the latter point. We shall be paying for the pensions by grants which will materially assist the foreign exchange problems of the countries to whom we are making the grants. I have stressed before that, in my view, the pensioners who will benefit from this are people who, in the main, did an essentially developmental job in pre-independence days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.591.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-19", "file": "debates1970-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f6529d2caba07444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.605.5", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, in common with his right hon. and hon. Friends, seems to be studying a lot of matters of that period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.605.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-19", "file": "debates1970-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f6529d2caba07444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stodart", "preceding_text": "In view of the unanimous hostility of the farmers to yesterday's Price Review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-19", "file": "debates1970-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f6529d2caba07444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.609.4", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend know that the C.B.I. is advising its constituent members not to inform the P.I.B. in advance of any price increases? Would he express to the House some disappointment at the fact that the C.B.I. is contracting out of its obligations in respect of price increases?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-19", "file": "debates1970-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f6529d2caba07444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.610.6", "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": "ote the N.E.D.C. figures on Monday which showed the following: United Kingdom dollar export prices since devaluation, minus 2¾ per cent.; U.S.A., plus 4½ per cent.; France, plus 1 per cent.; Italy, plus 3 per cent.; Japan, plus 4 per cent.; other industrial countries, plus 2 per cent. and Germany—and these are the I.M.F. figures—plus I per cent. against our minus 2¾ per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.610.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-19", "file": "debates1970-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f6529d2caba07444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.612.5", "colnum": "612", "heading": "DEBATE (REFERENCE TO LORDS DEBATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "self of a copy of the Lords OFFICIAL REPORT for the debate yesterday and I found that the noble Lord, Lord Chalfont, had indulged in remarks which some of us would regard as offensive. I do not consider the noble Lord to be of great significance. I recall that he was appointed Minister for Disarmament over a period of years and has not succeeded in disarming anything. He could not disarm a rabbit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-19a.612.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-23", "file": "debates1970-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cdee95aa16e5a823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-23a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FUTURE STRUCTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Worsley", "preceding_text": "One of the right hon. Gentleman's attractions is that we usually get answers very quickly from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-23a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-23", "file": "debates1970-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cdee95aa16e5a823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-23a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (FUTURE STRUCTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How do you known?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "for representatives of other groups, no place at all for trade unions and voluntary organisations. The whole virtue of the third membership which will still be appointed by my right hon. Friend is that he can take account of such groups as voluntary organisations, trade unions and other valuable members of the community who would never be put forward either by local authorities or the professions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-23a.1107.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-23", "file": "debates1970-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "cdee95aa16e5a823", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-23a.1133.6", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "ut the House and the public need an explanation. This Order the Government themselves bring before the the House for affirmative Resolution. It is not a Prayer by the Opposition. The Government have a duty to the country and to the House to explain the Order. If the hon. Gentleman will not do so I shall have to do so at some length. The parent Statute for this Order was passed as long ago as 1961—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-23a.1133.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does not that answer clearly indicate that all the new roads which have been built since hon. Members opposite got into office were planned and created by the Tory Government?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1196.6", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And 6.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I can give that assurance. I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman should become so heated. After all, he has NAB 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1196.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1206.6", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "In regard to the hon. Gentleman's reference to a bonanza, I would refer him to an interesting article and chart in the Financial Times this morning, which shows the whole progress of the electoral-political cycle under the Government of which the hon. Gentleman was a distinguished member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1206.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that my hon. Friend saw off the Sunday Times as regards that article on Sunday. I am not responsible for newspaper reports, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1207.1", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rying to get on with it, but right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite are tempting me. I was not even responsible for the hysterical article by the Leader of the Opposition in the Daily Mail this morning. Knowing how rattled he is becoming, my fear was that it was not written, as usual, by his scriptwriters; I fear that he wrote it himself. With regard to the more serious question on family poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1207.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d. With regard to the reports, I cannot be responsible for newspaper reports about the I.M.F. I know that the I.M.F., which came here to see whether we were conducting satisfactorily our £300 million pledge on the balance of payments, is now satisfied that we are running at a surplus of more than £500 million. I recall the Leader of the Opposition saying in the debate on the last Budget Statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1209.4", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must correct that. We have published far more information on this question than the right hon. Gentleman's Government ever did. The right hon. Gentleman is in the unhappy position that, when he was in charge of these affairs under the right hon. Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home), who, with an £800 million deficit, said that the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1212.4", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where was the hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Yesterday, the hon. Lady made a submission to you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1212.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1212.5", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Yesterday, the hon. Lady made a submission to you, Mr. Speaker—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where was the hon. Gentleman?\"]—on the proposition that you allow an Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9. On that occasion the hon. Lady made a very long speech, the subject of which was not in order in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "The point that I was making was that there was no Ministerial responsibility for the subject raised by the hon. Lady yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1213.5", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "I am not questioning the Ruling, Sir. I am saying that it is relevant to today. The hon. Lady appears to be embarking upon a speech about a subject which may or may not be in order in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1213.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The two sides of the House mean nothing to Mr. Speaker. I have already ruled that the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South was wrong to use a point of order to make a political charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1218.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1218.6", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Let me make my position perfectly plain——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1218.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1222.1", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "of the House about this matter. We recognise that the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr) feels very strongly about this, as does my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin). You have been placed, Mr. Speaker, in an embarrassing position. If the hon. and gallant Member does not wish to withdraw his observations the proper course for him is to withdraw from the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "I would say, with respect, Mr. Speaker, that I hope that you will make up your mind on this either way in the best sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "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": "nt is whether or not the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr) imputed personal motives to another hon. Member. I would have thought that the right course for him, in view of what Mr. Speaker has said, would be to withdraw and, indeed, to say that he regretted the remark. On the other hand, I accept that passions are aroused in the House for various reasons. We all understand that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": " I accept that passions are aroused in the House for various reasons. We all understand that. [ Interruption .] I would have thought that the wisest course would be for the hon. and gallant Member to say that he regretted imputing personal motives to a colleague, if Mr. Speaker is accusing him of doing so. I would hope, Mr. Speaker, that you would make up your mind, because we are in difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "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": "and that. [ Interruption .] I would have thought that the wisest course would be for the hon. and gallant Member to say that he regretted imputing personal motives to a colleague, if Mr. Speaker is accusing him of doing so. I would hope, Mr. Speaker, that you would make up your mind, because we are in difficulties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I hope that the hon. and gallant Member withdraws the remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "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": "] I would have thought that the wisest course would be for the hon. and gallant Member to say that he regretted imputing personal motives to a colleague, if Mr. Speaker is accusing him of doing so. I would hope, Mr. Speaker, that you would make up your mind, because we are in difficulties. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I hope that the hon. and gallant Member withdraws the remark. [ Interruption .] I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1224.6", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (INCIDENTS, DERRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "MURDER (LIFE IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "preceding_text": "I rise to oppose the Motion. The hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths) made the best case he could in support of a proposition which the House would be ill-advised to support. The hon. Gentleman appealed frankly to our emotions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "MURDER (LIFE IMPRISONMENT)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "For this House to try to anticipate or pre-empt, even in part, the conclusions of such a committee would, I suggest, be ill-advised in the extreme. Such a step would savour of panic measures in a situation which in no way justifies action of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1244.2", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Just as they are staying away now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": "the Clause. The right hon. Gentleman says that there was a snap Division. The Committee took a decision in the way it always does, on a vote. If the Government and their supporters had wished to support the Clause, they could well have been there. I took it that we had convinced some of the Minister's hon. Friends and that, to avoid embarrassment, they stayed away and thus the Clause was defeated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "It was a bit of a fluke that this Clause was not carried in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "rd to the income tests which are applied on grants to individuals who relinquish tenancies of uneconomic holdings under the provisions of the 1967 Act, but in Clause 27(2)( c ) of that Act there is this limit; and no farm family is allowed an income from sources other than farming of over £400 a year. This can be extremely hard on some farmers, and I hope that the Minister will look at it and see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says I was foolish to alert you to the fact, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I sunk my own boat but I have made my point and if the Minister would look at this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-24", "file": "debates1970-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "76df2a6529663d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1395.5", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "It is not. If the hon. Member looks at HANSARD, he will see that the Prime Minister takes up whole columns whereas other hon. Members take up half-inches. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition does not get a look in compared with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-24a.1395.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1402.5", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "It is not without reason that I said \"about 500.\" I was not specific either when I gave the reply last year or this year. About 500 is about right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1402.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1454.0", "colnum": "1454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": " to me for changes. If it becomes necessary to add a new substance to the Schedule to the 1964 Act, it will be my intention to secure that it is also added to the list of drugs controlled by the Bill before it becomes law. There are times when one has to move as quickly as that. Schedule 2 does not include any of the barbiturates. Hon. Members may ask why this should be so, in view of my comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1495.3", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend must not think that he was original in making that proposition. All those matters were fully considered by the Wootton Committee as well, and the Committee made the recommendations that I have read to the House in the light of having considered all the factors that my hon. Friend has just mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1525.1", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "on. Members are concerned about smoking and alcohol addiction, but drug addiction is something which affects young people. Three of the things that one can say about drug addicts in Britain are that practically all of them are white, that all of them are British-born and that all of them are under 25. One can say those things with certainty. Most of the alcohol addicts are middle- aged or elderly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1525.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BACON CURING INDUSTRY (STABILISATION SCHEME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": "I was saying that we would not disclose certain figures about particular companies.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERTILISERS (AMENDMENT) SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "deal of consideration has been given to the method of paying this, and the method chosen is the only reasonable one to hand. Members connected with the legal profession, like the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe), have made the point that the payment might not be legal; but nothing will be paid until after the Order has been approved by Parliament. If there are any other suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERTILISERS (AMENDMENT) SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not going to pass it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "There is nothing illegal about an ex gratia payment if the House passes the Scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1589.2", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERTILISERS (AMENDMENT) SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "which he has not tried to answer, is that when these new arrangements were announced, the Minister of Agriculture was specifically asked why it was not possible to make payment back to the earlier date when a great many people had got it. He said that this was not parliamentarily possible. Now the Joint Parliamentary Secretary asks us to do some under-cover fiddle to get him out of the difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-25", "file": "debates1970-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "dd5aee44a4056358", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1590.0", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERTILISERS (AMENDMENT) SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has used some extraordinarily exaggerated language. It is not impossible. We could pay back for 20 years if we sat down to think about it. The point is irrelevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-25a.1590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1632.5", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend think that the Confederation of British Industry has tried to sabotage the recovery in the nation's economic position by refusing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1632.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1636.6", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "asked the Minister for the Civil Service if he will take steps to ensure that future adjustments in the salaries of the chairmen and board members of state-controlled industries will be related to the financial performance of these industries and the extent to which they improve their service to the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1636.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "In looking at the Order Paper I find that 11 Tory Members who had Questions down are absent, although the House is still sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1648.0", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider calling a special Commonwealth Conference because of the situation in Rhodesia and its rapid deterioration? We now see that the Churches are oppressed and that the principle of free speech is vanishing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider calling a special Commonwealth Conference because of the situation in Rhodesia and its rapid deterioration? We now see that the Churches are oppressed and that the principle of free speech is vanishing—[ Interruption. ] The Churches are being oppressed. If the Leader of the Opposition does not know it, he should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1648.3", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I am leading to my question, Mr. Speaker. I do not want any help from the right hon. Gentleman. He might need some help from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1648.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What is the right hon. Gentleman's?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "tions. Will the Prime Minister tell the House and the country the specific purpose of Government policy towards Rhodesia? Is it not right, as the question by his hon. Friend suggests, that there should be meetings between Government representatives and the other countries of Africa to consider whether a solution can be found? What is the precise objective of Government policy now towards Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1649.2", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a question which I could turn back to the right hon. Gentleman and the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1649.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1650.1", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister knows full well that my speeches have repeatedly reiterated the support of this side of the House for the five principles which we set out when in Government, and I did so in the last fortnight. I therefore challenge the Prime Minister on that and ask him to withdraw that absolutely unjustified accusation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1650.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-03-26", "file": "debates1970-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "aad16c1621427b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1650.5", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ctions. That is the first time we have heard that from the right hon. Gentleman. He and some of his hon. Friends abstained when sanctions were imposed; they voted against sanctions, and they supported the racialist régime in turning down the \"Tiger\" proposals. I am glad that he has said this; it helps to get a more bipartisan attitude. This is a very important step forward and I welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-03-26a.1650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.3.1", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I cannot accept the implications of what the hon. Gentleman is saying. He is wasting his time trying to detect differences between various Ministerial utterances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.3.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.34.3", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster-General (Mr. Harold Lever)", "preceding_text": "reat industries of this country. It disposes of £4,000 million of net assets in England and Wales. It employs about 200,000 men and women and operates about 200 power stations and nearly 19,000 miles of overhead lines and underground cables in the C.E.G.B. grid, and over 300,000 miles in the area boards' mains. I mention the statistics so that the House will approach the Bill with a proper air of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.34.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "re its own tools of trade should it be sensible and economical to do so. This power is given to the coal and gas industries, and it is automatically possessed by any equivalent private industry. If anybody wants to conjure up nightmares of subsidised, creeping Socialism and the like, most of these bogeymen have been paraded from time to time before this and other Parliaments, and I wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.45.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "00 million and a huge investment programme, particularly in plant and machinery. It would not be managerially practicable, or desirable in the interests of efficiency, to have the chairmen, who already have a major task with the business undertakings they control, also trying to control so large an organisation as the C.E.G.B. as a side job. Turning quickly to the question of manufacturing powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Indeed, not. That is the intention. The reason it is being done through the area boards is that they have the marketing outlets. They have marketing experience and direct contact with the consumer. I am spelling out the distinction between the two sets of provisions. Hon. Members opposite, when they object to these provisions, should bear in mind the words of the Paymaster-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.156.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "efore, a party issue. All hon. Members opposite will know that when they were in power they in fact made substantially greater use of the Guillotine procedure than this Administration. Between 1951 and 1964 they introduced 15 guillotine Motions. On the other hand, the Motion now before the House is the eighth introduced by a Labour Government in our eleven and a half years in office since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.161.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "Sir D. Glover rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.163.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the right hon. Gentleman does not give way the hon. Member may not remain standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.163.12", "colnum": "163", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "an for giving way. In a very short debate, I appreciate how very generous he is in giving way. What I would say to him is this. The Bill is a very complicated Bill, and I should have thought that the Government would have wanted to get it right. We have had a great deal of discussion on it in Committee to try to get it right. During the last five years, the Government have passed more legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.163.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which Bill?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "inguished Parliamentarian—when he regretted that a timetable Motion had not been introduced at the outset for a Bill introduced by his Government. He said: It would have saved a lot of our time and shattered nerves, and by now the Bill would have been on the Statute Book. He went on to say arrogantly: We are the majority in the House of Commons\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th July, 1962; Vol. 662, c. 992.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.165.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why should we?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " opposite have not been blatant, certainly not in the early stages. They were willing to come to short-term agreements. Indeed, up to the end of Clause 40 there had been reasonable progress and discussion of a considerable part of the Bill had been completed. However, on the crucial issue of reaching a voluntary agreement on the terminal date for the Committee stage, the Opposition were unwilling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.166.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "Sir Harmar Nicholls rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.168.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "I completely reject the hon. Gentleman's stupid allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e introducing Bills which they promised not to introduce, a great deal more progress would have been made. The dilemma facing the Minister is that when the Bill reaches the Statute Book he has to vest the ports in the National Ports Authority, and that will take time. He will undoubtedly try to make up time by cutting corners. But the haunting doubt exists that the imminence of a General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.172.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Opposition, because there is no doubt that all of us on the Committee understood that the Minister had his own problems, and there must have been times when he wished that his Front Bench was a swivel chair so that he could keep an eye on the enemy behind as well as coping with the enemy in front. It will be one of the curious footnotes to this Motion that the hon. Member for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Encore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "lly, week after week, and said: 'Look after my Betty', 'Look after my Margaret', 'Look after my Jeannie' or 'Look after my Flossie', that would be the basis of an organisation of people with a continuing purpose who wished the Minister to perform a regular service for them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, Standing Committee D, 17th March, 1970, cc. 1298–1306.] This goes on and on and on in the same way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "eech of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor). If he had a good case against the Government about the Ports Bill, he would not have delivered 70 per cent. of his speech about the Steel Bill. If he had a good case against the Government about what they were doing in the ports, he would not have devoted so much of his time to attacking what has been done in the steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "r cent. of his speech about the Steel Bill. If he had a good case against the Government about what they were doing in the ports, he would not have devoted so much of his time to attacking what has been done in the steel industry. [ Interruption. ] If he was so incensed about that situation in the ports, he would not have indulged in such wild hostility to what has been done in the steel industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. If an hon. Member is addressing the House when he obviously does not know what the argument is about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "hed through, the members of the Conservative Party have not the courage to denationalise anything. But they will not dare to say it. We have been trying to get them to tell us—why do they not do so?—which industries they will denationalise. They are making a great fuss about the guillotine Motion but do not say that they will hand back the ports to private enterprise. Or do they? There is silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.188.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-06", "file": "debates1970-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "d64489265d6d882f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "PORTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And the Schedules.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Barber", "preceding_text": "bbw Vale and others, because this is the doctrine of the Labour Party. This is Socialism. But this is not the kind of issue which should be steamrollered through the House of Commons when five-sixths of the Clauses of the Bill have already been considered. Therefore, we are bound to ask: why are the Government imposing a Guillotine after 50 Clauses have been considered and there are only 11 to go?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-06a.193.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.229.6", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes or no?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is misinterpreting my answers. I have criticised not Wandsworth but the G.L.C. for not making land available in Outer London by purchase to assist Wands-worth and other boroughs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NASSAU AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have not in any way reversed their previous policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary that this should not be a matter for interparty argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.243.4", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "Although I accept that one does not want to make a grievous social problem of this kind a football of party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.243.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Walter!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "rose——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.245.4", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "rocedures of the House—and I should like to know whether Erskine May has pronounced on it—to have an exchange where the private professional operations of a Member are dragged in as part of a political argument in this House. If the exchange to which we have just listened is allowed to pass without an official Ruling, I do not see how a practising barrister can make any contribution in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. We continue in the House to get this cheating on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.246.8", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker, if that was thought to be a reflection on the Chair. But we look at these animals on the other side of the House day in and day out. We cannot particularise. My point of order is quite simple, short and fair. Within the last 20 minutes we have had one moron, the right hon. Gentleman—if I may say so; he is not right and he is not honourable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.246.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CRIMINAL LAW (LAW COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I will withdraw that. Within the space of 10 minutes we had another one, with spectacles on his kisser to try to make himself look intelligent, who raised another point of order which was not a point of order. When, Mr. Speaker, will you regard this as cheating?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "in fact, alive; being treated as dead when they are still living. It is precisely this mentality that I fear the Bill will induce not only in the dying person, but also in relatives and medical attendants. The final stage of an incurable illness can be a wasteland, but it need not be. It can be a vital period in a person's life reconciling him to life and to death and giving him an interior peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "preceding_text": " Ireland Communist Party, who, at that party's recent conference, said that it was important that Communist Party members continued to play a leading rôle in the Civil Rights Movement. A feature of recent debates on Northern Ireland in this House has been a tendency to engage in a series of recriminations. I hope, that today's debate will mark a departure from this sterile form of argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "preceding_text": " G.O.C. stated that good sense will prevail only if the Army is very strong on the ground and shows an absolute determination to keep the peace. I trust that the G.O.C. will have no hesitation in clothing his words with action should the occasion warrant which every hon. Member most earnestly prays that the occasion would not arise. I trust that the kid-glove approach is now something of the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pounder", "preceding_text": "ten in the Press about the fears of the minority in Northern Ireland, but, make no mistake about it, the Protestant majority also has genuine fears which must be realised and understood, For the past 50 years, both communities have shared in the economic progress which has been made—a progress which, in my view, would not have been made if Northern Ireland had been part of the Republic of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "That is one of the reasons why we have such discontent and tension in Northern Ireland now. They were brought before the courts and acquitted, but everyone in Northern Ireland knows how juries are intimidated and will never convict—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.274.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.274.4", "colnum": "274", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "That is one of the reasons why we have such discontent and tension in Northern Ireland now. They were brought before the courts and acquitted, but everyone in Northern Ireland knows how juries are intimidated and will never convict—[ Interruption. ] I do not want to cause dissension, but——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.274.6", "colnum": "274", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman and his colleagues, as well as everybody in Northern Ireland, are aware that those who were acquitted were, in fact, guilty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.274.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "They were acquitted. One of their colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.275.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.275.7", "colnum": "275", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not the custom of the Chair to rule on hypothetical situations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.275.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.275.8", "colnum": "275", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not the custom of the Chair to rule on hypothetical situations—[ Interruption. ]—and so far nothing has been out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.275.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I do not want to indulge in any type of argument with the hon. and learned Member for Antrim, South (Sir Knox Cunningham), for whom I do not have a high regard from the point of view of his political intelligence or otherwise. He is commonly known in Northern Ireland as \"the Westminster correspondent of the Paisley Telegraph\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or colour.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I shall be finished in a couple of seconds. In nothing I have said is there the slightest particle, I will not say of hostility, but of ill will, to the Republic and her citizens. Much the contrary. But we in this House have a duty to our fellow subjects. whatever their views or religion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "the solution offered from this House—the solution of force. All the troops in the world will not help to solve the Northern Ireland problem. Troops can only enforce the existing situation. Possibly enough has been said about the crass stupidity of General Freeland's statement on television last night. To say, on the one hand, \"We will shoot everyone\" and, on the other hand, \"We are clearing out\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "ton, South-West (Mr. Powell) or than the social proposals of the hon. Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin), to whose speech, in the hope that she may be able to come back, I will refer a little later. This brings me to the components of the present situation. I start with the Army, and do so because I think that the immense majority in this House are proud of what the Army is trying to do in Ulster", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Quintin Hogg", "preceding_text": "ill say this to the Home Secretary in the hope that he may pass it on. It has crossed my mind in the last few hours and, indeed, in the last few days that when statements are to be made which may have political implications—it is no criticism of the G.O.C. to say that, but it is in a sense a criticism of the Governments both at Stormont and Westminster—such statements are better made by Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Devlin", "preceding_text": "I will acknowledge substantial progress when it is made, but to date the only progress made in Northern Ireland is progress for the benefit of the electoral campaign of the British Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.319.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman admit that there is a sinister element at work in Northern Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.320.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. B. Hill", "preceding_text": "I had not wished to press this to a Division and I still do not want to, because I hope that the Government will have second thoughts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.330.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.386.3", "colnum": "386", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "I was referring to support buying, but I shall be out of order if I deal with that now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": " of the order of 1,400 schemes to complete. It has been highlighted tonight that shortage of cash in the hill-farming industry will make it extraordinarily difficult for those farmers to alter their plans so that they can complete them by 1973. My right hon. Friend the Member for Argyll (Mr. Noble) has emphasised the very serious situation in relation to cash for improvement schemes at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.418.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "to extend this period by three years so that it would come 13 years after proposals, and we think this is too long. The hon. Member for Dumfries (Mr. Monro) said that we should let it play out more time and that it could not cost more money. If it would be the same number of schemes coming in over an extended period, it would be merely taking more time and this would be the height of inefficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.435.6", "colnum": "435", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "pposition on this Amendment rather more than I pleased them on Amendment No. 24. Clause 44 gives smallholdings authorities the powers they need to manage their estates. In particular, it enables them to encourage co-operation on smallholdings estates, to provide requisites and services for tenants and to arrange for the disposal of their produce. These powers for the encouragement of co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.435.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.438.2", "colnum": "438", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "n the farming of land. That definition includes dogs, which are extensively used on hill farms for sheep herding and so on, so food for all sorts of dogs could be prescribed. The same goes for cats, which have a farming use: many farmers claim on their tax returns for their food. Birds are also included for egg production and poultry for the table, so budgerigar feeding stuffs could be prescribed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.438.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "er of my constituency Labour Party was elected to the executive of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. In due course, his employment was terminated. I understand that the reason was that he was unable to spend sufficient time on his job, in the eyes of his employer, because he had to attend meetings. His employment was terminated because he was doing this form of public service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "ected to this sort of treatment. There is an article in the current edition of \"The Land Worker\" which deals with the case of a Mr. Preston who has been evicted from a tied property in Buckinghamshire. He is married with five children aged between 5 and 9 years. The worker had become redundant, and the judge ruled that no further extension could be granted as it would cause hardship to the farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-07", "file": "debates1970-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "cfc6ceda2fbf9661", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "AGRICULTURE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "The Amendment would prevent our introducing ring vaccination for at least 12 months.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-07a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "There are two parts to the hon. Gentleman's question. First, as regards what he claims to be deficiencies in the Government's recruiting policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": " quite clear over many years that we wish to see a federal structure in Britain, and that remains our approach, but this present proposal avoids the need for protracted constitutional wrangling at the outset. We want to introduce immediately the first phase of this federalism, and, therefore, we propose that the Scottish Parliament should be given a block grant immediately of about £1,500 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.551.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Neither did the right hon. Gentleman's party from 1950 to 1964.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Carr", "preceding_text": "y admitted, specifically excluded from the Bill. It might well be argued that the supply of labour should not be dealt with in this sort of legislation or by this sort of corn-mission. That could and would be a serious argument. The point about it is, however, that the Government is making no attempt to deal with this sort of market power either in this Bill, or any other Bill or in any other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"20 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "rs on 17th December, the right hon. Lady said: if output per worker increases by 3 per cent., most pay settlements need to fall within a range of 2½ per cent. to 4½ per cent. if the aim of greater price stability is to be achieved.—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th December, 1969; Vol. 793, c. 1379.] What has happened to pay settlements? There have been settlements of 10 per cent., 12 per cent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ce; but it is also a tragedy. Cannot Ministers see that this sort of, not just double talk, but absolute gobbledegook destroys the credibility and authority of government as an institution? Is it any wonder that respect for Government and Parliament and politicians generally is plummeting to its lowest depths? Is it any wonder that people take the law into their own hands on almost every occasion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I will come to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " I have made on successive Prices and Incomes Bills, he will find that the answer—the only answer which can be found in freedom—is an entirely different economic, fiscal and industrial relations policy. My right hon. and hon. Friends and myself have spelt this out on a number of occasions. We shall be delighted to take the opportunity to spell it out on other occasions, but not during this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ministers are elected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am proposing to place on the registrar a duty to seek out cases where it appears that market dominance exists, and to propose references by means of criteria. I am certainly prepared to consider the possibility that Ministers should also have the right to propose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.587.5", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They have not thought about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Perhaps they are, but we shall deal with them. Within the compass of a Second Reading opening speech, there is a limit to the number of matters one can argue in detail. We are throwing into the pool of argument, which is what an Opposition should do—we are always told that we ought to be constructive—constructive suggestions about the registrar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.587.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ompetitors not because it has been shown to be behaving more badly than any of its competitors but just because of the chance that it has been investigated and its competitors have not. This is open to grave opportunity for dangerous unfairness. One new feature in the Bill, which we thoroughly approve of and which, therefore, it is only fair to mention, is the inclusion of nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Howie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Howie", "preceding_text": "to avoid a kind of parade of debates in this House on Orders dealing with references before they have happened, rather like the interminable series of debates that we had on the prices and incomes policy, though at least they occurred after decisions had been taken. I would not like to think that we shall have to go through that kind of procedure at the beginning each time we initiate a reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMISSION FOR INDUSTRY AND MANPOWER BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": " concerned here not just with the regulation of monopoly abuses or the control of restrictive agreements. There is a need for action against the prevention, distortion and restriction of competition. I am asked why we do not limit this to monopolies and why size is introduced into the Bill—size both in respect of mergers and in respect of market power references. The monopoly criteria in any case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-08", "file": "debates1970-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "beabdd35967046c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "WHITE FISH (PRICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "e proposed new egg authority. In my view, this is a parallel case. The necessary payments would have been minimal in amount but of inestimable value to the working of the scheme. I hope sincerely that it will not fail, but in my view it is essential that there is some backing. I think that hon. Members will agree that, in the near future, we shall have another Government of a different complexion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-08a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "In view of Smith's remarks, in which he expressed the hope that the Tories would win the next General Election, is it not understandable that many people believe that a senior Conservative Party official recently went to Rhodesia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first part of that supplementary question, the Government's policy, the policy of this House, on Rhodesia was well known. The right hon. Gentleman sought to make it a divisive issue in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.744.3", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e and others have taken on the matter. On the second part of his supplementary, I welcome, as he does, the fact that visitors from Rhodesia—fortunately many of them are opponents of racialism there—should speak to all hon. Members of this House whom they know or can see and influence. As to the last part of the right hon. Gentleman's supplementary, he has never shown any consistency over Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.744.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Far too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ess on the part of all parties in this House? Has he seen the very damaging suggestion that a Tory Peer with mining interests in South Africa, or a member of the Tory Shadow Cabinet returning from South Africa, or a Press magnate en route to Australia has given indications to the Rhodesia Front on behalf of the Opposition which led Mr. Smith to make the reported remarks to a West German newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "ow Cabinet returning from South Africa, or a Press magnate en route to Australia has given indications to the Rhodesia Front on behalf of the Opposition which led Mr. Smith to make the reported remarks to a West German newspaper—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Far too long.\"]—that the Tory Party is realistic, the Tory Party knows what it wants and the Tory Party is what matters? Will the Prime Minister not agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.745.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.776.0", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do not spoil it.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": " also said that he recognised that it would amount to a departure from the declared policy of producing the cheapest coal. I agree with him on that. It would also make great nonsense of the selective employment tax proposals, which is part of the whole R.E.P. structure. In any case, since the S.E.T. will go with the change of Government, the right hon. Gentleman need not spend too much time on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Finch", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We warned them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Finch", "preceding_text": "not the figures for the last week—the total sales of coal were 159,419,000 tons. Production was 144,577,000 tons, and that includes 6½ million tons of open-cast coal. So, at the moment, we are lagging behind in production and eating into stocks. If this goes on, with winters like the one we have had, it will be serious for industry. This has been due to a too rapid closing-down of the pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-09", "file": "debates1970-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "dcdcb204d673725c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Brave man.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "master-General—a fellow Lancastrian I am proud to say—that we support the Bill. It is a good Bill and in the main it is a continuation of the Acts of 1965 and 1967. But it does not do all that we want it to do or, I suspect, all that the Paymaster-General would want it to do. But it is a good Bill and to demonstrate my support I would even offer to serve on the Committee if it will be of any help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-09a.847.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I wish to deal only briefly with the first part of the Chancellor's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I wish to deal only briefly with the first part of the Chancellor's speech. [ Interruption. ] I will give the Prime Minister the reason. The reason is that the Chancellor himself so frankly pointed out that his task had been to deal with the major deficit incurred by his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1256.0", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is very good.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "hese measures and accept the responsibility for having to meet them in the 1971 Budget. Coming to the next point, the announcement of the Bank Rate change, even with this Government's record of announcing a Bank Rate change on a famous Monday in November, 1964, I am sure that the Chancellor will agree that to announce a Bank Rate change in a Budget Statement on a Tuesday in April 1970 is unusual——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1255.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is electioneering.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "is side who last had the pleasure of hearing a Socialist Chancellor announce a reduction in taxation. On the benches opposite, there are some 60 hon. Members who were present on both occasions. Twice in a lifetime they have heard the good news of a Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer making a cut in taxation. Just to give the flavour of that Socialist Government, a day or two before the Budget——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Let somebody else do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.4", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot stand it. He at least is certain of losing his seat in the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.7", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roebuck", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Concerning electoral prospects, I ask him to turn his attention to his own area in that regard. I earnestly beseech him, in view of the awful mess that he is making, to sit down and allow his right hon. Friend the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) to get to the Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.8", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I was right to give way to the hon. Gentleman, because he will never have another chance to speak in a Budget debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1260.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1261.1", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "—the Chief Whip could not even mobilise enough support for the Government to carry the operative Clause of their Education Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1294.0", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PLYMOUTH AND SOUTH WEST DEVON WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "That is a matter for an expert witness. I would not claim to answer it. However, there is no evidence that a delay in the approval of this scheme would prejudice Plymouth's water interests for a few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1294.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PLYMOUTH AND SOUTH WEST DEVON WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he thirst of the people of Plymouth from now until next century. But I have always taken the view that the Private Bill procedure is a totally inappropriate way to proceed in making provision for the supply of water. To me, it is somewhat obscene that one or two promoters can get together and decide to come to Parliament with a view to raiding somebody else's valley or part of their national park.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-14", "file": "debates1970-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "9a54cff4640f55f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PLYMOUTH AND SOUTH WEST DEVON WATER BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I believe that that is accepted by the promoters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-14a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1370.5", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackie", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, the hon. Member does not often talk nonsense, but he is talking nonsense now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. lain Macleod", "preceding_text": ", by £250 million, and in February, 1970, by £160 million. I guess that when we get the price index for next week the figures will be substantially higher still. The description, therefore, of this Budget as \"a one-month Budget\" which wipes out the price increases of a single month, is entirely accurate. There was some irritation that my right hon. Friend said that this was the first Budget since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Here he is.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Dick Taverne)", "preceding_text": "t enthusiastic prophet of doom. With that felicity of timing for which he is distinguished he selected the very moment when the balance of payments had already turned to tell us that we were facing a deteriorating balance of payments. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph), who is not here now, said that last year's Budget was a gambler's Budget and that the gamble would fail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1403.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1406.5", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1406.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1406.10", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "I will do exactly what the right hon. Gentleman asks me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1406.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1406.12", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "nd, without any specific proposals to back them up. They have always proved that they have mole concern to exploit grievances than to propose alternatives in this or any other field. The right hon. Member for Enfield, West called for the abolition of the Prices and Incomes Board, which presumably applies to its successor. That is the only thing that the Opposition called for in the field of wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1406.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "dget, his taxation would jump by about £12 in the year, whereas as a result of the Budget it will go up by about £17. Time and again, one can give examples to show how, as a result of this particular proposal, the driver will go from neutral to third gear, which will have the effect of giving the car a jerk. It is, therefore, retrogressive that we are not smoothly progressing in our tax incidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not have Socialist Governments.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "o discuss in detail some of the Budget proposals, but I want to make three comments upon them. My first comment upon them is that the central strategy of the Budget is designed to achieve a rate of economic expansion of 3½ per cent. in 1970–71. In my submission, that is totally and utterly inadequate. Other comparable O.E.C.D. countries can attain an average of 5 per cent. per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1436.1", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I do indeed dissociate myself from that line of analysis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I am quite willing to tell my party—as I hope the hon. Member would tell his—that one of the great mistakes in politics is to announce targets in this highly unpredictable world. This is a fact of life, and I wish that politicians would learn that the only real targets that should be reported to the people whom one serves are the ones which are achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "uses—and better ones—than they produced. In the Northern Region in 1963–64, 13 per cent. Of houses were built to Parker Morris standards. Last year 85 per cent. Were built to Parker Morris standards, and last year also this Government passed a Housing Act which will ensure 100 per cent. Parker Morris standards in future house building. So on performance and on standards our record is clean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1461.5", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Do not be arrogant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "rofound observation will not have gone unnoticed. There is something else which the Opposition have forgotten to do. I have not heard very much about the value-added tax this week, and I should like an explanation. Being a simple, ordinary hon. Member, I feel that I am entitled, even if the public are denied it, some explanation about what the Opposition mean by it and when they will introduce it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1461.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": " of selectivity. I am delighted that theatre productions have been exempted. But why only theatre productions? As a former Chairman of the North West Sports Council, I must declare an interest. I am concerned about the effect of selective employment tax on a number of voluntary sporting clubs which have suffered as a result of a gaming tax on machines which bring in a large amount of their income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1491.5", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ecorded in the balance of payments and has followed it with a Budget of perfect economic propriety. This is the newspaper which two and a half years ago wanted to bring down the Government and put in their place some despotic managers, quite forgetful of the fact that in the process of doing so a highly responsible journal of this character was at the same time torpedoing our democratic standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1491.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Marquand", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Marquand", "preceding_text": "s in the public services as a way of asserting control over wage movements. Does he really think that that would make it possible in the foreseeable future to get back to an effective and credible incomes policy? Does he really think that Mr. Feather would have given the welcome which he did to my right hon. Friend's Budget if we were to discriminate positively against people in the public sector?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-15", "file": "debates1970-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "dc47b5e59fb6bb01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": " the service possible, or is it simply to produce more money and more resources? I hope that it is intended to use the results of this increase not to make savings in charges or contributions from the Consolidated Fund, but to produce more money for spending on the Health Service. The sum of £45 million is not a very large extra amount—about one per cent., I calculate—but at least it is something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-15a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTHERN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Leader of the Opposition has not denied my accusations in The Guardian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL COMMISSION ON POVERTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not know what it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Why is the Prime Minister so complacent about this matter? Would it not be a very good thing to have an up-to-date definition of what poverty really is, including child poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1602.0", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e afternoon during Budget day. But the Press Gallery was as empty as if it had been a public meeting called for the Minister of Technology, and the subsequent reports in the newspapers suffered from this. One way of overcoming this is to relate Budget decisions to public expenditure strategy, which will have been decided in the earlier debate. I hope, therefore, that the tables will be reproduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1602.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1612.1", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hark who's talking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman. That article was an objective assessment of the situation. Our debates would benefit a great deal if we were a little more objective and a little less partisan than we are. But this is asking far too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1612.2", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "It can now be seen how fair I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1612.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "he speeches. It is the easiest of exercises to make cheap political capital out of the small change, and sometimes the big change, of particular budgetary proposals. There are as many budding Chancellors of the Exchequer, on this side as well as on the Opposition benches, as there are Foreign Secretaries and Ministers of Defence. We can all do the job better than the fellow doing it at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tory years.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "cause we have a sort of strange illusion about our position as competitive traders in the world. We tend to believe that in the dim days of the glorious past we used to earn our living by selling our goods abroad, and should somehow be able to do so now. That is totally untrue. In only two or, perhaps, three years since 1882 have we succeeded in selling more abroad than we have bought from abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1662.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1681.3", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Sydney Irving)", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman, in view of the injury to his leg, finds it more convenient to be seated while he makes his speech, I am sure that the House would allow that indulgence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1681.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-16", "file": "debates1970-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5bec37539c946d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1701.2", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "o, have long prohibited the manufacture of substances resembling tobacco and have effectively barred the use of non-tobacco materials for mixing with tobacco in the manufacture of cigarettes. Under the law, the commercial use of tobacco substitutes, whether by themselves or mixed with tobacco could not be allowed in this country. Even if my hon. Friends have not entirely followed what I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-16a.1701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-17", "file": "debates1970-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "740383cab24dc5b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-17a.1739.7", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ESTATES BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "re was no debate on Second Reading, it may assist the Committee if I indicate very briefly the purpose of the Clause and, if I can do so and remain in order, its relationship to the rest of the Bill. This is a modest Measure of law reform of the kind which is sometimes referred to as lawyers' law. I suspect that that term is used to indicate that it is of no interest to anyone who is not a lawyer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-17a.1739.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I am informed that the waiting list for housing applicants in Newport contains 1,825 families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.9.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I strongly resent the suggestion that my right hon. Friend has in any way calculatedly misled the hon. Gentleman or other hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "FUTURE OF THE SIXPENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": " Board is quite unsuitable as a body to decide this matter. Will the right hon. Gentleman include in HANSARD the questionnaire which the board sent to industry, which I do not think is in its report, so that we can see how biased it is against the retention of the sixpence? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware, however, that in my view—and we have never sought to make this a matter of party division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "All that has been carefully taken into account in the figure which I have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "iving of our people. So much for the first rather wild statement by the Leader of the Opposition. The second rather wild statement, which I shall never understand, was that the deficit in 1968 was the largest that the country had ever had and amounted to £796 million. It was not even half that figure. That was not the figure either on current account, on capital account or on the combined account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Diamond", "preceding_text": "forms, we have been dogged and inhibited by the conditions we inherited and which we had to put right. I am just telling the House my honest recollection and impression of five years' hard slog in the Treasury. So there is some reason to examine the situation which developed in 1964 and to see whether it came from honourable causes or not. Everyone knows that misfortune can strike out of the blue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.55.4", "colnum": "55", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "As I have quoted the right hon. Gentleman's election address, it is only fair that he should be free to refer to mine, and to refer to those of us who, during the 1964 election, as he said, on the basis of the information available to us then and in good faith made statements about the reduction in mortgage interest rates which we have implemented as far as we reasonably could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.55.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that the Press has been criticising speakers from both sides in this debate for not highlighting the real issues and for going back too much on the record of the other side? It has done that as much of his side as of our side. Is it not his duty now to point out, if he wants to be fair and to get away from this sterile exchange, that the main reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I have already given way a good deal. I am taking full account of the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "he number will be even less. But what is not so generally known is that whereas the real increase in public expenditure on housing during the last five years of the Conservative Government was 70 per cent., during the first five years of Labour Government it has been not 70 per cent., but 10 per cent. It is little wonder that the homeless in our midst have had the Labour Party in a really big way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ent. It is little wonder that the homeless in our midst have had the Labour Party in a really big way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is true. It is also certainly true that the poor are getting poorer. Despite anything that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite may say, if anybody doubts that, I have a transcript of another interview given by the Secretary of State for Social Services on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Let us hear it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " way—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] This is true. It is also certainly true that the poor are getting poorer. Despite anything that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen opposite may say, if anybody doubts that, I have a transcript of another interview given by the Secretary of State for Social Services on this matter. [ Interruption. ] Do not push me too hard, or I will quote it. It is a very interesting extract.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Certainly we are; there has never been any doubt about that. I thought I made that clear first by my quotation from Sam Brittan and by my other remarks. It is a direct result of the failure of the Government to act as they said they were going to act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "at home—the effect of rising prices on the housewives and those on small fixed incomes—is the fact that if we are not careful we shall be in real danger of pricing ourselves out of export markets. Trade union leaders should also ponder the consequences. If Labour were to win the next election the Prime Minister would not hesitate to reintroduce statutory control of wages, exactly as he did before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ll be in real danger of pricing ourselves out of export markets. Trade union leaders should also ponder the consequences. If Labour were to win the next election the Prime Minister would not hesitate to reintroduce statutory control of wages, exactly as he did before—[ Interruption. ] Right hon. and hon. Members opposite may not like this, but at the last election, what did the Prime Minister say?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0", "colnum": "71", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "r wage increases, and that no party was setting out to do it—yet within less than six months he did just that. Next time he may make the same hypocritical pledge and, if he wants to, with equal impunity he will not hesitate to break it. Taking the last five-and-a-half years as a whole, Socialism has failed. The British people know it and hon. Members opposite know it. Before the turn of the year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.71.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeffrey Archer", "preceding_text": "rted a little later may still not know where Louth is. The Minister of Transport's decision to axe the local railway line will leave them little chance of finding out. The entry of a new Member to the House of Commons so often arises because of a personal tragedy and loss, and in this Louth was no exception. I know that the late Sir Cyril Osborne was one of the most respected Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "hom I entirely agree in all the points which he has made. It is always gratifying to be reminded of a prediction which has come true; one is usually reminded of predictions that do not come true. Within a short compass, my right hon. Friend dealt with the main points of the economic situation in a way with which I entirely agree. This is the end of the Budget debate. It does not look much like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "ed to the improvements since 1968, which was in logic and economic history the right comparison to draw. The Chancellor is rather different from some of his colleagues. His \"side-kick\" this afternoon was on again about 1964 with some rather strange remarks. The Prime Minister returns to 1964 with a sickening familiarity—like a dog returning to its vomit. He never keeps off it. Let us look at 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "gland having to buy sterling in prodigious quantities at one rate, knowing that it would have to settle the accounts a little later at another rate, a situation which arose solely from the bungling of the Government. It never arose before. It did not arise with the French devaluation. Nothing comparable to this has happened before. It is the biggest single trading loss in the history of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.153.1", "colnum": "153", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "All this money was not spent, as was our money in 1964, on imports of raw materials, machinery and fuel, nor on the stocks which they found so useful when they came to power.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.153.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.158.2", "colnum": "158", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Where is the Prime Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "healthy than it has done for almost 20 years. The right hon. Gentleman's prayers have been answered, and he should be looking a bit more cheerful as a result. Yet on this balance of payments subject, which was so much the centrepiece of last year's debate, we heard very little. There were a few exceptions, such as the hon. Member for Farnham (Mr. Maurice Macmillan), whom I do not see here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I really do not think that that will do. First, the right hon. Gentleman is not even right in what he says. The visible balance for 1968 was £743 million, and the net adjustment for under-recording exports £130 million. Even on that basis, the right hon. Gentleman's figures are not right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.177.7", "colnum": "177", "heading": "FINANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. When the debate finished tonight, it was quite obvious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.177.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "FINANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "lt matter for the Chair. I should like to get a Ruling from the Chair on whether one becomes out of order at 15 seconds before ten o'clock, because to my mind there was no doubt tonight that when my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Sir Ian Orr-Ewing) and my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Lewes (Sir T. Beamish) rose, it was just that very slight fraction of time before ten o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-20", "file": "debates1970-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "b40eebd51d116564", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "FINANCE [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for putting the point so clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-20a.178.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did not anticipate that question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "ancellor aware that one of his hon. Friends, in a paper prepared for a learned society in Manchester, disclosed that the Chancellor and one of his right hon. Friends bullied the Prime Minister into dropping his industrial legislation last year by threatening to back an alternative Prime Minister? Was the Chancellor's object to defeat the policy he had once espoused or to remove the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.216.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.229.6", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Since the delegates to the Council of Europe and Western European Union are selected primarily and exclusively because they support our entry into the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.229.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.231.7", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Have not the Government got their priorities wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.231.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "OPPOSITION LEADERS AND SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " it is right that the Head of the Civil Service should be in charge of the behaviour of civil servants in this matter. They are experienced people and they have their conventions, practices and rules. I think it better for the Head of the Civil Service to deal with these matters. After all, it is well known that there are certain conventions, essential to our constitution, where the Civil Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.250.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "OPPOSITION LEADERS AND SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "civil servants in this matter. They are experienced people and they have their conventions, practices and rules. I think it better for the Head of the Civil Service to deal with these matters. After all, it is well known that there are certain conventions, essential to our constitution, where the Civil Service—[ Interruption .] It is important that some of these things should be said in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "OPPOSITION LEADERS AND SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS (MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" 0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). He said that the endeavour of the Government was to make available information which could be made available on the same basis to everybody. Surely the previous practice has been that, on the Government's decision, information is made available to leading members of the Opposition which is not available to all hon. Members or to the outside public. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The Minister would do better to boast a bit less and listen a bit more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.282.2", "colnum": "282", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "post office buildings plentifully dotted with counter places, few of which are ever manned, causing the building up of queues in front of the few positions which are open, while three or four positions remain clerkless and useless. To take up this point made by a constituent, I kept watch on a post office in my constituency housed in a beautiful new building, and this situation is absolutely true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.282.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why do the Conservatives never do it, then?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The Conservative Party has consistently said that help should be available for people who need help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "They did it frequently, and they will do it again very shortly indeed. There will soon be an opportunity for the Conservative Government to do something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "I said nothing whatever about de-nationalising the Post Office. Frankly, I doubt very much whether any of my hon. Friends said it either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "s a great difference between what is desirable and what is possible. It would be highly desirable if we could de-nationalise just about everything, but we are now talking about possibilities. Hon. Members opposite must not claim some miraculous monopoly in having introduced help for ratepayers and rent-payers, because it has not been done solely by a Labour Government, and they must face the fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.294.5", "colnum": "294", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "Having commented on the situation in American, I have to admit that there are problems connected with the British system", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.294.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "e planning board stage to the end product. The hon. Member for Howden and his party, on a Supply day, have made what they thought was a critique of an industry which is complex in the extreme, a nationalised body with vast amounts of capital investment. This debate is a confession of embarrassment about what happened during the Committee stage of the Post Office Bill. Not once has the Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "ays that we spent on Report and on Third Reading. 1 thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to refer to some of the debates. But the whole of this afternoon's debate has been devoid of any reference by the Opposition to any of the matters that they declared on that occasion when, as has been pointed out, they were at very great pains to denigrate the whole of the postal services in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.330.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "I am not sure about the agreement with the Tory Party, and I do not want to pursue this issue, as I might be ruled out of order. I merely say that these companies will not get their money's worth. I am sure that very few of the firms which contribute to the Tory Party will get their money's worth. They pay only because of some sort of moral blackmail exerted on them by the old school tie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "r letters which were never written. There are plenty of firms which are by no means puritanical in this respect. How often is the Post Office blamed for failing to deliver items which were either badly packed or inadequately addressed? Those of us who go around the post offices at Christmas know only too well that every post office has its agony pile of broken parcels with children's toys, dozens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Norman Pentland)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Norman Pentland)", "preceding_text": " here and have studied what is involved, is the outstanding achievement of the Post Office over the years, and its realistic expectations for the next decade. It is a service of which this country and this House should be supremely proud. A number of points have been made during the debate. The Post Office will pay particular attention to them, because it is taking a great interest in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that it is a contradiction. On the one hand, the hon. Gentleman wants to improve and extend the services, which means more capital expenditure, while on the other he complains about increased charges. But the money for the extension of these services has to come from somewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": " the point he has made. He referred to the suggestion that the Government would at some time hive off the more profitable part of the industry. I could make a long political speech about what the Opposition did in hiving off certain parts of nationalised industries for the benefit of private enterprise. The Government have no intention of allowing the Corporation to do as the hon. Gentleman wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "losses, by a nationalised industry, any more than it would be rational for me to ask any hon. Member opposite who is a shareholder or a director-general in private industry what his company was losing day by day or week by week. Information such as that for which the hon. Gentleman asks can be obtained by question and answer in the House, as the hon. Gentleman knows very well. I said earlier that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "opean mainland by 25 submarine cables and a major microwave radio link across the Straits of Dover. Four 1,300-circuit submarine cables are to be laid across the North Sea from the United Kingdom in the next four years. The Post Office has a submarine cable to Canada, two cables and a part interest in a third to the United States and a substantial interest in the cable to Portugal and South Africa", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.365.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-21", "file": "debates1970-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "eccc1c86ab9e2dbd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.365.4", "colnum": "365", "heading": "POST OFFICE CHARGES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pentland", "preceding_text": "ird to the United States and a substantial interest in the cable to Portugal and South Africa [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members opposite must listen to this. They imply in their Motion that the services offered by the Post Office Corporation to the people have deteriorated. So they should listen to an account of something which has been done by the Corporation and of which the public should be proud.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-21a.365.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.406.7", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I begin to wonder and realise why the right hon. Gentleman is on the shelf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.406.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.416.6", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I have received a large number of letters from the hon. Gentleman in the last few days, and I do not know which one he is referring to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.416.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "n goes on to say what happens. The Motion before the House does not say that the Education Bill as a whole be recommitted. It does not even say that the Education Bill \" be recommitted \". It says: That the Education Bill, so far as amended, be recommitted. The phrase \" so far as amended \" must therefore mean something different from the Bill as a whole. It comes from a Motion at the ninth sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.424.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.427.4", "colnum": "427", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "n is superfluous and therefore out of order if it seeks to confer upon the committee power … already possessed by the committee under the provisions of Standing Order No. 42. The next two categories of inadmissible Instructions do not apply. They are, \" Impracticable division of bill \", and \" Deletion of part of bill \". I come, now, to what I believe to be the most important point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.439.3", "colnum": "439", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Withdraw \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "and brilliant submission to you, Mr. Speaker. I can only express my regret that you did not find yourself overwhelmed by the force of her arguments. However, I hope very much that you will remember that the power of the majority in the House changes from time to time. There was a time when, if I may say so with great respect, you, Mr. Speaker, sat on this side of the House as a member of a party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.439.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, will you accept a point of order from this side of the House, Mr. Speaker? I understand that you have given a decision, having listened to the submission of the hon. Lady the Member for Finchley (Mrs. Thatcher)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" He did not say that\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I want to refer to a remark made by the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton). He maintained that members of the Government had been able to go to the Clerks for advice about the terms of the Motion, but that hon. Members on this side of the House had been denied like facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I want to refer to a remark made by the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton). He maintained that members of the Government had been able to go to the Clerks for advice about the terms of the Motion, but that hon. Members on this side of the House had been denied like facilities. [HON. MEMBERS: \" He did not say that\"]. That was the implication of the hon. Member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Lubbock", "preceding_text": " Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton). He maintained that members of the Government had been able to go to the Clerks for advice about the terms of the Motion, but that hon. Members on this side of the House had been denied like facilities. [HON. MEMBERS: \" He did not say that\"]. That was the implication of the hon. Member —[HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"] That was clearly implied in the hon. Gentleman's remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.442.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, you have made a Ruling which will in future, I assume, be accepted as a precedent. The House depends upon precedents. You are fully entitled to make a Ruling, if there is no obvious precedent, which will in itself become a precedent. In the circumstances, is it not a pure waste of time on the part of those who oppose that Ruling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "as a precedent. The House depends upon precedents. You are fully entitled to make a Ruling, if there is no obvious precedent, which will in itself become a precedent. In the circumstances, is it not a pure waste of time on the part of those who oppose that Ruling—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is no good hon. Members pretending that they are not trying to waste time. What they are doing is wasting time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Barnett Janner", "preceding_text": "ecedent, which will in itself become a precedent. In the circumstances, is it not a pure waste of time on the part of those who oppose that Ruling—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is no good hon. Members pretending that they are not trying to waste time. What they are doing is wasting time. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Withdraw.\"] I shall not withdraw. Protests of that nature are useless. The country will understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. As the hon. Gentleman says, we are on a point without precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.446.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "r to be in order. We suggested that the Instruction is not clear because no one knows whether Clause 1 means the original Clause 1 or Clause 1, as amended. You suggested, Mr. Speaker, that this might become apparent in the course of the debate. But the debate cannot take place if the Instruction is out of order and the Instruction is out of order if there is no clarity about what the phrase means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.448.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" What does it mean, then? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": " Rulings, Mr. Speaker, have been criticised on the other side of the House chiefly on one ground—namely, that the proposed Instruction lacks clarity as to whether the Standing Committee should have power either to insert Clause 1 in its original form or Clause 1 as amended. With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I should like to support your Ruling that the proposed Instruction is not lacking in clarity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "With great respect, Mr. Speaker, I should like to support your Ruling that the proposed Instruction is not lacking in clarity [An HON. MEMBER: \" What does it mean, then? \"] I am proposing to explain what I think it means. The Instruction gives the Committee permissive power. As I read it, it enables the Committee either to restore Clause 1 in its original form or to restore it in its amended form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.456.1", "colnum": "456", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Fred Peart)", "preceding_text": "re defeated in Committee of the whole House—not in Standing Committee—on an Education Bill. By coincidence it was again by one vote, and appropriately it was on a matter which is still of importance in these days, equal pay. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) spoke about understatement. I thought the way in which he addressed his remarks to me were characteristically arrogant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.456.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ere missing, so the Government got a little rebuff, which they do not like, and they are now taking steps to deal with it. I remind the House that in 1954—I am sorry that the Father of the House, the right hon. Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) has left us—not only did the Government of the day lose a Clause of a Bill upstairs, but they lost the whole Finance Bill on the Floor of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member can call any vote an accident, but the record shows that the Committee reached a valid decision. It will not show why hon. Members were absent who might have been present to support the Government", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.492.5", "colnum": "492", "heading": "EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has answered the hon. and learned Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell) with his final words. It does not in any way change the principle or the effect. In other words, the exceptions are peripheral to the main question. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.492.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.550.7", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": " the employers' interests to carry the trade unions with them from the beginning of the exercise. We know that if the trade unions are consulted that is half the battle. A great deal of our industrial difficulties arise because there is no consultation with the trade unions. So my right hon. Friend is taking out a very good insurance policy for the minimum of friction if she accepts the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.550.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Glover", "preceding_text": "rm of words. What strikes me, as a non-member of the Committee, is that there is all too little about trade union participation in the Bill. I have tabled an Amendment about the rôle and activities of the trade unions. I visualise that the only vehicle which would be able to deal with job evaluation and with questions of equal pay on an equitable basis with the employers is the trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.559.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-22", "file": "debates1970-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "6e83b43d825741b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May I, just to be perfectly clear, —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-22a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "—that if anything is ever saved from the wreck of the Government's Rhodesia policy it may in part be due to those of us who have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.632.0", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Shame! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Minister of Housing and Local Government found it necessary to write to Sunderland County Council to ask what it was playing at with its house building programme? The Tory-controlled council was asked why it has reduced its programme from 1,400 to 100—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.632.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HoN. MEMBER: \" Indeed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I never comment on public opinion polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Of you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to— [ Interruption .] There is plenty of time. With regard to the latter part of my hon. Friend's question, I think some of us are getting a little tired—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.633.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister now, instead of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.7", "colnum": "634", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: Answer! \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This becomes more extraordinary. I have given the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.8", "colnum": "634", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This becomes more extraordinary. I have given the right hon. Gentleman— [HoN. MEMBERS: Answer! \"]—I will answer, yes. The right hon. Gentleman has been given every facility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.11", "colnum": "634", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The complaint is that he refuses to answer allegations, not only by my hon. Friends, but allegations made also on behalf of the Liberal Party, allegations made in the British Press—a straight challenge to him in the British Press, a report in the Daily Telegraph from Rhodesia saying that this was being said by the Rhodesian regime in its election campaign; and a statement in The Times —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.634.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " nor is it the issue with which the right hon. Gentleman tried to obfuscate the matter on Sunday as to whether we were told by the right lion. Members for Barnet (Mr. Maudling) and Kinross and West Perthshire (Sir Alec Douglas-Home) when they were there. Of course we were told, and the House was told. The question is—and I have no evidence on this, as I have made clear to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "las-Home) when they were there. Of course we were told, and the House was told. The question is—and I have no evidence on this, as I have made clear to the right hon. Gentleman— [HoN. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"] —except the fact that this matter has now been raised at least half a dozen times in the House and evidence produced, even in the Tory Press, which the right hon. Gentleman seems unwilling to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.635.2", "colnum": "635", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e phrase of a right hon. Gentleman, contain his impatience—that if the right hon. Gentleman will deny these secret talks the whole House will accept it. I cannot understand why the right hon. Gentleman has not denied these talks, in view of all the statements made about it. He now tells me that he is prepared to make available to the Government all information about all secret contacts he has had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.635.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman would deny these statements the whole House would accept it. He has not yet denied any of these statements. The right hon. Gentleman, characteristically, is trying to evade the issue now by saying that he would not wish to place before either the Government or the House or the public statements made by opponents of the regime. Of course he has not, and of course he is right about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.637.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e by opponents of the regime. Of course he has not, and of course he is right about that. [ Interruption .] That is what he has just said. It is within the recollection of the House. The allegations which must remain unproven until the right hon. Gentleman comes clean are not that he has been talking to Sir Roy Welensky—I hope that he has, and I hope that he has been talking to Rhodesian liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "RHODESIA (PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Prime Minister has now on six separate occasions made unsubstantiated allegations against my right hon. Friend for which he admits he has no evidence whatsoever and which my right hon. Friend has answered to the full.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.638.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.661.2", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": " in taxation and it has not been achieved —and this is the tragedy—by the buoyancy of taxation which flows from a growing economy. It has not been achieved—as the Prime Minister promised the day before we went to vote—without any general increase in taxation. With the opinion polls as they are today it is quite possible that the General Election will take place sooner than many of us had expected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "I think the answer is perfectly clear. There has been a constant problem over the years of getting a balance between the need for growth and a balance of payments surplus. This has been a constant problem before every Government since 1945. One of the reasons why we are now about to shoot ahead in opinion polls is that we have mastered the basic economic problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-23", "file": "debates1970-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "286b315b2e02db36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt), who made an interesting speech—and personal health. When we have been able to look at these figures closely, it will be much clearer to us where the money should be coming from to pay for the service. I have often alluded to the fact that, in paying for the Health Service or all the social services, we must decide who is paying what to whom and why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-23a.695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-27", "file": "debates1970-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "91f0f7c8aaba104b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.869.5", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Smokeless Fuels", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" You should.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. Will you permit me briefly to say, Mr. Speaker, that I never see the grouping of Questions until the very last moment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.869.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-27", "file": "debates1970-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "91f0f7c8aaba104b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Smokeless Fuels", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order. Is it not clear from a study of the Questions on the Order Paper that those which have been selected for grouping together and others dealing with the same subject are identical, and that they could easily all have been taken in a single group, but that the Minister seems to have picked only those tabled by his hon. Friends?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-27", "file": "debates1970-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "91f0f7c8aaba104b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "This is an interesting question. I came to the House slightly more recently than my hon. Friend and I was told that I could elect to have contributions paid in one way or another, and so I elected to pay them as an employee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-27", "file": "debates1970-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "91f0f7c8aaba104b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CONTRACTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I am confusing the position slightly. The answer may lie in the fact that I have another employment outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-27", "file": "debates1970-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "91f0f7c8aaba104b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (CROWN AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": " his claims and an opportunity of appeal against any compensation which may be awarded against him. Under this Order the Minister of Technology, who, we agree, has a vested political and personal interest—I am not making any unreasonable charges against him—in the success of Concorde, may be effectively removing the right of the individual to sue for damages against harm to his person or property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-27", "file": "debates1970-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "91f0f7c8aaba104b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (CROWN AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "If I may interrupt my hon. Friend, it is abundantly clear that if I thought for a moment that we were taking away rights, I would be against this Order. I am convinced that we are doing the reverse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-27a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1035.7", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "No evidence has been presented to us that the regulations are causing difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1035.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1040.5", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1046.3", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What my right hon. Friend said—and I am glad that he has now been fully quoted—is quite correct. I have always agreed with what my right hon. Friend has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1046.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will know that what we are talking about here is aircraft. The aircraft are being phased out as far as their nuclear capability is concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1047.6", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has missed some of the exchanges on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1047.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1047.6", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NUCLEAR DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has missed some of the exchanges on that. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"] The answer to that question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1047.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1048.6", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LEISURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That was the one predictable supplementary question I knew was coming when I saw this Question on the Order Paper, though I thought it would have come from the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton), not from the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter). The House will be aware that I have dealt with this question on many occasions at Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1048.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF LEISURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Have you got it there?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Minister for Sport has made the position of the Government clear in identical terms to my own on this matter. But since the hon. Gentleman has raised this question, in view of the very high distortion coefficient of my remarks one always gets from the Conservative Party, I will answer him by repeating what I said and the House can judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1049.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Select Committee on Procedure, when it was considering the Report stage of Bills. I will not mention them all now. On the other hand, as I have also observed, representations are made to me very occasionally on behalf of an Amendment. The representation to which we have just listened from the hon. Member for Walton, and the representations which he made to me this morning, fall into that category—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "entations are made to me very occasionally on behalf of an Amendment. The representation to which we have just listened from the hon. Member for Walton, and the representations which he made to me this morning, fall into that category—[HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"] Order. So, after careful consideration of what he has said, I am prepared to add Amendment No. 5 to the list of selections that I have posted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1069.6", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "While I personally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1069.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" The unions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member explain to his hon. Friend the Member for Poplar why the dockers of London found it necessary to come here to tell the architect of the Bill that they were in favour of extending nationalisation? Anyone with the honesty of the hon. Member for Bristol, North-West (Mr. Ellis) knows that no one has done a census of opinion about what dockers in Bristol want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Member for Bristol, North-West (Mr. Ellis) knows that no one has done a census of opinion about what dockers in Bristol want. [HON. MEMBERS: \" The unions.\"] The unions have said it, yes. I fully appreciate that there are those elected to pursue higher wages and better working conditions who take to themselves political overtones and add to them the belief that they should advocate nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Middle of the road.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "guage on nationalisation. We do not share the passionate belief displayed by hon. Members opposite in nationalisation as a solution to all problems, nor do we necessarily believe that private enterprise can provide all the answers. We have endeavoured for a long time —and this is relevant to this Amendment which seeks to nationalise the whole of the docks industry—to pioneer alternative solutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: One gets run over.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "What is the matter with the middle of the road?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "brought to the docks industry. I see, Mr. Speaker, you are not thoroughly in sympathy with me. Nevertheless, it would be wrong if I were to resume my seat without demonstrating that we regard this Amendment as crucial. Either we have more nationalisation or no nationalisation at all. We take a different point of view, and this is the only place I can express it on the narrow subject of the docks.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "r that I thought you were referring to me. In fact, you were referring to someone else. If one could find evidence of an ability to organise industries under public ownership in such a way as to achieve everything that was necessary, out attitude might change. We are not wholly opposed to public ownership. In some cases we recommend it, and even extensions of it. A case in point is water supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "tionalisation will bring more investment. The hon. Member for Bootle put forward the most unusual argument that if we nationalised the small ports there was the danger that the unsavoury working conditions in the private ports would be used to undercut. It was said that if we had a public and private sector, the private could undercut the public by paying lower wages and offering fewer conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1127.2", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "When I listen to the speeches of hon. Gentlemen opposite on this matter I wonder whether those who are so keen on nationalisation really believe that the mining community on Tyneside, and those who live adjacent to other ports which have mining interests, believe that their salvation lies in nationalisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1127.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Heseltine", "preceding_text": "body who wishes to make the case of Manchester Ship Canal shareholders. He will concede that he is seeking an opportunity to do so, and trying your indulgence, because he knows first of all that the hon. Member for Manchester, Exchange (Mr. W. Griffiths) is trying to draw your attention to points of order to stop him from doing so. He knows that the fact that we have used two hours and 10 minutes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1157.3", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ontinued existence and development of the Bristol employees. So let me make clear the attitude of the Opposition—and of the Government of the future—to the West Dock Mark II scheme. We make it clear to the people of Bristol, as we have on earlier occasions, that we would allow the West Dock Mark II scheme to go ahead if Bristol wants to go ahead with it, as it is free to do. We make it clear that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "I beg to move Amendment No. 8, in page 5, line 6, leave out paragraph ( b ). This is a straightforward Amendment. In Committee the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Edward M. Taylor), in one of his infrequent interventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ture anything under the sun. The Amendment we are now discussing is designed to restrict the powers of the N.P.A. to set up warehousing, shipping and transport facilities without any practical limitation. Because of the guillotine, and the blatant attempt by hon. Members on the Government side to use up the scarce time of the House, we have only five minutes in which to discuss this serious issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-28", "file": "debates1970-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "73455191c02d6477", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must be aware that this is blatant nonsense. Hon. Members on the Conservative side in the Amendments they have put down and in the speeches they have made have used the utmost restraint. There are key issues still to be debated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-28a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There is now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will remember that at the outset, when we took the decision allowing Birmingham the opportunity to make a study itself to find how its industry would react to a Birmingham national exhibition centre, there was no other positive proposal before the Government; none was forthcoming from London, certainly not with financial backing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1222.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Brewery Companies (Political Contributions)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Public companies.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "While declaring at once that I have no interest directly or indirectly in any brewery company as a non-bibulous character in beer, might I ask the Minister whether he is not departing from normal parliamentary practice in publishing the affairs of private companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1247.6", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Brewery Companies (Political Contributions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "But the Minister knows very well that many political contributions made by trade unions come out of the general fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1247.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "to take over all the airports of the country, it was precisely that argument which enabled the people of Manchester to say, \" If you allow us to keep our airport, in judging the performance of the nationalised airports you will have a sector in comparison with which you can judge standards of efficiency \". The people of Manchester, to the tune of £202,000, have profited by keeping Ringway Airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1269.1", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to justify two vague generalisations and compare them with the factual results, which are the only things which should influence us. The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heifer) and the hon. Member for Bristol, North-West (Mr. Ellis) must be aware that the closer we have got to nationalisation of the ports the worse have become labour relations in the docks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "aundiced view, as they continually do, of the Government. It is sensible of them. I want to move to the points made by the hon. Member for Preston, South (Mr. Peter Mahon). He did less than justice to the factual situation in the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, which is a cornerstone to the arguments we are having about nationalisation. Probably in that dock is the one insoluble financial problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1295.0", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "reconceived ideas about public ownership. But, by some mischance or coincidence, he happened to come down against public ownership and did not believe that it was necessary. The Conservative Party is deliberately putting forward this Amendment in order to wreck the provisions of the Bill. That is the real reason behind it. All the rest is so much flapdoodle, a smoke-screen which cuts no ice at all", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1301.2", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Wilson", "preceding_text": " by local authorities or organisations representing workers or port users to the effect that the consequences of such a takeover would be adverse to the prosperity of the area, there should be a public inquiry. There is no analogy with the merger of a newspaper. It is not similar in any way. The takeover or merger of a newspaper does not adversely affect the prosperity of the area, or, if it does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1301.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "e House was a better Measure than the White Paper, and we shall now be able to send a yet better Bill to the other place. I thank all those who have been responsible for and have contributed to the improvement of the Bill. All hon. Members who were members of the Committee will wish me to make special reference to and pay tribute to our Chairman, the hon. Member for Nantwich (Sir R. Grant-Ferris)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1363.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkins", "preceding_text": "It is a good thing that, on Third Reading, the issues before the House should have been so clearly defined, especially by the hon. Member for Southgate (Mr. Berry), who has made it clear that this has been a battle between private interests and our views on this side of what is best in the national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Abstain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. P. Winstanley", "preceding_text": "rent Lobby from those hon. Gentlemen opposite when the vote on the Third Reading is taken. Although I say that I shall be in a different Lobby, I need not remind you, Mr. Speaker, that there are only two Lobbies. It follows, therefore, that hon. Members who represent the Liberal Party frequently find themselves in a Lobby with hon. Members with whom we do not wholly agree, There is no third Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1385.0", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward M. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ember for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer) who, in his unique way with the grand faith he has, said that public ownership will make the ports more efficient, create better organisation and better labour relations. I wonder if he or any other hon. Member could give us some evidence of where that has happened. Did he find that following the nationalisation of steel that industry became more efficient?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-04-29", "file": "debates1970-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "6a2e63dc869ce0ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murray", "preceding_text": "aid that he was glad that he had always been present in the Committee. The hon. Gentleman could not have been half as glad as I was, for I was sometimes under a little pressure on some of the points which were raised. My hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, South (Mr. Wilkins)—like the rest of the House, I am sorry that he will not be with us after the next General Election—asked several questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-04-29a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-06-29", "file": "debates1970-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "caa3bab7b6033e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-06-29a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "olitics. When I look back wistfully to my predecessors and realise how splendidly some of them filled this high office, a fragment of verse comes into my head: Beneath the good how far! Of the great Speaker, Shaw Lefevre, it was written that when there was no precedent he would calmly make one, forestalling any objection by observing blandly that it was the well-known practice of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-06-29a.6.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-06-29", "file": "debates1970-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "caa3bab7b6033e14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-06-29a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Horace King", "preceding_text": "ber into submission. I am afraid that a modern Speaker would rustle his robes with less effectiveness. I console myself, as I think of the great Speakers, that some of my predecessors were not illustrious. At least one, Speaker Rich, who betrayed Sir Thomas More, was odious, and one Speaker, Speaker Norton, displeased everyone by telling the Commons that they were almost as bad as the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-06-29a.6.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.49.4", "colnum": "49", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Blaker", "preceding_text": "in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Majesty for the Gracious Speech which Your Majesty has addressed to both Houses of Parliament. Before I move on to discuss the Gracious Speech, the whole House would, I believe, wish me to express our sorrow to the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Liberal Party for the tragic blow that has befallen him and his young child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.49.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "it more so than at the beginning of a new Parliament before the mood and temper of the House is known to its Members.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 21st April, 1966; Vol. 727, c. 55.] How right he was. Not only do the newcomers not know the House, but the House does not know the newcomers. I do not know about the temper of the new Members, but their mood at the moment is doubtless one of utter mystification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Paisley?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "le degree of controversy, particularly if the policies put forward by the Government when in Opposition are to provide the content for our defence debates. But accountability for both expenditure and policy should be to this House, and it is no excuse for the right hon. Gentleman to plead, if he does so plead, that he could not find an adequate Defence Secretary from among his parliamentary party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " held out real hopes for the 'seventies and beyond by modernising a system of local government still governed by the legislation of eighty years ago. While I am referring to the Minister of Housing and Local Government, the Prime Minister can expect outright opposition from us on the sale of council houses in priority areas where already the stock of houses is inadequate for urgent priority needs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "o did, did so more out of respect for the Foreign Secretary than for his proposal. Before I come to some of the more serious issues raised in the Gracious Speech, it is right to mention one or two of the omissions. There is nothing on the Health Service. There is nothing on the mentally handicapped, where we had a Green Paper already published and a White Paper in an advanced stage of preparation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ty's Government here at Westminster? Will he assert that he will make it the basis of the Government's Northern Ireland policy? Will he undertake to resist any Ulster Tory pressure to derogate from it? Whatever the implications, whatever the pressures on the Northern Ireland Government from the extremist forces which are set to undermine that Government's commitment to tolerance and fair dealings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " its posture and approach. This new factor in Northern Ireland, Right speaking to Right, and speaking in the hope that their pressures will succeed, is an ominous development. I welcome the fact that in this morning's accounts of what the right hon. Gentleman has said after these pressures that he stood very firmly by the policy which has been taken so far in Northern Ireland and seeks no changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "e that their pressures will succeed, is an ominous development. I welcome the fact that in this morning's accounts of what the right hon. Gentleman has said after these pressures that he stood very firmly by the policy which has been taken so far in Northern Ireland and seeks no changes—[ Interruption. ]—I was warning him against the pressures that he will get, and he must expect them. I now turn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "tion. ]—I was warning him against the pressures that he will get, and he must expect them. I now turn—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There is quite a lot of talk in the Gracious Speech. I now turn to the references in the Gracious Speech to the economic situation. On 19th June, I said that the right hon. Gentleman will have the strongest economic position any Prime Minister has taken over in living memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "udget in May, and indeed right up to polling day. If the right hon. Gentleman is going to say that their advisers are giving them a totally different factual picture now, we shall be interested to hear about it and perhaps to compare notes. The facts as we had them are these. The right hon. Gentleman took over from us a balance of payments surplus on current account running at £500 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "em a totally different factual picture now, we shall be interested to hear about it and perhaps to compare notes. The facts as we had them are these. The right hon. Gentleman took over from us a balance of payments surplus on current account running at £500 million a year—[ Interruption. ] £500 million this year and, on the estimates given to us, likely to remain at that level for some time ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "on this year and, on the estimates given to us, likely to remain at that level for some time ahead—[ Interruption. ] It was not only on current account. It was a strong balance of payments on current and on capital account taken together. Sterling was strong—he cannot deny that—in foreign exchange markets, particularly forward sterling. Even the Conservative newspaper The Times referred yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ve newspaper The Times referred yesterday—[HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"]—there cannot be much doubt about that after the election—to the strong balance of payments he inherited. The House will recognise the sharp contrast here between 1970 and 1964. The right hon. Gentleman, on returning from the Palace a fortnight ago, was not presented with a crippling overseas deficit which required a meeting that night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "le on the foreign exchange market because he takes over a Britain economically strong. Since the right hon. Gentleman took office he has had the official figures showing a record level of engineering export orders. Since he took office he has had the C.B.I.'s report showing that industrialists are more optimistic about exports over the next 12 months, and that new export orders are moving upwards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "elations, or in creating the framework of a just society. Still, it is on the record, and the right hon. Gentleman is no doubt including it in his autumn Budget. And when the hoardings of the country were plastered with those pictures of a road fund licence presumably right hon. Gentlemen opposite were intending to commit themselves to a reduction to £15 in an early Budget, if not the next Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " go together. That is why I said that in the first Budget, we must have a package which will deal with these particular things and it means that we've also got to deal with the question of Government expenditure—and we've faced up to that.' There is a clear commitment. S.E.T. abolished in the first Budget. Cuts in direct taxation. Without hedging, without delay, without qualification. This autumn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ers, and others in the service industries, pass on the effects of abolition or reduction. The right hon. Gentleman has spun a dream-web of falling prices which in turn will persuade wage and salary earners, from doctors to dockers, to say nothing of solicitors, with their 30 per cent. bid, to be content with their present lot and remuneration. We shall see. No doubt this afternoon he will tell us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "those on this side of the House, and of many thousands of workers, they mean the closure of shipyards—the closure of shipyards which, with Government help and reorganisation—not least reorganisation of management—are being made efficient and competitive. If those words mean anything—if all that they have told us, especially the right hon. Gentleman, after Selsdon, means anything—Tory policy means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "he closure of shipyards—the closure of shipyards which, with Government help and reorganisation—not least reorganisation of management—are being made efficient and competitive. If those words mean anything—if all that they have told us, especially the right hon. Gentleman, after Selsdon, means anything—Tory policy means—[ Interruption. ] I am informing the House what the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "at it should be enforceable. Does it mean both sides or one side—the employers—regardless of the fact that few, if any, employers would reject an otherwise acceptable argument because of union refusal to make it enforceable? What does the right hon. Gentleman mean by \"enforceable\"? He has been graciously pleased to respond to my challenge. I quote him. At 11 a.m., at his Press conference, he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much will it cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "Gulf and the Far East. We should have had greater difficulty in carrying through our policy if he had gone to the full length of the Parliament. As it is, we have reasonable time now to work out with our friends a new and up-to-date system of co-operation based on the realities of the situation. This will take account of the concern, which they share with us, to see peace and stability maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "onable time now to work out with our friends a new and up-to-date system of co-operation based on the realities of the situation. This will take account of the concern, which they share with us, to see peace and stability maintained. [An HON. MEMBER: \"How much will it cost?\"] In time, the hon. Gentleman will get used to the knowledge that different policies will now be followed by this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.76.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How much?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "value because of the more rapid growth of the economies of countries overseas where those investments were placed. But there has been some further reduction in the debt under both the previous Chancellor of the Exchequer and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer as a result of the inflow of funds, and this is reflected in the improved reserve figures for June, which are announced this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.86.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.87.3", "colnum": "87", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ated in the Gracious Speech. I have never disguised the difficulty of dealing with this problem, nor the fact that it will take time to get on top of it—we have had experience of dealing with inflation from outgoing Socialist Administrations; we had it in 1951. This is the worst inflation the country has faced since 1951. We know the amount of time it takes for the country to get rid of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.87.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is incorrectly informed. It was his right hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman), the new editor of the \"New Statesman\", who used the phrase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.90.2", "colnum": "90", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " we were in opposition we gave a very clear indication of the lines of this legislation. No party in opposition has ever set out in such detail and so clearly a policy which would be pursued. Of course, the Leader of the Opposition minimises this today. He knows that these were comprehensive proposals covering all aspects of industrial relations, of which the enforcement of contracts was only one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.90.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "ried very hard, but their policies were obviously wrong. In all the criticisms which are made of the proposals we intend to put into legislative form, nobody refers to the way we shall deal with the problem of voluntary absenteeism. I cannot understand why the great shipbuilding industry on the Tyne—Swan Hunter, which is now a big consortium and which had great assistance from the late Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-02", "file": "debates1970-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "81ecb1568badb04a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "But I want a proper balance to be kept. I want people like the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North who have special knowledge to contribute so that the position of these people may be understood. If we go into the Common Market, most of our people will have a higher standard of living. But there will not be a higher standard of living for the people who are no longer earning. I have had a good say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-02a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "vative Association who worked their guts out to get him reelected. I would willingly give way this moment to the Prime Minister so that he could tell the House and the people of Bexley that he intends to stay there after the Report of the Boundary Commission has been implemented. I give way to the right hon. Gentleman—or is he going to leave his constituents with doubt and anxiety in their hearts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.201.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Reginald Maudling)", "preceding_text": "view of this entire House of Commons. Much has been achieved in maintaining freedom under the law, but the difficulties, of course, are very large indeed. The difficulties facing the security forces immediately on the ground are enormous, as one can see. Here may I pay a tribute to the remarkable spirit and understanding of the troops who are over there at the moment and whom I visited in Belfast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.212.3", "colnum": "212", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I would like to talk about, such as boundaries and drugs. We intend to reintroduce the Bill on the misuse of drugs, which we thought was a good Measure. We may want to amend it in detail, but in principle we want to bring it forward. There is the problem of prison accommodation because of the rapid rate at which people are being convicted, which is a tribute to the efficiency of the police forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.212.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " of civil servants. It will require a great many other administrative officials too. These are the early indications of the dilemmas that will face the Government once they try to reconcile their election pledges and promises with the reality of Government. It is not a novel development. The only difference is that this Government have given specific pledges on tax reductions and price reductions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ill not get away with such thin and weak stuff as this when we discuss major matters in future. He knows that he will not increase the number of workers coming into this country. He will keep the number at about 4,000, of whom at least 1,500, perhaps even a couple of thousand, are doctors. But he will introduce a huge administrative apparatus by which we shall have people coming into this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-03", "file": "debates1970-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "d48b185eb14b3103", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "HOME AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "I accept that entirely. I would say to the hon. Lady that it is not for me to decide. It is a matter for the Grand Lodge of Ireland in consultation with the Government of Northern Ireland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.296.1", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "May I extend the traditional Parliamentary courtesy of welcoming the right hon. and learned Gentleman to his place, and give him a friendly warning that fresh water reservoirs are a very dangerous subject in Wales? May I say that I gave a considerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "There will be no surrender to vested interests, whether public or private.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.316.7", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "Since Conservative candidates at the General Election were officially authorised to inform the electors that this mean, petty and spiteful measure would be reversed by a Conservative Administration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.316.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.317.7", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Why cannot the Minister prove that he has the guts and courage which he showed some years ago and stand up against his feeble backbenchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.317.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.323.6", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hurry up.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.405.3", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "ers like him would feel discharged from the responsibility of regarding those agreements as legally binding. Coming from a man of his great repute and seniority, such a suggestion is profoundly shocking. It must throw into doubt his concern for constitutional practices. The substance of his argument was that when an irrevocable constitutional change is embarked on there is a case for a revolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-06", "file": "debates1970-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b6b066020e9b4a2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "aval and air facilities in Mombasa and Lagos. This is the sort of risk which the right hon. Gentleman must know he is running if he changes policy on South African arms in this way and at this time. Finally, I must make this very general point. The most disturbing and alarming statement made by the Foreign Secretary was the statement that no one can or must judge what Britain needs except Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-06a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.478.7", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Many hon. Members will have read the Queen's Speech with interest, where on the first occasion for a long time no mention is made of the balance of payments. Will it be the Government's policy to make use of the strongest balance of payments surplus Britain has ever had?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.478.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.484.9", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the Minister?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will delay a decision on the proposals for expanding Luton Airport now before him until the Roskill Commission has reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.484.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVANTS (VETTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the most serious charges are being made by the right hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVANTS (VETTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell) [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"] I have given him notice. Is not the Prime Minister aware that serious charges are being made by the right hon. Gentleman that enemies of this country have been infiltrated into Government Departments and have persistently and cruelly misled the people of this country by providing false immigration statistics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.2", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVANTS (VETTING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If any complaints are made to me or my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary they will be investigated at once. No such complaints have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.5", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVANTS (VETTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that the entire Civil Service is awaiting his response to these questions this afternoon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.5", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVANTS (VETTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "stions this afternoon? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] It is not a bit of use hon. Members shouting, \"Nonsense\". I am sure that the Prime Minister knows better. Will he take advantage of this opportunity to condemn and repudiate what has been said, restore the confidence of loyal civil servants of this country and condemn the vile utterance that was made? The evidence which I sent him for examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.488.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.493.4", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SUPPLY OF ARMS TO SOUTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Submarines?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that if arms are supplied to South Africa there is great fear at present felt by African peoples further north that the arms will eventually be used against them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.493.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "LUCAS FACTORIES, BIRMINGHAM (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend have regard to the fact that this particular strike, which went on right through the General Election and had its origin even before the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.509.3", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": "Devaluation under Prime Ministers of the Socialist Party is a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "We should have a clear statement from him now as to whether he believes that there is or is not a national emergency confronting this country. Well, I see that the right hon. Gentleman accepts that he was wrong in saying that he was quoting my right hon. Friend: he does not challenge that. He must also, therefore, accept that the phrase was his own, used and blazoned throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.516.0", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "covered things to be either better or worse than he expected. Nor, on his own statement, are there any alibis for the future. He knew the full position, so he said on Thursday, when he was still trumpeting his catalogue of election promises. Then there was the Prime Minister's unprecedented, totally unwarranted and deliberately scaremongering statement about the probability of another devaluation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the quotation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I do not find", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.516.2", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I do not find [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the quotation.\"] I will certainly do so, but my speech is bound to take longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.516.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What the right hon. Gentleman has read out was the theme throughout the election; that it was the complacency of the present leader of the Labour Party which would lead to a further four years of indecision, which would then lead to devaluation, and that is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I have no idea of the relevance of this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.522.0", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Macleod", "preceding_text": "Because this is so important, would the right hon. Gentleman use my actual words?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "tation, but of example. The Government are the biggest employers. He ought to proclaim that he will use his influence firmly and openly on the side of non-inflationary settlements. That is a duty that will sometimes mean saying 'No' and meaning 'No'.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 15th April, 1970; Vol. 799, c. 1402.] In other words, what he meant then—it is certainly the natural meaning of what he said then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "ill inevitably cease to be that priority and the consequence will be that in this most important respect the Chancellor of the Exchequer will have failed, and will have been seen to have failed. The other aspect of the Queen's Speech to which I wish to refer is the relationship between the Government and industry. The Queen's Speech talks of the need to avoid \"unnecessary intervention\" in industry", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "volvement. We know that the United States Administration cannot avoid being involved in prices. It cannot avoid involving itself in the economy of the country, because, when we see the final results, it is clear that the people vote for a party largely because they believe that party to be economically competent to give them the economic success which they assume that party's Government will have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.554.5", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "No, I do not, but I shall talk about that on the Finance Bill. The hon. Gentleman is utterly wrong. The lowest of all, properly framed, is a value-added tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.554.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.554.5", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "his 30-minutes speech, pontificating about growth in academic terms, he failed most scrupulously, as always, to define how he would achieve the growth. He never tells us that growth is dependent upon industrial investment in the private, repeat private, sector, and that industrial investment in the private, repeat private, sector rests wholly upon the aggregation of personal and corporate savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.554.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "stment analysts and stockbrokers. The hon. Member for Renfrew, West (Mr. Buchan) sneers and coughs. One thing is certain; he would never address anybody on money. He does not know the difference between a threepenny stamp and a drum of oil. The conference that I was addressing was the Second Unit Trust and Money Management Conference on 9th June, 1970, at the London Hilton Hotel. I made the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " provision of capital gains tax. So, two or three times a year a dividend warrant is sent out to all small investors. For example, my daughter, aged 15, has a few unit trust units, I looked at her dividend warrant the other day and saw beneath the amount of the dividend was expressed the amount of capital gain on those units, which was expressed, believe me, to six places of decimals of one penny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "oving to perhaps the level of growth for the rest of the year that he forecast in the Budget—3 per cent.—but that is still far from satisfactory. I am equally satisfied, on another economic fact, that the level of unemployment is far too high and has been too high for far too long. I am equally satisfied on another economic fact that investment is too low and has been too low for a very long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "l politicians pay lip service to economic growth when they are in opposition and before they become Ministers. This has happened for a long time and no doubt will go on. Certainly, the present Chancellor was no exception. He will deserve the congratulations of the House and the country if he can achieve the levels of economic growth which are implied in every one of his speeches over recent years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.596.4", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An expensive experiment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "ction. Never have a Government come into office with more good will than did the 1964 Government, and never was good will dissipated more quickly than by the Socialist Administration. At the time an experiment was being conducted by the present Home Secretary to try to break out of the stop—go cycle with a period of expansion. We shall never know whether that experiment would have been successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.596.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ublic expenditure by the autumn, were to decide to reduce the £300 million spent on development area policy to anything like the level at which it was left by the previous Conservative Government, of £34 million—about one-tenth of the level which it had reached under us—he would be striking a blow at the principle, which also received mention in the Gracious Speech, of maintaining full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-07", "file": "debates1970-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "d79973afd4595d2c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Terence Higgins)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Terence Higgins)", "preceding_text": " look at this situation now and say that it ought not to give us cause for concern. Therefore, we put forward proposals which are clearly referred to in the Gracious Speech. I fully endorse what was pointed out by my right hon. Friend: that fiscal and monetary measures must march hand-inhand. My right hon. Friend referred to the previous Government's statement as a blinding glimpse of the obvious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-07a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.641.2", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman appreciate that there has been no controversy in Scotland about comprehensive education, that it was accepted in Scotland and in this House without demur?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.641.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.667.7", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": " been almost universally condemned. I will not embarrass her or any of her new feminine colleagues by reading out the condemnations of the Press, the local authorities and the teachers. I remind her that there was a meeting of head teachers in her constituency, and they decided by a majority of between 80 and 90 per cent. that they wanted to go ahead with reorganisation of their secondary schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.667.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "han his statutory duty required him to do. The right hon. Lady has been said by some commentators to be neglecting that duty, but I take quite a different view; I do not accuse her of that; quite the reverse; I believe that her circular is a clear invitation to local authorities to change their plans. It is a clear invitation to return to an élitist selective system. I may be wrong on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "r one or two references. It is time she did a bit of reading on this. She might read the \"Early Leaving\" Report of the Central Advisory Council, 1954, the Floud Halsey work on \"Social Class and Educational Opportunity\", 1956, the Philip Vernon Enquiry a year later, the 1963 analysis by Professor Moser in an appendix to the Robbins Report, or Dr. Douglas's work on \"The Home and the School\" in 1964.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Horses for courses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "as withdrawn all this in order to set the local education authorities free. I now turn to examine what she has put in its place—a tiny one-page document, Circular 10/70. It will go down in the history of education as the circular which tried to put back the clock, which tried to stop the evolution of our schools, and which tried to impose Tory élitist philosophy on our major social service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "eans that local education authorities are now free to build grammar schools and secondary modern schools. If it does not mean that it does not mean anything. This is sheer doctrinaire irresponsibility. The Government must realise that the movement to reorganise on comprehensive lines will go on in a great many areas in spite of them. They must realise that they will be in office only for a season.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.669.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "Local authorities had five years in which to submit their plans, and in the great majority of cases a perfectly amicable agreement was reached.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary, of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary, of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "eas, I had no alternative but to attempt to withdraw the circular. The right hon. Gentleman knows possibly what I did not appreciate at first, that one cannot just withdraw a circular; one has to issue another short circular, and this one implements, and very quickly, the election pledges which we gave. Against that background and having just completed the biggest consultation of all on 18th June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary, of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary, of State for Education and Science (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "the circular. The right hon. Gentleman knows possibly what I did not appreciate at first, that one cannot just withdraw a circular; one has to issue another short circular, and this one implements, and very quickly, the election pledges which we gave. Against that background and having just completed the biggest consultation of all on 18th June—[ Interruption. ]—it would not have been appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.676.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady looks at the records in her Department she will see that I had a very long meeting with the Direct Grant Schools Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "90 secondary modern schools and 1,026 grammar schools. It is up to us, whatever type of school a child is in, to do everything possible to assist it to develop its full educational abilities and not in any way to knock the children or teachers in any one type of school. I believe that it is possible—the right hon. Gentleman does not—to have a mixed system of both comprehensive and grammar schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "and 1,026 grammar schools. It is up to us, whatever type of school a child is in, to do everything possible to assist it to develop its full educational abilities and not in any way to knock the children or teachers in any one type of school. I believe that it is possible—the right hon. Gentleman does not—to have a mixed system of both comprehensive and grammar schools—[ Interruption. ]—alongside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Gentleman knows, so how can it be impossible? It varies enormously with the catchment area. Certainly, with a small rural area, I do not believe that it would be possible to have a comprehensive school and a grammar school, but in some of the very large urban areas it is possible, because the grammar school and direct grant school have quite different catchment areas from the comprehensive school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the right hon. Lady that there are local authorities which have the two systems running side by side. We have this in Liverpool. Is she aware, however, that it is a totally unsatisfactory system and that it creates more than enough problems? She must understand that one either has one system or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "I obviously disagree with the hon. Gentleman. I was interested in an article in New Society of 25th June, 1970, by David Donnison following an extensive survey—a much more extensive one than the pollsters did—about what the British public wanted from their schools. He pointed out that the majority said that they favoured comprehensive education and that that majority was growing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.685.2", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "reviewed. The right hon. Gentleman really does hate local authorities to have freedom, but they must have freedom to reconsider their plans if they were put up against an undue amount of pressure. The journal The Teacher said this on 3rd July, 1970: Some of the shoe-string schemes submitted in response to Circular 10/65 were educationally very poor indeed. I do not want educationally poor schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.685.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Splendid.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "orthodoxy which I regard as totally inadequate to the times in which we live. After that depressing comment on the two Front Benches, I should add that it was fortunate that the last Parliament was a progressive and radical one. Unfortunately, the present Parliament is less progressive and less radical, and, moreover, there has been a marked polarisation between reactionary and progressive forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "If I looked puzzled, it was only because I felt that what the hon. Lady said about that matter was the reverse of what she said a little earlier. Previously she said that it would be difficult to attract teachers from a comprehensive to a grammar school system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "opposite, it seems merely deplorable. When the hon. Member for Hitchin expresses it, it seems—shall we say— debatable. I thought that the most interesting and revealing sentence in the hon. Lady's speech came when she said that those children who need education most are the ones on whom least money is spent. That seems to me to be a very revealing philosophy, indeed, because it simply is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "e no mandate for it because they fought two parties, both of whom were resolutely opposed, and have been opposed for a great many years, to selection in secondary education. The candidates of those two parties amassed 2 million more votes than the right hon. Lady's party. If we take Birmingham, where we understand the more reactionary elements of the Conservative Party are wont to lay their heads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She has gone into reverse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lane", "preceding_text": " to restore the situation to what it was about five years ago before Circular 10/65. What is the situation which we are facing today? We know that a large and growing number of children are already being educated in comprehensive schools. Local authorities will understand perfectly well that while my right hon. Friend has taken her foot off the accelerator, she has not put it on the brake instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": " admire him for his clarity of thought, but I disagree with him. I look back at the record of past Conservative Administrations and all the advice that they were given by a series of Committees—the Crowther Committee, the Albemarle Committee, even the Wolfenden Committee on sport—all of which were ignored by the Tories. Time and time again when they were in power they cut expenditure on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "the right approach. No wonder that teachers are up in arms against the right hon. Lady. She has been condemned strongly by the National Union of Teachers, by the Council for Educational Advance, which represents a large section of opinion in the educational world, and I believe that she has been condemned by responsible opinion. The editor of the Times Educational Supplement, who has attacked her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.782.1", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "nsible opinion. The editor of the Times Educational Supplement, who has attacked her—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may criticise the editor of the Times Educational Supplement but many other writers throughout the country in educational journals have criticised the right hon. Lady. She has reversed a policy which was working. She has also failed to adopt the conventional approach of consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "When the National Union of Teachers officially comes out against the right hon. Lady, she must beware and take note. No Minister should act arrogantly. I speak as a former departmental Minister. Before I made any major decision, I always consulted carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.785.0", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "When the National Union of Teachers officially comes out against the right hon. Lady, she must beware and take note. No Minister should act arrogantly. I speak as a former departmental Minister. Before I made any major decision, I always consulted carefully—[ Interruption. ] I made a lot of good decisions in agriculture. I always consulted carefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. William van Straubenzee)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. William van Straubenzee)", "preceding_text": " permanent decision which is so often implied for a child. There is no difficulty about this. This is no longer a debating matter. After all, the hon. Member for Hitchin, one of the ablest of my predecessors, in the Bulmerse lecture said that this was indeed so and that the matter was no longer a party political issue. Those who today have sought to put it into that context are wildly out of date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.792.6", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "This is the kind of intervention which makes me sorry I gave way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.792.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "s of other areas, one of them cited by my hon. Friend the Member for Hertfordshire, South-West (Mr. Longden), the work is going forward in splendid buildings with self-confident children and a determined staff. On the authority of the former Secretary of State, on the grounds of resources, we shall, under any Government, have to live with the two systems side by side for as long as we can foresee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "te, on the grounds of resources, we shall, under any Government, have to live with the two systems side by side for as long as we can foresee. [ Interruption. ] I say \"for as long as we can foresee\" because of resources. I appeal to the House to accept that to talk of the young people who are the products of these schools as failures is to do less than justice to a fine generation of young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "ry success of the teaching in many of these schools which itself has caused the impetus towards the comprehensive system and, in particular, has blazed the trail in the education of the less well able child. As one who has expressed his view clearly about rigid selection at 11, I want to get right across to the House the fact that there must be a stop to the knocking of the secondary school child.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "again to expose the double talk and double standards that have gone on. There never has been a time when these matters have been so fully debated, right up to just before the General Election, when the whole electorate could see the position, just as when we debated the Bill in question and when, with supreme inefficiency, the former Secretary of State lost the first Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-08", "file": "debates1970-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "0f4276d8b96a67ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That is why we are able to start our work tonight without having to repeal any Act. That is why we were able to appeal to the nation and why the nation gave its vote. That is why we are able now to switch attention from dogmatic assertion on centralisation over to primary improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-08a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.832.7", "colnum": "832", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tuck", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.832.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.837.10", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS ASSEMBLY (PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " Prime Minister make quite clear to the United Nations General Assembly exactly what is his policy on the sale of arms to South Africa? Will he clearly say whether it is to safeguard the Simonstown Agreement or to get 30 pieces of silver for his commercial and business friends, since the country and the Commonwealth, the coloured Commonwealth in particular, are deeply concerned about this matter?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.837.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Six.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I indicated our approach to the House in my speech—that we should make one further attempt to see whether it is possible to reach a settlement within the five principles.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.839.4", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said in earlier days that there were aspects of it which I very much disliked and which could be described as aspects of a police State. In fact, some of these have been changed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.839.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE RESTRAINT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is already governed by questions of competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.845.4", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (OFFICIAL VISITS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "This is an entirely separate Question from that put down on the Order Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.845.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.854.5", "colnum": "854", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or the year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman be more forthcoming about the possible resumption date of the House after the Summer Recess? If he cannot give us the date, will he at least give us the month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.854.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Technology (Mr. Geoffrey Rippon)", "preceding_text": "hese rapid turnabouts. I welcomed the right hon. Gentleman's contribution on the subject of the machinery of Government, but I was disappointed in what he has to say on the whole subject of regional development, because he showed no disposition to consider that some of the measures which the previous Administration followed might be amended with advantage and might be considered with an open mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "the Northern Region, I am sad to say, is nearly double what it was in 1964, there is a shortage of skilled labour there as elsewhere. As the North East Development Council Annual Report for 1969–70 commented: The shortage is great because the skills available do not match the skills wanted. That is why we have emphasised our determination to improve and extend the facilities for retraining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "s the North East Development Council Annual Report for 1969–70 commented: The shortage is great because the skills available do not match the skills wanted. That is why we have emphasised our determination to improve and extend the facilities for retraining. [ Interruption. ] This is absolutely essential if we are to correct the situation in which even in areas of considerable unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have waited so long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I do not think that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite will quarrel now about our determination to move in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "To deal with the problem of training and what results from it, will it be possible, not today, but perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.909.1", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Scotland are gravely apprehensive following the election of the new Government. That apprehension will be in no way allayed by the speech which we heard from the Minister of Technology today. Indeed, it will be increased. One of the reasons why our Amendment was tabled is that we did not get across to the people of Britain the enormous success of the regional policies of our Government since 1964—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "tend that no Government intervention will solve these problems is a nonsense, and they know it is. Even the Minister of Technology—the hatchet man, or Jack-the-Ripper on the Front Bench—who is one of the most sinister appointments, because he believes in a minimum of State intervention, said this afternoon, speaking in broad generalities, \"We will help the coal industry, Upper Clyde Shipbuilders\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": " or in the Press, it is referred to constantly as the parade which commemorates the defeat of Roman Catholics by Protestants. That is not what the majority of people of Northern Ireland commemorate. They commemorate a battle in which a king who did not believe in democratic government was defeated by a power which asserted the right of the people, and the victory which is commemorated on the 12th—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": " investment allowances will give any real saving, for this is to be a financial concession in another form. Is it there? Or is it that the Government are returning, in the words of the Prime Minister, \"to the policies of the Local Employment Act, which they knew so well,\" and which everyone seemed to think worked so well? Is that to be the solution? I have been a Member of this House for 24 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "ll then see exactly what has been happening. The position is quite clear in Scotland. The transformation has been fantastic. Under this policy, there has been a remarkable improvement. In the period 1960–64, the kind of situation to which they want us to return, 832 new projects were born; in 1965–69, there were 1,341. Yet we are supposed to believe that nobody is coming to Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "lexibility about which the right hon. and learned Gentleman spoke that this lynch-pin of development area policy is being weakened. I give him these words to study. If he is concerned about Scotland or Wales then he ought to fashion special policies of regional development suitable for them because the electors in Scotland, Wales and the North have clearly said what they want and what they prefer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.965.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "that we have just had a report from the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs. It came out in favour of the present policies because they were successful. That Report is in the Library, and I draw attention to the reference to the fact that the C.B.I. in Scotland prefers grants to allowances. Sir Robert Maclean, of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry), made it clear that what we require—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.6", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ottish Affairs. It came out in favour of the present policies because they were successful. That Report is in the Library, and I draw attention to the reference to the fact that the C.B.I. in Scotland prefers grants to allowances. Sir Robert Maclean, of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry), made it clear that what we require—[ Interruption. ] This is true of the other development areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.8", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Wales, but in the South, I assure them that they will fail the nation. I sincerely hope that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen appreciate that the politcal strength that has come from Wales, from Scotland, and from the North is such that we demand satisfaction in this respect. The Government have said nothing about their real intentions, as they have said nothing about the whole of the Queen's Speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.971.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "k that he was right to stimulate the House with new ideas and with his considerable intellect. He introduced many reforms, some of which will survive and will rightly be attributed to him. In that connection, I have no doubt that the right hon. Gentleman will continue to regale us on these subjects in the columns of the New Statesman. Perhaps I may suggest to him that we on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.979.7", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Lawson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.979.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.979.9", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ackintosh) was speaking, he was interrupted by your predecessor and told that we are debating an Amendment. It was made exceedingly difficult for my hon. Friend to carry on with what he was then saying. I understand that he was advised from the Table that my hon. Friend was out of order in what he was saying. As it happened, what he was saying was something of the nature of what is being said now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.979.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "If I am given the opportunity, I will now do what I perfectly correctly sought to do—first, spend some time replying to the whole debate, which is my duty, and then reply to the Amendment, which I am very pleased to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ten minutes to go.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ought to do—first, spend some time replying to the whole debate, which is my duty, and then reply to the Amendment, which I am very pleased to do. [ Interruption. ] Yes, I am perfectly entitled to do that. In answer to the right hon. Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross), when the day comes that I am to be told by him what I am to do I shall find it a very sorry day indeed. We have been debating today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Yes, I did. My constituency is in the North and I know the problems there. Anyone would think from the tone of the Amendment and of many speeches by hon. Members opposite that regional policies and development areas were invented by the former Government and that we on this side of the House never did anything about the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "the problems there. Anyone would think from the tone of the Amendment and of many speeches by hon. Members opposite that regional policies and development areas were invented by the former Government and that we on this side of the House never did anything about the problems—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and, indeed, care less. Of course the facts show that that line of argument is plain nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What did he do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "first introduced differential treatment of depreciation allowances in the development districts in his Budget of 1963. That was a very important development. Most important of all from the point of view of this Government's attitude to the development areas, the Prime Minister was the first Secretary of State for Industry, Trade and Regional Development in 1963. He knows the problem at first hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL PLANNING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ses a rather curious criterion for the success of its policy. Its philosophy always seems to me to be, \"If in doubt appoint another Minister, another Commission, or another Board\". We on this side think differently. We said in our election manifesto that we would cut the number of Ministers. We have carried out that pledge. We have reduced them by 17. We have saved £85,000 in Ministerial salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.980.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC TRANSPORT (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The point made by the hon. Gentleman poses a question. If indeed these problems exist, then the P.T.A. ought to be meeting more often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.996.3", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC TRANSPORT (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ecently, which led directly to increased fares—because wages represent 70 per cent. to 80 per cent. of the total cost—and the legislation introduced by his Friends when they were the Government to curtail drivers' hours, which greatly increased the difficulties of recruiting sufficient staff to provide the services. These increases, therefore, are the result of the policies of the last Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.996.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-09", "file": "debates1970-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6009129b100c194", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC TRANSPORT (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "This may be a philosophy of public transport which commends itself to the people of Manchester, but the fact cannot be ignored that it is for the people of Manchester to decide. The hon. Member for Openshaw went on to knock one of the most imaginative schemes introduced by S.E.L.N.E.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-09a.998.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-10", "file": "debates1970-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "d95b3e6e567be43a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-10a.1006.6", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A late breakfast.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order for an hon. Member to have a meal in the Chamber? Since the proceedings started the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Rossi) has been eating steadily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-10a.1006.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1121.4", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I dealt with this matter at some length in last Thursday's debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that it is disgraceful for the Transport and General Workers' Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that it is disgraceful for the Transport and General Workers' Union—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—to call out men who are getting a basic week's wage of £37 10s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS DISPUTE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member is embarrassing his own party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that it is disgraceful for the Transport and General Workers' Union—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—to call out men who are getting a basic week's wage of £37 10s.—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"]—and, at the same time, offering them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1157.2", "colnum": "1157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": " pay through the social services for the fulfilment of the Government's promises. I found one of the most alarming sentences in the Chancellor's speech that in his peroration, when he told us proudly: The electorate has returned to this House a majority of Tory men and Tory women. They now expect Tory Measures, and they will get them.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th July, 1970; Vol. 803, c. 510–13.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " who started his job under a clearer warning from the Treasury. That warning has been that it is not his job to get enthralled by the social needs of the people or to battle in Cabinet for the social services. His job is to accept the fact that his Department is expected to yield the crucial savings without which the only pledge which the Tories care about—the cutting of taxation—can be fulfilled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "e hospital building programme in five years. Expenditure on hospital building in Britain has risen from £68 million in 1963–64 to £128 million in 1969–70. Under the drive and dedication of my right hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman), whom I am delighted to see here and who I hope will take part in this debate, because he is far more competent to do so than I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "en doctors and consultants enough last time and that therefore adjustments ought to be made retrospectively. Finally, for good measure, the Review Body has slapped on an allowance for future salary inflation up to March, 1971. I remember how roughly we used to deal with unions which tried to extract wage increases based on those same principles when we were operating the prices and incomes policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ade retrospectively. Finally, for good measure, the Review Body has slapped on an allowance for future salary inflation up to March, 1971. I remember how roughly we used to deal with unions which tried to extract wage increases based on those same principles when we were operating the prices and incomes policy. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Yes, because we cared about inflation and we had a policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "elfare of £2,000 million. That is why a seemingly innocent sentence in the Conservative election manifesto takes on a new significance. In the section on the National Health Service, the following appears: Labour see 'danger' in the growth of private provision in health and welfare. We believe it right and proper that people should be free to provide for themselves and their families if they wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Twenty per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "on in parformance that perhaps is not familiar to the country. During the 13 years of Conservative office the real value of the retirement pension rose on average by 4 per cent. a year—49 per cent. in the 13 years, which is just short of 4 per cent. in real terms per year. During the Socialists' five and a half years just past, the real value of the retirement pension rose by 14½ per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "gard the rise in prices. She had the gall to say that the hospital building programme has doubled under Labour. So it has in money terms, but in real terms it has gone up at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum during their nearly six years in office, a rate which compares with our 25 per cent. in real terms—and I will not deliberately misuse figures—during admittedly our last three years of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "r very largely out of taxes and contributions. I turn now to more immediate subjects. The right hon. Lady was good enough to give us her views on the doctors and dentists dispute, a dispute which I was unhappy to inherit. I am glad to say that we have re-established the concept of the independent review body, subject to the right of the Government to reject or modify any particular recommendation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "are that poverty still remains in this land. We inherited, alas, no rapid pace for dealing with this problem. The right hon. Lady will herself be the first to admit that during the last five years the plight of the low-earner has become if anything, because of the impact of inflation and the effectiveness, such as it was, of the wage freeze, worse than before, and we know that there are very many—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "me and to the people of South Wales that is what Conservatism means. I make no apology for giving their definition, because they are the people whom I represent. Secondly, we have had the pious palava of creating \"one nation\", and this from a Government that is prepared in the name of the god \"choice\" to encourage the development of private alternatives in education, welfare, insurance and health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": " the salt, some above, some below. I am in this House, and I hope that other hon. Members on this side are, to knock the salt off the table so that there is universal provision of the best regardless of a person's background or income. Only in this way can we afford to hold up our heads when we talk about a health service. There are probably people on the other side of the House who are very nice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "in we're in. I feel that the right hon. Lady, and some of the other speakers from the other side as well, have enjoyed the gruesome situation in which they find themselves, facing the prospect of the imminent collapse of the Health Service, and, indeed, of the entire Welfare State. They are hoping to be able to say to the electorate, \"We told you so\". I have a feeling it will prove very different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1947.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "May I just put the record straight? That was in accordance with Parliamentary procedure. When the debate took place—in 1948, I think it was—on the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "On Second Reading we moved a considered Amendment. A great point of controversy at that time was whether there should be a salaried medical service within the National Health Service, and it was really on that point that the Amendment was moved, but we made it perfectly clear—perfectly clear—that we supported the introduction of the National Health Service, and to have an up-to-date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1268.3", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " to tell us tonight whether the Government accept those estimates, or whether they are to be reduced. I hope that the House will allow me to refer briefly to Wales, because the Welsh Office carries responsibility for the administration of the Health Service in Wales, and I use this merely as an illustration for the rest of the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister keeps a special arrogance for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You will resign?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " Government will keep the country waiting for another four months to know their thinking on the National Health Service. At Selsdon, they told us that they had the answers. At Selsdon, they said that they had a Queen's Speech ready. I regard the right hon. Gentleman as the Selsdon Man himself. Therefore, we must tell the Government that unless the Minister can give us satisfactory answers tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1275.3", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "h (Mr. Peter Thomas) now, was the Member for Conway. At least he presented himself to the electorate and was defeated, but the official candidate for Merthyr Tydvil did not get through to the election: he was rejected by his selection committee so they should not worry about English Members being chosen in this way. Anyway, in this election, we won back my right hon. Friend's earlier seat, Conway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "es they suggest a whole range of possible ills or ailments in the individual concerned. We can imagine the effect on the National Health Service if automatic analysis really comes in in this country in a very big way. As the hon. Member for Willesden, West (Mr. Pavitt) has pointed out, we already have some automatic analysers, but the scope for development is enormous, and I am terrified to think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not what it says.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "t is both silly and superficial. Indeed, if it is worth looking at for a moment, it is merely to see how silly it is. We are told that the Government's election commitments to reduce public expenditure are unrealisable commitments. If they are unrealisable, they will not be realised and there will not be any need for cuts in Government expenditure. So it is an extremely silly Motion to start with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "le election commitments entered into by Her Majesty's Government. These election commitments were to cut public expenditure. If they are unrealisable, what are the Opposition worrying about? The Motion is also extremely superficial. It focuses on one particular sum. The sum is set out in Table 216 of the White Paper mentioned in the Motion. The sum involved is exactly £2,002—I mean £2,002 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-13", "file": "debates1970-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "248a014dd208a6e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "have in some way desperately let down the British people and the National Health Service. This includes incidentally, £36 million on hospital expenditure. This is the amount in that £80 million which is allocated to hospital expenditure. What a nerve the Opposition have to tell us that this £80 million, including £36 million, is absolutely sacrosanct. Have the Opposition forgotten the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-13a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-14", "file": "debates1970-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "be45b3803aed6a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. On almost every Question someone has risen from the Opposition Front Bench. Are they going to continue to take advantage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-14", "file": "debates1970-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "be45b3803aed6a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "What view has been put to the Commonwealth? Would the right hon. Gentleman answer with a \"Yes\" or \"No\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-14", "file": "debates1970-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "be45b3803aed6a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1365.2", "colnum": "1365", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "is point to make clear to the House, to the hon. Member and to new hon. Members that it does not accord with our custom or convention that the refusal of Questions should be raised in the House as a point of order. If a Member believes his Question has been unreasonably rejected by the Table Office he can always require an appeal to be made to me. Such appeals are not inevitably doomed to failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1365.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-14", "file": "debates1970-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "be45b3803aed6a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "andably, his Minister could not do—give us a preview of the statement of Government policy in this field. If for any reason that is not possible, I am sure that, in deciding to conduct a bitter battle against my Ports Bill, they had at least thought what kind of industry they wanted before they went with a prospectus to the British people, and did not just write in these words to fill up the page—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-14", "file": "debates1970-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "be45b3803aed6a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARBOURS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin McLaren", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin McLaren", "preceding_text": "I am the successor of Mr. Ellis. I am back for Bristol, North-West. I think that this is a very good Bill, and I welcome it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-14a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in the London Borough of Ealing the parking of vehicles, particularly heavy vehicles, is a growing menace and is having a deleterious effect on the standard of living? Is he aware that many vehicles, particularly those passing near Western Avenue, are apt to avoid that motorway and pass through residential areas, where they cause grave discomfort to property?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1512.8", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member for Dorset, West (Mr. Wingfield Digby) aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1512.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": ". I am not being taken in by anybody. I consider that I am able to stand on my own feet and use the brains which God has given me, which may not be very many, but I am not taken in by anybody, and I should like to put it on record now that least of all am I taken in by the arguments of hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite who treated this particular category of pensioners extremely badly indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "p what is really a very cynical approach by the other side, because they refused to accept my hon. Friend's Bill, and the good Bills which followed that, refused to do anything at all, and yet now, when we implement, within reason, the provisions in the Bills which we were very proud to introduce in the House, the Opposition come forward saying that the amount of pension ought to be not £3 but £5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "mount of pension ought to be not £3 but £5. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members say \"Hear, hear\" when they have no responsibility for paying it. I do not like politicians, whether in my own party or the party opposite, who take these cynical approaches politically. We all have great admiration for the right hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton). He and I have worked together on many ploys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1551.3", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. It would be interesting to see whether they intend to do that when the debate comes to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " constituent who has bothered me about it. Perhaps these people come from the more affluent parts of the country like Bournemouth, where there are some people whose only crime is that they have lived too long. But this is not a priority, by my terms of accountancy, in my constituency. It seems odd that when obviously people must have considerable capital resources, thanks to the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e is that they have lived too long. But this is not a priority, by my terms of accountancy, in my constituency. It seems odd that when obviously people must have considerable capital resources, thanks to the Labour Government—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Maybe some hon. Members opposite do not know what we did. They might at least be fair and recognise that some of us who know a little about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1611.0", "colnum": "1611", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Alfred Morris). It is appropriate that he should have referred to my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley), in whom we have a classic example of a disabled person working as a Member of this House, doing so very efficiently, and, what is more, enabling the House to understand something of the problems of disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-15", "file": "debates1970-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "11bce485e0128130", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1640.0", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "he principle that longer-term earnings-related sickness payments should be made the Government have ratted on it—because we have been told that they are bound to explore the situation, and to study it. The country will be interested to know that the Conservative Administration have no intention of moving forward, as the Labour Government had, towards longer-term earnings-related sickness benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-15a.1640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1697.5", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As so many of the price increases are motivated by the behaviour of nationalised industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1697.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1698.5", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "History shows that competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1698.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1729.2", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is it not perfectly clear that had the employers been prepared to have made one gesture in relation to an increase in the basic time rate there could have been a settlement of this dispute? Is it, therefore, not clear that the full responsibility for the present situation in fact squarely rests on the shoulders of the employers and their inflexible attitude?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1729.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1729.3", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member is not helping the cause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1730.6", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the current trouble stems from the fact that until four weeks ago the employers were negotiating rather expansively because they were all expecting, and most of them were hoping, that the industry would be nationalised and that they would not have to pay the wage inceases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1730.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1733.1", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's unwillingness to try to get the two sides together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1733.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1736.2", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "of Inquiry. The Home Secretary no doubt will realise that the employers have said that they are not prepared to negotiate while the strike continues. Is it not an intolerable situation for troops to be used in the docks while the employers refuse to negotiate? Will he also appreciate that there are many on this side of the House, and many trade unionists, who will call for extension of the strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1737.0", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman disregards the advice of my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1741.2", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman very properly presses me, and I promised that I would give him a positive answer as soon as I could. I have now given him a positive answer that we will introduce a Bill for the purposes that I have set out. However, it would not be right before the publication of this Bill to say anything more at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1741.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1742.0", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "May I thank the Leader of the House for the courtesy and kindness that he has shown in listening to representations that I have made to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1742.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1743.1", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That the matter of the style and title of the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed be referred to the Committee of Privileges.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-16", "file": "debates1970-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "77e04403b975f865", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1848.5", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "I was aware of that, since I have been in the House for even longer than you have, with great respect; and I do not intend to prolong the debate for more than a minute of two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-16a.1848.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-17", "file": "debates1970-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "b974823a92c4d92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-17a.1924.2", "colnum": "1924", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "scribed as a past master of the art of bringing Ministers to the House to answer important debates. He has never in the past found that Labour Ministers have been reluctant to come forward and answer when they have been invited to do so. You, Mr. Deputy Speaker, in your remarks in answer to my hon. Friend made it clear that it is a matter of judgment as to whether sufficient notice has been given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-17a.1924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.2.3", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "olutely and precisely, not only what proposals the Six make to us, but the proposals that the right hon. Gentleman makes to them and that we shall want the fullest opportunity to discuss them and to see his proposals produced as White Papers or Green Papers? Will he give the House an undertaking that this will be done and that there will be adequate opportunity for the House to discuss the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.2.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with what the hon. Member has said. In answer to a Question a few minutes ago, I said that I had never sought to hide the short-term difficulties of joining, but I agree that it is about time that the British people realised the longer-term benefits, provided that we can get reasonable terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No, you may not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. May I ask the Minister of Technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.49.2", "colnum": "49", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for having afforded me the usual courtesy of allowing me to see the statement in advance. Would the right hon. Gentleman answer three questions? First, is he aware that his statement is not quite as definite as it might have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.49.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": ". That assurance I can give. As to the intention in the statement, that is clear and it is the intention of the Government that we are discussing with Commonwealth countries. We are, of course, open to be influenced in our decision by their opinions, although we have stated our intention clearly. Some have replied and have said that they disagree. Some have replied and have said that they approve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.1", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "The report from Tanzania was a Press report. I think it likely that another statement will be made this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Her Majesty's Government can be influenced before a final decision is taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Her Majesty's Government can be influenced before a final decision is taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"] That is quite clearly so, otherwise consultation would mean nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "uenced before a final decision is taken. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"] That is quite clearly so, otherwise consultation would mean nothing. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] However, I would be less than frank with the House if I did not say that we have stated to the House our intention. If, however, anybody can, by argument, break us away from that intention, then, well, we shall consider all the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.51.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman would have to put away a few others as well because, for example, his right hon. Friends have been conducting joint exercises with the South African Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruptionl.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman would have to put away a few others as well because, for example, his right hon. Friends have been conducting joint exercises with the South African Navy. [ Interruption. ] I find that another has been arranged by the former Secretary of State for Defence for 5th August. Apparently they are prepared to have joint manœuvres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I would not accept that from the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I would not accept that from the right hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption. ] I have not had time to go to the N.A.T.O. Council to discuss these matters. We can debate this subject later in the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You would not answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " there were no decision by next Friday, when the House goes up, the Government would not take a decision to supply arms to South Africa until the House came back in October. Did I understand him aright? Secondly, he has just referred to the fact that no Government could give an assurance in advance about the veto. Is he aware that the Labour Government would never have had to answer this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.54.3", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Gibraltar?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "uld give an assurance in advance about the veto. Is he aware that the Labour Government would never have had to answer this question—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You would not answer.\"] I would have answered if the question had been asked—because the Labour Government were never in any doubt about their utterly loyal adherence to the United Nations resolution, which we carried out within days of taking office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.54.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I cannot say to the right hon. Gentleman that there would be no decision before the House reassembles. There would certainly be no statement. The first statement would be to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ng to clarify what the right hon. Gentleman said. What he has just said seems to me, and apparently to many of my hon. Friends, to be in ill accord with what he said to my right hon. Friend the Member for Fulham. My right hon. Friend asked in very clear terms for an assurance. The right hon. Gentleman gave that assurance. The assurance seemed to be that there would be no announcement, no decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.56.6", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister will listen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.56.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.56.7", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Try again.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister will listen—[ Laughter. ] I hope that my right hon. Friend is listening. It is important to get the answer right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.56.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The right hon. Gentleman is in fact asking me practically not to consult with Commonwealth countries, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.60.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "When a final decision is taken I will take the earliest opportunity to announce that final decision to this House. No Government can bind itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.4", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.5", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "We do not know when the United Nations is to meet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.5", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "We do not know when the United Nations is to meet. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am going to answer. If the Prime Minister would listen for a change instead of carrying on a running commentary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.5", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "We do not know when the United Nations is to meet. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am going to answer. If the Prime Minister would listen for a change instead of carrying on a running commentary—[ Laughter. ] If the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.61.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I think that it is important to get this matter clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.73.7", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I share my hon. Friend's view that the Government's behaviour is rather extraordinary. It does not seem to be the Government's day. This abrasive, new style of efficient organisation does not yet seem to have penetrated into the conduct of the business of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.73.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "s who have refused to negotiate. My right hon. Friend said on 16th July: … it became clear that the unions were not prepared to resume talks on the basis of an increase in the modernisation payment which had been under discussion last weekend.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th July, 1970; Vol 803, c. 1727.] That was a statement that the unions refused to negotiate and come to the table on this claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quote it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "#x2026; it became clear that the unions were not prepared to resume talks on the basis of an increase in the modernisation payment which had been under discussion last weekend.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th July, 1970; Vol 803, c. 1727.] That was a statement that the unions refused to negotiate and come to the table on this claim—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] This is what my right hon. Friend said in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": " basis of an increase in the modernisation payment which had been under discussion last weekend.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th July, 1970; Vol 803, c. 1727.] That was a statement that the unions refused to negotiate and come to the table on this claim—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] This is what my right hon. Friend said in the House—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Quote it.\"] I have already quoted it and that is what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": "adows an ugly situation and I hope that that will never occur. The saving paragraph will be of great interest to hon. Members opposite. I hope that no one will fail to notice that under the penalties Regulation—Regulation 34—the peaceful picket will be absolutely safe. I do not claim to be an expert on this, but the Regulation says so and I would have thought that that would stand up in any court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "s and the distribution of food, and the Minister has a real part to play. I am disturbed about reports of hoarding of certain foods, particularly oranges, and I have every confidence that my right hon. Friend will watch this situation carefully. There had already been increases in prices which have nothing to do with the emergency but are entirely due to measures taken by the Socialist Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Socialist Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": " larder. What powers has the Minister of Agriculture over agriculture as a whole and the production of food? If the strike continues, we shall be forced to rely more on the British farmer. I should like to know how much meat is in cold store, how long we can continue and what the exact position is. I am disturbed to see that the price of New Zealand lamb is rising rapidly. I can see no reason why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "se that I dislike them, because they run counter to my entire political philosophy, and my dislike of them is nothing to the dislike which I am sure inspires my right hon. Friends on the Front Bench. I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Poplar (Mr. Mikardo). I am surprised that he dislikes these Regulations, because he is a Socialist, and they are a complete blueprint for ultimate Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ish the framework of the law, and then to keep out of it. It is the function of the House—especially hon. Members on this side—to keep a sharp, critical and hostile eye on the Executive, but it is not the function of the House, having laid down the framework of the law and of industrial relations—as I hope we shall do shortly in greater detail—then to enter the question of detailed administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "a minute or two when my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House tables the Motion for the Adjournment for the Recess. There are arguments to be advanced about it. I should be happier if we could bring Ministers to the House every day during the emergency. One should therefore ask oneself whether one should oppose the Motion for the Adjournment. I shall consider my attitude to that in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Royal Air Force?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "ting heavy weights in confined spaces. The Royal Navy would be able to move those heavy weights and would just be thankful that things were not moving about. We are accustomed to lifting heavy weights when the deck is not steady. If I may make a prophecy it is that, if the unhappy situation arises in which these powers have to be used when the Army or the Royal Navy is brought in to move supplies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.153.2", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "What would be the attitude of my right hon. Friend if he were in my position? I have two sons in the Army who may be called upon to unload ships, much against their will. If they disobey orders, they will be subject to the rigid discipline of the Army. I have already written and asked them to disobey any instructions to assist in unloading ships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.154.2", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " to join them I shall very much regret it, because I value his presence in the House too much to want that to happen. I do not think that this is a Government of tyrants. Indeed, I do not think that they want to use these powers at all. The purpose of taking these powers is not to use them; it is to give an impression to the country that we have a dynamic, purposeful Government. They are bluffing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.154.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.154.5", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Make your own speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Do the Government intend to use them to put troops in? Is that their purpose? Or is it that they are taking precautions in case they are necessary? Is that what the Government are doing, or do they intend to use them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.165.2", "colnum": "165", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Peter Rawlinson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General (Sir Peter Rawlinson)", "preceding_text": ") of the said Act. The House, having approved the Proclamation, now turns to the Regulations although during the past several hours, as you, Mr. Speaker, and hon. Members will be aware, we have been dealing with these Regulations, They spring, as the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) said in her speech this afternoon, inevitably from the emergency and the Emergency Powers Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.165.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ions, enables directions to be given to public service vehicle operators as to passengers to be carried or road services to be provided; for instance, if coaches could not be hired or compelled, they could be requisitioned. Regulation 24 is basically the same as it was in the 1966 Regulations but now includes passengers, whereas formerly it dealt only with goods. Regulation 19 has been referred to", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "es to be provided; for instance, if coaches could not be hired or compelled, they could be requisitioned. Regulation 24 is basically the same as it was in the 1966 Regulations but now includes passengers, whereas formerly it dealt only with goods. Regulation 19 has been referred to [ Interruption. ] This confers the power to regulate the maximum price of food by means of an Order. No one pretends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.183.1", "colnum": "183", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " for trespassing, loitering and a host of other things. A police constable need only have \"reasonable cause\". He will decide if an offence has been committed and, without warrant, he can arrest a person if he has reasonable cause to suspect him of being guilty of an offence. What will happen to all these people who might be arrested? Will they be in custody without trial, and, if so, for how long?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "This is happening now, without these Regulations. The hon. and gallant Gentleman, coming from Northern Ireland, perhaps supports this sort of thing; he and his party. We have never supported Regulations of this type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "This is happening now, without these Regulations. The hon. and gallant Gentleman, coming from Northern Ireland, perhaps supports this sort of thing; he and his party. We have never supported Regulations of this type. [ Interruption. ] I suppose the hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) has just returned from one of his calling places and finds this an amusing matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-20", "file": "debates1970-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "df895f1663daa3ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.185.7", "colnum": "185", "heading": "EMERGENCY POWERS (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I would never consciously do the hon. Gentleman an injustice. Like me, he will be aware that there were only two hon. Gentlemen opposite present for the earlier debate out of his hon. Friends who now occupy the benches opposite. Apart from those two, all the others might as well leave and return to those places where they can imbibe while we debate this important subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-20a.185.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.212.7", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PUBLIC BUILDING AND WORKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t it clear that the Minister's answer is absolutely disgraceful? Even accepting that it took five years to introduce the Bill—which is not true, anyway—is not it clear that both sides of the industry have said time after time that this matter must be dealt with quickly, and is not it also clear that the right hon. Gentleman should bring legislation before the House at the earliest possible moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.212.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that even my hon. Friend did not regard that as a reply? Can he be more specific and definitive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, any discussions of this kind must also be carried on at the same time with our friends in N.A.T.O.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.252.2", "colnum": "252", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think that it is known, at any rate through the usual channels, that it was felt desirable that this statement, which was to have been made today, should not be made today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.252.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.300.0", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hordern", "preceding_text": " more knowledge of his home town of Leith than I had ever realised. My knowledge, I fear, was confined to the fact that the police of Leith were inclined to tell us to go home. The hon. Gentleman spoke with knowledge and great care of the problems of the environment in his constituency and on an international scale as well, and his observations were particularly fitting in World Conservation Year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": " Jeymew Drive which, for 12 months, have been subjected to a mass attack of noise pollution. In addition, since they have been discovered as alternative routes, they are now being used as parking bays by massive lorries. This is a very serious situation. In addition to lorries travelling down these quiet residential streets, they are now used by companies as parking places for their large lorries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-21", "file": "debates1970-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "a56f31a651e87b0c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.439.4", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DOCTORS AND DENTISTS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "It is not true to say he said there was. My reading of the script of the famous Press conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-21a.439.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the rate of growth of imports to this country from South Africa is greater than the rate of growth of our exports to that country? Why should we not press for a greater number of exports to be allowed into that country, not including arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.511.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "When are you to take it off?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. Hon. Members opposite should bear in mind that one of the difficulties of the insurance companies has been the increases in cost caused by direct action by the previous Administration, particularly by selective employment tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.530.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.530.8", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BOARD OF TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that he has had a lot of complaints, but so far as I am aware he has passed only one to the Board of Trade and that is the only one we have received. As to his suggestion about the location of airports, I beg him to look at some of the evidence of noise before he rashly runs into assumptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.530.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.536.5", "colnum": "536", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.536.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.536.5", "colnum": "536", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "ggest that some hon. Members opposite might treat the matter with seriousness, because my right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) has pointed out that any hon. Member might find himself in the difficulty to which I shall refer, and hon. Members might take note of that. The point I wish to raise is one which I must submit is too urgent to await the debate tomorrow night", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.536.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": " appear at the Bar to be sworn you would not ask, \"How did you get here? Are you released from gaol? Are you on parole? How did you get through the Cenral Lobby?\" You have no powers and you do not count outside the House, although inside you are all-powerful. If the hon. Lady presents herself at the Bar, you have no alternative but to call her to the Table to be sworn. I will give you a precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.539.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.544.8", "colnum": "544", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is the same question put in another way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.544.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.544.11", "colnum": "544", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the law?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I simply carry out the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.544.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "It is up to the Government to do something about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.545.9", "colnum": "545", "heading": "HON. MEMBER FOR MID-ULSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is instructing me and saying what I have said before. I will repeat it. I am afraid that it is at present purely hypothetical. It is a matter which the House would have to consider if the hon. Member presented herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.545.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "LAND COMMISSION (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Brown", "preceding_text": "Since my constituency interests are severely affected, I should have thought that the Minister or his Department would have been courteous enough to inform me of his intended statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.553.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.573.3", "colnum": "573", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Mr. Vorster has understood, as indeed everybody else in this country has understood except possibly the right hon. Gentleman, that it was the intention, and has been the intention all the time, of the Conservative Party, if returned to office, to honour the Simonstown Agreement and to consider the sale of certain categories of arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.573.6", "colnum": "573", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "egy. I shall remind him of two matters which are pertinent to the argument on which we are engaged today. The first was in relation to Britain's possession and control of the nuclear weapons in our independent deterrent. He described them—our Polaris submarine and our strike aircraft—as a pea on the top of a mountain. He said that Britain should get rid of it and that we should shed control of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.573.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.574.5", "colnum": "574", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that is unworthy of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.574.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.574.6", "colnum": "574", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.574.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.574.7", "colnum": "574", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a point of order.\"] Mr. Deputy Speaker will decide whether it is a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.574.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is a change.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I hope, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you will reconsider what you said to my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) if so early in this Parliament you want to win the confidence of the House. Secondly, and this is a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.2", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "ion. We must stay on the terms of the Motion. But I always deprecate any idea of raising points of order which are known by right hon. and hon. Members who know the rules of the House very well strictly speaking not to be points of order. I considered that what the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) said was not strictly a point of order. If I did the right hon. Gentleman an injustice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "r a number of years, that there are two areas in which the balance of power can be changed to the detriment of the West, and indeed of all free countries. One is the Middle East and the other is the Gulf. In relation to the latter, Aden was the key point of first strategic importance. The right hon. Gentleman and his friends got out and the Russians are going to move in. In the foreseeable future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They still do not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "t now numbers 373. The submarine fleets of the N.A.T.O. allies, France, ourselves and the United States, number 200. The Soviet fleet is the most modern fleet now and it is having eight modern submarines added to this number every year. Britain's security, therefore—this is why with great respect, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, I said right hon. Gentlemen did not at first understand the argument I was using—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.575.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.576.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Member will later have a completely clear run. I must complete my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "n, the North Sea, and the lot. Will the right hon. Gentleman now answer the question I put to him and which he felt unable to answer before? Remembering his right hon. Friend's promises in the Tory manifesto to deal directly with Parliament, the Press and the public, I now invite him to do it. Will he now answer this question which I put to him before? He will have read in yesterday's Daily Mail —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "show his distaste for the paper which has helped him so much. He will have read a report yesterday attributed directly to Dr. Vorster who said that Her Majesty's Government had given him an assurance, privately but officially, that they had decided to supply arms to South Africa and that he intended to hold Her Majesty's Government to that phrase. Since the right hon. Genteman on Monday and today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.579.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings (Mid-Bedford-fordshire)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.580.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ported as saying that Her Majesty's Government have given him an undertaking, privately but officially, to which he held them, about supplying arms to South Africa, since a decision has been taken, and since we were told on Monday and again today that no decision has been taken, will the Foreign Secretary say whether Dr. Vorster is telling the truth or lying, or whether he is misleading the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.580.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.580.7", "colnum": "580", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will certainly answer, but I do not intend to be lectured by the Leader of the Opposition and least of all about straight answering. Now I will answer his question. Dr. Vorster has known of our intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.580.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": " which the House should give its attention. On what, in relation to South Africa, do both sides of the House agree? We agree that it is abhorrent to build a society on colour discrimination. We agree, however, that force cannot be used to change the policies of apartheid. Both parties reject an embargo on trade. In fact, under the last Government our trade with South Africa increased very largely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "appening through increased trade, and right hon. and hon. Members opposite have welcomed it. Indeed, the right hon. Gentleman went further than any Conservative Government in this direction. He authorised the Atomic Energy Authority to place a plant in South-West Africa for the manufacture of uranium. Did he tell the United Nations? Did he tell his back benchers that he had put in a uranium plant?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "t day or two sometimes misnamed the Leader of the Opposition. I shall not do it now. I shall say that in this respect, when the Leader of the Opposition puts on a white sheet and says that South Africa is untouchable, he is the prime humbug of all time. In the wake of the General Election, his hon. Friends on the back benches might like to know the original definition of a humbug. It is in pincer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "all say that in this respect, when the Leader of the Opposition puts on a white sheet and says that South Africa is untouchable, he is the prime humbug of all time. In the wake of the General Election, his hon. Friends on the back benches might like to know the original definition of a humbug. It is in pincer—[ Interruption. ]—I am sure that they will wish to hear what the original definition was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.583.0", "colnum": "583", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman has made two references to uranium, may I put the record straight? Uranium is not manufactured. Uranium is mined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.583.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.584.7", "colnum": "584", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "I have tried to answer the hon. Gentleman, but no doubt he cannot hear the answer. I am saying that the resolution is in nothing like final form. A number of countries are trying to put it into its final shape. I do not know what the final shape will be, so I cannot tell the hon. Gentleman whether we shall vote against it, veto it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.584.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.585.1", "colnum": "585", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "id becomes. It is not without interest that it is under the impact of modern industrial organisation that the rigid rules of apartheid are found impossible to sustain. I therefore uphold the proposition on moral grounds that South Africa should not be ostracised and put in Coventry but that her territory should be opened up to the civilising influences of the outside world. It is one or the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.585.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.585.4", "colnum": "585", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "D'Oliveira.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Alec Douglas-Home", "preceding_text": "ind, therefore, the policy of the boycotters credible but wrong, but I see nothing to be said for the pretence of the Socialist Front Bench as they have conducted their policy with South Africa during the past six years. I will not be lectured by the right hon. Gentleman about colour. I remind him of the first two contacts I had with right hon. Gentlemen opposite and the Socialist Party on colour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.585.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am following the right hon. Lady's argument closely, but is not the logical end of her argument that if she is right about South Africa and Rhodesia, the Government of which she was such a distinguished member should have imposed sanctions on South Africa?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.601.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.603.2", "colnum": "603", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Hastings", "preceding_text": "ill look forward to hearing them again. I wish that the hon. Lady had not gone quite as far as she did in condemnation. Any argument is spoilt by over-doing it. She described South Africa as \"the worst and most vivid embodiment of fascism in the world\". Surely, common sense apart, she as a senior Minister must have read the South African Press from time to time and she must know the Press is free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "argument that Simonstown is useful but not essential. It is not just Simonstown but all the ports in southern Africa which would be vital to us in time of war. Perhaps the House would reflect on this point. If a serious confrontation broke out and if the Panama Canal were blocked, trade between Britain, Western Europe and Australasia, the Far East and the Middle East would have to go via the Horn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "t which I have been able to make is that this is related partly to the Soviet interest in the Chinese threat in Southern Asia, but there is no doubt—and this is a universal view among defence experts in the Western world—that the main Soviet interest in this activity is political and not military. It is to show the flag, in the same way as the British Fleet has so often shown the flag in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ay was that he could not imagine a frigate being used for internal security. I can tell him and the Minister of State for Defence, who is to wind up this debate, that he will be very lucky if on no occasion in the next 12 months he does not have to use a frigate for an internal security situation in a dependent territory in the Caribbean, because we have had to do it three or four times this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.654.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.657.2", "colnum": "657", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-22", "file": "debates1970-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "3e1387c62a26dc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (SALE OF ARMS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Balniel)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Lord Balniel)", "preceding_text": "fully-laden oil tankers sail round the Cape every day bound for ports not in the United States but in this country and in Western Europe. As an indication of the scale of this shipping, more than 1,000 British merchant ships are using South African ports every year. For instance, the port of Durban in a few years' time will be handling more traffic than the port of Liverpool handles at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-22a.660.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that her answer, her abominable circular and her whole philosophy towards education are a complete negation of the Prime Ministers \"One Nation\" theme? Will she tell us who is the hypocrite?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.745.6", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "May I ask two questions?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.745.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.745.6", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "May I ask two questions?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"] First, will my hon. Friend pay particular regard to any questions on prisons from someone with the name \"Cunningham\"?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.745.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McMaster", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend ensure that if we are to return to the normal system of policing, the police are properly armed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.756.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "take away from the Post Office Corporation the incentive to increase productivity which it was the wish of the last Administration it should achieve? Is he also aware that he is inaccurate in suggesting that the postal services were incurring mounting losses over the last two years? The first six months of the two-tier system showed a surplus in that department. May I ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman claims that there was no loss on the transactions of the Post Office during 1968–69 and 1969–70.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman claims that there was no loss on the transactions of the Post Office during 1968–69 and 1969–70. [ Interruption. ] The facts of the matter are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.5", "colnum": "763", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.7", "colnum": "763", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Concerning the printing of the stamps before the election, does my right hon. Friend recall what his predecessor said: that the Post Office was printing these stamps without his consent and without his knowledge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.763.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The Users' Council has a statutory right to be consulted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.2", "colnum": "767", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "It is part of a policy on the part of this Government of putting the nationalised industries on a sound commercial foot ing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman not agree that the Prime Minister fought the whole election on charges in the public sector? Let me quote what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.6", "colnum": "767", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Prime Minister, during the campaign, time and again attacked the level of charges in the public sector, including postal charges? He now comes along and makes a 50 per cent. increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.7", "colnum": "767", "heading": "POST OFFICE (INCREASED TARIFFS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "We have, as I have said on a number of occasions this afternoon, not made this increase; we are not committed to these proposals of the Post Office. I will say this to the right hon. Gentleman, that if my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and all of us had known during the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.767.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (MINISTER'S REPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "ease in prices since the change of Government. I wanted to know what action the Government were prepared to take. Although I put these points to the Minister of Technology through his Parliamentary Secretary, who replied to the debate, I received no answer on any point at all. This is most unsatisfactory to me as a Member of Parliament and it is highly unsatisfactory to those constituents of mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE (MINISTER'S REPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "those constituents of mine. [ Interruption. ] This is a matter of very great importance to all backbenchers, and certainly is of great concern to those my constituents who will be thrown on the scrap heap by the end of the month. The firm was due to close at the end of October, but it is now to close at the end of July. I am asking what action Members of Parliament can take in those circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MINISTERIAL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "hich has been entrusted with the task, on the Community side, of conducting with us many of these fact-finding exercises. I hope that we shall then be able to establish certain objectively agreed factual data on which the negotiation of solutions can be based. Bearing in mind the proposals which I had put forward and the decisions which were taken, the outcome of the meeting was very satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.784.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The Government, the employers and the union are certainly doing all they can to keep the temperature down. I hope the right hon. Lady will do the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am perfectly happy about the way things have proceeded", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.803.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.804.2", "colnum": "804", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on doing precisely what he has advocated the Opposition should do, namely, to keep the heat out of the situation. I am only surprised that on Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.804.6", "colnum": "804", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "esented the third biggest dockland in Britain, might I ask the Minister if he is aware that the dockers regard the introduction of troops as provocative? Does he appreciate that this is because many of the older men have long memories, way back to 1911? Secondly, is he aware that if he wants to end the strike quickly, as I am sure we all do, he must bring some pressure, must lean on the employers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.804.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.809.4", "colnum": "809", "heading": "NATIONAL DOCKS STRIKE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "First, there is not a state of emergency at the moment in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.809.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "for Northampton (Mr. Paget) has put to you, may I strongly express the hope that you will not accede to that request, Mr. Speaker? One other consideration must be borne in mind, judging the circumstances of this case as I understand it. There could be certain circumstances in which the hon. Lady referred to might arrive at the Bar of the House in a way which Parliament would certainly not condone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.818.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What circumstances?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "at request, Mr. Speaker? One other consideration must be borne in mind, judging the circumstances of this case as I understand it. There could be certain circumstances in which the hon. Lady referred to might arrive at the Bar of the House in a way which Parliament would certainly not condone—[ Interruption. ]—and I believe that one of the things that has been disturbing a great many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be too late then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The last submission by the hon. Member would be more proper in the debate coming ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.826.2", "colnum": "826", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (LETTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is not the difficulty entirely due to the fact that the Government know, the Clerk to the Table knows and most hon. Members know, that if the hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster were to come here and take the oath, Privilege would mean that she would not need to go back, because she would be privileged to stay here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.826.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "unless I have the unanimous consent of the House. We are about to debate whether the House should adjourn until 27th October. Under Standing Orders, the rule is not suspended for this debate and I shall have to end it automatically at 10 o'clock. I suggest, if I have the concurrence of the House, that I shall close it not at 10 o'clock but at 11 o'clock. Is there any opposition to that suggestion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": "s concern. We are elected as Members of Parliament to the House of Commons. Our constitutional place is to act as critics and challengers of the Executive. We are in a time of crisis. There is a dock strike which threatens the nation's whole life. Profiteering is taking place which affects every housewife. It is a time of danger in the Middle East. Under the Tory Government unemployment is rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edelman", "preceding_text": " have mentioned, when there is a state of emergency, when there is the likelihood—or, perhaps, I should say, at least the danger—that we shall be recalled for a day to renew the Emergency Regulations, being asked to dispose of these vital matters in a one-day sitting, as happened two years ago when we were recalled at the time of the invasion of Czechoslovakia for just one day on that vital issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.857.1", "colnum": "857", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "ve Party during the election are not yet under the scrutiny of Parliament. One crumb of mercy is that the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is gracing the debate with his presence. He has a central and fundamental responsibility for the grave emergency which confronts our nation. He is the Minister responsible for the food of our people and for the food which is so vital to our children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.867.5", "colnum": "867", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": ", 1966; Vol. 732, c. 2127.] Today the Minister of Employment and Productivity, in reply to my Question about his abolition of the early warning system and the constant watch procedure, argued for more competition in the food industry. I challenge him, because his party is to introduce a levy system. I am not now talking about the Common Market. This inevitably means higher prices for the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.867.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "There have been discussions about the possibility of protected markets, but there has been no decision on levies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.869.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.869.1", "colnum": "869", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We won the election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peart", "preceding_text": "otected markets, but there has been no decision on levies. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members must listen. Hon. Members opposite fought the election on this issue in rural areas. They argued that they should take considerable sums from the farmers which were to be used to protect the deficiency payment system and thus impose a burden on the consumer. That is their policy, and it is in their manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.869.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "GAS (BORROWING POWERS) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": " late and it might be important to curtail my remarks. But let us bear in mind that we are dealing with £2,100 million, which is not a small sum. This is the only opportunity that we shall have of debating this matter this year; this is the only opportunity that we shall have before the recess. It may be suggested that this should go through on the nod, but I would not be prepared to concede this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.926.1", "colnum": "926", "heading": "HOUSING SUBSIDIES (INTEREST RATES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "ave brought forward their first Order under the system it is not unreasonable for us on this side of the House to ask the Government why they have not remedied the defects. If the answer is that they have not had time, I pray them to read again the speeches they have made in the past—hostages to fortune, I agree. There were some by the hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Graham Page), who is not here now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.926.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.942.1", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHING COUNCIL (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Driberg", "preceding_text": "I did not intend to speak, but I am moved to my feet because, after sitting here for some considerable time waiting for another debate of even more general interest than the one in which we are engaged now, I was really woken up by the maiden speech of the hon. Gentleman the Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat). I congratulate him on speaking so extremely well", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.942.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": " conditions which she is experiencing give no real cause for complaint, bearing in mind that it is a gaol in which she is obliged to live at present. Although not many hon. Members opposite may be particularly interested in that piece of news, I am sure that many of my hon. Friends will be pleased to hear it and to know that civilised treatment is being meted out to our hon. Friend in Armagh Gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": " to temptation, with a moderation of language which I hope I shall match. The hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) is not present. It is her case which has given rise to the Motion before us and which we have to consider. I do not propose, in her absence, to make any kind of attack on her. I would reserve anything I might have to say about her behaviour until such time as she is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.958.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": "th a moderation of language which I hope I shall match. The hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster (Miss Devlin) is not present. It is her case which has given rise to the Motion before us and which we have to consider. I do not propose, in her absence, to make any kind of attack on her. I would reserve anything I might have to say about her behaviour until such time as she is here. [ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "otion did not fully take into account the right of Parliament itself. It may be that the way that the Motion is drafted will not prevent the Committee of Privileges looking at the right of Parliament in the matter. The hon. Member for Paddington, North (Mr. Latham) spoke of two rights: the right of the Member and the right of the constituents. But he forgot the third right—the right of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "he would not attempt to deny or put a gloss on those words if she were here. I have no doubt that to some hon. Members, I believe the minority, the Oath of Allegiance is a pure formality, a ritual which is, to them, unmeaning and without significance. This all raises the question whether the Committee of Privileges should pronounce on this issue. Is the oath or affirmation something totally empty?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.960.3", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "Members, I believe the minority, the Oath of Allegiance is a pure formality, a ritual which is, to them, unmeaning and without significance. This all raises the question whether the Committee of Privileges should pronounce on this issue. Is the oath or affirmation something totally empty? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] If it is, it is surely time for the Committee to suggest that it is no longer necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.960.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.961.2", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Whatever view the hon. Lady has about taking the oath, she came to the Bar of the House on the previous occasion and took the oath.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has not got the point yet. The point is: how does he or any hon. Member know whether the hon. Lady, if she were brought here, would take the oath? She said in her book that she regretted it and would have preferred to have done something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "not right in suggesting that the argument my hon. and gallant Friend is putting is that if a person were found guilty of sedition or treason, felony, clearly that person would not be able to take the oath? Is he not saying that this is substantially the same? If you are found guilty of incitement to not in circumstances where you are not prepared to accept Her Majesty the Queen, you are virtually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.2", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": " Friend is putting is that if a person were found guilty of sedition or treason, felony, clearly that person would not be able to take the oath? Is he not saying that this is substantially the same? If you are found guilty of incitement to not in circumstances where you are not prepared to accept Her Majesty the Queen, you are virtually—[ Interruption. ] I am addressing my hon. and gallant Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.8", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "ecent times Members of Parliament who were convicted of felony were automatically expelled from the House. I remember, as many hon. Members here will remember, the case of Mr. Peter Baker who was convicted of forgery and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. There was no question about it at any time but that the Leader of the House would rise and move that he be expelled from the House. He was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.8", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "emember, the case of Mr. Peter Baker who was convicted of forgery and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. There was no question about it at any time but that the Leader of the House would rise and move that he be expelled from the House. He was. [ Interruption. ] It is said that that case is a bit different. I am not arguing about the particular case of the hon. Lady the Member for Mid-Ulster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.962.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "On the latter point, I do not know how the hon. Gentleman can square what he has just said with the phrase he used about constituents being deprived, through no fault of their own, of the service of their Member of Parliament. The constituents of the hon. Lady in Mid-Ulster would have known very well that this could well have been a possibility. What I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.968.2", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "owing a privilege to a Member of Parliament. The hon. Gentleman asked that it should be extended further, that the person should be permitted to come to take the oath. A similar privilege would not be given to others. A businessman would not be given the privileges of being taken to attend a place of business, although he might be given the facilities to conduct it through visits or anything else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.968.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.971.4", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member must read HANSARD and he will see that I did not pass any word in favour of or critical of Northern Ireland. I said that many of my hon. Friends had nothing but contempt for Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.971.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.981.0", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member has.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "the less, is a person who belongs to a particular group of people who will not be necessarily persuaded of the wisdom of the decisions of a body of Establishment figures. I would have liked to see some hon. Members who could not be regarded as Establishment figures on this Select Committee, possibly my hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot), if he has not joined the Establishment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-23", "file": "debates1970-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "7fa326c483eed012", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIVILEGES (DETAINED MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "There is nothing to stop such a Motion being moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-23a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-24", "file": "debates1970-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cbf2ce0117aa8b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-24a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "POLICE (SERVICE AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "may recall that I raised a similar subject in the last Parliament. I am particularly concerned with some of the more onerous duties which the police are called upon to perform. I have a reputation, quite wrongly, for being against the police. Whenever I am in trouble or difficulties with the police they tend to be a little more fair in the other direction, against me, than they would normally be.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-24a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-07-24", "file": "debates1970-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "cbf2ce0117aa8b36", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-24a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "POLICE (SERVICE AND CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " citizen, I stopped and waited for them to change. While waiting there, another hon. Member, driving a Mini, came on my off-side, crossed the lights, although they were still red, and drove into New Palace Yard. He is a new hon. Member whose name I do not know, but he will know to whom I am referring. I obey the law while he does not, though I should be the first to be accused of breaking the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-07-24a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.8.0", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "There is another Question on the Order Paper about food prices which have risen in the past four months and I shall be answering that a little later on. As far as the early warning system is concerned, all I can say is that by shopping around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.8.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": ", except that in due course the upper exemption limit for dental charges for young people will be reduced from 21 to 18. In the field of education, the charge for school meals, which is at present 1s. 9d., will be raised by two stages, next year and in 1973, towards the actual running cost, which is at present about 2s. 10d. The supply of free milk to pupils over the age of 7 will be discontinued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.37.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.43.7", "colnum": "43", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I should like to make the point that what particularly enraged some of us on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.43.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Intermediate areas?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "oans under the Local Employment Acts. In particular, the rates of building grants will be raised by 10 points to 35 per cent. and 45 per cent. and greater use will be made of infrastructure schemes assisted by grants under these Acts. We will proceed with these measures without delay, so as to give an early stimulus to growth in the development areas. The additional expenditure which they involve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.51.2", "colnum": "51", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "sial period of office. Perhaps I should begin by thanking the right hon. Gentleman for confirming nearly all the leaks about expenditure cuts about which we have read in the Press for at least the last two weeks. The Chancellor made a statement which was long, complex, at times very depressing, at times mean in its approach and at times, if I may say so, deliberately vague and difficult to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware that parts of his statement were difficult to follow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "s? Or is the right hon. Gentleman going to claim that he will act directly—to put them up? That is the effect of nearly everything we have heard today. We have heard of a tax cut—indeed, of two tax cuts—which will be of benefit certainly to some people; one of the cuts definitely will be—but what we have also heard from the right hon. Gentleman represents a whole future programme of tax increases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "First, to answer the right hon. Gentleman's question about development areas, he will see—I believe that he will agree with this when he sees the figures involved—that the differential in cash terms is at least as large as the differential which existed under the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "h existed under the previous Administration. [ Interruption. ] But we believe that it will be much more effective. The right hon. Gentleman will be the first to agree—the facts establish this—that from the point of view of growth in the development areas the system of investment grants has not lived up to its expectations. Next, I made no reference whatever to any closures of any uneconomic lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "th the problem of family poverty at present was by means of family allowances. We concluded, however, that the family income supplement—I will explain why we reached this conclusion—was a better way, for the present at least, to carry out our declared intention to help these families. To increase family allowances without clawback would, the right hon. Gentleman will agree, be extremely expensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " intention to help these families. To increase family allowances without clawback would, the right hon. Gentleman will agree, be extremely expensive. [ Interruption. ] It was not suggested by the right hon. Gentleman or my right hon. Friend who preceded me at this Box that it should be without clawback. For consideration was the question whether one should increase family allowances with clawback.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " Gentleman will agree, be extremely expensive. [ Interruption. ] It was not suggested by the right hon. Gentleman or my right hon. Friend who preceded me at this Box that it should be without clawback. For consideration was the question whether one should increase family allowances with clawback. [ Interruption. ] The right hon. Gentleman may disagree, but if the Prime Minister will wait a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "After all, the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The cost of this scheme is £8 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "t it is extremely difficult now to help those people in the poorer families whom we all want to help. I was then asked by the right hon. Gentleman about a statement made shortly before polling day to the effect that action would be taken to break the price spiral. The answer is that a statement was made based on the assurances of the previous Government about the so-called strength of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend the Chancellor accept that I have great confidence in him? May I ask two questions? First, as he did not say anything in his statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend the Chancellor accept that I have great confidence in him? May I ask two questions? First, as he did not say anything in his statement—[ Interruption. ] Do not be silly. Would my right hon. Friend let us know what he has in his mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.64.1", "colnum": "64", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend say what is in his mind about selective employment tax? He did not refer to S.E.T. in his statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.64.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.64.5", "colnum": "64", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Then would the right hon. Gentleman be a little more forthcoming to the right hon. Lady? Since he has told us so much about his next Budget, did not the Prime Minister pledge that S.E.T. would be abolished—not reduced—in the first Budget?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.64.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "On the latter point, this proposal was more or less that which was put forward by his right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins), but it was withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.72.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.87.0", "colnum": "87", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Gentleman gave when he was Director General of the C.B.I., which the previous Government accepted, and the emphasis given today by his hon. Friend the Minister for Industry. It is true that this subject has caused a lot of anxiety, and I think that the number of hon. Members present today, many of whom I hope wish to speak, will be giving voice to the anxieties that have been felt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-27", "file": "debates1970-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "711e40cc2e0f089f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "METRICATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "It does not mean that the Government will administratively judge the tenders put before it necessarily by saying that they will not take imperial. We will take what we think is right and continue to encourage, in the case of the construction industry, the changeover to metric—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-27a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman were to address that question to my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were used by the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "The figures used by the right hon. Member in his opening remarks indicate that he has been brainwashed by the speeches of his own side of the House. They are certainly not figures that were used from this side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "rgets. They are related to the commitments which we have in defence policy. The relationship of this to the gross national product depends upon the growth of the national product in the years ahead. So far as savings have been achieved, they have been achieved primarily in three ways: first, by most careful scrutiny of the long-term costs; secondly, by the deferment of projects of lesser priority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "epends upon the growth of the national product in the years ahead. So far as savings have been achieved, they have been achieved primarily in three ways: first, by most careful scrutiny of the long-term costs; secondly, by the deferment of projects of lesser priority—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"] As I explained in my statement, the major area is in building and equipment of an ancillary nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0", "colnum": "228", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "l product in the years ahead. So far as savings have been achieved, they have been achieved primarily in three ways: first, by most careful scrutiny of the long-term costs; secondly, by the deferment of projects of lesser priority—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"] As I explained in my statement, the major area is in building and equipment of an ancillary nature. [ Interruption. ] There is, however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.228.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.234.2", "colnum": "234", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Whether any deliberation is possible for the right hon. Gentleman, I do not know, but the way in which he presented the figures today and in which the Chancellor presented them yesterday was inevitably liable to give the public, Parliament and his own colleagues a completely false impression of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are they agreed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "The Government of Nepal are aware of the proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.236.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.238.4", "colnum": "238", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "As a previous Foreign Secretary, the right hon. Gentleman ought to know the arrangement which we have with the Government of Nepal. I think that it is grossly irresponsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "which, if I may say so, was much as I had expected. But it puts the House in the difficulty that there may be large parts of an Order which are approved although, clearly, there will be individual sections disapproved of by individual Members and on which, if they had opportunity, they might be able to carry the House. The Government have put us in this position today by laying the Orders en bloc.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "is of the figures that are now in the Library, such a discrepancy can occur. I therefore ask you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because it could well influence the way in which hon. Members decide on this issue, whether you will not seriously consider the not unreasonable suggestion that for the space of 30 minutes the House should adjourn. Let us have these documents duplicated and then other hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'What about the Whips?'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e without amendment because he believed that that was the right thing to do and that it was the least controversial thing to do, but that did not stop the House debating them. As a Whip, I remember how at night, and through the night —even longer than two days— we debated individual constituencies, and how every hon. Member had an opportunity of debating his own problems and his own constituency.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "(No. 2) Bill, which is in both the Library and the Vote Office, but if they turn to pages 5–12, the First Schedule to the Bill, they will see that in every case where I proposed that there should be a change in the boundaries of a constituency it was included separately in the Bill so that hon. Members had an opportunity of putting down Amendments and voting on them. That is the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Chichester?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " boundaries of a constituency it was included separately in the Bill so that hon. Members had an opportunity of putting down Amendments and voting on them. That is the difference. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman does not know what he is talking about. These were the recommendations of the Boundary Commissioners, starting with Barking and finishing with the City of Westminster, St. Marylebone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-28", "file": "debates1970-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "26bdd3c7a7871135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES (ORDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "y? It was because hon. Members opposite, although they have legitimate interests and legitimate grievances, were suffering also from a severe attack of sour grapes. They remembered what happened a year ago. It is our duty to the people to cut across sectional and trivial and individual interests. I speak as one who constituency will be completely carved up if these recommendations are implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-28a.330.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Battleships?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "Whilst I thank the Minister for his reply, will he bear in mind the defiant posture taken up by Mr. Smith two days ago in his speech about this country? Will he assure the House that our battleships—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.403.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Gentleman now answer the questions I put to him? Are we to take his answer to my hon. Friend as meaning that the total spent year by year by the present Government on the development areas as a whole will be equal to or greater than the amount which we were spending? Will he give that assurance? Secondly, will he answer my other question about whether, apart from the Local Employment Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.414.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY MANUAL WORKERS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is it?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The short answer to all of the right hon. Lady's questions is \"No\". I do not accept, nor do I believe that some of my distinguished predecessors—Ministers of Labour—have accepted, that the only rôle of conciliation is either to press employers to increase offers or to press unions to reduce claims. There is a proper, genuine and valuable rôle of conciliation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.419.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY MANUAL WORKERS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Of what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "eelings and to help the amount on offer to be redistributed in a way more acceptable to the parties. I made it clear to the parties in my statement and from the very beginning of this dispute that my Department's conciliation services were available in those respects and still are. The right hon. Lady should bear in mind that we are dealing here with an offer made by the employers of 14 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY MANUAL WORKERS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY MANUAL WORKERS (STRIKE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—[ Interruption. ] On a new point of order on the same issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.425.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "le when we are dealing with matters so vital to our interests and European interests. What I have indicated is that I believe, and I think my colleagues in the Community accept this, that we should break the back of the negotiations by the middle of next summer, leaving only a few odds and ends, like deciding where we shall sign the Treaty to be cleared up by the 1st January of the following year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ed by the Werner Report are of great importance to us. They are not directly matters for negotiation as such but certainly there will be discussions, and I would imagine discussions in depth, about the implications for the future. The matters which we raise in relation to economic and monetary integration are not for tomorrow, they are matters which will arise when we are members of the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.452.2", "colnum": "452", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "With respect, those are not matters for negotiation. What we are concerned with in the negotiations is how we deal with the problems that will arise on entry, that is the impact effects of our joining the Community. When we are full members of the Community we will have all the opportunities that other members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.452.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.455.5", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e Minister has a firm grip on them. If there are any commuters going home this afternoon who believe what they read in those Socialist newspapers the Evening News and Standard, and are anxious about their fares, let me relieve their anxieties altogether. I am sure that this will send them all home happy tonight. I can tell them that Ted has his firm grip on their fares—as tight as a sailor's knot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.455.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the specific points raised by the hon. Gentleman will receive their answer later in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "go away and look up the facts of coal life. Let him fault any one of these facts. When he sat here in this seat in March of this year he will have remembered the Coal Industry Bill, introduced by his party—then unfortunately governing Britain. It was the end of March that the Bill was brought in. I remind my right hon. Friend that that Bill was brought to the House for Second Reading on 9th April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "with that twin Socialist Measure to nationalise the docks: the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues could not find time for that either. That Measure fell at the end of the Parliament and thereby was lost for ever, sunk into oblivion, where it is today. It is no good the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale grinning. He pointed an accusing finger at my right hon. Friend, who is patently honest in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.486.3", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s I seek. Only the hon. Gentleman considers me narrow. Then the hon. Gentleman says that I am blinkered. Blinkered indeed, when I perceive his own misdeeds in all parts of Britain and the stories he tells to his coal mining fraternity in South Wales and they obediently follow him. Third, the hon. Gentleman accuses me of being suburban when I sit for the lushest of county constituencies in England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.486.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.488.3", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I will arrange to write and publish the letter to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.488.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "why pits in South Wales capable of turning out smokeless fuel efficiently have been shut down deliberately by the Board notwithstanding the opposition of the National Union of Mineworkers which wanted them kept open. Why? Why does not the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale vent his spleen, use all his savage invective of which he is so capable, upon the executives of the National Coal Board in South Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "here the National Coal Board takes hundreds of millions of £s of new investment voted by this House for the purpose of building smokeless solid fuel plants. It failed to deliver the smokeless solid fuel, it closes down the plants that it has, it then supplies duff to France, allows the French to make the briquettes, buys them back at a high premium price, and charges the losses to my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": " but on 29th September, I am sorry to say, he turned it down. At least on one test, the fluctuating returns test—the fluctuating fortunes of the Coal Board are there all right—a case could have been made out. It could immeasurably help its financing, and I had hoped that the Government, instead of turning it down so quickly, would give a more sympathetic response. My fourth reason, Madam Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "per cent. of total capacity. These do not justify the calls for protection which we have had from the benches opposite today. We recognise full well that in Government for the time being we have an obligation to those who work in the industry. We shall discharge this obligation through the means of the Coal Bill the full details of which will be apparent to hon. Members as soon as it is published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-29", "file": "debates1970-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "01c27e71990443aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RIVER TRENT (POLLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. C. Jennings", "preceding_text": " the load of pollution from the 17 sewage stations or works in the Black Country is reduced considerably. For the most part, they are sewage works which, in an area like the Birmingham conurbation or the Black Country, are totally inadequate to take the load. The authorities must be encouraged, cajoled, financed, persuaded, or whatever other methods the Department for the Environment cares to use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-29a.551.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-10-30", "file": "debates1970-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "b6c3e8894b5b799a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-30a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "OIL IN NAVIGABLE WATERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Member the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-30a.610.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-10-30", "file": "debates1970-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "b6c3e8894b5b799a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-30a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL REORGANISATION CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "out reasons and costs and the legislation and proposals that the Government have in mind—that this is just an interruption in the work of the I.R.C. There is a place for an organisation like this. I hope that, in due time, when places in this House are exchanged once again and the Government are back in their rightful places over there and the Opposition back in their places on this side, we wiil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-10-30a.622.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.643.2", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "1964 was a well-balanced one which his party has no mandate to hack about? Will he, in relation to my second Question, in fairness to local authorities, define the method of restricting financial allocation? Is he further aware that more and more local authorities are being pressed by ratepayers for a higher standard of road safety and amenity, which the proposals of the Government are ruling out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.653.6", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that the figures he has just given amount to exactly double the expenditure of the Conservative Government in the previous six years when they looked after Welsh roads?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.653.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.668.1", "colnum": "668", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "I announced on 23rd July that the future of the National Board for Prices and Incomes was being reviewed in the context of a wider examination covering the work of the Monopolies Commission and other relevant bodies. We have now reached the conclusion that the Board should be wound up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.668.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.671.2", "colnum": "671", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Instead of one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "We have not set up four bodies instead of three.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.671.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "The Kindersley Committee disappears; the Plowden Committee disappears. So we have three bodies instead of two. And the third one is dealing with the Armed Services, which were hitherto dealt with by the National Board for Prices and Incomes. So there are three where there were three before, in effect", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.671.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.672.0", "colnum": "672", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "staff, staff whose expertise will be maintained and built on. The staff, incidentally, will probably be between 150 and 200 less than the staff at present of the National Board for Prices and Incomes. So there will be a major reduction in staff. As to the status of the recommendations of the Review Bodies, the recommendations of the bodies will be accepted by the Government unless there are clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.671.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.672.1", "colnum": "672", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Quite—unless there are clear and compelling reasons for not doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.673.2", "colnum": "673", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I would say to the right hon. Gentleman that there has never been a Review Body for low-paid workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.673.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.678.2", "colnum": "678", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "d guidance, voluntarily used, in this country, and that therefore it can be of benefit in gradually bringing about a more rational and fair pay structure between all sorts of workers and professions. But what we must realise is that this improvement in fairness and rationality of our pay structure is something which, in a free society, can only be achieved very gradually, and that to try to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.678.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "NATIONAL BOARD FOR PRICES AND INCOMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ce increases to the Board. They could be reported to individual Ministers, and only a tiny fraction was every reported to the Board. Of course, this whole system just did not work. As we have made clear in previous statements, we are voluntarily maintaining early warning, early notice of price movements in the key sectors, so that the Government are aware of what is happening, and we will attempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Richard Sharples)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Richard Sharples)", "preceding_text": "t very many people travel from one area to another to work, spend a great deal of their time in their place of work and have a considerable stake in that area. If they want to put themselves forward for election to the local authority, they should have the right to do so. As we all know, the fact that they can put themselves forward for election does not mean that they will necessarily be elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "not spend money; live outside where they do not have to be concerned with these problems. That is the Conservative philosophy which we have seen throughout the country in the last couple of years. It is astonishing that that could have been said. This is not the same issue as in parliamentary government, where carpet-bagging is an honourable tradition that we have seen in the House over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Shocking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ilar to the pre-1969 qualification for a non-resident voter, but that provision at least required a minimum annual value of £10. There is no provision in the Bill regarding joint occupation, so that, I am advised, any number of men and women could, presumably, join together and rent a small property and, provided that they used it for some purpose, they would all be entitled to stand for election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.698.1", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does that never happen in the Tory Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "ve. I hope that the hon. Gentleman does not imagine that, just because people vote like sheep in Leeds, South, they do the same in the rest of the country. We have an example in the House now. The hon. Gentleman the Member for Merthyr Tydvil (Mr. S. O. Davies) was rejected by the Labour Party for nomination but he stood at the election on 18th June and defeated the official Labour Party candidate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "eport said also, in paragraph 424: many may have just as much interest in the area in which they work as in the area in which they live, and this should be recognised; the effect of the law is to exclude some people who might be valuable candidates for election to local authorities, particularly in urban areas. That was the opinion expressed in the Maud Report, which, of course, was non-political.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.700.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.703.2", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "I have played bridge with the hon. and learned Gentleman, and I can only say that that intervention was of about the standard of his bridge. What this question really boils down to is, does the party opposite really believe in democracy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.703.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are the same thing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I should like to point out to my colleague from Bristol that the candidate concerned was standing not for the Conservative Party but for the Citizen Party in Bristol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "Would not the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the cardinal characteristics of the successful councillor is his ready availability and accessibility to those whom he represents? Would he not also agree that it is infinitely more difficult for someone who does not reside within a Borough to be approached, particularly at critical times like weekends? I speak with some authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.735.3", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamling", "preceding_text": "-Maud Report? This is why the Government are doing nothing about that report. They know that the rank and file of the Tory Party does not want it. So much for their respect for Reports. They are always telling us that these reports are prepared after a great deal or hard work by unprejudiced and impartial people. Not Redcliffe-Maud—that is one report which the Tory Government will never implement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.735.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "All I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ation applies in Bristol and other places—there have been many examples of councillors who live much nearer their wards than those who would be entitled to sit for the wards under the old Bill. It is a nonsense which it is time we cleared up. I knew an alderman who for many years represented his ward on the Northampton County Borough Council. He had two loves in his life. One was his council work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-02", "file": "debates1970-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "2425e68103354e52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.767.0", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT (QUALI FICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "r some time of the County Borough of Northampton. He built a house just outside the borough limits and into this house at considerable expense he built a church organ. This, of course, hon. Members will realise, was not an easy house to leave, but when the Labour Government brought in their rule, he either had to leave his house with its built-in organ and its music or he had to leave the council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-02a.767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.823.13", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "te of the fact that there will be a cut of 6 per cent. in income tax relief from 1st April next, owner-occupiers will breathe a sigh of relief that they do not have to go through a means test like their unfortunate brethren in council houses before they qualify for income tax relief subsidy? Is he also aware that his answer will cause a great deal of heart-searching on the part of council tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.823.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.829.2", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "In money terms, the regional differential which exists under the totality of the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.829.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It means this is what the Council decided. I am simply reporting to the House what the Council decided, which I understand to mean its original terms of reference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.846.6", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Referring to the right hon. Gentleman's previous answer, it was clear last Tuesday that the Chancellor of the Exchequer regarded the Prime Minister as having gone back on his statement of 16th June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.846.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor in no way regarded Her Majesty's Government as having gone back on that statement. We said that we would deal directly with public sector prices, and where we thought it justifiable to do so, and after referring them to the consumer councils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.847.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.847.3", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have never used the words \"at a stroke\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN REGION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Publish it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When we were considering the best inducements to offer people to go to the development areas we took into account all the information that was available to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "r the figure is, will be adequate to pay for comprehensive rent rebate schemes to which he has referred, and also for slum clearance, for urban renewal, and for special high cost problems of places like London? The answer is that it will not, but which one will take the rap? The previous Government did a great deal, through the option mortgage scheme, to help owner-occupiers and we all wish to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": " landlord or the profiteering landlord at a time when subsidies are being cut to councils with the most appalling housing problems. Will not this once again add a large number of people to those who are already subject to means tests, and will the Minister tell us now how many of our fellow citizens are subject to how many separate rebates and means tests? Is this process to continue indefinitely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.861.2", "colnum": "861", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am talking about Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.861.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.862.4", "colnum": "862", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The figure of 30 per cent. is totally untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.862.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend refrain from following hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite into a campaign about bad and profiteering landlords? Will he remember that the vast majority of landlords are small individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "HOUSING FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend refrain from following hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite into a campaign about bad and profiteering landlords? Will he remember that the vast majority of landlords are small individuals—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—they are small men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "CENTRAL GOVERNMENT (REORGANISATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "t will work with Ministers collectively. How long will that be true? I believe that by an inevitable process we shall find the Central Policy Review Staff coming under the control of the Prime Minister. I cannot see all Ministers having equal access to this body. Forces will inevitably dictate that this body should come under the personal control of the Prime Minister. I have no objection to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "MINISTERS OF THE CROWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hen- don.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "cation service. It is true that they published these proposals in their General Election manifesto in Wales, and only in Wales. To that extent it was an issue. The Minister of State spoke on the subject—I read the report in the Western Mail —and I spoke on it myself. The Secretary of State did not say a word in the General Election campaign about it. We understand that he was occupied in Hounslow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1017.1", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "MINISTERS OF THE CROWN", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "de to, say, an increase in aid to Tanzania, which in developmental terms justified a considerable amount of aid, and aid to Malawi which in developmental terms has had a great deal of budgetary support and to whom we were looking to find its own feet over the years. Any Foreign Secretary is bound to have in his mind in such a clear-cut case foreign policy attitudes as well as development criteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1017.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "MINISTERS OF THE CROWN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wood", "preceding_text": "That is true, but the point I was making was that if the Minister for Overseas Development cannot convince his right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary he is not likely to convince the Cabinet. That is the reality of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1032.4", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "e grounds. But when the last Government increased the tax-free allowance of the peers of the Realm, to which I objected, they did not at the same time cut the social welfare benefits of the poorer sections. I cannot fathom why a person on £9,800 a year is entitled to receive not only an increase but a retrospective increase and an anticipatory increase. We are all fed up with the dustmen's strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1032.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-03", "file": "debates1970-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "ec7a800656021ddb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "ose the Motions and that they will go through on the nod. My hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Mr. Hugh Jenkins) challenged hon. Members opposite to go into the Division Lobby on the previous Motion. I now challenge hon. Members on this side, even on my own Front Bench, to tell against this Motion. If they will, I am quite willing to divide the House on it. I am doing this to help the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-03a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1062.7", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend pointed out, we have already taken a number of steps to that end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1062.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1077.5", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "If the members of the Committee would like to gather together after the report has been published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1077.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1078.6", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "of £200 million, presumably there is a floor and a ceiling for the Scottish figures. May we have those figures? The Secretary of State rejected the suggestion from one of my hon. Friends that what the Government are doing would mean rents of up to 30 per cent. of income. Will the right hon. Gentleman say what figure he has in mind as a proportion of income which should be charged in rent? Further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1078.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1078.6", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "f State rejected the suggestion from one of my hon. Friends that what the Government are doing would mean rents of up to 30 per cent. of income. Will the right hon. Gentleman say what figure he has in mind as a proportion of income which should be charged in rent? Further—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] My second Question is very different from the first. Since the Government's whole policy On prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1078.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1079.4", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "I have said that this must be a matter for discussion with the local authorities. I have no set views in my mind until I have been able to discuss it with them. I come now to the hon. Gentleman's third point, which he had forgotten. He asked what was fair and what was not fair. This is something which we shall discover by discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1079.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Anthony Barber)", "preceding_text": "to me at the end of my statement the other day and about which there has been some comment in the Press. It is true that in arriving at the figure of £329 million, which is shown in the White Paper as the net savings in 1971–72, we took account of some £125 million attributed to a further short fall in expenditure now expected for the year for public authorities and nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "count and go on earning it, not necessarily in every quarter, but as a sustained average over reasonable periods. We need to build this substantial surplus on current account to build up our reserves and to maintain an appropriate rate of repayment of the very large medium and short-term debts which we inherited from the previous Administration and which totalled £1,461 million at the end of June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Not necessarily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ground of a consistent and responsible fiscal and monetary policy, and I have repeatedly made the position of Her Majesty's Government clear. In the private sector, the actual negotiations about wage settlements are the responsibility of management and unions, but under no circumstances will the Government encourage or connive at inflationary settlements for the sake of short-term peace and quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " wage settlements are the responsibility of management and unions, but under no circumstances will the Government encourage or connive at inflationary settlements for the sake of short-term peace and quiet. [ Interruption. ] In the public sector, the Government have a special responsibility and we shall use all our influence against settlements which we believe to be against the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ment have a special responsibility and we shall use all our influence against settlements which we believe to be against the national interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It has been suggested that the increases in social service charges will add to inflationary pressures. The fact is that quite apart from the Measures which I announced last week—which will, on balance, benefit the lowest paid workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "gainst the national interest. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It has been suggested that the increases in social service charges will add to inflationary pressures. The fact is that quite apart from the Measures which I announced last week—which will, on balance, benefit the lowest paid workers. [ Laughter. ] This is true, and if hon. Gentlemen opposite will wait a moment I will give some instances of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "rue, and if hon. Gentlemen opposite will wait a moment I will give some instances of this. [ Interruption. ] If they wish to hear the facts I will give them. If they simply wish to shout the country will draw its own conclusion. I do not believe that, in practice, the measures which I announced last week, as far as charges are concerned, when one takes into account the other side of the coin, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ch are reached. The House will recall that I said last Tuesday that none of the new or increased charges would come into effect before April of next year. Consider the position between now and not next April but April, 1972. Between now and then the effect of the new or increased social service charges and levy schemes for agriculture will be to increase the cost of living by less than 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It is no good the right hon. Gentleman shouting \"Answer\" as I am about to give him one. If he will consult his two right hon. Friends who were at the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Stechford and the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), they will advise him that it would be utterly ridiculous for any Chancellor to give such an assurance at this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "st (Mr. Callaghan), they will advise him that it would be utterly ridiculous for any Chancellor to give such an assurance at this stage. [ Interruption. ] The Leader of the Opposition is laughing. That is because in his heart he is ashamed of the excess of taxation which was piled on the consumer—nearly £3,000 million of increased taxes—under his Administration. That was the achievement of Labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It got 55 per cent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "putes which are now in the news. Take, first, the miners' dispute. The miners were offered an increase of just under 10 per cent., the largest increase ever offered to miners by the National Coal Board. The executive of the National Union of Mineworkers rejected it and called for a strike. The matter went to the ballot, but the executive of the N.U.M. did not get the necessary two-thirds majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have a great deal to say and I do not want to give way too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I will give some facts shortly about the effect on people in that position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " new system of exemptions, remissions and refunds—I come to the sort of case raised by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot)—is that a typical family with two children, with an income of right up to £1,000 a year—the hon. Member mentioned £1,000 a year—will not have to pay any of the increased charges for school meals, prescriptions charges or health charges which I announced last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " by the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot)—is that a typical family with two children, with an income of right up to £1,000 a year—the hon. Member mentioned £1,000 a year—will not have to pay any of the increased charges for school meals, prescriptions charges or health charges which I announced last week. [ Interruption. ] It is important that right hon. and hon. Members, on both sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1101.2", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I made the position clear, and I will repeat it if the hon. Member did not hear it. Obviously, somebody with two children and an income of £1,000 a year and a large amount of capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1102.3", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. Gentleman has referred especially to the mining areas. He is under an obligation to give way to hon. Members representing those areas to challenge him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1102.6", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "No, I am not giving way. I have given way on a number of occasions. I answered many questions the other day for an hour and a quarter following my statement. In deference to the right hon. Gentleman who is to follow me, I should get on. I have made the position clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1102.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "I rise on a point of order, Mr. Speaker, as a genuine miner who does not come from the silly, intellectual atmosphere in which some hon. Members opposite were brought up. There are 27 of us who represent mining constituencies. The right hon. Gentleman has referred specifically to miners but refuses to give way to anyone representing a mining constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1103.6", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then why the promise?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ed why we would not increase family allowances with a matching clawback. I will tell the House. I was asked a number of questions about this the other day, and of course, in answer to questions one could not elaborate very easily. I will tell the House, because naturally the proposal to increase family allowances and to match them with clawback was the first thing we looked at when we took office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1103.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Shirley Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said just now that anybody who was earning £20 a week or less would not pay increased charges for school dinners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1104.3", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "Yes, he did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1105.1", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member is right to wage political battle, but I hope that he will not bring HANSARD—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member should withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1105.8", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Would not the commonsense way of clearing up this difficult situation be for the right hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer to repeat his original statement and to allow himself to be briefly questioned on that statement and clear the matter up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1105.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I did say in answer to an intervention, and apologised to the House that I made a mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to go into any further details. I can tell the Prime Minister who is getting up", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1107.3", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. I will try to help him here, too—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1107.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1112.3", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1112.9", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The ultimate aim of our policy is to achieve a faster rate of economic growth, a faster rise in the living standards of the British people and the ability of our nation to afford greater expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1112.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "The ultimate aim of our policy is to achieve a faster rate of economic growth, a faster rise in the living standards of the British people and the ability of our nation to afford greater expenditure. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If hon. Gentlemen opposite want me to answer, I have made inquiries and I am told that no official of mine has been up to HANSARD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1112.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Further to the points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.5", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Would it not be right for the House to accept them? If the right hon. Gentleman wants to make further inquiries about anything that has been said he will do so and I am certain he will tell the House if there is anything untoward to report. But at this stage we must accept what he has said. Surely it is a matter of policy because we want to hear the remainder of the right hon. Gentleman's speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.6", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He was doing so well.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ainder of the right hon. Gentleman's speech. [ Interruption. ] I am being quite serious. If there are allegations there is adequate machinery in this House for you, Mr. Speaker, since you are charged by the House with supervision of debates, to see whether any documents are ever interfered with. Meanwhile, we must accept the right hon. Gentleman's statement and allow him to get on with his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.7", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "owth, output in Britain rose by under 10 per cent., compared with over 20 per cent. in the O.E.C.D. countries as a whole. If Britain had achieved the same rate of growth as the other countries of Europe and North America, our national income today would be some £4,000 million a year higher than it is. While Britain is bottom of the league for economic growth, we are top of the League for taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.7", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": " compared with over 20 per cent. in the O.E.C.D. countries as a whole. If Britain had achieved the same rate of growth as the other countries of Europe and North America, our national income today would be some £4,000 million a year higher than it is. While Britain is bottom of the league for economic growth, we are top of the League for taxation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Untrue.\"] It is absolutely true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ay would be some £4,000 million a year higher than it is. While Britain is bottom of the league for economic growth, we are top of the League for taxation. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Untrue.\"] It is absolutely true. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps, Mr. Speaker, this would be an appropriate moment to inform you that I have just been told that no member of my staff has been in touch with HANSARD, as was suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1113.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have had a message that no member of my staff has telephoned HANSARD. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will now withdraw his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1115.6", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "What I said to the House on a point of order was the absolute truth and I therefore have nothing to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1115.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Financial Secretary to go up to the Deputy Editor of HANSARD, who was referred to, and inquire whether any representations had been made on my behalf, either in person or by telephone. I am told that inquiries were made round the office and my information, which has just been brought to me by my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary, is that there is no truth whatever in the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1116.3", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw. Make him withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I must ask the hon. Member for Bolsover to accept the word of the right hon. Gentleman, which he has made clear. This can easily be done by the hon. Member. The right hon. Gentleman has made a categoric statement in the House which the hon. Gentleman must accept. The least he can do is that. Mr. Skinner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "ll accept that and that we may get on. I repeat what I was saying immediately before this fracas arose—that while Britain is bottom of the league for economic growth, we are top of the league for taxation. I now give some examples. Except for Sweden and Denmark, taxation represents a higher proportion of the gross national product in Britain than in any other advanced country. Taxation in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "tleman was led for some time concerned his statement, and I say at once that I accept what he said about that without question. If anything is to be looked at, you will do that, Mr. Speaker. That was not his fault, but another of the byways down which he was drawn for getting on for quarter of an hour was directly due to the fact that it was quite clear that he did not understand his own measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1121.0", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "It might be convenient if I intervened at this point on the question of defence. The position is that by 1974–75 there will be a saving in real terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "presumably, he decided not to have it at all. He went on to talk about hearts and heads and of there being no necessary conflict between the two. What emerges increasingly clearly when one looks at last Tuesday's measures, at the document of 16th June, and at the Prime Minister's handling of the South African arms issue, is that he has the worst combination of the lot, a cold heart and a hot head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Settled at any cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "r direct taxation cuts handled in such a way as to give more help to those already much better off. This is typical of the Government's whole approach in this package, a package directed to the exacerbation, not the solution, of nearly every problem we face We need to improve the industrial climate, and to get the council workers' strike and the coalfield strike settled, to take only two examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What percentage does the right hon. Gentleman suggest?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "'s whole approach in this package, a package directed to the exacerbation, not the solution, of nearly every problem we face We need to improve the industrial climate, and to get the council workers' strike and the coalfield strike settled, to take only two examples. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Settled at any cost?\"] Settled on reasonable terms. But does the Chancellor for a moment believe that his package—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "silence on their own. Does the Chancellor for a moment believe that his package, de- liberately making worse off nearly all those affected, will help in either of those directions? I come now to investment, vital to future growth and employment prospects. Clearly, we need to improve the level of industrial investment, which is now tailing off pretty seriously after a modest post-devaluation spurt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "e are ultimately concerned with social justice, although possibly we may define our objectives in slightly different terms. I ask: what kind of social justice is there in the present fiscal system? I will give one example in the hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be able to take it up more fully in his next Budget. The other day I was approached in my constituency by an unmarried lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "and Royton—as, it is fair to say, he has done consistently in the past—has urged us to take a great leap forward out of the inflationary pressures and to go for growth and believe that thereby we will cure the inflationary problem. The rate of inflation is far too acute for that today. The underlying rate of inflation is, I suppose, about 11 per cent. per annum, and it is continuing to accelerate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1208.0", "colnum": "1208", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "2013;73 Conservative school building programme is worth exactly the same amount. The difference is as follows. Certainly the Secretary of State for Education and Science is increasing expenditure on improvements by £21 million, but what has not been made clear to the House is that the right hon. Lady is reducing expenditure on basic needs by £30½ million. So much for additional expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "y to bring about a happy and more fruitful situation for our country. The measures announced by my right hon. Friend have provoked the most intense discussion. They have been analysed in detail and in specifics, and each has fallen foul of one comment and received another's blessing. But what I find on the whole surprising is that the total strategy of his measures has escaped any serious comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": ". They constitute a first step towards a new condition in the development of this country's life, and one in which this party believes profoundly. We believe that the essential need of the country is to gear its policies to the great majority of people, who are not lame ducks, who do not need a hand, who are quite capable of looking after their own interests and only demand to be allowed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1212.11", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the right hon. Gentleman does not give way the hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Michael Foot) must resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1212.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1212.12", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "There has been intense discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1212.12"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1213.4", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "They are decadent, too.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I have given way on several occasions. What is true of people is true no less of businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1213.6", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. It is a rule under the proceedings of this House that Members should not read from speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1213.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1213.8", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is exactly a point of order. Since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1213.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-04", "file": "debates1970-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "8af48cceac2fd25c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1217.9", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "existed before. Of course it does—in this sense, that that which existed before was an excessive means of attaining an entirely inadequate objective. It reminds me of trying to put the cream in your coffee by spraying a jugful of cream around the room in the dark. The hon. Lady the Member for Hitchin was very anxious that I should reply to some of the points raised during the course of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-04a.1217.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1242.8", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. I knew his visit was private but I did not know the cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1242.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "Although I agree that the Home Secretary is right in that comment, may I ask him to agree that there are evil influences at work on both sides? Does he accept that while the present state of affairs, as revealed yesterday by the Chief of Police in Northern Ireland, remains, and while no action has been taken against the people who were involved in Samuel Devenney's death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1245.4", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that this decision is causing very great public concern in academic circles outside this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1245.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "Clearly, I cannot publish what it is not in the national interest to publish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "On anything.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "In view of the continued absence of the Secretary of State for Scotland from the House, would the right hon. Gentleman arrange for him to make a statement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1267.3", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Earlier this afternoon I noticed the Leader of the Opposition and one or two of his right hon. Friends muttering, \"Oh, not another statement!\" I think the hon. Member ought to discuss with his right hon. Friends the possibility of someone making a statement about nothing in particular. As for the Secretary of State for Scotland, he has been constantly in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1269.5", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since the former Chairman of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1269.6", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Whatever my right hon. Friend the Chancellor may have said about his job, he certainly made a very considerable success of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1269.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1269.6", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Whatever my right hon. Friend the Chancellor may have said about his job, he certainly made a very considerable success of it—[ interruption .]—as the right hon. Gentleman was perhaps one of the first to know. As for the Secretary of State for Wales, he is doing both jobs with great success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1269.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ", to speak in the debate today. After all, he spoke this morning to the Institute of Directors He found time for that. I must remind him that he is accountable to this House as well. One reason why the Prime Minister should be speaking in this debate is that it is fundamentally about the confidence trick which he perpetrated last June. He will recall how after the Selsdon Park conference I warned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "s and the tenants who suffered under the old Tory Rent Act, and for the health services, and education. The right hon. Gentleman last spring was never wanting in instant pronouncements proclaiming that that was the last thing they intended. It is true also that during the Election campaign the hardline Selsdon theme was muted. No one could have been more ingratiating than the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ress got a copy—and I do not complain about that. What the right hon. Gentleman is now trying to say is that he did not in that sentence say: at one stroke to reduce prices. He wants to create the impression that he never said anything about reducing prices, but that he spoke about reducing the rises in prices. Does he still maintain that fiction that he did not say anything about reducing prices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Get on.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "y after discussion with the Chancellor of the Exchequer that morning.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 7th July, 1970; Vol. 803, c. 518.] That is all right; he accepts that. In that case, perhaps he will have another look at the terms of the letter he sent me. Did he say at one stroke a phrase which he denied to the certain knowledge of 400 Members of Parliament on Tuesday? Did he use the phrase reduce prices\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hurry up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": ",\"— He said that this was to be done immediately, but we have heard nothing about it being done immediately— and by taking a firm grip on public sector prices and charges such as coal, steel, gas, electricity, transport charges and postal charges. This would, at a stroke, reduce the rise in prices… I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman will now deny that those were the words he used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " manifesto because, to quote his words, … it might lose us votes. He said that when he was asked why there was no commitment in the manifesto to a value-added tax, and went on to say that they would listen to the Treasury when they got in. That was the point. However, the right hon. Gentleman did not sack him. I gather that, having been promoted, he is happily at work in the Cabinet Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e Chancellor and the Prime Minister are at one in denying the Prime Minister's statement last February that S.E.T. will be not reduced but abolished in the first Budget. The right hon. Gentleman said that last February. I have given the facts and the quotation to the House. I do not want to weary the House by giving it again. If the right hon. Gentleman does not agree, I will gladly give it again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He is a twister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "y it on a certain television programme. I will not weary the House by giving it again, unless he wants me to. If he continues to deny that he said it, he must make it clear and I will see that the House has it. I have it here if the House wants it. He said it. I have given the evidence to the House. He has had four months to rebut what I then said to the House. He has not done so, and we know why.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "yesterday to be coming before Christmas. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will give us a guarantee that it will not rise further on its way to 3s. Price control of bread has gone now under this Government. But what about the 1s. minimum fare? That was inflicted in urban transport on London Underground travellers in August of this year, when the right hon. Gentleman had been in office just a month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "e are in such a hurry to wind up the National Board for Prices and Incomes. On postal charges, again we did not accept the Post Office Board's proposals and stated in this House, as the record shows, that we saw no justification for them. We said that they must be referred to the National Board for Prices and Incomes. The Post Office raised them without any Government authority. It jumped the gun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.2", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "he National Board for Prices and Incomes. On postal charges, again we did not accept the Post Office Board's proposals and stated in this House, as the record shows, that we saw no justification for them. We said that they must be referred to the National Board for Prices and Incomes. The Post Office raised them without any Government authority. It jumped the gun—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and we said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1281.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " they have an income policy—not incomes but wages, particularly the wages of the lower paid. On the very day that he made his pledge on family allowances, the right hon. Gentleman attacked the Labour Government for not giving 30 per cent. to the doctors—and he ratted on that one as well. He has now declared war on wages in the public sector. It is true that his policy has not been very consistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "rstand the Government's behaviour over wages and industrial negotiations. In July we had a totally unnecessary dock strike and state of national emergency. There could have been the same settlement without a strike, but the strike happened because of the stiff-necked attitude of the Prime Minister, for it prevented him from intervening to break a procedural deadlock which it was his duty to break.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ter stronger unions from pressing their claims and all would be well. It would be masters and men in harmony—the old Tory philosophy. But there had to be a showdown. They were hoping it would be the miners or the railwaymen, but the timetable slipped and it had to be the public employees. We have had the showdown—bravery and courage—not on the beaches this time but in the sewers and garbage heaps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "here Government conciliation officers were withheld, Sir Jack Scamp was called in. I was wondering whether it is part of the Prime Minister's policy to examine what things now done by Government should be performed by private enterprise. Certainly Sir Jack Scamp has shown that he can do it better than the Prime Minister. The reason, of course, is that Sir Jack Scamp wanted to achieve a settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " is being done—this applies not only to industrial relations but to a very wide sphere—is just and fair. I wonder if the right hon. Gentleman has thought what would happen if the industrial workers decided to acquiesce in his legislation—I do not think that they will—and simply worked to rule? That could do more damage than all the strikes imaginable. The Leader of the Opposition has an obsession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "acquiesce in his legislation—I do not think that they will—and simply worked to rule? That could do more damage than all the strikes imaginable. The Leader of the Opposition has an obsession—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—I meant to say the Prime Minister is obsessed. In making this mistake I am in harmony with his right hon. Friends, many of whom seem to believe that I am still the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "is obsession with bankruptcies. Week by week we read that what is required is a squeeze so tight that it results in the spectacular bankruptcy of a very large firm. Last week one Conservative newspaper was speculating which large firm would go—would it be British Leyland, Cammell Laird or Rolls-Royce? Apparently the theory is that one major firm must go into bankruptcy pour encourager les autres .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "vate profit of those who seek their reward by exploiting society. That is the essence of their policy, but I was even more worried—I had to apologise to the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry last night for not being able to return in time to hear all of his speech. But the philosophy which he enunciated last night comprised extraordinary strictures about the lame ducks of British industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1289.1", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "ks of British industry—[ Interruption .]—not fear but the hope of profit would lead them to increased efficiency and increased profit. Now we are told that it is bankruptcies that will drive them into efficiency. The Secretary of State might have been better advised in his homilies on competition to tell us about things which he really knows; for example, how competition works in the oil industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I did make a mistake. I meant less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.2", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I do not want to tell the hon. Gentleman. He has made the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "All I can say on the matter is that studies I have seen have shown that a number have risen less in public industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " will tell the right hon. Gentleman, and also the Prime Minister, where his policies will lead. Is he prepared to face up to the bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce or British Leyland or will he not find that he himself, not I.R.C. because it will have gone, will have to find the money? Perhaps he has already made up his mind that come what may, whoever may be involved, the Government will harden its heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "st tell us what the real position is. Perhaps he will one day when he summons up courage to address the House. But there has been a spate of speculation, which I do not believe entirely originated in the fertile minds of financial journalists, that the right hon. Gentleman wants public sector prices to rise more than they have as well as private sector prices. This seems to be what we are reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "opposite a certain vicarious squirming for the right hon. Gentleman, I apologise. But the Chancellor's package, as my right hon. Friend made clear yesterday, is an exercise in fiscal regression—I will not argue that again, because he gave the facts and figures—the more you have, the more you get. If you are at the very bottom of the scale, there will be a public relations exercise for your relief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1296.0", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why is the right hon. Gentleman writing his memoirs?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " backs on the creation of a fair and just society in which it is possible to make this appeal; they are actively encouraging the doctrine of greed and self-interest in every speech that they make which will make such an appeal impossible. The philosophy of this Government is not even, to use a familiar American expression, one of shared greed; it is a doctrine of unfairly selectively shared greed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1296.1", "colnum": "1296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am writing a short history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1296.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall-Davis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall-Davis", "preceding_text": "sued by the last Government. It stems also to a considerable extent from the abdication of responsibility by the then Prime Minister and his colleagues when, either because they were not prepared to stand up for what they believed to be right or, worse, for reasons of electoral advantage, they let wages rip and almost encouraged this to be the case. This summer inflation was almost out of control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hall-Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hall-Davis", "preceding_text": "that his theories will not work. But experience has shown that the policies of right hon. and hon. Members opposite would not and did not work. They did not work to secure economic growth. They did not give us scope for ameliorating poverty and improving the critical elements of social provision which all knew to be necessary. New policies are being followed now. As a result, I have no confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "o the rostrum and complaining that people who are now earning decent incomes are now being supported by the State, living in council houses, and going to Spain for holidays. There was deliberate hatred that so many working people have been somewhat better off in recent years—particularly under a Labour Government. But even before that there had been a growing improvement in the standard of living—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1367.1", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "le get something to which they are not entitled than that any one family should go without. We should so try to organise matters that society treats all people the same and then afterwards we can try to do something about the lame ducks. With their proposals the Government will only ensure that families in need will go without and that the only people who will apply will be those with tough hides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "nitiative.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 17th April, 1961; Vol. 638, c. 819.] and therefore he must take steps to correct that substantial disincentive in order that those in a position of responsibility in our national life should be able to release those springs of energy which were going to transform the country. When the right hon. and learned Gentleman raised the surtax limit from£2,000 a year to£5,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1376.4", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No. What I am attacking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1378.3", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That will not do. I shall say now what I have to say about him. He has been absent from the House through the whole of these two days, except for the opening and closing speeches. He made no serious reply to the debate last night; instead, he made a brutal and insensitive speech. He is a new Member, and no one wants to hound a new Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1378.3", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ousins! It does not lie in the mouths of hon. Members opposite to talk about hounding a new Minister. It is well known to the House that a new Minister has a special obligation to come to the House and learn what it is all about. If the right hon. Member had done so we might not have had the kind of insensitive speech that we had last night from him. He has listened to none of our comments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1378.3", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ion should be taken to bring it down. There are more men out of work in this country, as the hon. Member for Leek (Mr. Knox) said yesterday in what I thought was an excellent speech, than we should tolerate. The Chancellor has a big balance of payments surplus, and this brings me to the next point I wish to make, which is that there is a four-sided quadrilateral which every Chancellor must tackle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Foreign Secretary would agree with me. The balance between having a healthy balance of payments, getting a reasonable rate of growth, keeping unemployment low and keeping stable prices should be maintained. We know, of course, that the Government have deserted the last objective. Indeed, they have thrown it overboard. They do not want stable prices but price increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "nd gas industries, that fuel prices will not rise. The Government have deserted the stable prices factor, but what about the other three? I believe that the level of unemployment in Britain is such—I agree that the cushion can be rapidly snatched away—that, in view of the balance of payments surplus, the Chancellor could afford to take a somewhat greater risk in order to put more men back at work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1381.1", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "is at such a level—I accept that it has remained at this level for a considerable period—that the time has come when the right hon. Gentleman should have his priorities a little differently arranged. I therefore press him to put more men back at work, as he knows it would be possible to do. I come to the deliberate decision of the Government to help the better-off at the expense of the lower-paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1381.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "for dental charges from 21 to 18 and our proposal to move towards a proportionate charge for prescriptions, both of which changes will need legislation, we are making no changes in the substance of the charges. The items charged under Labour remain charged under the Conservative Administration. Moreover, we are not cutting the exemptions. The exemptions applied by Labour apply under our proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1386.1", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I am glad that hon. Members opposite appreciate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and are pleased to see him present in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Minister cannot put it down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " with a certain incredulity last evening. I confess that I take a little blame on myself for the lack of knowledge which the House had about the effect of the exemptions. A Question has been answered today, and will appear in HANSARD tomorrow morning, spelling out all the details. I think that it was my fault that I did not put it down a couple of days ago so that the House would have the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Elfed Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Elfed Davies", "preceding_text": "On a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.5", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gross or net?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "s. I take, for instance, the charges for teeth and eye treatment. A family with three children will be totally exempt—the children are exempt anyway—on an income up to almost£1,200 a year, and with two children up to nearly£1,100 a year. Now, prescription charges. The children are automatically exempt. A man and wife and three children will be exempt up to an income of about£1,150 or£1,175 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.5", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " that figure is taken, there is a£2 disregard for any wife's earnings. Thus, the scale and number of exemptions is, I think, far more extensive than the House realises. I should explain, also, that there is to be a ceiling on any potential dental charges, and also when we move to a proportionate charge for prescriptions. The maximum dental charge will not be more than£10 for a course of treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1387.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You promised it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "st: that I cannot deny. We shall seek to simplify the test. The F.I.S. test will entitle anyone eligible automatically to free prescriptions, and we shall try to arrange that it shall be a passport to exemptions from other charges. It is true that when we were the Opposition we expressed our preference for an increase in family allowances with clawback as our first step in tackling family poverty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1388.0", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ll be a passport to exemptions from other charges. It is true that when we were the Opposition we expressed our preference for an increase in family allowances with clawback as our first step in tackling family poverty. [HON. MEMBERS: \"You promised it.\"] No, we expressed our preference. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said—I have seen the letter—that it seemed to him at the time that this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1388.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.2", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Fizz! [ Laughter .]", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "But now that we look at it with the greater facts available to the Government, we prefer \"FIS\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.2", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Fizz!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.4", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Look behind!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I do not know why hon. Members find this laughable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.6", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "over, the Bill will bring help to households with one child, which a family allowance increase would not have done. The Bill is a first step in our programme for tackling family poverty. We only wish—and I agree with the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East—that we could get it into payment before August. But the administrative job—and we tried our best to reduce it—makes this the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.10", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ure for tenants of local authorities and of private dwellings means, that, except for households living in furnished accommodation—and that represents about one-sixth of the total private rented accommodation sector—there will be rent allowances perhaps 18 months to two years from now for the very poorest households. Therefore, this is a second step in the relief of family poverty which all those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1389.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1390.3", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The three waiting days is simply adopting a proposal put forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1390.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1391.9", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Send him back.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " Friend does not claim that 6d. off the standard rate is enough in itself to transform the country's prospects. But it is a first step, it is a sign of hope. The right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East mocks any idea of incentives. We do not agree. If we can galvanise the performance of management, men and investors we shall benefit everyone. We desperately need the best talents in our industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1391.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-05", "file": "debates1970-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "9b73a0c7e379acf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1391.11", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE AND TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "limit earning about£27 or£28 a week would have to pay possibly 10s. a week in extra charges. Let us take his figure. What proportion does that represent of the net increase in earnings that that household will have had in the current year? It will be a quarter or a third. The Leader of the Opposition and the right hon. Member for Stechford have labelled my right hon. Friend's statement \"divisive\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-05a.1391.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1421.6", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY MANUAL WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman would call it a lesson, one is that the Government will remain steadfast on the policy that they have already put forward. Nobody ever expected that this would be an easy victory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1422.4", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY MANUAL WORKERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan", "preceding_text": "The answer to the first two parts of that supplementary question, about the sort of conciliation, is that the attitude of my right hon. Friend towards conciliation in this matter was entirely responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "ANGUILLA (WOODING COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "—for all the work that they have put into this report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1425.7", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "ANGUILLA (WOODING COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of the report which my right hon. Friend is making available in the Vote Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1425.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1425.8", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "ANGUILLA (WOODING COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of the report which my right hon. Friend is making available in the Vote Office. [ Interruption. ] Have I misunderstood what is happening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1425.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "ANGUILLA (WOODING COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "I am sorry if the right hon. Gentleman feels that there has been any discourtesy in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "ANGUILLA (WOODING COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that not all of us are so rough on him for what has taken place? Quite a lot of us have good memories of how statements were made and supplementary questions had to be asked when for long periods of time we did not have copies of the statement before us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-06", "file": "debates1970-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f333c1e75fbf6261", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1429.1", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "ANGUILLA (WOODING COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that not all of us are so rough on him for what has taken place? Quite a lot of us have good memories of how statements were made and supplementary questions had to be asked when for long periods of time we did not have copies of the statement before us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"]—during the strikes, but I am not answering questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-06a.1429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-09", "file": "debates1970-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "49d34edc9bfe53e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "sides of industry? Would he agree that the policy of the previous Administration in this context was not only economically wise and embraced the ethic of the Good Samaritan but was approved by all sections of industry? Should not he adopt the measures of the Labour Government in this connection and propose to relieve himself of some of the disingenuous and, indeed, vulgar and contemptible remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.2.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-09", "file": "debates1970-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "49d34edc9bfe53e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I am sorry, but I hope that the hon. Gentleman will consider first the initial reply he gave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.20.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-09", "file": "debates1970-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "49d34edc9bfe53e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "imself a year ago, insuperable, obstacles which they have raised to any agreement on the basis of the five principles. The question we must ask ourselves is why, in this situation, is Mr. Smith apparently willing at least to talk about talks. I am sure the right hon. Gentleman the Foreign Secretary was right in suggesting that the main reason is that sanc tions are now beginning to bite seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-09", "file": "debates1970-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "49d34edc9bfe53e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Judd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Judd", "preceding_text": "ught the matter through sufficiently well to know what one will do if the negotiations do not work out. If we say that we are not anticipating failure then, whether or not we intend it, that statement will be interpreted by millions of people throughout the African Continent to mean that we are putting a premium on coming to terms, on any face-saving basis possible, with the illegal régime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-09", "file": "debates1970-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "49d34edc9bfe53e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Judd", "preceding_text": "e struggle. In the same way I am not advocating—I am completely and fundamentally opposed to—the supply of arms to the Republic of South Africa, because I see this essentially as a civil war, but I accept that just as we should not be prepared to deny medical and educational equipment to South Africa, so I do not see why we should not at this stage provide educational equipment, medical equipment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-09", "file": "debates1970-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "49d34edc9bfe53e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.71.1", "colnum": "71", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Book of the United Kingdom. All that will be required, when the moment of truth comes, will simply be that we shall have to legislate to clear up perhaps the inevitable odds and ends when such a political earthquake is recognised to have taken place. But the danger is this. Since that must come sooner or later—and most people in the House and outside think the sooner that reality comes the better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-09a.71.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "That is a formidable sum. Does my right hon. Friend recall the Chancellor's appeal to the public to stand up to blackmail from inflationary wage demands? Would he not agree that one does not need to have the vested interests in inflation of a Jack Scamp—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.194.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.204.6", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC DECISIONS (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "Are you aware, Sir, that the indignation from the Opposition benches is because the Prime Minister continues to find amusing questions on old-age pensions and unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.204.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "POLITICAL HONOURS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister appreciate that the country will understand that, instead of dealing with awkward subjects like rising prices or strikes, the Prime Minister has now applied his mind as a former Tory Chief Whip to a subject he really understands; and, in view of the possibilities of prospective corruption on his side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.208.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "POLITICAL HONOURS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "In order to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.209.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.210.6", "colnum": "210", "heading": "POLITICAL HONOURS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that this was done only when our numbers in the Lords were too low?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.210.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment announced last week—namely, the proposal to provide a national standard rent allowance for all tenants of public and private housing except in the furnished sector—will provide real help to those this Bill cannot help, as well as to those whom the Bill does help. Of course, the House will have to wait to see my right hon. Friend's proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.270.3", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady emphasises my point. When she talks about a promise made in a letter or in our manifesto, she should remember that to this side of the House a promise is a promise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.270.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State in his speech to the House last week made it quite clear that the Bill was not intended to counter the increased health and welfare charges but was designed explicitly to improve the standard of living of the poor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brian O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brian O'Malley", "preceding_text": "more than half of those who are entitled do not apply. The same situation will not apply here as applied with the Bill dealing with pensions for the over-80s. There is no one to write to in this case. This is not a simple scheme. It is apparent from the debate that this is a complex scheme and one which is being added to a multiplicity of means-tested schemes which the Chancellor has now extended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "As I explained, this was the only way that we knew at the time. But it has now become clear that, far from bringing the most effective help to these families by that method, we can do it in the way which is being proposed. I cannot believe that the House will take seriously an argument that because certain words were written at one time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.329.3", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "ture with a very small impact on family poverty and apart from the problem of taking out of the man's pay packet to put into the wife's family allowance. Equally, of course, there is the question of timing. If the family allowance arrangements were to be extended to include a one-child family, it would take a very long time to introduce that and a great deal longer than it would take to bring aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.332.9", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman says that it is spurious, but he has not heard it. I am merely submitting to you, Sir, that when a Minister who is winding up and purporting to give information to the House is questioned on procedures or there is a request not on a political issue but to determine the procedures to be adopted in carrying through the information that he has given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.332.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "It is a scheme which is nothing like as extensive, in the numbers of people who are involved, as the original Speenhamland scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too curious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ompletely changing his mind and saying, \"No. You were wrong, lads. I misled you last time. I promise you that it is all right now. I want you to agree to the Bill going to a Committee of the whole House\". Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman is right. I am not expressing objection. I should like to know on which occasion the right hon. Gentleman is right. Is it the first time or is it the second time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "p my mind whether this is a subject on which objection should be taken, it would fitting if the Patronage Secretary would give an explanation. I have a great deal of respect for the Financial Secretary, but it is not for him to do so, because he has not tabled the Motion. The Financial Secretary should not convert himself into an air-raid shelter because the Patronage Secretary has made a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I have not quite finished my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.342.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The right hon. Gentleman had sat down. It was within the eyesight of us all that he had sat down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.343.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "If objection of this sort is to be taken, it will be perfectly possible for others beside myself to continue the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-10", "file": "debates1970-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6a7913b650c6e08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.345.3", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS (CONSULTATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Mason", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Mason", "preceding_text": "The House will no doubt recall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-10a.345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.371.2", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell", "preceding_text": "To answer the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question I should need to have the gift of second sight, which many of my constituents and others in the North of Scotland think I have, but to which I do not lay claim.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.371.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.405.4", "colnum": "405", "heading": "ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "First, will my right hon. Friend transmit to his right hon. Friend the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications the concern of hon. Members opposite about managerial failures and accountability for public funds? Second, does he expect any further investment from Governments abroad into Rolls-Royce, and, further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.405.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that it will be necessary to put forward a Supplementary Estimate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.420.3", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "aint is that right hon. and hon. Members opposite are rooted to a Victorian and Edwardian past in Scottish education and fail to meet the challenge of change that is necessary if we are to get the best out of the Scottish people and give them the best advantage of educational advance. We are not talking for the Highlands of Scotland. We are not talking of anything other than Glasgow and Edinburgh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "re glad when my right hon. Friend introduced this Bill, which puts right one of the most vicious restrictions on free- dom imposed by the Labour Government. I am sorry that the architect of that—the right hon. Member for Kilmarnock—has left the Chamber. I do not know what others found, but in my constituency during the Election the abolition of fee-paying schools was one of the most burning issues", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "od education indeed. That has been admitted, although some disturbing things were said by the hon. Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles about this which I sincerely hope are not true in Edinburgh. They do give a good education, but it is also equally indisputable that fee-paying local authority schools are generally regarded as giving education more suited to the abilities of the gifted child—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "school transport to deal with the polarisation that results from concentrating policy on comprehensives. I agree that one might ask in what way the present Government are improving the situation. Here, it might be said, is a division based on wealth which is just as bad as one based on area. I do not believe that that is arising. Fees of £20 to £40 or even of £68 to £78 a year are not so enormous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wolrige-Gordon", "preceding_text": "My experience is that many people find themselves perfectly able to afford to send their children to these schools if they wish to do so and if their children are acceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "m to act. This is not a Bill about education. It is not a Bill about economic problems. Indeed, the Government's economic measures brought forward over the last fortnight have little to do with economic problems. This is an ideological Bill, a political Bill, a class Bill, an expression of the Scottish Tory Party which has managed to produce only one Member who has not been to a fee-paying school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "filling. Once children have been selected, once it has been assumed that the children will do better, in practical fact—this might be surprising to hon. Gentlemen opposite, but it will not surprise teachers—once it gets through to children that they are going to do better and once they are put in a system which says, \"You will do better,\" they do better. The system also works the other way around.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.509.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Was he right?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " home, with a richer cultural background, who is more articulate and can cope much more easily than can the working-class child with the kind of questions asked of four- or five-year-olds. When the child of some friends of mine went for a test the headmaster put a half-crown in front of him and asked, \"What's that?\" The child said, \"Heads\". That answer was a bit more intelligent than the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A good school.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "he four-year school co-existing with the six-year school and basically senior secondary schools and the inequalities thereby produced. Above all, we are against the Bill because of the effect of the existence of such an inequitable system on the children, as described by my hon. Friend the Member for Woodside. That is why we reject the Bill. Nearly half of all hon. Members opposite came from Eton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No girls.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ities thereby produced. Above all, we are against the Bill because of the effect of the existence of such an inequitable system on the children, as described by my hon. Friend the Member for Woodside. That is why we reject the Bill. Nearly half of all hon. Members opposite came from Eton. [An HON. MEMBER: \"A good school.\"] I am told that it is a comprehensive school—no problems of selection there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.517.3", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "consciousness. He talked constantly about class in connection with these schools and how we were trying to divide society. He must know, as every hon. Gentleman opposite must know, that the proposals which the Labour Party has been pressing for universal territorial comprehensive schools throughout the cities of Scotland would, if implemented, inevitably create nothing more than class segregation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.517.3", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "ing, in effect, and one of the things he wanted us to do was to say clearly whether we were in favour of comprehensive schools and whether we thought they were better than other schools. If the hon. Gentleman expects to have any support for, or to gain any influence as a result of, his views on education, he must accept that a question like that in the context of Scottish education is meaningless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.517.3", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "before reaching a decision to reintroduce fees. The Secretary of State would not expect an authority to set itself an impossible task in this respect. Each authority must consider the relevant factors; and the key factor is whether the charging of fees in some schools would have an adverse effect on the staffing or other standards of non-fee-paying schools. I hope that this clarifies the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "essed an interest in this matter. As at January, 1970, the average pupil-teacher ratio in Edinburgh former fee-paying schools was 16·4 compared with 17·2 for non fee-paying schools in the city—a difference of about 0·8. In Glasgow the ratio in former fee-paying secondary schools was 16·9 compared with 17·8 for the non fee-paying sector—a difference of 0·9.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "t of the time, blatantly distorted the parliamentary elections by setting his name to the last Government's boundary reorganisation proposals, which created an absurd situation in Scotland. The right hon. Gentleman should be thoroughly ashamed of his part in that gerrymandering, which this Government will put an end to. However, even if we accept the argument that we are in a minority in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.524.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "We are telling you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am not aware of what took place before ten o'clock—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.531.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "—except what has been so graphically narrated by the hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson). I understand from what he said that the Minister sat down and that my predecessor in the Chair did not see the hon. Member for Glasgow, Kelvingrove (Dr. Miller) rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.532.6", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "You are getting some additional information from me. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Kelvingrove (Dr. Miller) was clearly seen by your predecessor in the Chair. It was clearly a minute or two before ten o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.532.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.533.0", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "iller) was clearly seen by your predecessor in the Chair. It was clearly a minute or two before ten o'clock. [ Interruption. ] The timekeeper will let us know. In those circum stances, is it not the case that an hon. Member is given the opportunity to speak at least until the Closure is moved by the Government Chief Whip? That being so, was it not highly improper for your predecessor in the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.532.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) covered himself and sat down on a point of order during the Division—which was correct. He was not prepared to accept the decision of the Chair, and he rose, still covered, and he paraded from one side of the House to the other until he placed himself alongside the Deputy Speaker, and gesticulated, and banged the Chair, beside the Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.534.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.534.3", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Apply for the Chiltern Hundreds.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": " sat down on a point of order during the Division—which was correct. He was not prepared to accept the decision of the Chair, and he rose, still covered, and he paraded from one side of the House to the other until he placed himself alongside the Deputy Speaker, and gesticulated, and banged the Chair, beside the Deputy Speaker—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"]—and I venture to submit to you, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.534.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "had in the last few minutes about what happened at the Division. I understand that my predecessor in the Chair put the Question at some time before ten o'clock. This was a matter in the discretion of the Chair. If there had been objection taken, it was for somebody to move the Closure. The Closure could have been moved and would have been voted upon. I think the House wanted to come to a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-11", "file": "debates1970-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "bc5d74d25283209c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": "nt. I understand their feelings, and I am glad that the Leader of the House also does. Naturally, I was sorry that the hon. Member for Peterborough (Sir Harmar Nichols) tried to drag in other matters about people wishing to frustrate Parliament. I believe that there is no hon. Member on either side who wishes that. All I say is that I would accept the sound advice of the Leader of the Opposition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-11a.538.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-12", "file": "debates1970-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "03d29d355101f78d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-12a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SELECT COMMITTEES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Which bookshop do we get it from?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": "Members will carefully read this symposium, a very important series of essays by seven Members of different political views. Some had the distinction of being chairmen of their committees, while others played an active part as lay members. It is a book well worth reading. I trust that many of my colleagues who are uncertain about the matter will read it very carefully before making up their minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-12a.621.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-13", "file": "debates1970-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "a2627e20c081f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-13a.755.1", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taverne", "preceding_text": "t a low rate of taxation is essential for a higher rate of growth. It is quite clear from international comparisons that that doctrine simply will not stand up. Comparisons with European countries show that if we take the total level of taxation in this country as a proportion of gross national product we are by no means taxed above the average. Indeed, this is admitted by Conservative economists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-13a.755.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-13", "file": "debates1970-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "a2627e20c081f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-13a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only just.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamling", "preceding_text": "I made this an issue in the election. I spoke about it at every meeting I attended. I said that we wanted to have a high standard of public service. I said, \"If we have one, you must be prepared to pay, like me, as a taxpayer\"—and I was re-elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-13a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-13", "file": "debates1970-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "a2627e20c081f683", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-13a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "spread quite widely when the Government distributes this £60 million. A good deal of it is bound to go to a large number of \"lame duck\" companies as well. The Government seek to argue that the only criterion for a company is the making of a profit and that these are the only companies that can really be effective. This was certainly the argument used by the Conservative Party on investment grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-13a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-16", "file": "debates1970-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b9d6c6119080b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.835.5", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that a referendum would be most unsuitable in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.835.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-16", "file": "debates1970-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b9d6c6119080b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. I accept what you say, Mr. Speaker. However, I have always understood that to give information of any character in a Question is out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-16", "file": "debates1970-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b9d6c6119080b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.904.1", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS (REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend the Member for Huyton (Mr. Harold Wilson), and the other was the current Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Houghton). If I were to say that the right hon. Member for Kingston-upon-Thames (Mr. Boyd-Carpenter) was the best Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee under whom I had ever served, it might be a little awkward but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.904.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-16", "file": "debates1970-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b9d6c6119080b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREA POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "works of about £70·7 million in 1965–66, and this was increased to £163 million at the end of last year. Road works in the northern region were at about £50 million last year. When I asked a Question in the House only last week I discovered, much to my surprise, that 186 miles of motorway had been built in the Northern Region between 1964 and 1969, whereas none had been built before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-16", "file": "debates1970-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b9d6c6119080b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.990.3", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREA POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "n which my region feels more harshly than does the rest of the country. How will industry be attracted to that area now that the carrot has been taken away? Investment grants have been discontinued completely from 27th October. Road transport is being cut by £23 million between 1971 and 1972, and by £58 million between 1974 and 1975. In housing there is to be a cut of £100 to £200 million by 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-16", "file": "debates1970-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b9d6c6119080b58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEVELOPMENT AREA POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Helping lame ducks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. Anthony Grant)", "preceding_text": "the ways in which this can best be achieved. Progress has been made in many aspects of infrastructure. But let us never forget where this all started. If we are to make a party political point, it was initiated by the Government of which I was not a member, when my noble Friend the present Lord Chancellor had responsibilities for these matters. Let us be quite clear on where praise and blame lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-16a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Matters concerning the Consumer Council are for my right hon. Friend and not for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1015.4", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "What every housewife in Britain could also tell the House is that while we pay ourselves 14 per cent. more for doing only 3 per cent. more work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1015.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1015.6", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am always amazed by the ability of hon. Gentlemen opposite to forget their past so quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1015.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1017.4", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, West (Mr. Bob Brown) calls the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South the hon. Member for Kidderminster, that is an error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1017.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1019.1", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Would my hon. Friend give advice to all those concerned, including the farming community, that they should encourage a policy of spending less in the boozer and more on the kids?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Until?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Until we join we are not committed to anything", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Until we join we are not committed to anything [HON. MEMBERS: \"Until?\"]—if we join—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC GROWTH (MINISTERIAL REPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what proposals he now has to deal with the accelerating inflation which has clearly got worse since he took office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ECONOMIC GROWTH (MINISTERIAL REPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ing to the trend as far as 1970, 1971 and 1972 were concerned, not in the least. The right hon. Gentleman told the House and the country that he would not be able to maintain the same level on current account balance, let alone overall balance. Of course, that has been recognised. In the short time that we have been in office we have made cuts in Government expenditure and a reduction in taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1037.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "PUBLIC SERVICE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "5, so that is over and above what was provided by the previous Government. On the second point, there was consultation over a wide range. I will tell the hon. Gentleman the precise nature of it if he cares to write to me, but I do not have it with me at the moment. On the third point, about widows, was he referring just to the police or to the whole question of widows of public service pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Through us.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "nationalised industry would pay as much, if not more. Their interest rates on borrowing today are very much less than that. I think I should be out of order if I went through the whole gamut and delineated what the nationalised industries are paying. But they are paying about two-thirds of that market rate, as an average. They are heavily subsidised through the Treasury in their capital structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1064.0", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It is a Liberal luxury.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "not need to go too closely into the consequences of the Amendment. Its effect on wage claims would be absurd. The hopes of getting anything like a final settlement at levels of inflation that might be acceptable to us would have gone for a long time to come. Its fairness is obviously questionable. So I regard it as an Amendment put down simply for the purpose of discussion, and I will treat it so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "s borne by people at the top of the income scale were much greater than the increases borne by people at the bottom of the incomes scale. When the rates fall again, the opposite is true. I will repeat one point which both my hon. Friend the Chief Secretary and I made on Second Reading. If that is not accepted and it is to be argued by hon. Members opposite that there never must be a tax reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-17", "file": "debates1970-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "464d82ac01c6e5c0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1089.3", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INCOME AND CORPORATION TAXES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "year—after all, this is the salary of Members of Parliament leaving out of account the expense allowance—more of the total yield of personal tax is paid by those above the level than by those below the level. That proportion is the same after the reduction of 6d. as before. Yet more than half the full year cost of reducing the tax by 6d. of £350 million goes to those below the £2,000 a year level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-17a.1089.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-18", "file": "debates1970-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "67adfc29ab76a526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "The estimate I have already given is the best estimate that can at present be given as to the cost of completing this aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-18", "file": "debates1970-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "67adfc29ab76a526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1214.2", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Since there is no likelihood of this being a commercial success and it obviously is a commercial loss of a very high order indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-18", "file": "debates1970-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "67adfc29ab76a526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1214.3", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A referendum?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corfield", "preceding_text": "As I think my predecessor, the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) said many months ago, it is quite clear that this stage would be the worst possible stage at which to think of cancelling this project.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1214.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-18", "file": "debates1970-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "67adfc29ab76a526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " The last thing we want to do is to inhibit a local authority from fostering a child with one of these families if it is otherwise suitable. I shall give the House a considered view on Report. But I ask the Committee to realise that up to the prescribed amount all the streams of income that have been discussed by hon. Members are already disregarded up to 50 per cent., up to the prescribed amount.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-18a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1417.7", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1417.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1418.0", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ll continue. Has the Minister seen the strictures of Mr. Hugh Leggatt on this penny-pinching scheme of the Government's? Bearing in mind that he is a distinguished art dealer who has loaned and given many paintings to various of the national collections and now threatens to withdraw them, perhaps the Minister will listen to the advice of those who know rather more about these matters than he does?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1417.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What organisations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Some of the Council's work has been good work. I have never denied that. I was President of the Board of Trade when it was established. The question that now arises is whether the work that is required for the consumer should be done by a Government-sponsored body. We have come to the conclusion that there are now other organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1431.4", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "On both sides.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend say a little more about Monday's second item of business, the procedure on Ten Minute Rule Bills? Will this be treated as a House of Commons matter with a free vote?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1431.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1432.3", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "It is next week.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "A fortnight ago the right hon. Gentleman said, in a voice loud enough to stop nearly all the pit wheels in Great Britain, that he would bring forward the Coal Bill at the earliest possible moment. May I beg him to bring it forward because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1442.0", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. Pannell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Before you answer, Mr. Speaker, I think that most Members on this side of the House would agree with me that my hon. Friend only ever speaks for himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1442.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1452.2", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "nister to move the first Motion on Defence, it has occurred to me that I should have to confine the debate on the Army Motion and that on the Royal Air Force Motion within very strict, narrow limits. I wonder whether it would suit the convenience of the House—I am asking for its views—if we take the first two Motions formally, or briefly indeed, so that we can get on to the general defence debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1457.7", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord Balniel", "preceding_text": "e first to be considered. Also, as part of providing manpower in the British Army, we have removed the uncertainty about the Brigade of Gurkhas. We shall retain four or five battalions, and from next autumn one of these will be stationed in the United Kingdom. It will be employed on tasks which would otherwise have been fulfilled by British battalions and so will reduce the strain on the infantry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1457.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1518.1", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "I will be dealing with that shortly. Given that defence spending must be limited as much as possible, any Government must combine with all available allies. This is the whole crux of the case for the supply of arms to South Africa—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "Study Group on Forces' pay, and the money awarded—this was accepted by the Government—was very much higher than we or any hon. Member could have expected. As for the long-term costings which the right hon. Gentleman claims to have inherited, there must have been some re- calculations since I left office because the figures do not correspond. I took the precaution of taking them with me when I left", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1560.0", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rime Minister said, according to the campaign guide published by Conservative Central Office this year, when asked whether his estimate of the budgetary cost of the Conservative policy east of Suez was less than £100 million was: Well, I am not going to tie myself down to 10 per cent. plus or minus £100 million, but it is a modest insurance premium for nearly £1,000 million we have invested there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Certainly, if it is necessary, it will be built, but it is not being built at the present time. If it is going to cost £50 million more it would reasonably follow that the ceiling would be increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1565.2", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Under the plan of the previous Administration the Brigade of Gurkhas would be run down to a strength of 6,000 by the end of 1971. What was to happen to them thereafter no one knew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1565.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1566.1", "colnum": "1566", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1567.0", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "In fact, the objectives of both parties in connection with Singapore and Malaysia were precisely the same. There are only two basic differences between Tory and Labour policy on the Far East. The first is that our policy is open and honest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1567.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1568.1", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "May I tell the hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1568.9", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1568.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1569.2", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-19", "file": "debates1970-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "90fa524bd7d31d46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1569.3", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "DEFENCE POLICY 1970", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "fixed ceilings and the level of those ceilings was decided on for reasons other than defence. Thus, quite arbitrarily, the previous Government settled provisionally on exactly the same expenditure for 1973–74 as for 1972–73. We have done nothing like that. The House will have noticed that we plan to spend more on defence in 1973–74 and in 1974–75 than in 1972–73.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-19a.1569.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.6.1", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I did not say that I was not responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.6.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.8.4", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He could become Chairman of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman persists in exaggerating to the extent that he did in that question, he will not get very far in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I will not go into the question of the standard which the right hon. Gentleman set. He certainly concentrated on certain authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.15.0", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "I will not go into the question of the standard which the right hon. Gentleman set. He certainly concentrated on certain authorities. [ Interruption. ] I am perfectly prepared to meet authorities in Wales and to visit Wales, but it is quite clear, as the right hon. Gentleman knows, that there are many demands on one's time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.15.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is becoming as boring as his hon. Friends in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.19.2", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Are you aware, Mr. Speaker, that the right hon. Gentleman is referring to the Post Office Act as though he had no powers in this matter when certain powers are vested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.19.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Did the hon. and gallant Gentleman think it came out of my right hon. Friend's pocket?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The \"we\" of whom I am speaking is the taxpayer, a function which unites us all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.41.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "king about skills that have been acquired over decades, we are talking about other costs. If we go wrong, as we could have done in Northern Ireland, the other costs that may be involved in a decision to cancel enter the decision. We are talking about a new strategy of international competition. Some of my hon. Friends would say that this is a case for the public ownership of the aircraft industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The position of the American shipbuilding industry, in relation to the level of support which he mentions, is surprising, in that its position in the line up of world-wide fleets would not seem to have shown an enormous result from the expenditure made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.56.4", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I will not give any such assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.56.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.57.4", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to resist the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). My sole intention is to continue on this point to the end of what I have to say so that he might take that into account in any question that he wishes to put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.57.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "any, itself and the agreement into which we have entered with it are matters which, on the whole, do not demand dissent from the other side of the House, as far as I can understand from the right hon. Gentleman's speech, it must be that the Opposition feel that what would be right for them to do is wrong for us. Apparently they would seem to indicate that, while they would agree to its being done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have not got one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t must be that the Opposition feel that what would be right for them to do is wrong for us. Apparently they would seem to indicate that, while they would agree to its being done—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Not at all.\"]—well, this would certainly seem the inference of the Motion—I would simply say that I do not consider that it is in any way incompatible with the industrial policy we have so clearly declared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am not able to understand quite what is aimed at. Is it the question of the accountability of Rolls-Royce to its shareholders, which in any case is provided for within the framework of the Companies Act, and which is well known to the public? Is it thought that Rolls-Royce will in some way or other conceal the facts about the whole of its customer relationships with Lockheed or other customers?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.87.4", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Temple", "preceding_text": "hat, in my view, the hard evidence points straight in one direction. I advise the Government to press on with this practical proposition full funded and backed up by a sound order book. The stakes in the world aircraft industry are gigantic and the competition extremely fierce. I know all the political chicanery that goes on at the top with regard to the manoeuvring in the world aircraft industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.87.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have done so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " can only say, tongue in cheek, that I thought it about the rudest insult that I have heard during some eight years in this House, coming as it did from a back bencher about one of his own senior Cabinet Ministers. It was so neatly done with such a sharp sword that perhaps even the right hon. Gentleman will forgive his colleague, but it is not for me to enter into this kind of internecine warfare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "rt-haul airliner. The first is the specious course, which is to back the BAC311—a very fine 'plane but one which is certain to lose money for the Government. The second course is the short-term course, which is to authorise B.E.A. to fall back on its second choice, which is to purchase the Lockheed Tristar. I should have declared my interest earlier. Many of my constituents work at Hawker Siddeley", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Peart", "preceding_text": "stated very clearly in paragraph 4 of the First Report from the Select Committee on Procedure. No doubt hon. Members have carefully read the Report and all the evidence which was before the Committee. It is right that we should have a free debate tonight. The Leader of the House has indicated his position, and I must indicate mine. My hon. Friends must not necessarily take my advice on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend mentioned how the Clerk of Public Bills. Mr. Mackenzie, pulled a fast one over him. Is he aware that the Clerk of Public Bills also pulled a fast one over me, in that he complained to the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend mentioned how the Clerk of Public Bills. Mr. Mackenzie, pulled a fast one over him. Is he aware that the Clerk of Public Bills also pulled a fast one over me, in that he complained to the Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—yes—of my conduct, without having the elementary courtesy to inform me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.0", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend mentioned how the Clerk of Public Bills. Mr. Mackenzie, pulled a fast one over him. Is he aware that the Clerk of Public Bills also pulled a fast one over me, in that he complained to the Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—yes—of my conduct, without having the elementary courtesy to inform me—[ Interruption. ]—that he had done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I did not say, and I am in the recollection of the House, that the very distinguished Officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "o go to the sincerity and integrity of any of the proceedings but simply as to the weight we give to the recommendation of the Select Committee when we now consider it. I have made the point, and it is the only point I want to make, as to the different value of 3.30 and 10 o'clock. I am unhappy about the idea, standing by itself, of simply to transfer the more valuable time to Government business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.176.1", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "ant that those who listen to our debates may understand what is happening. I take, for example, what has happened only recently. On Budget day, everyone comes expecting to hear the Budget speech. On that day, after Prime Minister's Questions, an hon. Member on the back benches moves for leave to bring in a Private Member's Bill and makes his speech. How can the Gallery understand what he is doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ent years, then the hon. Member for Fife, West (Mr. William Hamilton) let the cat out of the bag. For the most part the Ten Minute Rule Bill in the middle of the day has been used merely as a propaganda exercise on matters which would have been discussed in the general debate. Advantage has been taken of that because it is the publicity hour of the day. I have always argued, with all due humility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "we move the Ten Minute Rule, which is a definite part of the procedures of the House for getting legislation on the Statute Book, and if it is that we put it at an hour which has less publicity, then it is more likely that the procedure will be used upon matters which are mainly of back benchers' concern. I believe that experience in recent years—and again I produce the hon. Member for Fife, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.179.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": " In each case, hon. Members were able to express a measured opinion on their feelings. That would not have been possible at one, two or three o'clock in the morning. The arguments adduced by those who support this Measure have been a little thin. My right hon. Friend the Member for Thirsk and Malton (Mr. Turton) said that there might be a Ten Minute Bill on Budget day. In fact, that never happens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.183.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-23", "file": "debates1970-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "1fe263abc2256648", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.190.2", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 13", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Vote.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "give the House reasonable time within which to discuss this matter. In accordance with the procedure, I understand, in view of the way the debate has gone on the second Motion, that the first Motion should be got out of the way before 11.30 p.m. or there will be a danger of the matter being talked out, which would vitiate the whole of the debate. It is up to the House to decide the course to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-23a.190.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the entire Conservative Party pledged itself to the abolition of the selective employment tax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the entire Conservative Party pledged itself to the abolition of the selective employment tax[ Interruption. ]—at the recent General Election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.207.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.207.5", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "Quite apart from the fact that we believe, on merits, that the selective employment tax is a tax which must go, it is also because we gave the very firm commitment, to which my hon. Friend refers, that we are determined that the selective employment tax shall be abolished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.211.7", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made a very relevant point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.211.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.228.4", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "ogising the products of a foreign nation and running down the products of its British competitors in the electrical industry, and that many in that industry, management and labour, are outraged? I was hoping to have at least an apology, if not a withdrawal of the statement by the Secretary of State for the Environment, and if the Prime Minister has no confidence in the British electrical industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.228.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.228.7", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, it is a speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "It is not a long question, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.228.10", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME IMPROVEMENT GRANTS (MINISTER'S SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "This is an important question, because it involves the whole of the British electrical industry. The point I am making to the Prime Minister is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.228.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.230.7", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONSUMER COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "I am not right honourable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.230.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.230.8", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CONSUMER COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Gentleman think that the persistent efforts of the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.230.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You never answered them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " was made without the House being informed? Certainly it was the case under the former Government that speeches made by Ministers of so-called Cabinet rank—even that phrase is not a statutory one—outside the Cabinet could be the subject of questions to the Prime Minister in the House. Invariably when I took Questions on them I said that they were or were not the policy of Her Majesty's Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is a long way from the point that I have reached in my speech. If that occurred, I would guess that the answer was \"No\", but it is a hypothetical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.243.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "This is a maiden speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.260.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "e was taken off the route to Bermuda there were strong protests for a long time from the people of Bermuda about losing what they regarded as their airline. I hope that we shall see their airline again on that route and that the route through to Central America and to the southern states of the United States—where the name of B.O.A.C. is not well established—will provide a firm base of operations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tourney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tourney", "preceding_text": "rowded is that airport—the same can be said of many other inter- national airports—that aeroplanes must usually queue to both take-off and land. This and similar problems must be tackled not nationally but internationally. In both time and space, the operating difficulties of the airlines are acute throughout the world. We cannot subsist on the margins. There must be an adequate return on capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "e venture fail. The defeatist, the pessimist, the person who believes that, although it might be a good idea, it will never work, will be proved wrong; because a purpose of this venture is to bring into British civil aviation, and to give greater opportunity in British aviation to, men of real calibre in management. I say to hon. Members who have not been fortunate enough to meet Mr. Adam Thomson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.275.3", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "and keep out the pearls of wisdom to which the hon. Gentleman is so anxious to subject the House. I want to make this point. Indeed, I intend to make it. We have it within our grasp, an opportunity to exploit the skills which the nation possesses, to exploit the assets which are ours sometimes by accident, and to do so in such a way that will not damage the success which we have built in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.275.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I did not give way to the hon. Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Loughlin), who seemed to be so comfortably sitting, because experience told me that it makes no difference from what position he intervenes. I will come as swiftly as I may to my final point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman for his question. Obviously, I was leaving it in a fairly general form because, until we know precisely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.279.9", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "t will come as soon as the new airline runs into difficulties and learns the hard way that the world of international airline operation is a tough world, and certainly no place for a feather-bedded bunch of Johnnie-come-latelys who are heavily under-financed and almost wholly dependent on political favours from a Tammany Hall-style Government, who, happily, are unlikely to last for any great time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.279.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.282.3", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kerr", "preceding_text": "on the issue of this bastard child conceived in sin, the second-force airline. Knowing them as I do, I must tell the Government that from the highest to the lowest the workers in both B.E.A. and B.O.A.C. are determined to resist these proposals to the limit. Not only do they see these class-conscious proposals as a threat to their livelihood; their very British sense of fair play has been outraged", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.282.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.299.0", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is what they are after.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill", "preceding_text": "s appalling—and I am sure that my hon. Friends agree with me about this—is that every time we try to do something to implement our policies we get a threat from the other side, \"Watch out. If you do that, when we get back to office we will make you all suffer.\" That kind of attitude will bring instability to the money market. It will not support Caledonian-B.U.A. if there are threats of that kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "e market is incapable of raising sufficient capital to finance these vast operations. During the time the right hon. Gentleman himself has been a Member, both in opposition and in Government, his own party nationalised one of the great industries basic to our country's future economy. Some of the newer hon. Members opposite who have just come straight from the Primrose League or the local parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "We did not propose it. We said that if in the independent sector companies came together to effect mergers—in the case to which the hon. Gentleman referred it was a particular merger—we would assist them progressively to reach a point at which they could act as a second force, but on the conditions which I have repeated tonight and which my right hon. Friend has stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "on. ] It is no good hon. Gentlemen opposite challenging my right hon. Friend and others who, with a sense of public responsibility, now warn the Government that there is, to say the least, deep misgiving and suspicion among the work force of the airlines about these proposals. This is not to say that my hon. Friends welcome demonstrative action of a certain kind in protest against these proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Less tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "e public service, but whether it is in the independent sector? If that is to be the criterion, this is dogma run mad, and nothing but harm can result to the airline industry and to our economy. Finally, there is the question of timing. The Government propose to hand over on a plate almost immediately £6 million worth of revenue generating anything between £1 million and £12 million annual profits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.354.6", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I have not the slightest idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.354.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-24", "file": "debates1970-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "3f56a929cae69132", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.356.5", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " other installations in the airport belonging to B.O.A.C. can be sold to the new airline, or to other airlines using that airport, and so they can be recognised. Finally, the money invested in the development of the route is a capital investment which is, or should have been, depreciated and amortised out of the profits which the airline has made out of that route. B.O.A.C. has been in possession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-24a.356.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will recall that the Government that he supported were in power for about six years. The present Government have not been in office for six months yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member guarantee—[ Interruption. ] Will the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.394.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Lame ducks.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Would my right hon. Friend announce shortly some measures to assist other firms which are on the edge of bankruptcy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.409.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.412.7", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.412.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.412.7", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Gentleman to consult—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—the Greater London Council and the Birmingham City Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.412.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING AND CONSTRUCTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Member says is entirely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "d a number of policy questions in relation to the Post Office. I have made it clear that there were no policy disagreements, and I would not come down to the House and say that there were no major policy disagreements if that were not the truth. I have made it absolutely clear that this decision has been taken solely because I believe that it is in the interests of the Post Office and the public.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "We do not in this Administration canvass the opinion of employees of a nationalised industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "We do not in this Administration canvass the opinion of employees of a nationalised industry—[ Interruption. ]—before coming to a decision about the Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "—before coming to a decision which is solely that of the Minister concerned. In reply to the Prime Minister's first question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.418.7", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I have made it clear that I have a responsibility to the House for the efficient management of the postal services. It is in the belief that it is essential to have a change in the management of the Post Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.418.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.418.10", "colnum": "418", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that the Minister has been less than fair and frank with the House? Is it not a fact that the Chairman of the Post Office Corporation was showing obstinate disagreement with the Minister in the right hon. Gentleman's intention to close down the Giro service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.418.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "I had not finished my supplementary question. Is it not a fact that Lord Hall and the Post Office Board were negotiating to take over a major American supplier of Post Office equipment so that they could ensure that they would be able to obtain Post Office supplies at reasonable prices? Was not this extension of public ownership one of the reasons why the Minister decided to dismiss Lord Hall?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.419.8", "colnum": "419", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles R. Morris", "preceding_text": "of Westminster this afternoon, there has been very high regard for the independence of mind which has been demonstrated by Viscount Hall during his term as Chairman of the Post Office Corporation? Will the Minister accept as a fact that this decision was taken by a political junta comprising the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and himself last Saturday morning?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.419.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is entitled to his view. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have made it absolutely clear that I will not spell out here the individual circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.421.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.422.6", "colnum": "422", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has now refused for over a quarter of an hour to give his reasons for this action, and in so doing he has cast an unjustified slur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.422.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.422.7", "colnum": "422", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "In a long interview yesterday and the day before I explained to Lord Hall why he had lost my confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that reasonable people will be led to any of the conclusions mentioned by the hon. Gentleman. When he considers the range of public appointments for which the Government are responsible, he will probably reconsider what he is suggesting. As I have made clear, the decision has been made in the interests of effective management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "May I put it to my right hon. Friend, with the greatest respect to Lord Hall, whose personal qualities and devotion to his duties we all respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman will put down a Question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "Is it not remarkable that not one supplementary question coming from hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite has had anything to do with the customers' interests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.425.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.427.5", "colnum": "427", "heading": "POST OFFICE CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order. It might have been a good supplementary if the hon. Gentleman had got in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "to say what they themselves felt. There were many people who felt then, and perhaps still feel, that Parliament it out of touch with the people. Resentment was building up, and I think my right hon. Friend performed a public service because he took the lid off and opened up a conversation, so that people were able to talk freely about something which previously they had been frightened to discuss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.531.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": ". I had to reach a decision, and I reached a serious decision, but once it went to appeal I have been inhibited. No one else has been inhibited. Everyone else has been talking about it. I do not intend to put my case until I am told that it is proper to do so. I do not think the right hon. Gentleman, with his knowledge and responsibility as previous Home Secretary, should indulge in these tactics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The matter is not sub judice now. The matter has gone to a strictly advisory body. Now that the right hon. Gentleman has interrupted me on three or four occasions, perhaps he will kindly answer my question, which is intended as a perfectly straight one. Will he accept the decision of the advisory committee? I will willingly give way to allow him to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n he would then have for saying, \"Nevertheless, I insist on his going\". Does the right hon. Gentleman have any such justification now? The refusal of the right hon. Gentleman to answer my straightforward question follows the pattern of his previous conduct in this case. He bought a little cheap popularity with the Wolverhampton, South-West hon. Members of the House of Commons on a political basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "That is a difficult question to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "finally given to him he will have to account to us, to the House of Commons, for his conclusion. By refusing to answer my question about whether or not he will accept the advisory committee's decision he is saying that he intends to reserve to himself, irrespective of what the advisory committee says, the decision in this matter. I ought perhaps to move to the question of Commonwealth immigration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-25", "file": "debates1970-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "40d82992baadcb8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.552.1", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EXPIRING LAWS CONTINUANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ey should say in order to get elected. In fact, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Powell} gave them a very considerable tawdry advantage in that matter for which they have never adequately repaid him. There is no doubt that he had a tremendous impact in the Midlands, and I think that he influenced a good many people, as his Sancho Panza sitting beside him said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-25a.552.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.588.6", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Major-General d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Take your hands out of your pockets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major-General d'Avigdor-Goldsmid", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. When he is going through this will he bear in mind the importance of mobility and communication in those forces, not only from the point of view of their efficiency, but because of their attraction to recruiting? May I also ask him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.588.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.598.2", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware of the grave concern felt in Northern Ireland about the number of desertions by recruits from the Republic of Eire after the completion of their training? Can my hon. Friend say whether there is any evidence that these men join clandestine groups or illegal organisations in the Republic? Is my hon. Friend satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.598.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.610.3", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S VISITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in all the official visits he has paid to Scotland there has been no mention by him of a value-added tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S VISITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.613.8", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADES UNION CONGRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's conclusions about the impact of the industrial relations legislation on the T.U.C., which is well aware of our willingness and, indeed, our desire to co-operate with the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.613.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADES UNION CONGRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Gentleman's kind invitation to me a moment ago, may I ask whether he is aware that I have made it clear that I support the T.U.C.'s own methods of dealing with the question, as I am sure he does?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.617.2", "colnum": "617", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There has been no refusal on the part of the Prime Minister to answer supplementaries. His answer may be unsatisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.617.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.623.2", "colnum": "623", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Speak up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "When will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.623.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "You can say that again.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "s in Britain is that the overwhelming majority of our strikes are unofficial and/or unconstitutional. As the Donovan Commission said in paragraph 501 of its Report, The problem is peculiar to this country. The typical British strike can still be small in scale and only last a few days. This is why, in terms of working days lost, our record may even now seem not so bad compared with some countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "There can be little doubt that, in a modern economy with highly capitalised production methods and a high degree of interdependence between one company and another, stability is increasingly important, and the frequent and unpredictable interruptions in production from which we suffer are particularly damaging. As the right hon. Member for Southwark (Mr. Gunter) said in the House on 13th November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": ". No one has broken a contract. When he takes them back, there is another three years in which they can can plan and wait. The dilemma of British industry is continuance interruption of production lines. No one knows when it will srike next.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 13th November, 1967; Vol. 754, c. 55.] Those were the views of the Minister of Labour in the Labour Government. In that sort of atmosphere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If that is what the hon. Member believes is important in industrial relations today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If that is what the hon. Member believes is important in industrial relations today—[ Interruption. ] I thought that the hon. Member wanted us to pay great attention to getting, in every place we can, managements in which we all have the greatest confidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is what collective bargaining is about.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ry at which collective agreements have to be made real and effective and meaningful in terms of those who have to work under them. If this is to be achieved, there must be a framework of common rules and common standards representing the judgment of the community about what is fair and reasonable both in the interests of those who work in the factories and in the interests of the country at large.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.640.3", "colnum": "640", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "At this stage I am only trying to find out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.640.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.640.4", "colnum": "640", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is a crime.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "If he acts outside the rules of his own union, if he acts outside the terms of the agreement which his own union has made, in inducing other workers to break their contracts of employment which have been negotiated on their behalf by their own trade union, yes he is—and so he should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.640.4", "colnum": "640", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": ", it would be an unfair industrial action, and there should be some means of restraining such unfair action. We say that people who take action contrary to their union rules, contrary to the agreements which their union has signed, and without the authority of their union, should be capable of being restrained. I have always believed that trade union membership had something to do with solidarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.640.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.0", "colnum": "641", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "May we carry this a stage further? Will the right hon. Gentleman tell the House whether under his rules the lads who walked out in a spontaneous expression of solidarity with Lord Hall and not under the instructions of their union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Without knowing the details of their agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "uld not say. But one thing I do say to the right hon. Lady. Let us suppose for a moment that, technically, they were. There is one enormous difference, and it is fundamental, between our proposed law and the sort of law which she was proposing last year. Under her law, if people did what was wrong, if they disobeyed her consultation procedures, for example, they would have been committing a crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "between our proposed law and the sort of law which she was proposing last year. Under her law, if people did what was wrong, if they disobeyed her consultation procedures, for example, they would have been committing a crime. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Yes, they would have been, and her hon. Friend—her No. 2 or her No. 3, whichever it is—knows that that is what one of the arguments was about last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.641.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.7", "colnum": "642", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "No. In the last ten minutes I have given way I know not how many times. I was in the middle of trying to answer one point when the hon. Gentleman was so discourteous as to try to interrupt me before I had even finished what I had to say. Although I am usually generous in giving way, I will not give way in face of that sort of discourtesy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.10", "colnum": "642", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the great point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I am trying to reply to a specific question put by the right hon. Lady. I was saying that, even supposing that the Post Office workers concerned were in breach of their agreement, under our proposals they would at worst be potentially liable in respect of some civil wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.10", "colnum": "642", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why make the law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ir agreement, under our proposals they would at worst be potentially liable in respect of some civil wrong. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the great point.\"] Then let me answer it, if it is the great point. The central point about civil law as opposed to criminal law is this. If we do not enforce, even in the long run, relatively technical offences under the criminal law, we bring the law into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.10", "colnum": "642", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at the right hon. Gentleman himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "il wrong. [HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the great point.\"] Then let me answer it, if it is the great point. The central point about civil law as opposed to criminal law is this. If we do not enforce, even in the long run, relatively technical offences under the criminal law, we bring the law into disrepute. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why make the law?\"] Because all of us behave sometimes in the heat of the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.642.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about employers?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "y claiming and exercising, great influence in our economy and society. Surely it is fair and right that any voluntary association which claims to do that should be prepared to accept some authority of approval to make sure that its rules include certain basic standards in the public interest and in the interests of its members, and some supervision to make sure that those basic rules are observed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.643.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It cannot now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "cial or agent—and I beg the right hon. Lady to listen carefully to what I am saying—of a registered union is acting on behalf of and within the authority of his union, he will be protected, as he is not at the moment, against personal action or liability. The liability and responsibility, once our law is on the Statute Book, will fall only on the union itself, and a union cannot be sent to prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Can", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Can", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was quite right then and events since 1969 have proved that he is still right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.647.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Author.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Is it in order for the right hon. Gentleman to read a tiny, selective quotation from the speech of the right hon. Gentleman at the Festival Hall last year when later in that speech the present Leader of the Opposition specifically said that he was ready to listen to further suggestions from the T.U.C. and to drop his legislation if the T.U.C. put forward viable proposals?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The Secretary of State has made it clear that he believes that the fault for industrial strife lies with the workers and the trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "issal, the right to union recognition. It means making a reality of consultation by sharing information and decision making, and it means finding industrial solutions for industrial problems by painstaking reform of negotiating and disputes procedures by voluntary means instead of by legislative imposition. All this the Labour Government had set on foot by the registration of procedure agreements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Claptrap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "s finding industrial solutions for industrial problems by painstaking reform of negotiating and disputes procedures by voluntary means instead of by legislative imposition. All this the Labour Government had set on foot by the registration of procedure agreements—[ Laughter. ] Hon. Gentleman opposite laugh. To them this is a political subject, not an industrial one. Therefore they dismiss this as—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "an opposite laugh. To them this is a political subject, not an industrial one. Therefore they dismiss this as—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Claptrap.\"] This is not claptrap. This is what Donovan asked for, it is what we said in the White Paper we would do, and what we did without wasting a moment of time. We started voluntary registration of procedure agreements so that the causes of strikes could be stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.656.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": " a pity we have not had those vital provisions explained to us in the House today. The new formula laid down in paragraph 90 relates to rules and includes the new provision of the right to resign. Most revealing of all is paragraph 90(vii): no member who refuses to participate in any industrial action which is deemed unfair by the Bill may be expelled, disciplined or discriminated against …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.657.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.661.0", "colnum": "661", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Who encouraged them?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "crunch they will not use those powers because they know that they would do more harm than good. Let me give the House examples from recent strikes. The right hon. Gentleman spent so much time on the strike figures, and what we would do about them. Consider the recent dirty jobs strike. How many working days were lost? The right hon. Gentleman told me the other day that the figure was over 800,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So did strikes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "nferences with the C.B.I. on how to improve the industrial relations situation and our procedures, and not least by constantly intervening in disputes at our request—when I was at a Department which really was a Department of conciliation—and trying to get the men back to work. The number of disputes in which the T.U.C. intervened more than quadrupled in the year following our agreement with them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.664.2", "colnum": "664", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "s in which the T.U.C. intervened more than quadrupled in the year following our agreement with them—[An HON. MEMBER: \"So did strikes.\"] The right hon. Gentleman sneers. No doubt their reply is, \"What about the strike figures?\". Yes, they have risen, but we do not know, the right hon. Gentleman will admit, by how much more they would have risen if it had not been for that agreement with the T.U.C.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.664.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.666.3", "colnum": "666", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.666.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": " of order into the chaos. They know that, in the future, their militant unofficial activities will be restricted. In this debate, one does not go into great detail. We shall do that when the forthcoming Bill goes into Committee, examining it line by line. But, taking the broad picture, the general tenor of the Consultative Document is to strengthen the authority of the official trade union leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reds under the bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": " general tenor of the Consultative Document is to strengthen the authority of the official trade union leader. [ Interruption. ] It is no good baying and saying that it will strengthen somebody else. If hon. Gentleman read the document and understand it, they will see that this is what it will do. In our country today, unfortunately, we are having to fight disruptive forces of one kind or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "re, the general public, otherwise. Last year, we saw the militants go through the docks. This year, they have already been through the motor car industry. It is not coincidental. Hon. Members opposite must recognise the facts as they are. We must be careful to ensure—this is a serious matter—that we do not allow the freedom which one has in a democracy to be used so that it can demolish democracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I believe that the British working man—I say this in no airy-fairy way—is a decent chap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "airy way—is a decent chap. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] But he is lethargic, and one of the problems in the trade union movement today is that his lethargy permits others to take control. We must not allow intimidation and victimisation to take place, and I am glad that the Consultative Document shows that the Government intend to stop it. Many of us on this side know something about trade union matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "me the secret ballot. At an open meeting, when the call is made for a vote on whether to strike, it is extremely difficult for the moderate to keep his hand down when all around him there are other chaps putting their hands up. The secret ballot will, I am sure, be a great advance. The Consultative Document is geared entirely to what are termed unfair practices, unfair strike action, and the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": " rooms of the employers as well. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Scotstoun (Mr. Small)—and I give this as an illustration—has a Question down about a certain firm which sells crisps. It is coming up for its 27th prosecution for selling under weight. If we say that the rules of the unions must take the public well-being into account, why cannot we ensure that theft of that kind cannot go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Lee", "preceding_text": "ution for selling under weight. If we say that the rules of the unions must take the public well-being into account, why cannot we ensure that theft of that kind cannot go on? [ Interruption. ] Perhaps the hon. Gentleman did not hear what I said. I am talking about public representation in the board rooms of private enterprise. If there were such representation, cases of that kind could not arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Milne", "preceding_text": "his document that the employers could not get by putting their own house in order and producing the type of industrial relations within their industries that ought to be operating in the second half of the twentieth century. There is nothing which the right hon. Gentleman is trying to obtain by legally enforceable methods that could not be obtained by proper contact between both sides of industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milne", "preceding_text": "onovan Report by the evidence of the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour at the beginning of the war on the now famous, or infamous, Betteshanger decision, when long, complicated legal procedures had to be invoked to deal with people seeking economic and industrial justice, as the Secretary of State knows, because he is better versed in these matters than he sometimes sounds at that Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about General Motors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": ". I agree with those who have said that the number of working days lost may not fall, certainly not dramatically, but that is not the key. The key is how much production is lost. In the car industry, three times as many working days are lost as the number of those on strike, and in September this year, no less than 30 per cent. of our total car production was lost as a result of industrial action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "has had only 14 days without a strike somewhere in the outfit. One cannot go on with that sort of situation. I received a letter from a constituent, a trade unionist, urging me to condemn and reject the whole Bill and everything in it. As an ex-T. and G.W.U. member, I cannot do that. Indeed, I welcome the Bill. I welcome the new right and remedy that a worker will have if he is unfairly dismissed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "e of its content. My third example is the attitude of the trade unionist and shop steward. In the vast majority of cases, union officials and shop stewards are responsible; but, to a minority, an unofficial strike is a means of negotiating, and in many cases although officials may say publicly that they do not agree with unofficial action, privately and in reality they wholeheartedly approve of it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "t I see the prospect of continuous litigation, if this latter alternative is the proposal, between the individual who is not a member of a union and the union concerned, about whether the individual has been equally treated and properly representted in, for example, promotion, seniority, or disciplinary actions concerning wrongful dismissal. I can see a field day here for the barrack room lawyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who, for instance?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "is every prospect that the United States will get the worst of both worlds. This must raise serious doubts about how far America's industrial relations system can be applied to our own country. On the other hand, at least the Donovan Report was based on British experience. Moreover, it had the support of all the people in this country who have distinguished themselves in literature on the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "he majority of people in it eligible to vote do so. At the last General Election the Government received 46 per cent. of the votes. They did not have a majority among the people eligible to vote. It is therefore a very strange argument to say in the Consultative Document that the trade unions must have a majority among those eligible to vote. We heard an amazing speech from the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.731.1", "colnum": "731", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The proposals in this document are extremely similar to those in the 1825 Act. Let us look at some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.731.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.731.4", "colnum": "731", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "or lock-out for a particular purpose would also be an unfair action, and to threaten a strike or lock-out, to organise or threaten any other concerted industrial action for that purpose, or to put pressure for that purpose by industrial action or the threat of it, would also be unfair. How is that different from the 1825 Act? The right hon. Gentleman said at the Tory Party conference that in 1875—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.731.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.731.6", "colnum": "731", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is no law.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "vitation to the present T.U.C.—and to a celebration. Believe me, on the basis of the proposals contained in this document the right hon. Gentleman is never likely to get anywhere near the T.U.C., because this is a piece of class legislation of the worst kind since the Combination Acts. The right hon. Gentleman, in breaking away from the basic traditions of the law relating to industrial relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.731.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And Russia.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "That is the whole point. There is none, in the sense that the law has acted largely in an abstentionist sense. It has played a negative rôle, and if one looks at the difference between this situation and that where the law plays a positive rôle in countries such as Australia, the Republic of Eire, the U.S.A.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.732.2", "colnum": "732", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " period and they discover that, instead of bringing down the number of strikes, the strikes will continue, and possibly industrial relations will worsen, more of them will be coming forward demanding further action and, ultimately, that the right to strike be outlawed altogether. This philosophy of hon. Members opposite is very strange. In a speech at the Guildhall the other day the Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.732.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.9", "colnum": "734", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.10", "colnum": "734", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Windy!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.12", "colnum": "734", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has invited me to give way and I have refused. On the first occasion she endeavoured to persuade me by her charming smile. On the second occasion she asked me if I was afraid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.734.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Prehistoric.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady says, \"pre-Donovan\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "hat things said in an entirely different context 13 years ago on that subject should now regulate us for the future. The hon. Gentleman appears to think that what was good enough for Campbell-Bannerman is good enough for him. Legislation which has been on the Statute Book for that length of time has rightly been recognised by the hon. Member representing the Liberal Party as being ripe for review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "justify our bringing these measures before the House tonight. It is absolute nonsense to suggest that there has been insufficient time for consultation about these matters. The proposals have been laid before the country. They were endorsed at the last General Election. For years, months and weeks the doors have been open for consultation, and many organisations have been taking advantage of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "have casually cast aside an agreed report. The House will no doubt recollect that the report itself was very far from agreed. There were one note of reservation, two supplementary notes, one addendum by the Chairman, and several very important dissents on some of the matters about which debate has raged hereafter. So far from having cast that aside, the major part of our proposals is founded upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.739.0", "colnum": "739", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The proposals for registration and compulsory registration are entirely in line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.739.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.739.11", "colnum": "739", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rose", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.739.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.739.13", "colnum": "739", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady also said—and she misquoted the Donovan Report—that there were no requirements in that report with relation to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.739.13"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.740.1", "colnum": "740", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Solicitor-General is an officer of the Supreme Court and owes a duty to the House and the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.740.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I am trying to develop it. The hon. and learned Gentleman owes a duty to the House and the country not to misrepresent facts or the law. Is it in order for him deliberately to mislead the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.740.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.740.9", "colnum": "740", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Harry Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker, and to your Ruling upon it. I humbly submit to you that I think that you must have misheard the point which was put to you. Surely it is not consistent with the title of being an hon. Member of this House when an hon. Member is accused of having deliberately misled it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.740.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ultative Document contains proposals that will deprive trade unionists of their basic rights. Again, that is the very reverse of the truth. The document makes plain that there will be established beyond doubt and without any kind of reversion to antique Statutes to which the hon. Gentleman referred, the right of every individual to join a trade union of his choice and participate in its activities", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " that will deprive trade unionists of their basic rights. Again, that is the very reverse of the truth. The document makes plain that there will be established beyond doubt and without any kind of reversion to antique Statutes to which the hon. Gentleman referred, the right of every individual to join a trade union of his choice and participate in its activities [An HON. MEMBER: \"Or not.\"]—or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.741.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.741.5", "colnum": "741", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " rights. Again, that is the very reverse of the truth. The document makes plain that there will be established beyond doubt and without any kind of reversion to antique Statutes to which the hon. Gentleman referred, the right of every individual to join a trade union of his choice and participate in its activities [An HON. MEMBER: \"Or not.\"]—or not. [ Interruption. ] Is that such a shameful thing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.741.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.742.5", "colnum": "742", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I ask what basic right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.742.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.742.11", "colnum": "742", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Is it suggested, for example, that there is a basic right to strike without a ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.742.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-26", "file": "debates1970-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "334e3bb28ee11d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.742.11", "colnum": "742", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "Is it suggested, for example, that there is a basic right to strike without a ballot? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Indeed? On that very point, the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-26a.742.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.892.5", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davidson", "preceding_text": "I appreciate the Minister's reply in that respect, but will he bear in mind that most hire-purchase agreements are completely incomprehensible to me, and to the average man in the street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.892.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "ROLLS-ROYCE (LAUNCHING AID)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "When the expression \"the banks\" was used it would cover a very wide field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.901.4", "colnum": "901", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ion to him is a new Question and since it is certainly most grievous to the steel industry that wilder and wilder rumours should be spread on what is to happen to it, and since this is a serious matter on which a statement should be made to the House of Commons, may I ask whether you have had a request from the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that he has reconsidered the letter he sent me earlier?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.901.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I dismiss that last remark of the hon. Gentleman as being rather unworthy of him. On the general point, I can only say that what I have announced I believe to be for the benefit of the port of Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.919.4", "colnum": "919", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "It is very good of the hon. Gentleman. Would he not recall that the first attempt ever made deliberately to tax food in this country was the imposition of Selective Employment Tax by the Government of his party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "The reason why I do not give way to the hon. Gentleman is that I have promised to sit down at 6.22 p.m. in order to allow his own Front Bench spokesman to wind up the debate. I will deal comprehensively on future occasions with all these matters of indirect taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.959.5", "colnum": "959", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "he family, as the Government say, to stand on their own feet? I have gone on to make some further inquiries about this. It is no use talking about an average wage without reference to the number of people who do not get the average wage. If one looks carefully at the information given in the Department of Employment's Gazette one sees that about half the wage earners receive less than the average.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.959.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "White Paper and those which have been announced as the interim arrangements on cereals, meat and minor milk products. Despite what the Leader of the Opposition has said, the Tory Party told the country before the General Election that this change would lead to an increase in food prices of between 5 per cent. and 6 per cent. spread over three years, and my right hon. Friend confirmed it yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.972.0", "colnum": "972", "heading": "CONSUMER PROTECTION AND COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That is on the longer-term proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.972.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "my present position on the Opposition Front Bench is one in which I have to move a Motion of Censure on the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications. We regard this as a serious matter, with serious implications, and a serious case has to be made. Therefore, although I fully accept that the temperature is bound to rise in the course of the evening and that tempers are bound to get somewhat heated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "tainly in the last week there has been a serious break in morale and a grave loss of confidence in the Post Office and its management. I cannot believe that if the Minister could have the last week over again he would act either in the same way or with the same object. Indeed, I believe that he has handled this matter with a mala droitness rarely equalled even by this Conservative Administration —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Richard", "preceding_text": "ustry to private enterprise, leaving the more unprofitable and unpleasant parts to be run by the Post Office Corporation. We on this side of the House utterly reject this doctrinaire view of the functions of a nationalised industry. Thirdly, we suspect that the Government are considering interfering with the future of the Giro which we on this side welcomed as an imaginative and successful scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": "Wednesday. Then we understood that it was to be a Motion of censure on the Government for dismissing Lord Hall. But it is not that at all when we look at the Motion. We understood last Wednesday that the Opposition might well be arguing, as they seemed to be arguing in their questions then, that the Government had no right in any circumstances to get rid of the chairman of a nationalised industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": " as they seemed to be arguing in their questions then, that the Government had no right in any circumstances to get rid of the chairman of a nationalised industry—[ Interruption. ] But we find today that the Motion has two parts. One part seeks to censure the Government not for their action in dismissing Lord Hall, but for the implications of their action. What exactly that means is not yet clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications (Mr. Christopher Chataway)", "preceding_text": "city and yet the Minister can never spell out the incidents and issues which have led him to the view that the person is not up to the job. Where there is conflict between the Government and an individual, naturally the Press reaction—it is a healthy one—is to take the side of the individual. The Minister certainly cannot name the individuals he has consulted or call in aid the judgment of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Sheldon", "preceding_text": "Of course it is very much harder to bring about the resignation of someone in the public sector, but the world has moved very considerably over the past few years and it is no longer the rule as it used to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "Most certainly not. It would have been totally wrong and inappropriate to go to middle management\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "nt\"—[ interruption. ]—the right hon. Gentleman said \"middle management\"—and it would be equally wrong to go to members of a board, and ask, \"Should your chairman be sacked?\" The right hon. Gentleman is quickly casting away whatever pretentions to statesmanship he may have had. He is back almost to his Bank Rate Tribunal leak form. What an extraordinary question for a former Prime Minister to pose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.987.5", "colnum": "987", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chapman Pincher?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "he statement, and I told him that in those circumstances I would do my best to avoid any public criticism of him. It was agreed that the statement should be put out the following day, to give time for the senior management of the Post Office to be informed. In the event, however, it was necessary to release it later that night, after it had become apparent that the Press had got hold of the story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.987.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "There was no truth in the suggestion—which I have seen—that at the second meeting there was a draft statement saying that he had resigned on the ground of ill-health", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "ber for Wednesbury—that there must have been a furious row about a proposal from the Post Office to acquire Standard Telephones and Cables. There was some passing reference by, I think, the Chairman of the Board when first I arrived in the Ministry to a proposal for extending manufacturing in this way. I gave him to understand that this would not be a proposal to which I would be likely to assent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.993.3", "colnum": "993", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chataway", "preceding_text": "The telecommunications branch is showing an 8½ per cent. return on net assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.993.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "Office Corporation, after only a few months of Conservative administration the Minister has rushed in to dismiss the Chairman of that Corporation, just as it was beginning to get into its stride. This afternoon it was revealed that the Minister had no consultations with any executives in the Post Office itself and no consultations with the Board. This is interesting. Whom did the Minister consult?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stonehouse", "preceding_text": "personality, a new morale, a new momentum, from that of the old G.P.O. I was much impressed by the leading article in The Times on Saturday which said this about Lord Hall: He is a popular man, particularly with the unions. His general competence is not in question. Apparently the Minister begs to disagree. Most people in the country would agree with The Times and will not agree with the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I will read the whole of the right hon. Gentleman's contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "much interest as did anyone else to my right hon. Friend the Member for Wednesbury (Mr. Stone-house), who did appoint him. I would only say that, for the Post Office, whatever his personal merits or demerits may be—and no one is perfect—Lord Hall represented the realisation of a dream that went back to Rowland Hill and the chance to develop the service free from the political control of Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "s by \"creative tension\", but I am sure that it is something very wise. The right hon. Gentleman went so far from the Motion as to discuss the possibility of broadcasting being given to the Leader of the House—I must say, a suggestion that I could have done without, but it seemed to have very little relevance to the Motion which is before the House. I welcome the opportunity to reply to the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-11-30", "file": "debates1970-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "dda083db11f24d5c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "POST OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "chairman for a public corporation when they have still got the present chairman there and not telling him that they have decided he should go. This is something I simply cannot understand. My right hon. Friend has made it perfectly clear that he had no policy disagreement with Lord Hall. I am certainly not going now to make a commitment on future Government policy. No one would expect me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-11-30a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1066.5", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "The reduction of income tax is not for me and it is certainly irrelevant to this Question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1066.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Gentleman must concede that there is great public concern at the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Gentleman must concede that there is great public concern at the present time—[ Interruption. ]—about the whole question of pensions provision? This is shown by the fact that a tremendous amount of public demonstration is going on at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1075.2", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "l he take the opportunity of discussing with the Prime Ministers of the Six the curious anomaly which would arise under Article 48 of the Treaty of Rome if we were to enter the Common Market; namely, that workers from the Six would have freedom of movement into Great Britain, whereas workers in Great Britain would have to have a work permit to go and work in Northern Ireland? Will he further take—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1075.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1085.4", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": " Board efficiently. Why should a new form of private enterprise run it any more efficiently? Our answer to this problem was to bring ports under public ownership. We said that a nationally efficient docks industry could be achieved only by bringing the industry under public ownership. But the Government are not even prepared to go half way. They say, \"We reject public ownership; it will not work\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1085.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "se bonds will be in a mess. I hope that my right hon. Friend will consider this point very seriously before we have a debate on the Bill. I should like my right hon. Friend and the Opposition to consider whether, when we get the information, we might have a fuller debate in a calm atmosphere. I was going to ask what the receiver of the rates would do, but I am told that that would be out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-01", "file": "debates1970-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "543035933f05f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1183.0", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "FAMILY INCOME SUPPLEMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. O'Malley", "preceding_text": "t. We welcome the Secretary of State's acceptance of the arguments that were put forward from both sides. He has thought again and given some disregards for war pensions and the attendance allowance. If he can introduce such disregards, with which we all agree, for those categories, is he not bound in equity also to introduce disregards, which are now a feature of the system, for other categories?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-01a.1183.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1294.3", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "AIRBUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "My notes of my hon. Friend's fourth question are probably less copious than those of the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " we have heard this evening were used in respect of the system to which hon. Gentlemen now want to return. I utter that cautionary word because I have had a feeling, hearing the enthusiasm with which some hon. Members have spoken, that they think that they will dispose of the issue. I do not believe that they will. In my view, what will happen if, as I gather, the Order is defeated overwhelmingly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e make more hours of daylight in the morning or in the evening, we shall not satisfy everyone. It so happens—I respect this view—that Scotland, so we are told, feels very deeply on this issue. May I say a word about the philosophy of it? The Home Secretary, who kept his head down—to the point where he is now invisible—said that he was not quite sure what the philosophy of things of this sort were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ings of this sort were. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Was.\"] All right, was. I always concede to the hon. Gentleman on a point of grammar, if on very little else. I think that the philosophy is this, if I may put it in a sentence. The majority should prevail, but they should take care not to outrage the feelings of the minorities. This is a pure matter of judgment, and, therefore, I feel that those of us who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not only Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "age the feelings of the minorities. This is a pure matter of judgment, and, therefore, I feel that those of us who—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps I ought to put it the other way. Am I not in the minority, and should I not raise my voice? The real point in terms of population is that the comparatively small population in Scotland is very adversely affected, or feels itself to be very adversely affected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1362.4", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "10 of the survey, if one isolates Scotland for this purpose, as though, between the first census in December, 1969, and the second one in February-March, 1970, rather more people thought that we should keep the new system—were not sure, but thought that perhaps we should keep it, and so on—than thought so on the first occasion. Is that not in accordance with the general experience of hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1363.3", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " the end, if I had to decide, it would be upon this basis, that on balance the majority of people in this country do not mind, but there is, I believe, a pretty well estab- lished reduction in road accidents so far as can be shown. For that reason, therefore, if a Division is called tonight, because I do not believe that we shall solve the problem and the great majority of the House is against me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1363.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "find that, when asked about it, all the governing bodies in sport responsible for the organisation of events in which people could participate were overwhelmingly in favour of the extra hour. It is worth noting the numbers involved. On any Saturday in this country there are more people playing soccer, our national game, than are to be found watching it. Every Saturday 1 million people play soccer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wigg.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "he winter. In addition, there are the great sports industries. I have a great deal of sympathy with them, but their case is not as important as that of the people actively participating in sports. We need to think about the sports which are having difficulty surviving. Horseracing comes to mind at once as a sport which is in a perilous state at the moment. I hesitate to advance Treasury arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1378.1", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "One matter which pleases me is that the support for National Hunt racing far transcends that for flat racing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1379.2", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "to be, that it is in the interests of racing that we have a good attendance at the race track, it must be self-evident that the extra hour is of great importance. So it is with other spectator sports—particularly association football and rugby. It is clear that it matches have to start early or, alternatively, have to play on into the dark with floodlighting and so on, the effect upon attendances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": "d is precisely one hour. That is the ratio whether one lives in the far North of Scotland, the North-East of England, in the South or in any other part of the country. There is only one hour's difference. Bearing this in mind, it is extraordinary how the Scottish argument has come into the picture. If anything, it is an argument not against B.S.T. but against living in Scotland in the winter time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mackie", "preceding_text": "n to have an extra hour of leisure. We had the same argument many years ago when we had Double Summer Time. This extra hour enables many people, including my constituents, to, for example, dig the allotment or collect the cabbages. In any event, in Scotland I know many of my neighbours who make this claim, who are self-employed, who are able to take the day off to do a spot of fishing or shooting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynoro Jones", "preceding_text": "nterested or they are apathetic. The White Paper tells us that about 68 per cent. of people cannot give a reason one way or another why they are against or in favour of British Standard Time. Generally speaking, they are apathetic. We are concerned about the people who matter, and the people who matter are those who have to get up in the morning, builders, agricultural workers, farmers, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1397.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "I sense that the House wishes to come to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "e made their maiden speeches today. They brought the views of their constituents to the debate and showed how strong is the concern felt in their own areas on this matter. There are a few questions on which several of us have hoped for an answer. For instance, I did not succeed in interrupting the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), and neither did anyone else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "ir own areas on this matter. There are a few questions on which several of us have hoped for an answer. For instance, I did not succeed in interrupting the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), and neither did anyone else—[ Interruption. ]—and the hon. Member for Gloucestershire, West (Mr. Loughlin) asked for elucidation upon one matter which should be gone into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "search Laboratory is saying in it not that there has been a reduction in casualties as a result of British Standard Time but that it thinks that if there had been Greenwich Mean Time during the winters concerned more people would have been killed. That is not statistics but an expression of opinion. It is just the Road Research Laboratory saying, \"We think that more people would have been killed.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-02", "file": "debates1970-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "088a2ddb388ac78e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.4", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH STANDARD TIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ably satisfied about that, and that hon. Members on both sides will take the United Kingdom view of the subject and vote in a way that will show that we are as thoughtful and as mindful of the interests of the further reaches of this Kingdom as we are of the coastal resorts mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Thanet (Mr. Rees-Davies). I hope that the House will now reach a decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-02a.1417.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1458.6", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that from 1st July to 1st December this year he transferred no fewer than 148 Questions to other Ministers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1458.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "799, columns 1570 to 1571, when my right hon. Friend answered a Question about a Royal Commission on a matter directly related to the responsibility of another Department, and this procedure was following by his predecessors in 1963 and 1955. I have tried to show that it is a convention of the British Constitution, derived from the Royal Prerogative, that the Prime Minister accepts responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "nclusion of the Second Reading of this Bill. Obviously, there could be no question of where it went until it had successfully gained a Second Reading. As for the Committee stage, the Government have very seriously considered the fundamental importance of this Bill and all the issues which are involved. They have decided that the Committee stage of this Bill will be taken on the Floor of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1471.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1494.8", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Robert Grant-Ferris)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Dingle Foot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1494.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1495.3", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "I hasten to assure you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I will never hold it against you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1499.0", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "pposite. The hon. Gentleman has added to the dangers by his announcement today. On top of what has happened in the coalfields over the past month, on top of the Bill being thrown at the miners, by the announcement of the ending of the restrictions on the import of coal, not for a period merely of two or three months but to March, 1972, the Government are asking for fresh trouble in the coalfields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1499.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1505.3", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " next few weeks the Government will receive from every major organisation in the coal industry demands that they should withdraw these offensive Clauses, but they will not perhaps yield to them because their attitude to the National Coal Board is part of a general strategy of attack on the nationalised industries, cheered on by some of their followers, which is extremely dangerous for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1505.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1507.1", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way any more. There are a good many hon. Gentlemen opposite who will want to have the oportunity to take part in this debate. The hon. Gentleman will under this Bill have absolute discretion to question the Minister about denationalising by open public sale of non-coalmining activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1511.3", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "advocated by every Conservative candidate throughout the country, namely, to reduce the area of public ownership. If there is any doubt about coalmining areas supporting this policy, I should only mention that the biggest swing to the Conservatives throughout the whole of Britain was at Cannock, Staffordshire, where a Labour majority of 11,500 in 1966 was turned into a 1,500 Conservative majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1511.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1513.4", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "thead price of equivalent bituminous coal in this country. Therefore, the Coal Board suffered a dreadful trading loss in the year concerned. Those were the facts. Nobody is disputing them. Hon. Gentlemen opposite can go away and look them up. The situation this time when coal is imported will be entirely different. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will correct me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1513.4", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": " concerned. Those were the facts. Nobody is disputing them. Hon. Gentlemen opposite can go away and look them up. The situation this time when coal is imported will be entirely different. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry will correct me—[ Interruption. ] Please let me continue. My right hon. Friend who is sitting here listening to me will correct me if I am wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1513.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1514.1", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "assent. If the Coal Board wishes to import and resell coal it may do so, but most of the coal will be imported by private traders. They will pay for it, they will shoulder the risk, they will settle the resale margins, they will sell to the merchants, and the merchants will sell to the consumers. Thus, no loss will be entailed by the National Coal Board due to private merchants importing the coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1515.4", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "There is no repetition whatever of my earlier speech. What the hon. Gentleman apparently remembers is my reference then to \"Bronowski bullets\". That is the vernacular, of course. I was pleased to see the back of Bronowski, who spent most of his time televising and not carrying out his duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1519.3", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "For being a thorough-going Tory, which is what I like about him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1526.2", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "t that industry to pay the same sort of competitive wages that private industry is paying. They used to say in the nineteenth century that the British Empire was a kind of outdoor relief for the upper classes. I am not certain whether, in the twentieth century, the unions have not adopted the same principle and are treating the nationalised industries as a sort of outdoor relief for their members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1529.1", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman well knows, I am in no position to give any such assurance. As the Minister said, these Clauses enable there to be an overall review of the Board's activities. The Board's principal activity is to win coal. It was not set up primarily to run a brickworks, nor even to take an option on North Sea gas. Why should it be involved in the activities of its competitors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1529.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " about four tons per minute are regularly produced and considering that about 55 per cent. of the cost of a ton of coal is accounted for by labour costs. In my view, there is something alarming in the figures of the Annual Report. The increase in output per man-year between 1968 and 1969 was 9·7 per cent., but the increase in the year ending 30th March, 1970 was down to 0·6 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " profit as a matter of course. The story which I am about to unfold is, I suggest, disturbing, and it must make us all wonder whether everything is as right as it could be on the mechanisation front. I hope that the Minister will investigate the matter which I am about to put to the House. It concerns the point of the pick. For many generations, miners used a double pick mounted on a wooden shaft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1553.0", "colnum": "1553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "assistance from the Minister in explaining that. I do not much like Clause 8. When I was speaking from the benches opposite I asked that the accounts of the subsidiaries of the National Coal Board should be published as an appendix to or as part of the N.C.B. report. I still hold that view. Although I have immense confidence in my hon. Friend on the Front Bench, he will not always be the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "I have already said that it is precluded from doing so by the 1946 Act. The law of this land does not allow private enterprise to go into mining unless it employs 15 men or less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "icals. While the National Coal Board has been thinking about other things seriously valuable opportunities have gone under the bridge. I am liberal in my thoughts. I am prepared to endorse the getting of coal and to support the National Coal Board doing it even in Australia. That is hewing and getting of coal. But mines abroad could be profitable and would be within the main business of the Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shell.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": " main business of the Board—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps the hon. Member can be woken up. We have been dealing with Clauses 6, 7 and 8, and it is important that we should deal with these things. The hon. Member for Ebbw Vale said that my right hon. Friend was a director of B.P., or had been. I wish that the hon. Member could get his facts right. My right hon. Friend has never been a director of B.P.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are known.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "Yes, I will be perfectly fair. I have no interest in oil that I should declare to this House. If I had an interest to declare, I know the Rules of the House and I would declare it. But I know one thing—28 or 30 hon. Members are associated with the mines. Have they in turn declared their interests on this occasion? Not a bit of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": "hequer. That is not an amount to be sniffed at. It is about two-pence on the standard rate of income tax, or something like that. Nobody would deny that the nationalised coal industry has undergone tremendous changes since 1947. The aim of the last Government was to see how far we could bring about a modernised coal industry in a four-fuel energy economy which would have a long term viable future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "n. No application has been received for converting Tilbury, so that question is not being considered. West Thurrock and Hams Hall were both converted to dual firing; these were two of the biggest power stations. Therefore, if the situation should change, this allows for extra coal to be burned in power stations. It is inevitable at a time when coal is short that power stations should be converted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1591.3", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " industry who would otherwise change to burning other fuels. If there is a surplus again in the future, we can revert to more restrictive measures. There will always be a limit on the amount of opencast coal that can be mined, because, apart from the questions of amenity and agricultural use of the land, there are the social considerations which must be borne in mind before a decision can be taken", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "oal Board, Session 1968–69: Your Committee believe that ancillary activities should not be continued indefinitely unless they show a good return on the capital employed. In some cases, such as that of the brickworks and the coke ovens, the Board might be losers if they ceased the activities because they would lose outlets for products from the mines. This fact should be taken into account\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "uch as that of the brickworks and the coke ovens, the Board might be losers if they ceased the activities because they would lose outlets for products from the mines. This fact should be taken into account\"— [ Interruption. ] in assessing the return on capital, but it should not be used to circumvent the requirement that the capital should be profitably employed. Your Committee are not impressed\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1594.3", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "the capital should be profitably employed. Your Committee are not impressed\"— [ Interruption. ] by the financial performances of the brickworks and the subsidiary companies (taken as a whole) judged by this yardstick. Even the coke ovens and the processed fuel manufacturing concerns are yielding low returns on capital employed, and Your Committee hope that the performance of all these activities\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1594.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1596.4", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Look at the time!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins (Treasurer of Her Majesty's Household)", "preceding_text": "rose in his place and claimed to move, That the Question be now put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1608.5", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "questions of coal burn and assistance to the National Coal Board to deal with pit closures. These two topics have been of foremost interest to hon. Members from mining constituencies. The Government well knew that—and if they did not know it before, they know it after today's debate. Yet they have introduced the Bill in a form that will prevent these matters being voted on in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1608.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1609.1", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Such amendments would be excluded by the Money Resolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is spoiling it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "course of testing not only its flying capabilities but also the effects of its supersonic flight at ground level. Through the post this morning I happened to receive the sonic bangs exclusion clause from my insurance company for my own house in Cornwall. I can remember so often being told by very knowledgeable right hon. Gentlemen opposite when they formed that magnificent Government whose memory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-03", "file": "debates1970-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c4a9fb9505d09c39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS (ILLEGAL EVICTION AND HARASSMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "less unattractive, and the provision of rent allowances which eliminate the friction that may arise where many tenants are unable to pay the rent because they have not got the money—will have a great rôle to play in curing the problems of illegal eviction and harassment. We are engaged in a genuine revolution. There may be a disagreement about whether we are engaged in the right revolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-03a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-07", "file": "debates1970-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e5b8ef633502b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that two minutes ago I was refused a Question by the Table on the ground that it referred to what the previous Administration had done and that I cannot ask the present Government to be responsible for what the previous Administration did?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-07", "file": "debates1970-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e5b8ef633502b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnes", "preceding_text": "In view of the apparent state of public opinion on this matter, does not the right hon. and learned Gentleman think that the time has come for the Government to give more of a lead? Is it not very odd that, on the one hand, the negotiations should be going very well, but, on the other hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-07", "file": "debates1970-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e5b8ef633502b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "HORTICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "ortable heaters. My hon. Friend asked a question about bulk bins which I have noted carefully. We will try to administer this as fairly and as properly as we can. He also drew attention to the good, attendance on this side of the House for this debate. I wonder whether, perhaps, it does not have something to do with the debate which is to come rather than the debate in which we are now interested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-07", "file": "debates1970-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e5b8ef633502b826", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "CLYDE ESTUARY (INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "nth. I do not object to any Minister giving advance information to the Press and stating that at a certain date he will make a decision. What I object to is that, although we have been trying in Parliament and in other ways to get a decision from the Secretary of State, we find that he gives his decision in private to journalists, a decision which he refused to give to right hon. and hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-07a.208.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "For as long as they keep contributing to the Tory Party.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "How much longer is the Minister going to be so tender towards his friends in the brewing industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.225.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.241.6", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH (GUILDHALL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raphael Tuck", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that unless he alters the philosophy embodied in, or the policies flowing from, that Guildhall speech, he will go down in history as Robin Hood in reverse, because whereas Robin Hood robbed the rich and gave their money to the poor, the right hon. Gentleman is robbing the poor and giving their money to the rich?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.241.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH (GUILDHALL)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right, and the country is now realising that the action which is being taken today is causing not only inconvenience but also grave hardship to individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.247.6", "colnum": "247", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Davies)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Davies)", "preceding_text": "he cuts will be. The Government, for their part, are taking steps to see that the use of electricity by public authorities is reduced so far as is practicable. I have also set up an operations room in my Department, manned 24 hours a day. This is ready to give guidance to public and local authorities, and industrial and other organisations, as well as to the public through the broadcasting system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.247.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.249.2", "colnum": "249", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "answer the substantive points made by the hon. Gentleman. It is incorrect to say that the Government are quite unprepared to take any action in this matter. On the contrary, the Department of Employment has seen both sides in this dispute and is closely in touch with them. The Government will undoubtedly keep a close and continuous watch on the whole situation and take such action as is necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unstatesmanlike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman confirmed that back-tracking. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware also that this dispute has been made much more difficult and bitter by the repeated indications given by a number of Minis- ters that they were looking forward to this dispute because this would be the one which was the showdown? The right hon. Gentleman will not deny that this has been the systematic story put out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.253.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made some very telling speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.258.5", "colnum": "258", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an average increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.260.1", "colnum": "260", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that remark completely indicates the false and irresponsible nature of the right hon. Gentleman's approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.260.3", "colnum": "260", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—with awards which are being made to senior public servants which have had to be handled over a period of four years. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the electricity industry had an award of 10 per cent. last year, is now claiming 20 per cent. this year, which is completely unjustified, and has been offered 10 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.260.6", "colnum": "260", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Inflation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Eric S. Heffer) is not going to be able to shout me down, because he is not now at a trade union meeting. The right hon. Gentleman therefore knows that the percentages are not comparable in any way at all. So far as the judiciary is concerned, the figure ranges, broadly speaking, from 25 per cent. downwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.260.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have stated no target figures for the public service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have stated no target figures for the public service. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There is no point in the Leader of the Opposition holding his hands to his head because it is not going to help his head. It is his head as well as his honour that needs some attention in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry to have to pursue this, but if an hon. Member questions the honour of another hon. Member, whether that Member is right hon. or hon., and if the modesty of the Member to whom it is addressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "—[ Interruption. ]—I have sufficient respect for this House on issues of this kind to believe that this is important—if the attitude of the Member concerned compels him not to take offence when his honour is questioned, then surely it is implicit in your Ruling that the remark then ceases to be unparliamentary. Where do we go from here? It is a sad day for democracy when we get this sort of thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "JUDICIARY, SENIOR OFFICERS OF ARMED FORCES AND PUBLIC SERVANTS (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "cient respect for this House on issues of this kind to believe that this is important—if the attitude of the Member concerned compels him not to take offence when his honour is questioned, then surely it is implicit in your Ruling that the remark then ceases to be unparliamentary. Where do we go from here? It is a sad day for democracy when we get this sort of thing—[ Interruption. ]—it really is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-08", "file": "debates1970-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "08ede8d137285fc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HIGHWAYS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "ywright, Joan Littlewood, who has put on some marvellous shows. \"Stratford-upon-East\", which is right in the centre of London, has a straying cattle problem. The animals stray from Epping Forest and Wanstead Flats. My constituents do not have large gardens, but some of them have little cabbage patches at the back of the houses. They may come out one morning and find the cows eating their cabbages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-08a.307.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware how clearly these figures demonstrate how essential it is that products like aircraft, which are of a high added value—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.398.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AVIATION SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In view of the lack of light, the hon. Gentleman cannot possibly be reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.414.6", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think that the best course at this time is to say that of course this would naturally be one of the things which the Review Body could perfectly well consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.414.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.419.3", "colnum": "419", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.419.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.420.4", "colnum": "420", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Why not today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.420.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.420.7", "colnum": "420", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for conceding that I am usually reasonable. But I must say to him that this is not yet the Reichstag and that he must expect to be interrupted if he makes a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.420.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.421.4", "colnum": "421", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I should like to continue, if I may, to put this point to the Leader of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.421.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "mission to the House. I still think it reasonable. If I upset the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South- East (Mr. Callaghan) I quite understand. Equally, perhaps, it is reasonable for me to say that he rather upset me. But I am prepared to forget that, as I am sure he is. I am being perfectly reasonable. I will communicate with my right hon. Friends that there is a desire for a statement tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.421.5", "colnum": "421", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "y right hon. Friends that there is a desire for a statement tomorrow. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"] I have noted what the House says and I will communicate with my right hon. Friends, but I cannot guarantee that the statement will be made today. It will depend on circumstances. If a statement should be made tomorrow rather than today, it shall be made tomorrow. I think that is a reasonable proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.421.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Speaker, on the point of order and ask whether it would be convenient, if the Leader of the House and the Secretary of State concluded that the statement should be made today, for business to be interrupted. In pursuing this point of order, I must say that it has come as an extreme surprise to this side of the House that a single day should go by without the Government coming to the House at 3.30—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": ", if the Leader of the House and the Secretary of State concluded that the statement should be made today, for business to be interrupted. In pursuing this point of order, I must say that it has come as an extreme surprise to this side of the House that a single day should go by without the Government coming to the House at 3.30—[ Interruption. ]—and volunteering a statement without being pressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.422.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Send for Davies.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It was to have been a Supply Day but I understand that the usual channels agreed to transfer the business from that of Supply to a debate on the Adjournment on the topic of foreign affairs. Any hon. Member who is called in a debate on the Adjournment can raise what subject he likes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.425.5", "colnum": "425", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. May I point out that the Leader of the House is responsible primarily to the House rather than the Government? As the Minister involved has been making provocative, biased and unhelpful statements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be the desire of most hon. Members to avoid a ragged debate on foreign affairs. However, it will be possible for various matters of great importance to be raised. May I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman now reconsiders the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that it would be the desire of most hon. Members to avoid a ragged debate on foreign affairs. However, it will be possible for various matters of great importance to be raised. May I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman now reconsiders the matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—I am putting a point for the good order of our business today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. The Leader of the House is not seized of the feelings of the House in all quarters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.429.2", "colnum": "429", "heading": "MEDICAL INSPECTION (EVIDENCE OF DRUG-TAKING) (SCHOOL PUPILS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "horise medical inspection of pupils in attendance at any school maintained by them to be conducted without notice given to the said pupils or to their parents or guardians. It is a marvellous thing about British parliamentary democracy that sandwiched between these vitally important issues and foreign affairs an hon. Member can intervene with a Ten-Minute Rule Bill, and I will do so as succinctly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the statement is totally unsatisfactory?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the statement is totally unsatisfactory? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Is he aware that, by deciding to make an example of the power workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "Gentleman aware that the statement is totally unsatisfactory? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] Is he aware that, by deciding to make an example of the power workers—[ Interruption. ]—as a reward for the years of peaceful co-operation they have given in the provision of electricity supply, and by failing to see that the area boards made proper contingency plans to meet the consequences of this showdown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "May I have leave to speak again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "May I have leave to speak again? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We have not sought any showdown with this industry or any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "May I have leave to speak again? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We have not sought any showdown with this industry or any other. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I must remind the right hon. Lady that she herself produced to this House a White Paper which said that the wage increases for 1970 should be within the bracket of 2½ to 4½ per cent. In this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.4", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "With leave of the House, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he is aware that the policy we presented to the House was a productivity, prices and incomes policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.5", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "s: when an industry has an agreed procedure it is, in my view, and, I should have thought, in the view of many Min inters of Labour of both parties before me, right to try and see and persuade the industry to use its own procedure on which it has agreed. As to what may happen now, I ask the House—at least, I ask any hon. Members who are more interested in getting a settlement than causing trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.510.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "s, \"We have offered 10 per cent.\", in which \"we\" must mean the Government, for it is a Minister who is speaking? Is it in fact the Government who have offered 10 per cent. and who are standing on it, or have the employers some degree of negotiating freedom? Finally I put this to the right hon. Gentleman. He will be aware, as the whole House is aware, of the concern about the position of hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Industrial Relations Bill\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "r other agreed form of arbitration and that the employers' side tried and wished to take that initiative, but it was not acceptable to the unions. I presume that the employers could have insisted on doing so, but I ask the right hon. Gentleman and the House whether it is sensible for one side to push ahead with arbitration like that against the wish, or at least the willingness, of the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.513.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tell the truth.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman's statement that both sides of the House would stress to the unions the importance of resuming normal working if all parties were agreed to, say, the court of inquiry, or any other means. I will hear this in mind and I thank the right hon. Gentleman for saying what he did. I should thank him a great deal more deeply if he showed a little more care in some of his other remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House. I have not studied or seen that statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.515.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.515.0", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House. I have not studied or seen that statement—[ Interruption. ] I am not disputing that my right hon. Friend said it. It is quite clear what the Electricity Council has offered. We do not need his nit-picking on words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.515.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.516.8", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the kernel of this problem is the refusal of the unions to go to arbitration? Did not the unions tell the right hon. Gentleman that the reason why they would not go to arbitration was that he and his right hon. Friends had preempted any satisfactory agreement coming from any arbitration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.516.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that many of us on this side of the House feel that any inflationary settlement is a direct fraud on old-age pensioners in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godber", "preceding_text": "ferences which have stimulated a great deal of hope, but the hope has not been justified. I remember from my experience the excitement aroused when there was talk of complete and general disarmament and the setting up of the 18-Power Conference in Geneva. We went wearily on month after month. That conference still exists and continues. It has achieved something; it would be silly to say otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.556.3", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "ve been or are taking any of these drugs. I do not think that there is a test which can be directed \"solely\" to this end. Even if there were, what about the other things which might be shown by the test—leukaemia, diabetes or anything else? Is the medical officer to deny them and pretend that they do not exist? Then there is the point about presumption of guilt by association. We have always said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.556.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman described rather vaguely the sort of secure conditions which he had in mind. The fact that this idea comes from the Magistrates' Association does not weigh heavily with me. I do not think that magistrates are the repositories of all wisdom on this or any other matter which they discuss. There are a lot of rather fuddy-duddy people in the Magistrates' Association who are not in touch—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-09", "file": "debates1970-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "05b9d688c40dfdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MISUSE OF DRUGS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "We have done our work on the Bill expeditiously, and, in some ways, I think it rather hard that we should be required to take the concluding stages at this hour of the morning. We are engaged on a valuable and important debate, and I think that it might have been more profitably held at some other time of day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-09a.614.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.652.4", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that since this great British motorcar combine was formed, it has had only three weeks without an industrial dispute in its organisation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing has changed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "et but with understanding the decision you have taken. It is hardly necessary to say that you occupy a great position which stretches back to the 14th century. You are, I believe, the 142nd occupant of the Chair. Before the office of Speaker your predecessors were known as Procurators, and Peter de Montfort in the 13th century presided over what was known as the Mad Parliament which sat at Oxford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.674.0", "colnum": "674", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "e 14th century. You are, I believe, the 142nd occupant of the Chair. Before the office of Speaker your predecessors were known as Procurators, and Peter de Montfort in the 13th century presided over what was known as the Mad Parliament which sat at Oxford. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Nothing has changed.\"] We hope that you will not only turn to literature but that you will subsequently publish your memoirs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that yesterday in the Welsh Grand Committee the Government sustained an overwhelming defeat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.680.7", "colnum": "680", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "d the Secretary of State for the Environment to make a statement next week about an apparent change of attitude in the practice of meeting back benchers? Is he aware that the Prime Minister and his right hon. Friend have refused to meet a deputation of Labour hon. Members representing Northern constituencies—a group of 29 Northern hon. Members—unless that group includes Conservative back benchers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.680.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.682.0", "colnum": "682", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Short", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the principle goes a little further than merely suggesting that it would be a good idea for there to be an all-party meeting? In fact, the Secretary of State for the Environment has written a letter in which he refuses to meet this northern group of Labour hon. Members unless they are accompanied by Conservative hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Does not that statement confirm how unwise and ungenerous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " to define. Normal negotiations, according to the procedure agreed in the industry, mean that when negotiations have broken down there should be recourse to arbitration. That was the point that I was investigating yesterday. I regretted, and still regret, that the normal course of negotiations has not been followed, certainly through no fault of either the Electricity Council or of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.685.3", "colnum": "685", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": " is a real hope that we can get not arbitration, not an industrial court, which both sides discussed yesterday, but a resumption of normal working under certain conditions? The right hon. Gentleman is right, I think, to stress that we should not press him further on that matter. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware, however, that those of us who have been trying to get a resumption of normal working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.685.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.687.2", "colnum": "687", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "I put this question to the right hon. Gentleman last night. I said that some of us were confused about it and asked him to state the position. I asked whether it was not a fact that under the agreement the employers could go to arbitration on their own. I was not clear about that from what the right hon. Gentleman said last night. What I said today was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.687.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.687.4", "colnum": "687", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On either side.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "nderstand. I may have slightly misled the House last night, and I apologise if I did. The position is not that either side can demand arbitration, but that if it is moved in the Council and a majority is in favour, which normally means if one side votes for it, then if there is a proper, formal meeting of the Council in which that is moved by either side, and if there is a majority of the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.687.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "What about blackmail?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "tions are met, then the arbitration goes forward against the will of the minority and the results are binding. But for that to happen there must be a proper meeting of the Council, and, as I have said, the members did not come back. We know about these things in the House. Therefore, there was not a properly constituted meeting of the Council in which the employers could formally move that motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.688.2", "colnum": "688", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Whilst I do not want to press my right hon. Friend, will he bear in mind that although this go-slow, which has been on for only a few days, is still thoroughly unpopular with the general public. I had a letter this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.703.5", "colnum": "703", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ctly what my hon. Friend is saying. We know that there are problems in certain surpluses. The chances are that in the Community for a period of years up to 1978 some things will go out of surplus and new things will go into it. We have been concerned to express the definite dependence of New Zealand on its exports of dairy products, butter and cheese, and we have put forward proposals accordingly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.703.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.707.3", "colnum": "707", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for his anxiety. We must carry on under difficulties. I said yesterday that for centuries the House has carried on under difficulties compared with which these are nothing. I still hope that in spite of what the hon. Member has said we may have a greater number of lights. I understood that there was to be an attempt to hang some from the Lobbies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": "payer and the domestic ratepayer. I spoke of the speech made by the hon. Member for Poole two years ago. I look forward very much to a speech from him tonight. Two years ago he said: It is utterly wrong that the rates should be treated by the Government as a substitute for taxes.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 9th December, 1968; Vol. 775, c. 74.] We shall have some extremely interesting questions to ask him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-10", "file": "debates1970-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "6b2ab3ce850d6e54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATE SUPPORT GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maddan", "preceding_text": "s guilty before. In considering these Orders we must start from the economic position in which the country as a whole finds itself—that is one way of putting it—or, as I prefer to put it, in which every person finds himself as a result of the policies of the previous Government which led, during the last 12 months of their term of office, to the galloping inflation from which we are now suffering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-10a.737.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "There is a Bill before the other House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ut the liberalisation? The 1950 Act is divided into five Parts. What I propose is moderate. I am not concerned—I do not think that the House would primarily be concerned—with three of those Parts. I do not propose to touch Part IV, which deals with Sunday trading. I do not think that the sponsors of the Bill propose that the existing Sunday trading regulations should in any way be interfered with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Padley", "preceding_text": "ack street of Birmingham, but the cost inflation of Britain as a whole, and the Shops Act refers to Britain as a whole. The point I am making is valid: that if we abolish legal restrictions about shop hours, if shifts apply in the larger shops, extra will be paid in wages, and men and women will be withdrawn from productive industry, manufacturing industry, the only place where they can come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "I was going to develop the argument that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "I was going to develop the argument that—[ interruption. ] I am happy to develop the argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "uld be in a position to have a three-shift system and would employ young girls in the middle of the night. Does anybody suppose that any girl who has decent parents and decent standards herself will be tied to any employment which leaves her trailing on the streets at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning with all the footpads, criminals and sleazy characters about? Has the hon. Gentleman ever considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Richard Sharples)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Richard Sharples)", "preceding_text": "t of 1921 making provision for later hours for fruit, sweets, table waters and the like. These were temporary Acts, renewed annually until embodied in the Shops (Hours of Closing) Act, 1928. Further Acts relating to Sundays followed in 1936, and, finally, the present consolidating Shops Act was enacted in 1950. This did not take into account the Gowers Report, which was only considered after that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "preceding_text": "As far as I know, there has been no official comment since that legislation committee reported—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sharples", "preceding_text": "Yes, I think they can. Indeed, they are being discussed separately now. The House will have been interested to hear the views of my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Kinsey) about small shopkeepers. My hon. Friend speaks with great personal knowledge of this subject. I share his view that the small shopkeeper has nothing to fear from the introduction of this Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.896.1", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evelyn King", "preceding_text": "I seek not to argue but to state facts. I am probably the only person in the House who can state these facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.896.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Loughlin", "preceding_text": " are bound to be acutely conscious of the fact that any action taken by the Government is likely to worsen the conditions of labour of working people. I am not for one moment suggesting that hon. Gentlemen opposite are not conscious of the problem, but I am saying that by virtue of our intimate associations with various unions we are more aware of the problem than are many hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.902.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-11", "file": "debates1970-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "420bc7815aadae32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.902.3", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHOPS (WEEKDAY TRADING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Longhlin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Longhlin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is a new Member, and that is why, I did not take exception to what he did. An historical fact, which cannot be blurred, is that during the last 50 or 70 years the working hours of shop workers have been related to the legislation in force at any time. The argument for the Bill is based, apparently, on the argument of freedom for the consumer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-11a.902.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.922.4", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Thomas", "preceding_text": "Increases in pay at all levels should be dealt with on their merits", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.922.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "What day?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.961.4", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Robert Carr)", "preceding_text": "—I am convinced that they will prove unfounded. However deeply some hon. Members may disagree with the principles of these proposals, I hope that they will accept that their purpose and object is the basic one I have just stated. My right hon. Friends and I are convinced that those fears will prove unfounded and that the years will show that the Bill will increase the strength of the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.961.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Although I am sure that blatant discrimination by employers is nowadays exceptional, I believe that this support should prove valuable, particularly in certain fields where unionism has traditionally been weak and where employees have often been very uneasy about joining a union. The Bill also secures, in Clause 7, the right of any worker not to belong to a union or to any organisation of workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "n fields where unionism has traditionally been weak and where employees have often been very uneasy about joining a union. The Bill also secures, in Clause 7, the right of any worker not to belong to a union or to any organisation of workers—[ Interruption. ] I know that this is strongly disliked by many trade unionists, and I should have understood it in the context of the conditions of the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ion. The Bill also secures, in Clause 7, the right of any worker not to belong to a union or to any organisation of workers—[ Interruption. ] I know that this is strongly disliked by many trade unionists, and I should have understood it in the context of the conditions of the past—[ Interruption. ]—but in modern conditions, and in the context of a Bill which in general encourages union membership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "ship—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh yes, it does, and it will—and which, in particular, for the first time gives unions a legal right to recognition which they have never had before, I do not believe that it is necessary on grounds either of union solidarity or of good order to force people to join unions against their will, and I am sure that it cannot be justified in terms of basic personal liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": " does, and it will—and which, in particular, for the first time gives unions a legal right to recognition which they have never had before, I do not believe that it is necessary on grounds either of union solidarity or of good order to force people to join unions against their will, and I am sure that it cannot be justified in terms of basic personal liberties—[ Interruption. ]—If any hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.964.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "n. If I thought that that would happen to any grave extent I would not be recommending this Bill today. But in the \"agency shop\" proposals I believe we have struck a fair balance between an individual's right not to belong to a union, his social responsibility to contribute toward the support of the negotiations from which he benefits, and the reasonable need for discipline and order for industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "My hon, and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will no doubt deal with this technical point better than I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.969.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Anarchy.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "stantially feel no longer effectively represents them. If we are to deal and talk in terms of industrial democracy, then there is one subject about which, under controlled conditions—I emphasise, under controlled conditions—there must be occasions when those affected by decisions on negotiating rights should have the opportunity to express their approval or disapproval by means of a secret ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might ask one of my hon. Friends to deal with that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.979.9", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carr", "preceding_text": "I made a particular point at the beginning of my speech. I would have hoped, without referring to the hour at which I went to bed, that the House might have realised that the many hours of detailed preparation that I had expected to give to this speech over the last few days has not been possible. I hope that I shall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.979.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.981.3", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I will deal with it when I reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.981.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.984.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.988.5", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "hat hon. Gentlemen opposite learn a few manners for once. I repeat that, much as I sympathise with the right hon. Gentleman having had very little time to prepare his speech, none the less I find his inability to answer detailed points inexplicable. After all, he must have taken these points into account when he was drafting the Bill. I ought to know. I drafted an Industrial Relations Bill myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.988.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "rkers were not breaking the law, but merely said, grandly, as we have heard him say it so often: … we on this side of the House do not believe in the detailed application of the criminal law to industrial relations.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 11th December, 1970; Vol. 808, c. 821.] As is becoming rather usual, I am sorry to say, the right hon. Gentleman was not being entirely honest with the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "nt. If he knows his law—and if he does not, he had better start to learn it quickly because, from now on, we shall all have to employ legal advisers—he will know that a civil action could have lain in the power workers' case. Surely the right hon. Gentleman remembers Cunard v. Stacey in 1955? If he does not, he had better begin taking Lloyd's List Law Reports to bed with him, as the rest of us do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes, I shall be coming, with great pleasure, to the details of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come to them now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Yes, I shall be coming, with great pleasure, to the details of the Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I had just started when the right hon. Gentleman interrupted me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I do not want to give way because I am trying to give the House details. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to challenge me on a point I will give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "been made between those parties. \"As if\"! But there is no contract here. The essence of the contract is that it is entered into voluntarily. How different this Clause is from all the talk we had from the Prime Minister about giving this country \"freedom and responsibility\". Under this Government the unions alone will be asked to accept responsibility without freedom. Does the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.994.3", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ative Document. The right hon. Gentleman, with great panache, quoted paragraph 500: It is imperative that the number of unofficial and especially of unconstitutional strikes should be reduced and should be reduced speedily. The right hon. Gentleman claimed that this meant that Donovan was in support of the proposals in the Bill. It is typical of this Government's whole dishonesty over this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.994.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am interested to see the sudden conversion of hon. Gentlemen opposite to the Race Relations Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.999.0", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \" Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I am interested to see the sudden conversion of hon. Gentlemen opposite to the Race Relations Act. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer the question.\"] They are converted to it now. My reply to the hon. Gentleman is that what I am trying to do is to get his right hon. Friend to be frank with the House and the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "there is no more irrelevant and dangerous piece of frivolity than the right hon. Gentleman's proposals for an agency shop. Look at what the right hon. Gentleman has told us about Clauses 41 to 45. Under these Clauses, any employee covered by a bargaining unit agreement can complain that a union does not \"adequately represent\" him. If 20 per cent. of the employees support him, a ballot can be held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1001.1", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "us about Clauses 41 to 45. Under these Clauses, any employee covered by a bargaining unit agreement can complain that a union does not \"adequately represent\" him. If 20 per cent. of the employees support him, a ballot can be held. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] If a majority of those voting say that they want the union to cease representing them, it does so cease, and they can choose somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1001.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "speaking of the mood of the moment, something for which he shares responsibility. The time allowed for consultation on the Bill was far too short. Admittedly the Government had already put it in \"Fair Deal at Work\", but legislation starts with an election and the fact is that the trade unions consider that they have been sharply dealt with. It has to be borne in mind that the trade union movement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "ity. The time allowed for consultation on the Bill was far too short. Admittedly the Government had already put it in \"Fair Deal at Work\", but legislation starts with an election and the fact is that the trade unions consider that they have been sharply dealt with. It has to be borne in mind that the trade union movement—[ Interruption. ]—was of itself born of a voteless peasantry and proletariat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1040.5", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "Of course I have read the Clause and I have already pointed out, I think accurately, its effect. It is there for all to see in elementary language —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1040.5", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "Of course I have read the Clause and I have already pointed out, I think accurately, its effect. It is there for all to see in elementary language —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—well, fairly elementary language. It is quite clear that the effect of the Clause is to create the presumption—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1040.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "The purpose is to give people the choice. I now go to the next point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says it is not a fine. Call a spade a spade. It is a fine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "forceability of contracts. My view is that there will be very few agreements which will not contain clauses saying that they are not enforceable, because the trade unions will not otherwise accept them. That industry should operate without proper agreements is not conducive to good industrial relations in the future. If we have enforceable agreements, how shall we deal with real human experiences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Let me tell hon. Gentlemen what happened on one building site on a bitterly cold morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I thought, Mr. Speaker, for one moment that I was talking to building trade operatives. They, of course, understand the word \"you\". On this particular site on a bitterly cold morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1062.3", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "n a blacksmith's shop in which the extractor machinery was not working properly. For months those workers said to that employer, \"Get that extractor machinery operating to clear the fumes\". One elderly worker was so affected by the fumes that he collapsed and the men stopped work. Under the provisions of this Bill with an enforceable agreement, those workers would have been breaking the agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1062.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1064.4", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did not you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "If right hon. and hon. Gentlemen were really concerned about legislation dealing with grievance procedures, they could have adopted the Bill brought in by my right hon. Friend before 18th June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1064.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1064.4", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" In Place of Strife?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "If right hon. and hon. Gentlemen were really concerned about legislation dealing with grievance procedures, they could have adopted the Bill brought in by my right hon. Friend before 18th June. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why did not you?\"] Hon. Gentlemen, particularly new Members, must understand that there was a Bill before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1064.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1069.3", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not think we will. Indeed, by common consent, these proposals will work rather better than the hon. Gentleman thinks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1069.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "That is a matter which will have to be considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Because we think that that is a better definition. I know what the right hon. Lady is getting at. She is trying to imply that the Government are rigging the court and putting in their own appointees. Can she tell me how many judges were appointed in the time of her right hon. Friend, and who appointed them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "would be the final stand on industrial relations, and then the volte-face of June, 1969, and that minuscule, emasculated Bill which was introduced but never saw the light of day and was not debated because of the General Election. The right hon. Lady cannot kid the country, because she has forfeited her right to speak on this subject. She is utterly discredited on industrial relations legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The test of the Bill lies in three questions—Is it fair? Is it necessary? Is it workable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-14", "file": "debates1970-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "1f66615374ff9200", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ike record will not be cured in a matter of months, that it will gradually begin to make its influence felt and that more and more trade unionists will appreciate it. I believe that the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress have sadly misjudged this programme. The Bill will strengthen trade unions; it will not weaken them. It will give unparalled opportunities for increasing their membership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-14a.1074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1094.9", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that although this might be regarded as the usual Answer to the usual Question, there is far more than the usual interest in his first Budget? Is he further aware that there is a widespread confidence that this will prove to be the first of a series of Conservative Budgets which during the period of this Parliament will seek to simplify the tax system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1094.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Well read.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "Would the Chancellor of the Exchequer not agree that this welcome and substantial increase in national savings since the advent of the present Government is a very clear manifestation of the confidence of the people in the handling by this Government of our economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1098.6", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Le Marchant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Le Marchant", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware what an advantage it would be to the insurance industry if it were exempted from paying short-term capital gains tax, and equally if unit trusts were exempted from capital gains tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1098.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1098.7", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "Certainly I will take into account the point made by my hon. Friend in the general review of this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1098.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1105.3", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that. If the Opposition want to help to get down the level of unemployment, they might get into line with public opinion and speak out against excessive wage claims and support the Industrial Relations Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1105.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1105.6", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "While the right hon. Gentleman may be right in saying that the increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1105.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1106.3", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "It will be too late then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "While reducing the money supply will obviously have an unfavourable effect on industrial investment and the Government would not want to take action before Christmas, may I ask my right hon. Friend to give an undertaking to look most carefully at the amount of money supply in January, because it may be necessary then to take stringent action?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1106.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1106.6", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have no reason to resile from the view expressed by my right hon. Friends and myself regarding the doctors' claim. In the circumstances of that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1106.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1106.6", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barber", "preceding_text": "I have no reason to resile from the view expressed by my right hon. Friends and myself regarding the doctors' claim. In the circumstances of that time—[ Interruption. ]—when his right hon. Friend who was then Secretary of State for Social Services was talking about the economy being in peril—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1106.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1107.2", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loveridge", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware of the great satisfaction felt throughout the country that efficient companies in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1107.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1116.7", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Would not the right hon. Gentleman reconsider his decision and take the opportunity provided by a television broadcast of explaining to old-age pensioners, homeless families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1116.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL (TELLERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "at point of order. I am grateful for your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. I did not know it was coming and I had not therefore come armed with information which I should like to put before you at the earliest opportunity. Some months ago on a Friday in this House on the Conservation of Seals Bill, when the people involved did precisely the same sort of thing that I did last week—for which I do not apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1120.10", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL (TELLERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is the most ingenious point of order I have heard for some time, but it does not correspond with the history of the case. Sir Gerald Nabarro—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1120.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1126.4", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": " listen to mis-statements which cannot be corrected at the time. You said that it can be raised in the course of the debate, but you know perfectly well, Mr. Speaker, with due respect, that this depends on who is called during the debate. Nobody can have a guarantee. My hon. Friend the Member for Derby, South, as a representative of the T.S.S.A. in the House, has a special standing in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1126.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. Edward Heath)", "preceding_text": "of disillusion which have shown that it is a futile hope to expect that those concerned will be able to deal with the problems which undeniably exist. The second reason is that at the outset there was a prevailing feeling that this was an area in which the rôle of the law was almost negligible and in which there was very little room for improving the situation by new and better legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". What I cannot understand is the position of those like the right hon. Lady the Member for Blackburn who still argue that case today. There has been a deterioration in the standard of industrial relations so marked and so damaging as, in my view, to undermine the whole basis of that traditional argument. There are still those who argue that the law should not be brought into industrial relations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1131.1", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How many injunctions have there been?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " employers quite justifiably and successfully. The unions have never hesitated to use such rights as they have when they thought it appropriate to do so. There are far more injunctions against unions today than are recognised publicly or in this House. Those injunctions are, almost without exception, observed by the unions because they are law-respecting bodies when the law is brought into action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1131.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " our production. It takes no account whatever of what those of us who meet the employers and leading trades unions know, and that is the burden it places upon them individually in handling these problems constantly and in knowing all the time that the next problem cannot be far away. No longer will it be necessary to go on strike over a man's dismissal. Is not that an advantage? An orderly method—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "en it places upon them individually in handling these problems constantly and in knowing all the time that the next problem cannot be far away. No longer will it be necessary to go on strike over a man's dismissal. Is not that an advantage? An orderly method—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry if there are some who do not wish to see these things resolved in an orderly way. What the Bill does is to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who? Name them.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "are broken despite the union's effort, then provided the union uses its best endeavours to persuade its members to return to work, neither the union nor the official union leaders will be liable to compensation awards. The official union leadership, therefore, will be in a much stronger position to deal with troublemakers. Again, it is something for which moderate union leadership has been asking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Employers themselves will be able to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1140.7", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am trying to meet the wish of the House that as many hon. Members as possible should be able to take part in the debate. I just wish to say that when I am asked to name particular individual union leaders, I do not wish to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1140.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said that moderate trade union leaders have long been asking for their own position to be strengthened. There is no doubt about that, and those of us who have talked and dealt with them know that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1143.0", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I have summarised what has been revealed and commented upon amply in the Press and which has also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1143.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "Mr. David James (Dorset, North) rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "each of us must bring his own judgment to bear on these questions. I disagree with the Under-Secretary of State, but my first observation is that this is a bad time to be discussing a Bill of this kind at all, and this is an important aspect of the matter on which the Prime Minister failed to comment. The atmosphere at present is distinctly unfavourable for the introduction of a Bill of this kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1144.2", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "r is that the Government are visibly failing in the main purpose of government, and I believe that in due course they will be dismissed for it, probably sooner than many expect. We wish to be fair, even in a debate such as this which rouses considerable emotion and controversy. Admittedly, the Government inherited noticeable trends towards inflation. This was brought about by only partial success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1156.1", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "od job and then come home and make an excellent job of running a home. When I have an opportunity to go to the football field in Swansea to see the City win, I come up the road with the blokes, ordinary people like myself, some of the 10 million. The right hon. Gentleman should have a care electorally because they have families; they have votes. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman has forgotten that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McBride", "preceding_text": "r into the works. I wonder whether hon. Members opposite have thought that running through the trade union movement like a golden thread has been the undoubted courage and ability of my forebears in the trade union movement. The direct political forebears of hon. Members opposite repressed and victimised my people and ostracised them socially. But with the courage that is legendary we won the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " registered automatically for the first three months of the Bill's operation. If unions decide not to register in the future, they must contract out. The discussions throughout the union movement now is on whether unions should contract out of the whole process of registration; and the unions' views will be put to the T.U.C. on 16th or 18th March. All of them recognise that there are difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hanson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hanson", "preceding_text": "t of advice which Sir Winston Churchill is reputed to have given to a new Member who sought the advice of that great man about when he should make his maiden speech. It is said that the new Member was astonished to receive the advice, \"Never, Sir\", and that, when he asked for an explanation, Sir Winston replied, \"Better that your fellow Members ask, 'Why does not he speak?', than, 'Why does he?'.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "—of the public, including the majority of members of trade unions, are deeply convinced, not only that unofficial strikes are wrong—that goes without saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": " we get some serious discussion of this new concept of unfair industrial practice. There is much to discuss in those parts of the Bill which create this new cause of action, the way that it is to be dealt with, and the remedies available. There might even be grounds for discussing a new name in place of the present one which is 24 letters long. We might perhaps find a four-letter word for it like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percival", "preceding_text": " because we shall have ample opportunity to develop them in Committee, and partly because I want to trespass on the time of the House to make one other general point. I think that the drafting of the Bill is quite magnificent. The more one reads it—at the moment I am inclined to think that there are perhaps more opinions floating about than there are people who have read it—the more one is amazed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1206.1", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loughlin", "preceding_text": "dern trade union officials as \"wild men\". If there are any wild men on the T.U.C., they will oppose the Bill; but the Bill is opposed by every trade union official who is a member of the T.U.C. I am a member of U.S.D.A.W., and no one in his right senses would accuse Alf Allen. who is a member of the T.U.C., of being a wild man, a Communist, a Maoist or any other \"-ist\" that people find under beds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "I agree, and in precisely the same way the measure which we are introducing will be a triumph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "m concerned to ensure that we maintain the democratic principle that legislation in this country is passed by the House of Commons and is not subject to external pressure. We have knowledge, on the authority of no less a person than the former Prime Minister, the present Leader of the Opposition, of a tightly-knit group of politically motivated men. We have had a similar confession by Lord Robens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1213.3", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "te have a very honourable record, and I wish to pay tribute to that record, in successfully preventing the extreme Left from taking charge of these matters, but I suggest to them that if this type of provocation goes on there is a very real danger of a Right-wing backlash, which I would deplore every bit as much as I would Left-wing extremism, and which one might find equally difficult to control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1213.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ular choice of successive American Presidents on arbitrations and conciliations in connection with nationwide disputes—rail roads, airlines, shipping, docks—and he is also, as many of us have good reason to know, Chairman of the New York State Commission on Public Service Employees. It is relevant to this Bill to point out that Mr. Kheel chaired a speech which I gave in New York earlier this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "observance of the constitution. Some of us on this side of the House, as well as Ministers, pressed for the observance of the N.U.M. constitution. Many of my hon. Friends did, and I did in South Wales. Compulsory ballots have another snag, and I am quoting this in relation to this strike. We considered compulsory ballots favourably 18 months to two years ago and decided not to press on with them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ales. Compulsory ballots have another snag, and I am quoting this in relation to this strike. We considered compulsory ballots favourably 18 months to two years ago and decided not to press on with them — [ Laughter. ] — hon. Gentlemen might listen to the argument. This was before consultations began. Compulsory ballots can make it much harder to stop a strike than to start one. If there had been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Wilson", "preceding_text": "ther, for example, employers could withhold assent from the proposition that it was not to be enforceable. I then challenged the right hon. Gentleman directly and he was good enough to respond in his own Press conference an hour later at 11 a.m. on 2nd June. This is what he said, and it is on record. The Conservatives would not give the right to enforce a contract against the wishes of the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "nforceable agreements and that they will do so equally in this country. There is no time to go through certain other issues, though there will be time. I understand the right hon. Gentleman's feelings about it. He does not like having his Bill shown up for what it is. But I will, at any rate, quote this to please the right hon. Gentleman. At the end of the report by Mr. Lowry, when he was talking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Pilkington and the electricity dispute. It would have been impossible, I think, for Mr. Chapple to lead the return to normal working if the Bill had been in operation. I do not think that right hon. Gentlemen opposite have shown much sign of recognising the importance of something I threw across the Floor of the House to the Secretary of State for Industry and Trade last Tuesday, when I referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "r of the Exchequer, for example, and every gloating reference in the House to humiliating moderate trade union leaders? Faced with this new and dangerous development, the most significant fact in industrial relations today, the Bill is totally irrelevant. It reflects a kind of Maginot mentality to what is really going on in British industry, and perhaps not even that. In a revolutionary situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "volutionary situation, in which practically every weekend speech made by right hon. Gentleman, every action from the mini-Budget to the divisive speeches of the Prime Minister, is irrelevant. What we must face here is that in this Bill the court of right hon. Gentlemen opposite shows as much understanding in the revolutionary situation as the court of Louis XVI or Nicholas II, or even King Farouk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "On a point of order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.5", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "I will be very brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.7", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James", "preceding_text": "As I was called too late in the debate for a point that I addressed to the Leader of the Opposition to reach him, could I ask him, Mr. Speaker, through you, as a point of order, whether, when he addresses the perfectly legitimate mass meeting of trade unionists at the Albert Hall on 12th January he will take the opportunity to condemn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.8", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that the hon. Gentleman, who has not addressed me so far on a point of order, will realise that he is taking the time of his hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1235.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "es. That was only the Bill that saw the light of day and that was designed to enact and place upon the Statute Book only 14 of the 25 proposals for legislation listed in the appendix to \"In Place of Strife\", of which proposals the previous Government had said that they were convinced that they were justified. How many further Clauses, how much further expansion of law and lawyers, were visualised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "he Bill will introduce too much law and too many lawyers. It was he who in the last speech before the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition spoke complained specifically of this. I am answering the point by reminding the hon. Gentleman and the House of the extent to which his own Government's legislation involved precisely the same commitment. The Bill published by the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": " was he who in the last speech before the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition spoke complained specifically of this. I am answering the point by reminding the hon. Gentleman and the House of the extent to which his own Government's legislation involved precisely the same commitment. The Bill published by the last Government—[ Interruption. ] The Bill published by the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "ned specifically of this. I am answering the point by reminding the hon. Gentleman and the House of the extent to which his own Government's legislation involved precisely the same commitment. The Bill published by the last Government—[ Interruption. ] The Bill published by the last Government—[ Interruption. ] The more often hon. Members interrupt the longer it will take me to finish my sentence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1241.0", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The Bill published by the last Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1241.8", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " of giving the law brings an instinctive response from the great majority of our citizens.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 23rd April, 1968; Vol. 763, c. 55] That is the belief of hon. and right hon. Members on this side. If it was right for the right hon. Gentleman to say that in the context of the Race Relations Bill, then it is justifiable for us to assert the same respect for law on this side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1241.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " were convinced that the proposals were justified. What is more important, in the context of the point put to me by the right hon. Gentleman, is that the results of the last election are increasingly sustained by the figures produced in one and every public opinion poll in this country. Not only is it the majority of the public that wants this Measure but a majority of trade union members as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "g to build upon and extend a consensus in support of this legislation, it is my right hon. Friend and the members of the Government. The consensus for which the hon. and learned Member for Warrington (Mr. W. T. Williams) asked is to be found in the analyses made by this Administration and the previous Administration, endorsed and supported by the overwhelming majority of the people of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman. It is only right that he should give way, as he has persisted for the last quarter of an hour, instead of dealing with his own Bill, in misrepresenting the policy of my own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1243.3", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware, and is he not honest enough to admit, that the White Paper \"In Place of Strife\" specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "Stop reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is not the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware, and is he not honest enough to admit, that the White Paper \"In Place of Strife\" specifically—[ Interruption. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1243.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal with the point raised by the Leader of the Opposition about the proposed enforcibility provisions. I say only that it is all very well for the right hon. Gentleman, having heard my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister advancing the essential framework of these provisions up and down the country for five years, now to suggest that in respect of one subsection we have no mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "hijacking, for that is the situation being faced by this State-owned corporation under the Bill. For the Government to be taking this step now is astonishing. For them to do it at a time of prosperity for airlines would be dangerous. But for them to be doing it at a time when every international carrier is facing financial tremendous difficulties is suicidal. I have just returned from Los Angeles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Huckfield", "preceding_text": "orporations is doing sterling pioneering work in lowering fares, because at the recent Honolulu fares conference it was B.O.A.C. which was setting the pace and trying to reduce individual fares. Again, it is the public who will suffer. I am now wondering whether we are starting to move towards the American situation in which, if an airline wants routes it must contribute to the presidential funds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "galised robbery. However, our hopes were dashed when the right hon. Gentleman came in and courageously apologised for his late arrival, which I am sure the House accepts. Earlier today, we were discussing the very important subject of industrial relations. There are many ordinary men and women who have spent their lives working for B.O.A.C. and B.E.A., and hundreds of them live in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1272.1", "colnum": "1272", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "tions in West Africa. Some will still try the same route, and if they are foolhardy enough to want to travel British will have a messy transfer from Heathrow to Gatwick to get their West Africa-bound plane. This is the kind of consequence which this Government in their ignorance and greed have totally left out of account in their haste to pay their debts to their backers in the City and elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1272.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1274.0", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION (DECLARATORY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "May I make it plain that the hon. Gentleman does not speak for all the workers at the airport by a very long chalk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1283.4", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (QUALIFI- CATION OF MEMBERS) BILL (changed from LOCAL GOVERN- MENT (QUALIFICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Marks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Marks", "preceding_text": "inform the electors that they lived outside. We sought in Committee to provide that information about place of residence was put on the polling notice outside the polling station, and suggested that in big city areas, where the postal area far exceeded the borough area, the district of residence should go on the notice. Does the Clause provide that the home address should go on the notice of poll?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1283.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1289.0", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (QUALIFI- CATION OF MEMBERS) BILL (changed from LOCAL GOVERN- MENT (QUALIFICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "I apologise for my earlier intervention", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1289.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1290.3", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (QUALIFI- CATION OF MEMBERS) BILL (changed from LOCAL GOVERN- MENT (QUALIFICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to say what a pity it was that they did not restore the business vote as well. However, I am content for that to come in its Own good time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1293.2", "colnum": "1293", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (QUALIFI- CATION OF MEMBERS) BILL (changed from LOCAL GOVERN- MENT (QUALIFICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hughes", "preceding_text": "Could I point out the fact that the Secretary of State for Wales is, as I understand it, responsible for local government in Wales but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1293.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-15", "file": "debates1970-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "4465f754912e4f58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1302.2", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (QUALIFI- CATION OF MEMBERS) BILL (changed from LOCAL GOVERN- MENT (QUALIFICATION OF COUNCILLORS) BILL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why bother?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to intervene at this late stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-15a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Yes. I entirely agree with everything said by the hon. Gentleman. It is the greatest pity that his own Government reduced the amount so that only about a quarter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1320.7", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Yes, my hon. Friend is right about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1320.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1326.4", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allason", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that when planning permission was granted to Luton our right hon. Friend expressed confidence that Luton would not cause increased disturbance by aircraft noise, but that Luton now proposes to increase night jet flight take-offs by 42 per cent. in the season?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1350.5", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "May I, through you, Mr. Speaker, seek to prevail upon the Leader of the House to make representations to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food? The question has been put before, but it should be understood that many of us, either as consumers of fish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "While congratulating my right hon. and learned Friend on the considerable progress already made, may I ask him two questions? First, is there not a tendency, when weighing the effect of any particular proposal upon our balance of payments, to under-rate the undoubted benefits which British industry will secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1359.3", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "We have to bear in mind that as well as an open-ended commitment there are open-ended advantages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1359.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1367.3", "colnum": "1367", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and learned Friend recall saying that the application had the overwhelming support of Parliament? I remind him that it was not this Parliament which did so but the last Parliament. There is a big difference in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "cases. When hon. Gentlemen opposite talk about the purchase of land, they tend to forget about the purchase of land by the Land Commission itself. Up to the present the Commission has borrowed £13 million from the Consolidated Fund to enter into purchases of land. That would have gone up to about £40 million within a couple of years. We are speaking of public money being used for land speculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1389.1", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "£40 million within a couple of years. We are speaking of public money being used for land speculation. [ Interruption. ] I am sure that in some of the cases the speculation was not as good as it might have been. Indeed, we are finding that there may be losses on the sale of some of this land. It was speculating with public money in land, whatever else hon. Gentlemen opposite might like to call it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1406.1", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman does not think so, but can he give some alternatives? Something will have to be cut and something will have to be increased in price to make this £43 million available over the next two years. I have spoken over-long for such a short Bill, but it is a bad Bill. It is a Bill which when we are returned to office, and we shall be, we shall have to think very hard about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1406.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "n with local discretion about education, by saying that local authorities could not do what they were democratically elected to do; and, thirdly, by the establishment of the Land Commission, which was designed to give power to the centre at the expense of the periphery. That is why when we came into office we found that relations between the Commission and the local authorities were deteriorating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1477.2", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I accept that the 2·5 per cent. took a substantial amount of the total.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1477.2", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Try answering this one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ial amount of the total. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] But some of those people would be represented by corporate organisations who will now pay at 42½ per cent. and the rest will pay capital gains tax. Therefore, the amount of flowback is smaller than hon. Gentlemen opposite are trying to make out. If I may now answer the question which hon. Members opposite have asked in the course of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "What I fail to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "What I fail to understand—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"] What I fail to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.3", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "What I fail to understand is how hon. Members opposite can launch that sort of case against us without knowing the answer to a question like that. This attack from the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.6", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAND COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "taken the trouble to find out what is in them. Therefore, it is quite understandable that a newspaper which nobody will pretend is specially favourable to my party— The Guardian —yesterday reported that In its short and unfruitful life the Commission has not won many partisans. In practice, neither result came near to fulfilment in the Commission's three years of life. It goes on in the same tone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1487.4", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "rder, 1970, at the same time. Both Orders, as the House will appreciate, relate to the remuneration of the judiciary. As it is convenient for the House to discuss these together, I will deal first with the Judicial Offices (Salaries) Order. That relates to what is called the lower judiciary of England and Wales; that is, the Recorders of Liverpool and Manchester, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1487.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1487.6", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "r judiciary consists of 106 county court judges—Parliament has approved a maximum of 125–37 metropolitan magistrates, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, and the recorders of Liverpool and Manchester. The higher judiciary of England and Wales includes the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls, 10 Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1487.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " for Prices and Incomes published proposals for increases in the salaries of chairmen and members of nationalised industry boards. Immediately following that, the Plowden Committee, the Statutory Advisory Committee on the Pay of the Higher Civil Service, published proposals for similar increases for Permanent Secretaries and higher civil servants. These represented increases of 60 and 63 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "wo. Permanent Secretaries received the first of their increases in July, 1969, and their second in July, 1970. The third was due on 1st July, 1971. But, by a decision of the present Government announced last August, it was made effect from 1st January, 1971, instead of July. Under the proposals of the National Board for Prices and Incomes, the chairmen of the nationalised industries followed suit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "unced last August, it was made effect from 1st January, 1971, instead of July. Under the proposals of the National Board for Prices and Incomes, the chairmen of the nationalised industries followed suit. [ Interruption. ] As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister announced on 8th December, the higher judiciary, following the example set by the Lord Chief Justice, decided in the national interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "h December, the higher judiciary, following the example set by the Lord Chief Justice, decided in the national interest—[ Interruption. ]—to forgo an increase in their salaries for six months; that is to say, until 1st July next. They are doing this in common with higher officials in the Civil and Diplomatic Services and the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the major nationalised industries boards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.0", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I had a question on this point about comparability.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.3", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "producing an Order to explain that, as I propose to do. But I will inquire into this point. I return to the question of the High Court judges' salaries. There was no increase in them for 100 years, and then there was no increase between 1954 and 1966. For 12 years, therefore, they were stationary. They remained from 1966 at £10,000 until this year, when they were raised to £11,500 to take account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.3", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "er of sitting days in the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, increased by 31 per cent., and the number of criminal trials increased by 42 per cent. The number of civil and divorce proceedings, excluding undefended divorces, increased by 86 per cent. Nobody should underestimate the productivity which has, unfortunately, been created by the amount of crime which is occurring throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.3", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "he productivity which has, unfortunately, been created by the amount of crime which is occurring throughout the country—[ Interruption. ]—and which, I am sure, hon. Gentlemen opposite totally deplore. Nobody should underestimate the vast increase in the amount of judicial work which the judges must do. High Court judges who are on circuit are away from home for a great many months of the year and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1493.1", "colnum": "1493", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "parts of the United Kingdom to which I have referred will cost £304,650 and £172,900 for the lower judiciary of England and Wales. I am conscious that the judges, unlike the chairmen of the nationalised industries, and unlike the civil servants, are compelled to submit to the affirmative Resolution procedure, and are thus put in an invidious position compared with persons of comparable employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "hon. Members do. Their hotel expenses have risen by leaps and bounds, not merely since 1966 and 1967, but since 1964. The same Government who propose these increases have said that it is wrong for Members of Parliament to have any increase, although they have had no increase since 1964, because it would set a bad example for industrial workers and lower-paid workers. Yet, almost in that same week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "We are discussing this Order. If I went back 100 years, there might be some doubt about whether the hon. Gentleman was present then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "preceding_text": "I declare my interest at once. I am not a judge; I am a mere advocate. I have always listened to the hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) in these debates, which we have about every four or five years, and the same record comes out and is put over in the same way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Wales.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Crowder", "preceding_text": "n. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) in these debates, which we have about every four or five years, and the same record comes out and is put over in the same way. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members opposite will listen to me for a moment, because I speak with great sincerity, I ask them whether it is not right to say that, in England, we have the highest regard for our judicial system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1502.0", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Only some lawyers!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "other avocations normally deprive us of his company to come here and stand shoulder to shoulder with his fellow lawyers, whose faces are being ground in the dust. I referred to the hon. and learned Member in the tradition of the House as \"the hon. and learned Gentleman\". It has always niggled me, in the 20-odd years that I have been in this House, why the only \"bods\" who are \"learned\" are lawyers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1501.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1502.2", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And trade unionists!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "Only some lawyers, and I am not sure that even some lawyers are the most learned. We might have the most distinguished chemist, the most distinguished philosopher, the most distinguished physicist, the most distinguished doctor—and we have had a number of very distinguished doctors in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1502.5", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "ing the percentages. But he made one very serious omission, which trades unionists always take into account; that is, in addition to the wages, there are the fringe benefits to consider. On the back of this Order there is what is called a Schedule, but it refers only to money. It does not list the fringe benefits. What about judges' lodgings, which I am told have the best cellars in Great Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1503.0", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Miscampbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Miscampbell", "preceding_text": "Before the debate descends into total farce, would the hon. Gentleman accept from me that, in fact, judges' lodgings are necessary because judges cannot simply stay at ordinary hotels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1503.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1503.4", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I very much resent two things in the hon. Gentleman's rather lengthy intervention. One was his observation that the debate was generating into a farce, which clearly was an implied criticism of his hon. and learned Friend the Member for Ruislip—Northwood. I resent that very much, he should not have done it. Secondly, I resent his suggestion that British judges can be \"got at\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1503.5", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "e learned gentlemen will be appointed chairman of the National Industrial Relations Court. He will have a wonderful opportunity to say to workers in dispute \"We will fine you lot for demanding an increase in wages a fifth of the amount I myself have just received.\" If hon. Members opposite think they can sell that to the country, they have another think coming. I am being quite serious about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-16", "file": "debates1970-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "ca2e557af093669f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1509.1", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUDICIAL OFFICES (SALARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "es the Attorney-General talk about differentials. It is of course an important matter to members of the same club in the West End of London whether a Permanent Secretary is £2,500 ahead. No judge can accept that—that is his argument. But that argument does not apply to workpeople or to 85 per cent. of my constituents who are also very much concerned with the respect given to their job in industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-16a.1509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1541.2", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "While I fully support a policy of admission charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1541.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am always subject to correction in what I have said, because I am never very sure myself what I have said. I did not actually hear myself say that I would be most anxious to consult everybody on this matter. I said that I had done my best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1570.1", "colnum": "1570", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has stated that we shall have a debate, perhaps two days, on the Common Market. Will he try to persuade the House of Commons that in the debate some of those who have never had a chance of speaking on the Common Market should be called? I am rather tired of hearing the same speeches over and over and over again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1570.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1572.3", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "While recognising that the matter of the election of a Speaker is a very delicate matter indeed, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman for an assurance that back benchers will be properly consulted? It must be recognised that we are not mere cyphers and rubber stamps.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1572.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1573.8", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I wish to revert to the subject of the election of Mr. Speaker. Let me say at the outset that I am still more than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1573.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1573.8", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I wish to revert to the subject of the election of Mr. Speaker. Let me say at the outset that I am still more than—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] May I say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1573.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1573.8", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I wish to revert to the subject of the election of Mr. Speaker. Let me say at the outset that I am still more than—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] May I say—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am still a little perplexed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1573.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn", "preceding_text": " it is ours—that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen can still maintain their weekend speeches and come forward with a Bill based upon a structure that they have begun to destroy in terms of the machinery which brought it about. With the I.R.C. we had an industrialist working, not a political supporter of ours. Frank Kearton has very candidly always admitted his Conservative loyalties and subscriptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1705.9", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "HOMELESS FAMILIES (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "nt in London if we are to make the best use of our housing stock and to avoid the growing problem of obsolescence in London in the 'seventies and 'eighties. We shall have a massive campaign in London and it will certainly be launched next year. Housing associations also have a part to play here as an additional effort to the work which local authorities should undertake in the improvement schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1705.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1970-12-17", "file": "debates1970-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "16613e80b3f2954d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1708.3", "colnum": "1708", "heading": "HOMELESS FAMILIES (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Needless to say, the hon. Member is sensitive about the record of the Labour Government, who broke every pledge in housing. They did not build the houses; they clamped down on mortgage plans; the number of homeless has risen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1970-12-17a.1708.3"}